Month: June 2014

massarrah:

Diplomatic Letter between Ancient Babylon and Egypt

This letter written in Akkadian cuneiform is addressed by the Babylonian king Burnaburiash, a Kassite, to the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten), the so-called “heretic pharaoh” who tried to bring about the abandonment of traditional polytheistic worship in favour of worship centred on the god Aten. A number of such letters from the Late Bronze Age between the Great Powers of the Ancient Near East, including Babylonian, Assyrian, Mittanian, and Hittite kings and the Egyptian pharaohs, provide some of the earliest glimpses into diplomatic correspondences and practices, such as gift-giving and political marriages. 

A collection of 382 cuneiform documents are known to have survived from this period of correspondence, for which the lingua franca was Akkadian. The documents, most of them letters written on clay tablets, were found at the Egyptian site of Tell Al-Amarna. (Source)

Tell Al-Amarna, Kassite Dynasty, c. 1359-1333 BCE.

British Museum.

I’m Bored, And It’s Bills O’Clock! Gimme Commissions!

teratocybernetics:

unknownbinaries:

15$ each abstractish eyebleed monsters, 20$ character headshots (that’s a pageful, you get one, maybe two) or bust & waist-up doodles, and 25$ and up for figures starting without backgrounds (nsfw), or a little more for with, and $40 and up for more involved painterly sketches.

If you’re not interested or as broke as I am, please pass this around and help me banish the shame of my mom being the only one to try buying anything off my Etsy in the past month.

In Defense of New Age   

In Defense of New Age   

ceremonialmagic101:

I used to shy away from the description, “New Age.” But I have come to believe that is what my practice is, and what I want it to be. Let’s dissect what New Age means and where it is beneficial.

The term New Age is a reference to aeonic thinking. Crowley can be seen as popularizing this with his…

Reblogged for the excellent commentary.