Egyptian Dreams

isisinacrisis · Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 5:13 pm Post subject: A rather controversial topic...

I have a feeling I'm going to be posting a few more controversial/thought provoking topics soon because I've been seeing a lot of stuff recently that i need to get other's opinions on...

Ok, here's the question: I know the Egyptians sacrificed animals but did they sacrifice people too???

Disturbing thought, I know...but i did read something on a website today that I never heard of before and that disturbed me...it said that the priests of Isis used to drown virgin girls in the Nile to encourage flooding!!! I thought it was ludicrous (and I think this is from one of those fundamentalist/conspiracy sites anyway and they tend to be very biased) but what do you think? Has anyone else heard of this?

anneke · Queen of Egypt Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 9305

I don't know if this counts but they did publicly execute prisoners.

I'll have to check my books for references.
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isisinacrisis · Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 5:26 pm Post subject:

I know they used to chop the heads/hands off prisoners and foreign enemies but that's not human sacrifice really, that's more like capital/corporal punishment.

But I just want to know if this drowning thing is true...

anneke · Queen of Egypt Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 9305

I have never heard of sacrifice involving drowning. What's the story behind that? Which god or goddess was that associated with?

The only other thing I can think of is that I believe the Hyksos sacrificed people. But it depends on if you want to count them as Egyptian or not. Smile

I think they found human remains in the foundations for certain large buildings. (Sorry my memory is a bit vague on this.)
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isisinacrisis · Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 5:58 pm Post subject:

According to the site I saw this on, it was the 'priests of Isis' who drowned virgins to 'invoke the Nile flood'. It's the first time I heard about it too.
But, as I said before, the person writing it was probably biased and these people tend to get facts wrong...

Sitesa · Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 6:48 pm Post subject:

Here's an extensive article on the subject. Rolling Eyes

Sitesa · Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 6:51 pm Post subject:

[b][i]Here's an extensive article on the subject.

http://aolsearch.aol.com/aol/redir?src=websearch&requestId=1fba6365fbbdd7b3&clickedItemRank=2&userQuery=human+sacrifice+in+egypt&clickedItemURN=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.touregypt.net%2Ffeaturestories%2Fhumansac.htm

Shocked

anneke · Queen of Egypt Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 9305

Interesting article. I do now remember reading about the retainers being buried with some of the 1st dynasty kings and Queens.

What was with the " Shocked

etc"?
(Just curious)

TourEgypt is usually pretty accurate. I don't have time to read the entire article on the spot, but I will definitely go back and read it at a more leasurely pace. Laughing

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isisinacrisis · Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 7:27 pm Post subject:

Thanks for posting the article!
Maybe this thing about drowning virgins really is just rubbish...

dzama923 · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:45 pm Post subject:

If a site does not site sources best not even look at the information. It is hard to know where it is coming, internet is a big place it is easy to get misdirected.

dzama923 · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 4:34 pm Post subject:

This sounds to me to be very primitive, maybe something that nomadic tribes were known to do. I heard that some tribes would sacrifice virgins to their crocodile god. Alas, the source doesn't say much of where. The theme of sacrificing virgins comes up a lot in history, and is easily exaggerated and used for conspiracy theories, as well. I think this is, because we don't know much of the religions of history. I know in the Andes, they brought "the chosen" babes to be sacrificed on top of the mountain.

Lutz · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 6:18 pm Post subject:

Lexikon der Ägyptologie. - Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 1982. - Vol. IV : Col. 498 - 500. - Ricardo A. Caminos : Nilopfer.

Ghada Abdel Hafeez : The Nile Bride Myth "Revisioned" in Nubian Literature. - In: Dotawo - A Journal of Nubian Studies 5. - 2018. - pp. 167 - 191.

Chepses · Citizen Joined: 15 Oct 2014 Posts: 36

From what my teacher in college said, The early Egyptians (probably ranging from pre-History to the Early Dynastic Period, maybe first years of the Old Kingdom), used to make human sacrifices. But as time passed, the Egyptians started to regard this practice as sacrilegious, since they were so fond of life and so obsessed with the maet