Ethnobotanical Garden Program - The Scarab (Click for info on program...)
Called the dung beetle because of its practice of rolling a ball of dung across
the ground. The Egyptians observed this behavior and equated it with the ball of
the sun being rolled across the sky. They confused this balled food source with
the egg sack that the female dung beetle laid and buried in the sand. When the
eggs hatched the dung beetles would seem to appear from nowhere, making it a
symbol of spontaneous creation. In this role it was
associated with the sunrise. Khepri was the scarab headed god.
Disabled Program- Winged Solar Disc (Click for info on program...)
This is a form that the god Horus Behudety
(Horus of Edfu) takes in his battles with Seth. The god Thoth used his magic
to turn Horus into a sun-disk with splendid outstretched wings. The goddesses
Nekhbet and Uazet in the form of uraeus snakes joined him at
his side.
Children's Program - King Tut (Click for info on program...)
Tutankhamun was an Egyptian Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty (ruled 1333 BC –
1324 BC in the conventional chronology), during the period of Egyptian hystory
known as the New Kingdom.
His original name, Tutankhaten, means "Living Image of Aten", while Tutankhamun means "Living Image of Amun". Often the name Tutankhamun was written
Amen-tut-ankh, meaning "living image of Amun", due to scribal custom which most often placed the
divine name at the beginning of the phrase in order to honor the divine being.
Community Health & Education Program - Queen Isis (Click for info on program...)
Isis is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs and is
celebrated in their mythology as the ideal mother and wife, patron of nature and
magic; friend of slaves, sinners, artisans, the downtrodden, as well as
listening to the prayers of the wealthy, maidens, aristocrats. and rulers. Cultures leaving evidence of religious beliefs in images, existed in many parts
of what became unified as Ancient Egypt for almost 10,000 years.
Media Arts Program - Goddess Ma'at Black Winged (Click for info on program...)
Ma'at, Goddess of Truth, Balance, Order... seemed to be more of a concept than an actual goddess. Her name, literally,
meant 'truth' in Egyptian. She was truth, order, balance and justice
personified. She was harmony, she was what was right, she was what things should
be. It was thought that if Ma'at didn't exist, the universe would become chaos,
once again!
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