Plague Doctor

This animal pottery on the long table is about 35cm tall and 20cm wide, not a common style of Egyptian pottery, more precise, and this ram-head —— even if it's a ram-head -- has many different forms in Egyptian civilization, representing different gods, different gods at different times of the day.

In front of this ram, Fortner had never seen it before, not in his memory.

And the most special thing about it is the horns.

Just as some Holy Scripture texts involving sheepheads, horns “𓁠, 𓁡, 𓄃, 𓄅, 𓃲, 𓃶", horns in Egyptian civilization are mostly flat with slightly undulating lines, or curled up on either side.

But these horns bend like twisted swirls, some like the womb —— just like the holy scripture of the womb, "𓄰"

“George…” Fortner said, having a judgment in his heart, "the horn in the shape of the womb, it's not like an Egyptian pen. ”

“Yes, yes… I think so too, the womb…" Edwin muttered about identification, "It's Nubian, it's Kush...”

They know a lot about Egyptian civilization, but Paul-Smith doesn't understand much anymore, and Bashir and Ira are even more confused.

“What do you mean?” Bashir asks, beware of their distortions, "you say it's not real? ”

“No, not that relationship.” Fortner looked at the statue of Tao, and wanted to go up and take a closer look. It was just Edwin's position for the time being. “The ram-headed lion, generally speaking, stands for Amon, the sun god, but the situation of this statue of Tao is different, it is not a common horn of lamb, nor is it Cape Amon...”

“Isn't this Tao like Amon the Sun God?” Paul Smith heard something, thought of it, "is the Sun God of the Kush? ”

“Yes, Paul, I think that's possible.” Fortner responded.

“You'd better explain it to us.” Ella is a little impatient, and she thinks it's the other party's means of depressing the price, and she's still singing the oboe, “What kind of sun god doesn't have a sun god? Go on, don't think we won't understand. ”

Edwin ignored their words at all, and his gloved hands were gently touching the surface of the pottery, like drunk, like crazy.

Fortner took a deep breath, and that was just a few thoughts for the time being, trying to explain briefly: “The Amun God is the Egyptian sun god, but the Amun God initially had no ram horn in his image. One element of the ram horn was the Egyptian conquest of the Kush kingdom in the Nubian region, which absorbed the Kush sun god, and possibly the lamb head image of the 'Nile Origin' Knut, before the Amun God began to have the ram horn. ”

“Later, Knut also became the god of the rams among the Egyptian gods, and the legend was that it created man, and everyone who came into the world was created by Knut from clay, and then put the baby in their mother's womb. ”

“As for the Kush sun god, his name has been lost, and he is commonly called 'Nubia-Amon' in his studies. ”

The more Fortner says this, the more confused his mind is, the stronger that trance becomes.

Once again, he seemed to see the horns of the twin wombs spinning, but when he set his mind to it, it was just an ancient pottery statue.

“So... you know, this is the Nubian area, where the Kush kingdom was once. At the beginning of the new kingdom period, Egypt conquered Kush, something that was more than 1,500 BC. Although it had become an important Egyptian province, cultural, economic and other aspects were becoming increasingly symbiotic from their original colonial relations.

But there have also been various insurgencies in the Kush region, especially for more than two hundred years in the middle of the new kingdom, many of varying sizes. Later, around 1075 BC, when the new kingdom collapsed, the Kushmen regained their independence. Hundreds of years later, they even conquered Egypt and established the twenty-fifth dynasty.

Also in this relationship, the image of the ram horn of the Amun god became firm, and gradually continued to be joined with the La god as the Amun La god, known as the King of God.

Because the La God —— this is also the Sun God, the La God in the evening, is considered to be the Ram God Knut.

So this Tao statue, it's the Sun God, but it's not the Amon God, it's not the Egyptian God, it's more like La, like Knut, like Nubia-Amon, it's the Kush God... so that explains the line of holy books... ”

Fortner said he was obsessed, and some of the ideas came through.

“The King's rebels, the rebels of the Sun God Amon, killed Imhotep and his followers with stone sickness and built a new world ruled by the Ram-headed Sun God. The previous Sun God was Amon the Egyptian, and the latter Sun God was Kush... I don't know the name of the god either. In the Egyptian and Kush civilizations, the name of God is powerful, powerful in itself, and if the name of God is taken, then this God falls. The name ‘Nubia-Amon' was taken by Amon.

They believe that calling for the divine name will gain strength, that all sacrificial activities cannot be separated from the divine name. Politically, if the divine name of ‘Nubia-Amon' is extinguished, the Kush civilization will lose its independence and gradually be absorbed into the integration… So even if the Kush people later return to the country and even become Egyptian masters, ‘Amon’ and 'Amonra’ will be the names of the Sun gods they worship.

Nubia-Amon, has fallen... "

Fortner spoke these chaotic words, that twin womb-shaped horn, like swirling his heart too.

“Okay, okay.” Ella hasn't been listening for a long time, "she said.“ Go ahead. How much is this pottery like you guys driving? ”

“Here… there is the Holy Scripture text…” Suddenly Edwin made a slight voice, seemingly with a little urgency and fanaticism, "it is a name… Hurley, come and see that the modifier of this name is' life-giving ’… it is a divine name! ”

Fortner suddenly mentioned that Edwin was already holding the statue with his hands, his feet bent to the ground, his eyes staring closely at a spot on the lion of the statue, his figure covering only a little corner, a line of holy scripture.

The first modifier, 𓏙𓋹, gives life to…

That's the name of Nubia-Amon...

“George!” Fortner shouted for some reason, not cold and chestnuts, and his voice was shaking: “No! ”

Paul Smith, Bashir, Ira, they were all confused, and Edwin Shah at the table over there mutterly recited something strangely different.

“Iä! A true sun god, creator of all things, the Black Goat of the Forest, who breeds thousands of children! ”

With this call, the rectangle behind the tent covered with nylon cloth slowly moved.