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.