Mary Louise Eklund

Tag: Egyptology

  • Freaky Friday – Omm Sety

    Entrance to Seti I Temple at Abydos (I) by Institute for the Study of the Ancient World on Flickr. Who offer free digital photography related to the ancient world as part of its Ancient World Image Bank initiative. This image was offered under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 .
    Entrance to Seti I Temple at Abydos (I) by Institute for the Study of the Ancient World on Flickr. Who offer free digital photography related to the ancient world as part of its Ancient World Image Bank initiative. This image was offered under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 .

    I’ve always been facinated with ancient Egypt. I wanted to read heiroglyphics because these people had something to say that has reached us, I wanted to read it for myself. So I took several classes at a local museum and now if it’s Middle Kingdom I can tease out the meaning of hypergraphia of ancient Egypt.

    One woman who felt not just an interest in ancient Egypt but a kinship was Dorthy Louise Eady Maguid (1904-1981). She was not only a great Egyptologist who contributed greatly to field in chartography of tombs and temples, refining heirglyphic translation, and understanding customs practiced today that trace back to ancient Egypty (thus starting a whole new field of study). She also believed she was a reincarnated Priestess of Isis and once lover of Seti I. Her interesting life and even more intriguing story still amazes people today. Did she know so much from a previous life or just a quick study with intiuntive insight into the ways of Ancient Egypt?

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  • Join Me At My New Addiction

    Join Me At My New Addiction

    Pintrest

    So it’s not like I’ve got enough to do…  I mean work is about to get swamped.  I’m flowing on a novel.  I’ve got jewelry projects out the wazoo.  Genealogy is only adding more people as I type this.  Summer is coming and that’s photography time for me…  BUT I needed one more thing to keep up with.  Yes, apparently I did.

    I know the internet can be a big help or a big time waster.  I do my best to keep up with Google+, Twitter, Flickr, favorite blogs, and writing here regularly.  So I’ve avoided Pintrest like the plague.  Not because I thought it was bad or any thing (like the evil Facebook) but just because I didn’t want another thing to keep up with.

    Then it happened.  I had all these visual references for this story I’m writing.  I was wanting a place to keep them so I could access them from any computer/device where I was writing.  That’s when a friend who shall not be named or blamed suggested using Pintrest for this. “But I don’t want them to be publicly seen as I’m working.”  That was my comeback but quickly they disarmed me “Oh but then you could make a secret board.  Then to access it from say your phone, netbook, desktop or any where just sign in.”

    So I did.  It’s great but then I thought well I should have a public board…  I made one to keep all my Wolverine links to images, scans, fan art, previews, etc.    So if one hobby has it why not the other – thus the bead board was born.   But wait!  I like books too!  and coffee,  and writing, and so on, and so on…. until it became THIS!

    Now part of my unwinding to go to bed is pinning stuff…  At least hop over there (link in the THIS above) and look around.  If you are Pinterest let me know and I’d love to follow you.  Now to make sure I don’t waste too much time there…

    Except there’s this great Logan over at Comic Art fans… I’ll just pin that…  .

    Until next time!