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Votive Plaque of Apedemak, The Naqa kiosk, Excavation by John Garstang, 1909-1910, in the Temple of Apedemak, Meroe
Kushite religion is the traditional belief system and pantheon of deities associated with the Ancient Kushites, who founded the Kingdom of Kush in the land of Kush (also known as Ta-Seti) in present-day Sudan.[1][2]
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Kushitereligion is the traditional belief system and pantheon of deities associated with the Ancient Kushites, who founded the Kingdom of Kush in the...
or Αἰθιοπία; Coptic: ⲉϭⲱϣ Ecōš; Hebrew: כּוּשׁ Kūš), also known as the Kushite Empire, or simply Kush, was an ancient kingdom in Nubia, centered along...
Mehit, Menhit, and Sebiumeker, were depicted as lion protectors in Kushitereligion. In Roman North Africa, lions were regularly captured by experienced...
(Somalia) Ancient Egyptian religion (Egypt, Sudan) Kemetism Kushite mythology (along the Nile valley in Sudan) Punic religion (Tunisia, Algeria, Libya)...
defences before the invading Kushites arrived. Welsby states after a Kushite attack on Primis (Qasr Ibrim),: 69–70 the Kushites sent ambassadors to negotiate...
kandake, the Kushite queen or queen mother, who had prominent roles in Kushitereligion. At Jebel Barkal, a site sacred to Amun, the Kushite king Taharqa...
Amesemi is a Kushite protective goddess and wife of Apedemak, the lion-god. She was represented with a crown shaped as a falcon, or with a crescent moon...
Inquisition, thus incorporating elements of Catholicism while resisting it. The Kushite kings who ruled Upper Egypt for approximately a century and the whole of...
site, and passed it on to the Kushites and Egyptians who venerated the mesa. In North Africa, the traditional Berber religion includes the traditional polytheistic...
Kashta was an 8th century BCE king of the Kushite Dynasty in ancient Nubia and the successor of Alara. His nomen k3š-t3 (transcribed as Kashta, possibly...
Bamum and the Bakossi people) in much of the continent. In orthodox Serer religion, the pangool is venerated by the Serer people. The Seereer people of Senegal...
the day that Moses saw the Land of Promise. Filler, Elad. "Moses and the Kushite Woman: Classic Interpretations and Philo's Allegory". TheTorah.com. Retrieved...
Kingdom of Egypt (16th–11th centuries BC) and home to Jebel Barkal, the main Kushite cult centre of Amun. It was the sometime capital of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty...
depictions of Kushite queens typically do not have Egyptian elements making their appearance drastically different from their Kushite men and Egyptian...
1955). The Badarian have been found to be very similar to a Kerma sample (Kushite Sudanese), using both the Penrose statistic (Nutter, 1958) and DFA of males...
business with the distant Kushites, who a short time earlier had been fighting his troops. The respect accorded the emperor by the Kushite envoys as the treaty...
kingship. It equated Isis with the kandake, the queen or queen mother of the Kushite king. The Ptolemaic Greek kings, who ruled Egypt as pharaohs from 305 to...
founded China: 841 BC–828 BC Gonghe Regency 8th century BC 727 BC: Egypt: Kushite invasion (25th dynasty) 771 BC: China: Spring and Autumn period Near East:...
the phoneme /P/ in Meroitic) was a major deity in the ancient Nubian and Kushite pantheon. Often depicted as a figure with a male human torso and a lion...
Dynasty by Psamtik I in 664 BC, following the departure of the Nubian Kushite rulers of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty after they were driven out by the Assyrians...
way. While Egypt conquered large parts of Nubia at various times, the Kushite 25th Dynasty, originating in Nubia, was to conquer Egypt itself, drawing...
elites like the Wayekiye. The family eventually came to serve the Nubian Kushite court of Meroë and may have acted as a "vehicle for the penetration of...
Nile region. Candace was the title and perhaps, name for the Meroë or Kushite queens. In the fourth century, bishop Athanasius of Alexandria consecrated...
(gender depends on tribe) God Kalfu God Kunnechup Kamui God Arma (Luwian religion) God Kašku (Hittite mythology) God Men (Phrygian mythology) Jie Lin, God...
appearing first as Alut on a Kushite stela from the late 4th century BC. It appeared again as Alwa on a list of Kushite towns by the Roman author Pliny...
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