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Entre gansos, falcões, abutres, íbis e jabirus: as aves na mitologia egípcia
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Um dos aspectos mais notáveis da mitologia egípcia é o enorme número de divindades com representações zoomorfas ou híbridas/bimórficas (corpo humano com cabeça animal ou corpo animal com cabeça humana). Essas formas são produto de um compromisso criativo entre um pensamento antropomórfico e as aparências das forças naturais-animais. As aves não escaparam a esta apropriação mitológica e surgem associadas a divindades de primeiro plano do panteão: estão nesse caso os falcões, os abutres, as íbis e o ganso. Além desta faceta de presença das aves em plena associação com grandes divindades do panteão egípcio, é possível vê-las também usadas simbolicamente para exprimirem alguns aspectos da personalidade humana e conceitos maiores do pensamento religioso egípcio. Estão neste caso, sobretudo, a ave-ba e a íbis-akh. No antigo Egipto, as aves, tratadas teológica e iconograficamente, ajudaram, pois, a definir formas divinas, convicções e conceitos espirituais.
One of the most remarkable aspects of the Egyptian mythology is the large number of deities with zoomorphic or hybrid/bimorphic representations (the latter corresponding to representations with animal heads over human bodies or human heads over animal bodies). These shapes are product of a creative compromise between the anthropomorphic form and the features of the naturalanimal forces. Birds were also included in this mythological appropriation and are associated to “first-tier” deities of the Egyptian pantheon, namely hawks, vultures, ibises and geese. Besides this association of birds with the great deities, it is also possible to see their symbolic use as a means to express diverse aspects of human personality and bigger concepts of the Egyptian religious thought: mostly the ba-bird and the akh-ibis. In ancient Egypt, the theological and iconographic treatment of birds was essential to define divine forms, beliefs and spiritual concepts.
One of the most remarkable aspects of the Egyptian mythology is the large number of deities with zoomorphic or hybrid/bimorphic representations (the latter corresponding to representations with animal heads over human bodies or human heads over animal bodies). These shapes are product of a creative compromise between the anthropomorphic form and the features of the naturalanimal forces. Birds were also included in this mythological appropriation and are associated to “first-tier” deities of the Egyptian pantheon, namely hawks, vultures, ibises and geese. Besides this association of birds with the great deities, it is also possible to see their symbolic use as a means to express diverse aspects of human personality and bigger concepts of the Egyptian religious thought: mostly the ba-bird and the akh-ibis. In ancient Egypt, the theological and iconographic treatment of birds was essential to define divine forms, beliefs and spiritual concepts.
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Aves Mitologia Simbologia Conceitos Birds Mythology Symbology Concepts
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Sales, José das Candeias - Entre gansos, falcões, abutres, íbis e jabirus: as aves na mitologia egípcia. "Boletim do Centro Português de Geo-História e Pré-História" [Em linha]. ISSN 2184-4518 (Print) 1645-9806 (Online) vol. 1, nº 2 (2018), p. 23-28
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Centro Português de Geo-História e Pré-História