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Archaeologist Jen Cullison claims on her TikTok account that in 970 Ave. “Books of the Dead” (eng. „Book of the Dead“) in the copy and in 1350 Ave. We wrote “Dream Books” (eng. „Book of Dreams“) passage neutrally tells about women’s sexual relations.
Although no evidence has been found that mentions same-sex relationships being punished, homosexuality is the subject of much debate among Egyptologists, who argue that depictions of same-sex couples are nothing more than siblings.
However, some scholars believe that many ancient Egyptian finds depict same-sex couples.
The statuette, created during the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, has raised questions since it was discovered in 1914. The painted limestone figurine depicts two women with their hands on each other’s backs.
Experts have speculated that they could be mother and daughter, sisters or a same-sex couple.
Other possible evidence is found in the Book of the Dead. According to J. Cullison, in this 970 Ave. in a book written by a woman, there is a text stating “that the author never had intercourse with a woman inside the temple”.
Mr. Cullison noted that “within the temple” is an essential part of the text because it shows that outside the temple it is perfectly acceptable.
“Book of the Dead” is a modern term for a set of rituals and spells that the Egyptians used to enter the afterlife.
The manuscript has been found in dozens of burial sites, but the first known copy was found in 1888. – it is now kept in the British Museum.
A fragment of the text of the “Dream Book” describes how one woman reproaches another for dreaming that she is having intimate intercourse with a married woman – but the criticism was not that she was having intercourse with a woman, but that it was adultery.
“If the woman hadn’t been married, it looks like everything would have been fine,” Mr Cullison says.
The sexual lifestyle of the Egyptians is also mentioned in the Talmud, an important text of Jewish religious law and theology, written in the 3rd-6th centuries. Ave. me
It says that “Lesbianism was widespread in Egypt and became so acceptable to the Jewish people that the term ‘Egyptian practices’ became a euphemism for lesbianism,” Mr Cullison says.
Given the denial of homosexuality in history, researcher Raven Todd Da Silva urges people to use critical thinking to look for clues to how people may have behaved in the past.
“There have been so many homosexual couples in history that older historians have described as ‘close friends’ or ‘roommates,’ especially in the case of homosexual women,” says RT Da Silva.
Adapted from the Daily Mail.
2024-07-07 01:32:01