scholarly journals The Connections between Huashan Rock Art Site of China and Ancient Egypt

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bohai Xu
Keyword(s):  
Rock Art ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Border Area ◽  
West China ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
South West ◽  
The World ◽  
Cosmological Beliefs

The Huashan rock art site may be considered to be one of the most impressive pre-Historic painted panels of the world. The site is located in the Zuojiang River valley of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, a border area of south-west China, neighbouring Vietnam. This article tries to explore the possible connection between the landscape of the Huashan rock art site , cosmological beliefs of the Luo Yue people and ancient Egypt’s the Valley of the Kings, cosmological beliefs of the ancient Egyptian.

First record of the genus Microstenus Szépligeti (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae) from China, with description of one new species and a key to world species

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4838 (4) ◽  
pp. 594-600
Author(s):  
TAO LI ◽  
SHU-PING SUN ◽  
MAO-LING SHENG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
World Species ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region ◽  
The World ◽  
One New Species ◽  
A New Species

The genus Microstenus Szépligeti, 1916 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae) is newly recorded from China based on a new species, Microstenus rufithorax Sheng, Li & Sun, sp. nov., collected from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Oriental part of China. Illustrations of the new species are provided. A key to the world species of this genus is also provided. 

scholarly journals High precision U/Th dating of the rock paintings at Mt. Huashan, Guangxi, southern China

2017 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing-Feng Shao ◽  
Edwige Pons-Branchu ◽  
Qiu-Ping Zhu ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Hélène Valladas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Han Dynasty ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Carbon Isotopic ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
The World ◽  
Rock Paintings ◽  
Eastern Han

AbstractThe rock art and the associated natural scenery at 38 sites located in the Zuojiang River valley, in the southwest of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, southern China, were inscribed recently on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. The painted panel at the site of Mt. Huashan is probably the largest known rock art panel in the world, consisting of approximately 1900 identifiable figures and occupying an area of approximately 8000 m2. To determine a precise age on the rock art at Mt. Huashan, 56 secondary carbonate layers above and below the paintings were studied for their mineralogy, oxygen, and carbon isotopic compositions and dated by the 230Th/U method. The 230Th/U dating results demonstrate that ages of the rock paintings can be bracketed between 1856±16 and 1728±41yr BP corresponding to the middle to the end of the Eastern Han dynasty (AD 25 to 220). The results imply that the rock painting practices at Mt. Huashan probably lasted more than a century, and the Zuojiang rock art is younger than that at Baiyunwan and Cangyuan in Yunnan Province by 1 to 10 centuries.

Ancient World

2020 ◽  
pp. 192-227
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
The Self ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Behavior Patterns ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Synchronous Cultures ◽  
Evolutionary Changes ◽  
The World ◽  
Active Channels ◽  
And Behavior

The features of depicting space in the reliefs and murals of Ancient Egypt are considered. Attention is drawn to the preservation of the connection of ancient Egyptian art with primitive art in sacred paintings and to the evolution of the ways of depicting space in secular scenes. There is enough material to reconstruct the ancient Egyptian version of the World Tree myth and to establish links with other archaic myths and ideas about the World Tree in the synchronous cultures of the Middle East. When analyzing markers of evolutionary changes, the most active channels were established and the forecast of the self-organization scenario was checked. The results are presented in the form of generalized psychological portraits and behavior patterns of representatives of the main estates.

scholarly journals As serpentes vindas do Médio Oriente nos Textos das Pirâmides. Reflexão sobre as relações egípcias-orientais nos textos religiosos mais antigos

2020 ◽  
pp. 285-295
Author(s):  
Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Complete Work ◽  
Pyramid Texts ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Linguistic Means

The Pyramid Texts created in Ancient Egypt and contextualised by the belief in life beyond death, were intended to accompany the deceased in their journey to the Hereafter, to protect and ensure the realisation of their needs there. The oldest religious texts demonstrate positive aspects, delight and lust for life and, due to the fact that they were composed in order to assist the pharaoh on his way to the sky and the true existence of the king in the Beyond, could never be questioned or endangered. However, despite everything evoked here, there are attestations of inimical forces, or perils, which are to be fought off. Emphasis will be placed on the question of how the “serpent spells” and use of language in them manifest the relationship of the pharaoh and the Egyptians with the inhabitants of the Near East. The ideas of the presumed origin of the formulae and the link with the creator Atum in the texts under discussion is also presented. One can trace the quiddity of the world as a complete work of the ancient Egyptian creator. Therefore, the author of the paper aims to scrutinise, with reference to contextual arguments, the language of the diagnostic “serpent spells” of the Pyramid Texts, namely the grammar, choice of vocabulary, phraseology, possible onomatopoeic effects, to elucidate linguistic means of expression used in the Pyramid Texts. The methodology of the linguistic worldview is used.

scholarly journals WEAPONS OF ANCIENT EGYPT: THE MILITARY AND THE SACRED. PART 2

Articult ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 26-46
Author(s):  
Yury S. Reunov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Small Arms ◽  
Origin And Evolution ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Technical Solutions ◽  
The Military

In the second part of the article development of Ancient Egyptian weapons in context of their combat use and ritual and magical understanding continues to be studied. The paper reveals the key aspects of origin and evolution of pole, small arms and throwing weapons. Attention is paid to identifying adoptions of separate technical solutions from other nations, which is mainly relevant to compound bows. Due to the fact that weapons served as a tool for not only solving practical problems, but also performing rites, some Egyptian religious beliefs are briefly discussed, namely those on the role of a pharaoh in maintaining the world order as well as on participation of gods in achieving victory. A system of features that allow attributing weapons as belonging to a utilitarian or ceremonial category is proposed.

scholarly journals Guangxi Anthropological Museums and the Representation of Zhuang Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 125-134
Author(s):  
Vitaly S. Glinkin
Keyword(s):  
Modern State ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Working Processes ◽  
Local Cultures

This article analyzes the history and modern state of anthropological museums in the Guangxi-Zhuang Autonomous Region (PRC) and researches the issue of how Zhuang culture is presented in exhibitions. The Zhuang are by far the most populous minority in China. In spite of their population and importance, foreign scholars do not usually pay much attention to them. The first anthropological museums appeared in China in the 1930s and since then have been developing through the periods of decay and prosperity along with the country itself. At present, the PRC’s anthropological museums are moving along with all the world trends of modernization of working processes and digitalization of practices and techniques. There is a network of ethnic ecomuseums in Guangxi. They were established to preserve local cultures in their own environment. This article shows that the results of the project are not as successful as planned. There are problems of ignorance among the local dwellers to their own culture, lack of funding and lack of interest in ecomuseums from both locals and managing personnel appointed by the government.

Gods in Ancient Egypt

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oskar Kaelin
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Vast Network

The ancient Egyptians were surrounded by various manifestations of their many gods. Though their gods usually lived in heaven or in the netherworlds, they were permanently represented on earth by monuments, statues, symbols, animals, and plants, as well as by social concepts. The Egyptians described their gods by various names and images, always aware that in the end their true personalities and characters remained elusive. The ancient Egyptian universe comprised heaven, earth, and netherworld, all part of creation and surrounded by eternal darkness. Though separate areas, they were permeable for the gods and the dead. The universe ran smoothly as long as there was respect and cooperation between them and the living. This formed an ideological, social, and economic cohesion. The gods were powerful but benevolent, and approachable in many ways. The divine king was the hub between the world of the gods and the human sphere. He was the main entity responsible for organizing the supply and welfare of the humans, and for keeping order. During official festivals, the living, the gods, and the dead celebrated together, but there were also a number of more personal ways to approach deities. The various sites of interaction between gods and men formed a vast network connecting all the players: the gods were responsible for creation and abundance, the kings and elites were primarily responsible for ensuring that the system ran according to Maat (“Order”), and the people were responsible for living and working throughout the country. The system of ancient Egyptian gods structured Egyptian ideas, policies, and everyday life from the end of the 4th millennium bce to the rise of Christianity and beyond. The ancient Egyptians’ beliefs were polytheistic, acknowledging the existence of thousands of gods and endless deceased humans. At times, the ancient Egyptians appeared to be henotheistic and would exalt a deity in his or her uniqueness. Moreover, with Akhenaten, they were the first to experiment with monotheism, though that did not last much longer than a decade. The ideas and images created for the Egyptian gods and religion had an impact on many contemporaneous cultures, as well as on later religions.

scholarly journals Ancient Egypt Focuses on “Cultural Memory”

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 393-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Sherkova
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Symbolic Language ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
The World ◽  
Egyptian Culture ◽  
Cultural Texts

The existence of culture is impossible without memory as a supra-individual intellectual and communicative system in synchronous and diachronic dimensions. From semiotics in pre-written (as in unwritten) cultures, all facts, phenomena, events, objects, etc., are natural and cultural texts, as they contain information encrypted in image-symbolic language, which explains the mythological consciousness of the cultures of antiquity. In this context, this article examines the forms of keeping in the collective memory of the basic spiritual values of the culture. The basis of myth-religious ideas was the idea of returning to the origins, of the great-time creation of the world. This sacred time was repeated in rituals, cementing the identity of the population of ancient Egyptian culture through centuries and millennia. The main channels of cultural memory keeping were temples and texts and rituals. The king responsible for the prosperity of society played a key role. The cult of the ruling and deceased king had a cosmogony basis. The notions of the cyclical movement of time, the victory of order over chaos were reflected at all levels and spheres of society. The central model of an orderly world with a dedicated core was a model for social structure, temple buildings, burial complexes of elite necropolises, rites, compositions on ritual objects. Cultural memory kept ancient symbols, placing them in the contexts of subsequent eras, as a reminder of the ancient, eternal foundations of culture.

The “bowl-shaped” bloomeries of Pingnan County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the origins of “bowl-shaped” bloomery in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-170
Author(s):  
Yingfu Li
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Han Dynasty ◽  
The Other ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region ◽  
Iron Smelting ◽  
The World ◽  
The Indian Ocean

AbstractBased on the discussion on the shape, nature, iron-smelting products and technical characteristics of the “bowl-shaped” bloomeries of the iron-smelting remains of the Han dynasty at Liuchen Town in Pingnan County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, this paper puts forward the issue of the origin of the “bowl-shaped” bloomeries in China, and referring to the “bowl-shaped” bloomeries found in West Asia, South Asia, Europe, and Africa and their smelting technical traditions. This paper pointed out that the “bowl-shaped” bloomeries in China had the same origin with that of the other regions of the world, which was the result of the far and wide diffusion of the “bowl-shaped” bloomeries of West Asia, and its introduction route might be from West Asia via South Asia and Southeast Asia along the Indian Ocean.

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