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19 years old// HUGE lover of EVERY single thing nature related// mentally disabled human (professionally diagnosed with Bipolar 1, combined ADHD, recurrent Clinical Depression, and Social Anxiety)// INFP personality type// I'm introverted in the sense that I don't like to socialize with most people but I have 3 people who I'm close to and I like to have at least one of them around me at all times// Besides nature, I like pretty much all junk food/ fast food, watching TV (mainly Law and Order SVU and the Voice USA), and going for car rides// and this is my blog.
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Bread loaves found in the tomb of architect Kha (TT8). New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1386-1349 BC. Deir el-Medina, West Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Turin.

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Relief of Min-Amun

Human fertility has always been a topic of curiosity and devotion. Many cultures consider fertility to be a necessity for the survival and perpetuation of mankind and since early times, myths were created to explain this fabulous process. 

Fertility gods were ubiquitous in numerous ancient human cultures and were used both to understand fertility and to cope with infertility by means of rituals and offerings.

Relief of the god Min-Amun, shown in his ithyphallic form and appears to be ejaculating an spermatozoa, in the Temple of Luxor.

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Beadnet dress from Egypt’s 4th Dynasty, during the reign of Pharaoh Khufu 2551–2528 BCE. It is the oldest surviving example of a dress in this style. And yes, it would have put the wearer’s body on display in a way that is barely acceptable at a burlesque by today’s standards.

The dress has been reassembled from approximately seven thousand beads (no record mentioned how long the reassembling took) found in an undisturbed burial of a female contemporary of Pharaoh Khufu. Although their string had disintegrated, a few beads still lay in their original pattern on and around the mummy, allowing modern archaeologists to accurately reconstruct what it had once looked like. The color of the beads has faded as well. But when it was first made, the beadnet was blue and blue green, to imitate the precious stones lapis lazuli and turquoise.