Lord Ti And The Hippo Hunt Analysis

Whitley Strieber was quoted “Every time someone ends a prayer in the western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So were still praying to their gods”. Religion played a leading role in ancient Egypt. There belief and pervasiveness in the gods were symbolized in the pharos who were seen as the son, as the Sun god Re. In ancient Egypt aspects of religion are symbolized and represented through architectural monuments, statues and murals. Roughly all of Egypt’s surviving mural paintings are discovered in tombs, of the pharaohs and higher governmental officials. the paintings illustrate activities of afterlife which interpret life after death. The Lord Ti and the Hippo Hunt is a painted relief that was found in a tomb of a

The royal sculpture of the Pharaoh Khafre was a made out of materials that was reserved for gods and royalty only. the material was dark in color. The sculpture of Khafre was not meant to be seen by the living because it was for funerary purposes only. Also the sculpture was thought to have the Ka of the pharaoh. He is depicted with an ageless physic because Egyptians worshiped there king as god. When one looks at the statue of Khafre, one is looking at him through his Ka. Seated scribes were also cultures found in the tombs of pharaohs. They were carved out of limestone and sculptured with a more realistic for of a human being because they were to be the pharaohs servants in the afterlife. Hatshepsut was the wife of Thutmose II, she became regent to her son Thutmose III when her husband died. Later on she made herself pharaoh and was often sculpted as a male. Her scupltures represented everyday life from the good deeds she did to her “devine birth”. The sculptures portrayed religion by the celebration of embodying the spirits of pharaohs, queens and everyday scribes to the