The Egyptian civilization, which since its inception has always been characterized by the exotic and lush, I could not put aside an item could be as important as sex. Art, texts and religion itself, tell us that the ancient Egyptians, far from being some sort of puritanical or sanctimonious, gave the sex of the importance it deserved. Before the world existed, there was nothing in the universe. There were no rivers, no mountains or valleys. Everything was plunged in gloomy darkness. In an uncertain time, out of nowhere came the primordial waters of Nun, the non-being. Then the whole universe is covered by a large body of water: he had taken the first step toward life. The sun god Atum, created self coming to give birth to a newborn world where only he and the waters were paramount. In a reflex, in a desire to share his life with more people and lead to a dynasty of gods, the god Atum masturbated giving life to the gods Shu, the air, and Tefnut, water. In turn, they were born Geb, the earth, and Nut, the sky. As reported in a sharp, solar temple priests of Heliopolis, near Cairo, has left for posterity the birth of the world and its major elements. From a base as libidinous, no wonder that the ancient Egyptians saw in sex as a normal element in their daily lives.
Environmental factors
In a country where the heat is, for most of the year, the predominant as far as climate is concerned, it is no wonder that the ancient Egyptians used to wear very light clothes or, if they were not completely naked. Thus, the inhabitants of the Nile valley were certainly accustomed to live almost naked, as is the case with many African tribes today. It was common standard in the village perform their daily tasks only wearing a short skirt, leaving the breasts bare. Similarly, it is often found in the tombs of every season, artistic scenes of farming, where farmers themselves carry out their daily tasks without any garment that covers them. At other times, working conditions invited to nudity but does not seem to be forced, in any case was more comfortable.
This occurs, for example, in the case of fishermen, who by having to spend much time in rivers or swamps chose to work naked and avoid the inconvenience that could result in wet clothing. However, the warmth and comfort were Egyptian workers in small villages to conduct their daily tasks as the gods they had brought to the world. For his part, although no evidence in the higher strata of Egyptian society have the same habits, mainly because it always worked and lived surrounded by servers that covered the hot desert sun, the ladies of high society accustomed themselves to wear at parties linen garments suggestive, almost transparent, which left everything to guess what was underneath them.
Pure and simple sex
While the documents "pornographic" in ancient Egypt until the Ptolemaic era are scarce, the documents that you have left in this sense the ancient Egyptians, are authentic Kamasutra sex daily practices in the court of Pharaoh. In these papyri and ostraca, we can more directly understand the importance and variety of the human face in the valley of the Nile no point of comparison with the infantile erotic poems where the couple hinted of veiled sexuality and eroticism very demure, we have authentic pornographic papyrus, which although an exception, they are still interesting. Of all the documents we have, the best known is the Turin papyrus No. 55001. Belonging to the reign of Ramses II, was not published until 1973 for its strong sexual content, and is inscribed the drawings there did not seem to be the most refined taste of the first Egyptologists, including the very Champollion. The papyrus gives a brief overview of the licentious customs of that loved one and Ramses in years. Described how girls were newcomers to the palace every effort to gain favor with the Pharaoh. So they stood before him and after an exciting strip-tease approached his master, opening her thighs and showing everything that the king would lose if the come to reject. Then, Ramses, fed as "dull" fashion show, organized something much more exciting for his fevered head was entering the great hall of the palace cars full of young girls in the most unlikely positions, screaming and gasping as real animals in heat .
A Puritan art
While the ancient Egyptians were more than enough in intent and manifestations of eroticism patent were quite demure when iconographically represent such scenes if we move away from the papyrus itself erotic. Thus, it is quite difficult to find nudity in the official Egyptian iconography, if we pull out of the traditional scenes of dancers in the Theban tombs. We have some examples of divine conception and birth of the Egyptian pharaohs. They show how the god descends to earth to join the king's mother and father and a new stem to the ruling dynasty. The curious thing about such scenes is that the two protagonists are dressed but the position of their bodies clearly denote what type of event taking place. Similarly, in hieroglyphic writing one of the determinants used in the semantic field that brings together all the words related to sex is a picture of a couple making love ... but dresses. The same approach used by Egyptians and pictorial representations relivarias-profile figures, prevented a perfect appreciation of the naked. Nevertheless retain some notable exceptions. For example, the famous scene of the three flautists in the Theban tomb of the noble Nakht (ca. 1400 BC), especially because one of them appears in the chest drawn in the front. Similarly, Rekhmire tomb at Thebes has a painting showing a toilet scene where one of the maids are in a three-quarter profile, so that shows the back of the viewer. For its part, sculpture in the round perhaps more likely to display the entire body, nor is lavished on these issues with the exception of phallic representations of the god Min was not until the Ptolemaic era (from 332 BC .) when you see the eroticism or pornography abundantly in grecoegipcia sculpture.
Sex deities
Since prehistoric times-IV millennium BC C. - Pharaonic Egypt has been stocked in many amulets with a function related to fertility but obvious. Preserving figurines of nude women or men endowed with an enormous penis interpreted as a clear call to fertility. Over the centuries, although this type of amulets continued performing well-preserved examples in the town of Deir el Medina of the Eighteenth dynasty, ca. 1400 BC C. -, solidifying the belief it was around a series of gods for a specific purpose. The goddess with the longest tradition in this regard was Hathor, identified by a host of local female deities which caused a vast spread of its followers. This goddess was a protector of women, protector of the party, drink, love and all kinds of debauchery of an Egyptian who used to participate in life. The Greeks identified with Aphrodite. Much like the god Bes, possibly foreign-Phoenician or Nubian, "was the patron of the marital bedroom, the dances, parties and protector of women giving birth with the divine feminine Tueris. Head was represented as a bearded dwarf and large, sticking out her tongue and sometimes playing an instrument.
Posted by: Nacho Ares in 2006.
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