Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Lincoln 2015
…Good Friday
We set off on our journey on time and the traffic was mostly kind to us. As usual when it was time for lunch there was a dearth of places to stop off for lunch. We eventually came across a farm shop just outside Lincoln where they had a nice selection of sandwiches. After [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Apr 8th 2015
Filed under Anecdotes, Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Lincoln 2015
I have just returned from a weekend away. This was the wonderful view that I could see from the window seat in my hotel room.
When I have gathered my thoughts, I will be posting more about my weekend away
10 Comments CherryPie on Apr 6th 2015
Filed under Art, Heritage, Holidays, Oxford 2014
West wall of the of the Shrine of King Taharqa
King Taharqa and the gods of Gamaten (the temple at Kawa). Taharqa offers a loaf, a necklace, a pectoral and a figure of Ma’at (symbol of cosmic order) to the ram-headed god Amun-Re. Behind god’s throne stand the goddesses Anukis Nethy, Satis and Anukis Ba.
North wall of [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Mar 31st 2015
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Granite gneiss ram of Amun
A figure of King Taharqa stands between the ram’s folded legs, symbolically placed under its divine protection.
From Temple T at Kawa, Late Period/Napatan, 25th Dynasty (about 680 BC).*
*From information plate next to the statue
11 Comments CherryPie on Mar 28th 2015
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King Taharqa, ruler of Egypt and Kush, was the first Kushite pharaoh to be buried in a tomb at Nuri, cemetery of the captital city, Napata. During the Napatan Period, the adoption of pyramid tombs and objects such as shabtis reflect the extent of Egyptian influence on Napatan culture. The objects in this display were [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Mar 27th 2015
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The Church you see today is a mixture of the medieval and the contemporary. It stands as a physical reminder of the deep historic roots of Christianity and of the changing ways in which people have understood God. There was probably a church on the site in Anglo-Saxon times, but the earliest part of the present building [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Mar 26th 2015
