But after Egypt fell and the temples were finally shut down, the meaning of the hieroglyphs, along with the traditional temple formula and its sacred scent, was lost for nearly two thousand years. The other two temple incenses, frankincense and myrrh are well-known simple resins with a long history of religious use, both of which are also included in the Kepu recipes. This celebrated incense was reportedly compounded of various exotic resinous woods, gums, and other botanicals, most of which had to be imported from distant lands, and so it was quite expensive to produce. Therefore technically, incense is the material to be burned and perfume is the fragrance it emits. Also, the first use of the word “perfume” was its ancient Latin root “ parfumum”, meaning “through smoke”, originally used to describe any fragrant smoke from burning materials - primarily those used as incense or for disinfectant fumigation. The Egyptian and Sanskrit correspondence is downright uncanny, suggesting that the word, and incense, were passed down from a still older root culture. The root word also exists in Indo-European languages with a similar meaning, most notably the Hindu Sanskrit कपि ( kapi) - "incense", Greek “kapnoz” καπνός - "smoke", and Latin “ kap” - “vapor”. The term Kyphi is actually a Latinized form of the Greek κυ̑φι for the Egyptian Kapet - from " kap" - to perfume, fumigate, cense, heat, or ignite. Either way, Kepu or Kyphi was the most venerated and mysterious of the three. As it turns out, Kyphi was offered in the morning as well according to inscriptions at Karnak and Abydos, so Plutarch had it half right. The historian Plutarch (circa 70 BCE) tells us that olibanum (frankincense) was the first offering in the morning as the doors to the shrine were opened, followed by myrrh at midday, and finally Kyphi in the evening at sunset after which the doors of the shrine were resealed. Often called the “Eye of Horus” by the ancient Egyptians, Kepu/ Kapet, was transliterated to Koine Greek as Kyphi. Consecrated and transmuted by fire as offerings to the divine Neteru, two of these were plain naturally occurring resins, while Kepu involved a complicated recipe with up to sixteen ingredients.
We know that there were three primary types of temple incense: Senetjer (frankincense - senetjer meaning “to make divine”), Antiu (myrrh), and Kepu (masculine ) or Kapet (feminine ).
They called the wafting fragrance Ta-n-akh - an offering to the spirit, and it was said that the rising perfumed smoke carried their orisons to the Neteru, its sweet smell attracting them, in turn, to take up residence within the temple sanctuaries. Kepu - Kapet - Kyphi The Sacred Temple Incense of Ancient EgyptĪccording to the temple inscriptions and surviving papyri, and the reportage of early Greek historians, the ancient Egyptians burned incense for the purification and consecration of temple sanctuaries and as an offering to their gods and goddesses, the Neteru or “divinities”, three times a day, every day, morning noon and night, in all of their temples for well over 3,500 years. Her books “Sacred Luxuries - Fragrance, Aromatherapy, & Cosmetics in Ancient Egypt” and “An Ancient Egyptian Herbal” were primary resources and inspiration for this essay and in my work here at Wandering Stars. Lise Manniche, who recently passed away on September 12, 2022, at the age of 79. After you create the new profile you use the arrows to choose which "game" you want to play.This article is dedicated to the memory of noted scholar, Egyptologist, and esteemed member of The Danish Egyptological Society, Dr. I now have 6 profiles I think.2 for Ancient Quest (so I can do both regular and relax modes), and 2 for Monkeys and 2 for Egyptian. Make sure that you create a "new profile", or you will not be able to access the new saqpacks. Sorry, not a techno wizard like my pal Steven (aka Whiterabbit), but I have not had a problem. I'm not sure what the problem is, but I have had no trouble downloading the Saqpacks into the game, and they work just fine ) I did not want to go through all that with Big Fish again. I have had no trouble.although I have not downloaded the 1.19 version. Then I downloaded the monkey packs, and just recently the Egyptian one. Someone wrote me back from Big Fish and said.oops, we now have the new version 1.18. I then informed Big Fish, indicating I had been given this information by Konrad.
He told me that Codeminion was going to send Big Fish any new versions they produced for fixes. Then I spoke with the game creator and developer (Konrad,- sent through e-mail to developers), and he told me about the fix (Version 1.18) to fix the Bast glitches.
I bought the original game from Big Fish.
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