Mun (Mursi) belly painting
Mun (Mursi) belly painting Mun (Mursi) belly painting Photographer: Kate Fayers-Kerr – Mun Mursi belly painting: the Mun (Mursi) use mud and clay as a technique for grounding self and society in social, political, and cosmological space and order. Fayers-Kerr has persuasively shown how Mun painting and ideas about eating earth are closely connected to […]
Hieroglyph from the obelisk of Thutmose III
Hieroglyph from the obelisk of Thutmose III at the Constantinople Hippodrome Wikimedia Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) – The hieroglyphic sign F46 depicts coiled intestines, abstracted to the point of forming a regular, oblong spiralling shape. As with other internal organs used in Egyptian iconography, the intestines depicted are almost certainly those of an animal, […]