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The Egyptians have many spirits or spiritual beings as well as a host of demonic beings often depicted as snakes which probably influenced later Hebrew and Christian demonology, these are as follows:

Afu: Lesser Gods or spirits mentioned in Egyptian texts.

Akebiu: Spirits that wail in the underworld.

Akeneh: A serpentine demon.

Akhem-Sek: A group of celestial beings thought to be the personification of stars.

Amkihiu: The souls of the dead who are granted passage on the boat of the sun God Ra.

Anhefta: A protective spirit of the underworld.

Benen: The guardian of the eighth entrance to Duat.

El Naddaha: A river-nymph and demoness who calls men into the Nile to drown them.

Henmemet: Lesser divine beings.

Hentiu: Spirits of the twelfth area of Duat.

Her-F-Ha-F: The leader of a group of spirits who attempt to capture the souls of the dead in large nets, their name means “fierce fowlers whose fingers are hidden”. Her-F-Ha-F was known to ferry the souls of the dead across the rivers of death and may be related to the Sumerian ferryman Urshanabi.

Hert-Nemmat-Set: A female spirit who resides in the fourth pit of the eleventh area of Duat and punishes the damned.

Hert-Sefu-S: A female spirit who resides in the fifth pit of the eleventh area of Duat and punishes the damned.

Kefi: A guardian of the tenth area of Duat.

Kha-A: A spirit that carries a bow and resides in the tenth area of Duat.

Khaibit: The shades or ghoulish spirits of the dead.

Khnemiu: Four divine beings wearing red crowns found in the eleventh area of Duat.

Maa-Ab: A guardian of the sixth area of Duat.

Mates: A demon who inhabbited the Sheni of the underworld and tore out the hearts of the damned.

Men-Sheta: A spirit personifying the hidden aspects of the Occult or magic who resides in the seventh area of Duat and was depicted as bending over a staff.

Metes: A guardian of the eleventh area of Duat.

Nebt-Khu: A guardian of the eleventh area of Duat. She sits upon a snake with one hand raised over her face. Nebt-Khu never moves and lives on the voices of snakes that spawn from her feet.

Nehata: A spirit that utters words of power in the underworld to restore life to Osiris. Nehata resides in the ninth area of Duat.

Nehebukau: Nehebukau was said to guard the entrance to Duat and was known as the one who caused the binding of the Ka (vital life spark) and the Ba (soul) initiating death. Nehebukau was depicted as a two-headed serpent. When seen as a snake he was seen as having magical power over snake bites and by extension over venoms such as those of scorpions and was therefore sometimes depicted as a son of the scorpion Goddess of healing and protection Selket, this may mean that Nehebukau was invoked to cause death or in attempts to heal poisons magically. As a serpent connected to the life spark and soul Nehebukau could be a form of Egyptian kundalini/serpentine energy mystery.

Nemi: A guardian of the tenth area of Duat.

Ni: A spirit with two bird heads who helps raise up the sun from the underworld each day, Ni carries a paddle and resides in the twelfth area of Duat.

Pai: A guardian of the twelfth area of Duat.

Qebhet: The personification of cool waters said to be a daughter of Anubis.

Senenahemthet: A serpentine demon.

Setcheh: A serpentine demon.

Setheniu-Tep: Four divine beings wearing white crowns found in the eleventh area of Duat.

Set-Qesu: A demon whose name means “crusher of bones” and who occupies the hall of judgement known as Ma’ati.

Stefiu: Four divine beings who occupy the tenth area of Duat and hold the serpent God of chaos Apophis prisoner in chains.

Tcheser-Tep: A serpentine demon.

Thethu: A serpentine demon.

Ufa: A serpentine demon.

Urshu: Spirits whos name means “watchers” likely related to the Sumerian Igigi and later fallen angels.

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WE DID IT TEAM!

The day started out pretty typical. In the morning, I sat next to Meredith and helped her and David with their speeches and gave Melodie my trig homework. I think. Then I gave Lyanne the curry puffs (pop) my mom made. There was originally four, but I ate one before I left the house in the morning. LOL. Soon enough, we had to go and I met up with Emma in the tutoring room where we talked about what she planned to do for her birthday and about the whole baby shower thing, but whaaateverrr I ain't even mad anymore. In English, we had presentations and I had no idea what the slide show looked like, or what to say. >_> Smh, we're going on Tuesday since we ran out of time. Russian was just a quiz and we watched this video that an upperclassman made about the exchange program. It was pretty well done and inspired me to want my camera even more. :D Then Glen talked about his trip through his powerpoint, it was actually pretty interesting, especially because he's a good talker (lolol), except Ms. Dobry kept interrupting him. In Lab today, David and I built all the molecules while Emma did the actual lab packet work. Lol, he got so carried away, but it was pretty fun and the period went by fast. I managed to get a corner from David's poptart. lool. I love corners. /notemo. AP, outlined some thematic essay or what not, seems easy enough then we only had one speech present. Lunch, I sucked a VB. Yep. oh, and Brian accidentally elbowed me in the face, it was mostly my fault though, and now there's a slight bruise near the corner of my eye, but my glasses covers it. Ahahaa, it was alright. Trig + Chem = easy. FINISHED THE CURRICULUM IN CHEM YAAAYY. I quite enjoyed organic chemistry. CAD is so much fun now, well, it was fun before but now even more so. David, Sharon, Patrick, and I were playing Connect 5 and eventually Mazza told us to take out a book or w/e, psssh, like any of us even listened. We just continued playing. LOL, I was so close to winning several times! I heard David call me a bastard LMAOOOOO SMH cus I told Sharon to block him instead of me. THEN HE CALLED ME SHARON and I'm liek THAT'S SO MUCH WORSE. Ahahaha, things got pretty intense. Loads of fun though. xD

We heard the announcements about who won the elections, Binbin ]; I picked up The Secret Life of Bees to read during the weekend from my locker and met up with everyone outside. I shouted congrats to John Guarco 'cus he finally got the President position and he's been trying for the past two years :D! Yaaay. We walked to the train station with Sharon 'cus she needed to go to the city since she was going to a retreat. While walking there, we (Meredith, Eve, Monica, Reylyn, Sharon and I) saw this dead squirrel that Sharon almost stepped on. LOLLLL. She screamed right when I called out to her. It was really odd. D: 

While waiting for the train, Monica found her old middle school friend, Reylyn and Sharon went to go and stand in the sun while the rest of us stood under the shade and talked about bats and birds. On the train, it was a good ride but we missed our stop. LOL. D: We got off at the last stop with Sharon to get the train going back, luckily it came within minutes. Splitting up at transporation-y places like this, (airports, train stations) makes me really sad inside for some reason, even though I know I'll see Sharon again on Tuesday. 

The train took forever to leave. T_T We were just camwhoaring and stuff while Reylyn was on the phone. 

I saw this green tea ad that made me really wanna drink green tea. Mmm.

Anyways, we only missed the stop by one, so we got off really soon. We had some trouble getting out of the station: 1) Walked towards a closed door, so we had to walk all the way around 2) Metro cards. Yep. Anyways, we debated which was the right way originally, but we eventually found it thanks to Meredith's ghetto map and Eve's GPS. I noticed the thrift store pretty early because I saw these rainbow stripes and stuff all around the building. There was a dinosaur with a sombrero outside. LOL. The people who worked in the store were pretty nice, we put our bags down and walked around. I looked through the skirts first and they were meh. There was this one that I liked a lot, but I decided that it clashed with my skin color ]: and my OCD kicked in when I noticed that there were some beads missing. We walked around and there were a bunch of really old stuff. I wish they had more skirts or like, sweaters though. In this one area, there were glass cases and I bought this metal thingy of Sir Lancelot ($2)that I thought looked really cool. It was originally for Ms. Palma, but...I might keep it now. LOL. I actually most likely will keep it. 

They gave me a nice box to go with it, there was a lot of gift buying in this store because everything was such a bargain. :D I don't remember what I was thinking about the entire time, but everyone's purchases just flew right by me. LOL. All I know is that there were a lot of belts bought. There was this cool bag that Eve pointed out to me, I was tempted to get it, BUT I HAVE SELF CONTROL. 

From there, we went to the bookstore cafe. It was on a really ghetto side of the street, but w/e IT WAS SO WORTH IT. All of us walked in and it was like, a whole different world sort of. It was one of those charmingly messy stores. We looked around near the front of the books and Meredith found this Spirited Away graphic novel that was perfect for Eve! Birthday present, round 2. ;D We kept going further and further in and on this raised floor area, there were records! Like, those huge circular things that are really vintage. LOL. Some of them were free, too. Mostly classical music, but still! Then I went back down to look at the books because I always like to imagine a world where I enjoyed doing so. I saw this beautifulllll Sherlock Holmes book. I called Reylyn over and I was liek, OMGGG IDK WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF ANYMOREEEE. I told her how I loved Sherlock Holmes more than TOP. D: That's a lot! But the first couple of pages were ripped out so... Disappoint. 

We finally decided to buy something at the cafe. Meredith, Reylyn and I all got a slice of farmer's market apple pie ($2.50). SUCH A GOOD DECISION. IT WAS DELICIOUS. Next time I'll try blue berry. That sounded good, too. :D The crust was really well made, and the filling wasn't too sweet. Monica got the same thing plus Vanilla Italian soda (which was decent) and Eve got something called "Eve's Elixir." All the things were all mismatched, like the silverware and chairs - it really added to the atmosphere. The guy who worked there, like behind the counter area, was mad chill sorta. He had that charming-ish kind of look to him; it's hard to describe. He was wearing a collared shirt and a vest - mad classy, yo, BUT THEN HE WALKED OUT FROM BEHIND THE COUNTER, and he was only wearing shorts. LMFAO. I thought it was funny. The people there were generally pretty nice though. Kind of, down to earth in a way. :D