Got a new ghost last night: Abida is a 16 year old Egyptian girl who was a maidservant to Pharaoh Djer, who ruled c. 3000 B.C. , the third pharaoh of the First Dynasty. She is the victim of retainer sacrifice. Ancient Egyptian retainer sacrifice is a type of human sacrifice in which pharaohs and occasionally other high court nobility would have servants killed after the pharaohs deaths to continue to serve them in the afterlife. In Egypt, retainer sacrifice only existed during the First Dynasty, from about 3100 BC to 2900 BC, slowly dwindling, and eventually dying out. Most of the retainer sacrifices in the surrounding tombs of the funerary complex of King Djer at Abydos were female and probably consisted of the king’s subsidiary wives, concubines, relatives, or maidservants. For other spiritual information and readings, please visit my site at linsdomain
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:14:05 +0000
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