The thing I love about making these videos is how much I learn. Another thing I learned today doing research for my upcoming video on Edfu Temple. In the Middle and New Kingdom, commoners were allowed to donate statues that were placed in the outer courtyard of the temple. These would often represent them in positions of reverence and servitude, so that they may worship the god for all eternity. There is some disagreement amongst scholars as to when the Egyptians started to believe that everyone would get a place in the underworld or the Duat, but in the period of Edfu that was widespread. Those who had statues in the temple would be honored ancestors and here we see again the concept of intercession, as those ancestors could petition the gods on behalf of their descendants.
Picture: A type of statue called a Block Statue of a scribe who bears a statue of Thoth in the form of a baboon.
