10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In three cases of adoption the common factor was that the adopting individual was sexually attracted to one of the real parents of the young. And this is (a bad photo of) an African Sacred Ibis mummy in the British Museum in London (found in Egypt). If that isn’t a great basic plot for a soap opera, then what is?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2022

Being sacred may not have been that great for the Ibis in Egypt though – apparently, mummies of the Ibis are by far the most common bird mummies found there. The Sacred Ibis was very important for the ancient Egyptians as it arrived with the annual Nile floods and the Egyptians gave them credit for these floods.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

And, I’ve passed through the Ancient Egypt exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum, where the Ibis is featured on pottery fragments, many times. We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets.

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