Blackwell: Unbound in the second installment in Wadjet Eye's five-part Blackwell series (I encourage you to play them in order, Blackwell: Legacy is reviewed here). The sequel serves as a prequel, starring Rosangela Blackwell's aunt, Lauren Blackwell. While Blackwell: Unbound, for the most part, stays true to the original design ethos, Wadjet Eye strives to focus some of the mechanics from the first game. Is Blackwell: Unbound's mystery of The Countess a step in the right direction for the point-n-click
The snake goddess has also been closely linked with the Egyptian goddess wadjet, or called Uto in Greek, who was goddess of the upper and lower regions of Egypt, and who protected the kings and the women in childbirth. It is also believed the snake goddess of Greece may have been influenced by the Snake Goddess of near-eastern
Oil paintings and engravings tell the story of the rulers lives including their rise and fall from power. Thurtmose lll’s wife made many additions to the temple including adding the eighth pylon. She also added a series of papyri-form columns in the Wadjet hall. Another part of the temple was redesigned this being the section in the Middle Kingdom temple. The additions were a series of rooms around the innermost temple named “palace of Ma’at.” Other parts of the Temple were modified them being a pair
the rectangular, flat-lidded shape of this sarcophagus with a horizontal inscription near the lid which dates back to the Sixth Dynasty (Robins. 24). Many of the decorations on the sarcophagus have a similarly long history. One such image are the wadjet eyes carved into one of its sides. Seen on false doors and sarcophagi alike, this image was vital to Egyptian funerary practice because it allowed the ka to move between the locations of its body and the offerings left in the tomb (Lecture). The images
Anubis was the Egyptian god of embalming and the keeper of secrets. He was associated with the mummification and protection of the dead and journey to the afterlife. He was portrayed man with a jackal’s head, or in jackal form holding a flail in the crook of his arm and wearing a ribbon. In the Old Kingdom he was the most important God, where he was associated with the burial of the pharaoh. He was very important because the Egyptians worshiped two things: 1. the gods and 2. The dead. The ancient
the south. Lower Egypt or the Delta area was called ta-mehu and its representation was the papyrus plant. The king of Lower Egypt wore the chair shaped Red Crown [deshret] which had a coil or plume protruding from it and was protected by the goddess Wadjet. When the pharaoh is seen as the 'King of the Two Lands', he is shown wearing the combined crown called the 'The Two Mighty Ones' [pschent], which can be best described as the White Crown inserted into the top of the Red Crown. The two lands were
The Egyptian religion is a complex subject, full of names, stories, family tree’s, and many gods to fill each of these clusters. Understanding of the deities of the ancient is one of the biggest mysteries Egypt has to offer. While many scholars differ on their idea of the gods relation to one another, their names, and how their stories are arranged- the following gods are the general backbone of the religion. These are the gods who were thought to rule during the ‘First Time’, or the Golden Age of