I find it fascinating that women in ancient cultures which are unrelated, or atleast distantly relates, often gravitate towards religious duties and by extension power in this area.
Thanks for posting that. It's very informative. It is truly remarkable that women had far more rights than most any other civilization considering how extremely long ago that was. It's amazing that the ancient Egyptian culture was so progressive and considered the equality of women so important. It's seriously wrong that today's culture minimizes the extreme importance of genuine equality between men and women. It's truly sad, and totally wrong that we have a primarily male-dominated world which, as history clearly shows, is and always has been, a bad idea.
I don't think the egyptians were 'progressive'. It's rather that something somewhere went wrong and we regressed. On that note: Abrahamic religions havn't helped, but can't be the only reason.
Love in marriage was idealized in ancient Egypt, at least in some texts found with King Tut. It reminds me of how the ideal marriage is regarded in India. This is a big contrast with the ancient Greeks, where love didn’t seem to matter at all. I distinctly looked for info on it too, and more than once source said love was not a factor, or even an ideal in marriage. Men were expected to take extramarital lovers instead for that. What a bummer. It’s neat to see how it differs. Especially since arranged marriages were normal in both cultures.
This is why an African perspective of ancient Egypt is important to establish. Africa it is like this all over, there is the so called matrilineal belt in Southern central Africa. To this day Rwanda has more women in power than any where else on earth. Kenya has villages of women only. Mauritanian women can divorce and remarry freely, meaning it has the highests devorce rates on earth. People resist an African perspective because they confuse it with Afrocentrism.
Amazon Women had lots of benefits in their culture as so did Spartan women. They could decide on governmental issues and also the raising and taking care of the family, we sometimes forget women Hunted while men stayed home in lots of cultures
Did Egyptian women live under these same freedoms during the Roman Empire, namely when Cleopatra VII was queen and Caesar/Antony were ruling western Europe? It's interesting how Cleopatra's character was depicted in Roman history completely different to the positive writings of Cleopatra in Arabic sources of the same time. IThe Romans saying she was a 'scheming seductress' whilst the Arabs suggest a strong ruler, scholar and philosopher. Two completly different reputations depending on whose history you are reading! Did the Romans write positive things about any successful female?
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I think it's important to consider the circumstances. Cleopatra became an enemy of Rome, so it makes sense that primary Roman sources would write about her in a negative way, compared to other depictions of her. The Romans definitely did write positive things about women, but once again, mainly about women who were Roman/benefitted Rome in some way.
Dang, why are all the comments about Sparta? Jealous much (just kidding). But, Sparta was the exception not the rule of the Greeks. With that said, Nubia was even more advanced in terms of gender, Kandakes & women being able to be priestesses is some of the greater opportunities of authority that not even Kemet women had access to (largely didn’t have access to, in terms of the priest class).
As the ancient Egyptian "mother and son" (Isis and Horus) iconography suggests, Patriarchy is a natural extension of a spiritual matriarchy. One cannot exist without the other as they follow one another throughout the course of all eternity. Spiritually speaking (gender and race aside), matriarchy can begin with a fundamental understanding of the cyclical nature of reality (God). Represented by the snake in many creation myths, the living cycle has a trinity of a beginning (head), a middle and end (tail). As above so below, the sexes were created in the image of God's cyclical nature where Mother is the head and opening to all beginnings and Father holds the tail to all endings (through which the sowing of seeds allow for the next great matriarchal rebirth).The joining of the two (symbolized by the Ouroborus or the marriage ring) is the sacred union needed in assuring the creation and continuation of new life cycles. To speak of the present day God as "Our Father" is simply an admission to our collective positioning within the bigger cycle. As all mothers have direct experience with the creator quality of birthing, so is the direct experience of rebirthing the divinity within (baptism) belong to that which is spiritually matriarchal. (John 3, verse 3-8). Sekhmet statues (ancient Egyptian) carry most of their weight in symbolic memory of what was a mother culture dedicated to the direct experience of baptism. As the leg shaped hairlocks extend from maternal breasts to the womb of rebirth, the lioness's head proportions are such that they highlight the bust of a second animal figure. The Lioness's ears as eyes and eyes as nose (nostrils) brings to life the figure of a reptile. 'Neath the halo headress of the solar egg, the lioness's egg fertilization process being internal (Set) and the reptile's egg fertilization process being external (Setting), such being key components to the safety of entering the trans-egoic or "born again" state. The life threatening fear associated with the predatory nature of a lion and/or crocodile encounter are reflective of the intense ego death experiences associated with the transpersonal awakening process. In spiritually matriarchal times, illumination could be seen as wearing the false beard (ancient Egyptian funerary "ego" death mask) as the high state of cyclical self knowing; high awareness of both our upper matriarchal half and our lower (later) patriarchal half (compared with a mini lower body replica, an "as above so below" tail end beard extension); in full recognition of her civilizational Underworld; her inevitable cyclical destiny. The male pharaoh wears his beard tapered in reverse, indicating a pointing upwards towards the patriarchal head, divine representative of God's tail end cycle. Mary's anointing and wiping of Jesus's feet with her hair can then be seen as "Head to tail" (toe) imagery as she descends her matriarchal head to his patriarchal feet, thus reenacting the high understanding of the divine cyclical process. (John 12, verse 3) To carry the Ankh (now the female symbol ♀️) was perhaps to symbolically carry that upper and lower understanding. As the upper matriarchal womb symbolised the fertile birthing of civilization, below, the now Christian cross is carried to place emphasis on the lower (later) "End Times" Father principle of the great cycle. Lord Ganesha, the elephant headed Hindu diety, displays a cyclical head to trunk symbolism and points to the Mother head of his matriarchal elephant society. Ganesha (like the elephant) wears God's cyclical nature on his face. A whole temple was dedicated to Hathor (ancient Egyptian diety), who is the matriarchal "Uterus" personified. th-cam.com/video/J0m0zJSEFK0/w-d-xo.html "See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. when you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away. See everything as Mother and you will know God." - Neem Karoli Baba
Scythian, Persian, Egyptian, Illyrian, Possibly Thracian, Dacian, Mongol, Celtic etc. A lot of the “barbarian” people were more culturally, technologically, socially advanced than the greco-Roman people
@Jns Two fears Chingus had in life , dogs and his mother , she also had a knack of adopting boys who turned into great generals , and the peak of Mongol power was when Kublai Khan`s wife Chabi could still guide him , before her death , when she was gone Kublai was lost , and the decline started . Thankfully other powerful Mongol females failed in their attempts to turn the Mongol Empire into the Roman Mongol Empire , and it almost happened on more than one occasion
Do you know of other ancient societies where women had as much power?
Petra, dravidians
I think I heard that Assyria wasn’t half bad.
Nubia.
Babylon
The Mycenaean women seemed to be respected to some extent. But we can’t read their writings, so we can’t know for sure.
What is the spacific time frame your talking about?
I find it fascinating that women in ancient cultures which are unrelated, or atleast distantly relates, often gravitate towards religious duties and by extension power in this area.
Great stuff! Really interesting aspects of the social structures back then.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for posting that. It's very informative. It is truly remarkable that women had far more rights than most any other civilization considering how extremely long ago that was. It's amazing that the ancient Egyptian culture was so progressive and considered the equality of women so important.
It's seriously wrong that today's culture minimizes the extreme importance of genuine equality between men and women. It's truly sad, and totally wrong that we have a primarily male-dominated world which, as history clearly shows, is and always has been, a bad idea.
I don't think the egyptians were 'progressive'. It's rather that something somewhere went wrong and we regressed. On that note: Abrahamic religions havn't helped, but can't be the only reason.
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Love in marriage was idealized in ancient Egypt, at least in some texts found with King Tut. It reminds me of how the ideal marriage is regarded in India.
This is a big contrast with the ancient Greeks, where love didn’t seem to matter at all. I distinctly looked for info on it too, and more than once source said love was not a factor, or even an ideal in marriage. Men were expected to take extramarital lovers instead for that. What a bummer.
It’s neat to see how it differs. Especially since arranged marriages were normal in both cultures.
This is why an African perspective of ancient Egypt is important to establish. Africa it is like this all over, there is the so called matrilineal belt in Southern central Africa. To this day Rwanda has more women in power than any where else on earth. Kenya has villages of women only. Mauritanian women can divorce and remarry freely, meaning it has the highests devorce rates on earth. People resist an African perspective because they confuse it with Afrocentrism.
Amazon Women had lots of benefits in their culture as so did Spartan women. They could decide on governmental issues and also the raising and taking care of the family, we sometimes forget women Hunted while men stayed home in lots of cultures
Perfect
Now this sounds civilized.
Thanks for watching!
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Ancient Sparta. Women had many rights compared to Athens.
where man's lives worth absolutely nothing! yeah...ur right.
I wish we had law codes from Egypt like we do for the ancient near east.
Did Egyptian women live under these same freedoms during the Roman Empire, namely when Cleopatra VII was queen and Caesar/Antony were ruling western Europe? It's interesting how Cleopatra's character was depicted in Roman history completely different to the positive writings of Cleopatra in Arabic sources of the same time. IThe Romans saying she was a 'scheming seductress' whilst the Arabs suggest a strong ruler, scholar and philosopher. Two completly different reputations depending on whose history you are reading! Did the Romans write positive things about any successful female?
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I think it's important to consider the circumstances. Cleopatra became an enemy of Rome, so it makes sense that primary Roman sources would write about her in a negative way, compared to other depictions of her. The Romans definitely did write positive things about women, but once again, mainly about women who were Roman/benefitted Rome in some way.
Awesome vid. Very informative. I believe Sparta had quite a bit of gender equality also compared to the rest of Ancient greece.
Dang, why are all the comments about Sparta? Jealous much (just kidding). But, Sparta was the exception not the rule of the Greeks. With that said, Nubia was even more advanced in terms of gender, Kandakes & women being able to be priestesses is some of the greater opportunities of authority that not even Kemet women had access to (largely didn’t have access to, in terms of the priest class).
Haha. Thanks for watching and for sharing your thoughts!
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As the ancient Egyptian "mother and son" (Isis and Horus) iconography suggests, Patriarchy is a natural extension of a spiritual matriarchy. One cannot exist without the other as they follow one another throughout the course of all eternity.
Spiritually speaking (gender and race aside), matriarchy can begin with a fundamental understanding of the cyclical nature of reality (God).
Represented by the snake in many creation myths, the living cycle has a trinity of a beginning (head), a middle and end (tail). As above so below, the sexes were created in the image of God's cyclical nature where Mother is the head and opening to all beginnings and Father holds the tail to all endings (through which the sowing of seeds allow for the next great matriarchal rebirth).The joining of the two (symbolized by the Ouroborus or the marriage ring) is the sacred union needed in assuring the creation and continuation of new life cycles. To speak of the present day God as "Our Father" is simply an admission to our collective positioning within the bigger cycle.
As all mothers have direct experience with the creator quality of birthing, so is the direct experience of rebirthing the divinity within (baptism) belong to that which is spiritually matriarchal. (John 3, verse 3-8).
Sekhmet statues (ancient Egyptian) carry most of their weight in symbolic memory of what was a mother culture dedicated to the direct experience of baptism. As the leg shaped hairlocks extend from maternal breasts to the womb of rebirth, the lioness's head proportions are such that they highlight the bust of a second animal figure. The Lioness's ears as eyes and eyes as nose (nostrils) brings to life the figure of a reptile. 'Neath the halo headress of the solar egg, the lioness's egg fertilization process being internal (Set) and the reptile's egg fertilization process being external (Setting), such being key components to the safety of entering the trans-egoic or "born again" state. The life threatening fear associated with the predatory nature of a lion and/or crocodile encounter are reflective of the intense ego death experiences associated with the transpersonal awakening process.
In spiritually matriarchal times, illumination could be seen as wearing the false beard (ancient Egyptian funerary "ego" death mask) as the high state of cyclical self knowing; high awareness of both our upper matriarchal half and our lower (later) patriarchal half (compared with a mini lower body replica, an "as above so below" tail end beard extension); in full recognition of her civilizational Underworld; her inevitable cyclical destiny. The male pharaoh wears his beard tapered in reverse, indicating a pointing upwards towards the patriarchal head, divine representative of God's tail end cycle.
Mary's anointing and wiping of Jesus's feet with her hair can then be seen as "Head to tail" (toe) imagery as she descends her matriarchal head to his patriarchal feet, thus reenacting the high understanding of the divine cyclical process. (John 12, verse 3)
To carry the Ankh (now the female symbol ♀️) was perhaps to symbolically carry that upper and lower understanding. As the upper matriarchal womb symbolised the fertile birthing of civilization, below, the now Christian cross is carried to place emphasis on the lower (later) "End Times" Father principle of the great cycle.
Lord Ganesha, the elephant headed Hindu diety, displays a cyclical head to trunk symbolism and points to the Mother head of his matriarchal elephant society. Ganesha (like the elephant) wears God's cyclical nature on his face.
A whole temple was dedicated to Hathor (ancient Egyptian diety), who is the matriarchal "Uterus" personified. th-cam.com/video/J0m0zJSEFK0/w-d-xo.html
"See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. when you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away. See everything as Mother and you will know God." - Neem Karoli Baba
The Mongol`s and Celt`s and Viking`s and Red Indian`s , the so called lesser race`s
Scythian, Persian, Egyptian, Illyrian, Possibly Thracian, Dacian, Mongol, Celtic etc.
A lot of the “barbarian” people were more culturally, technologically, socially advanced than the greco-Roman people
@Jns Two fears Chingus had in life , dogs and his mother , she also had a knack of adopting boys who turned into great generals , and the peak of Mongol power was when Kublai Khan`s wife Chabi could still guide him , before her death , when she was gone Kublai was lost , and the decline started . Thankfully other powerful Mongol females failed in their attempts to turn the Mongol Empire into the Roman Mongol Empire , and it almost happened on more than one occasion
Qubaba of mesopotamia and enheduanna
why are other activities of women in Ancient Egypt not acknowledged?
We only covered the most common/well-known roles. 🙂