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If the Shu Fits

I’ve started reading Rick Riordan’s new book, The Serpent’s Shadow, and I have to say I was entertained by the appearance of the primordial Egyptian god Shu as a conservative, prudish old man. This conception of his personality is almost … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Egyptian, Kane Chronicles, Mythology, Rick Riordan | Tagged apep, atlas, geb, nut, ra, shu, tefnut |

Will the Real Horus Please Stand Up?

One of the major gods of the Olympian pantheon is Horus, perhaps more accurately rendered as Heru. The fact that most of what we know about ancient Egypt was filtered through Greek first gives us a lot of extra S’s, … Continue reading →

Posted in Egyptian, Kane Chronicles, Mythology, Rick Riordan | Tagged falcon, geb, heru, horus, isis, nut, osiris, pharaoh, ra, set |

The Great Set-Up

I’ve been reading Rick Riordan’s newest book, The Red Pyramid, which does for Egyptian mythology what his Percy Jackson series did for the Greek. The main villain (at least so far; I haven’t finished the book, and I know Riordan … Continue reading →

Posted in Egyptian, Mythology | Tagged adam and eve, bible, cain and abel, calendar, chaos, desert, geb, genesis, horus, isis, nephthys, nile, nut, osiris, percy jackson, ra, rick riordan, set, set animal, seth, the red pyramid, underworld |