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  • The other instrument, called a menat, is a beaded necklace that was shaken to produce a swishing sound.

    The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt 2009

  • I'm sure Howard really menat to say, "... the wrinkly-white-haired-guy party ..."

    Dean: Minorities Don't Do As Well In The White Republican Party 2009

  • Our Charter was not menat to be a Suicide-Pact with Islam to wipe us out and turn canada into Saudi Arabia-WEST with all our oil to blackmial the USA and launch Hezballah style attacks from our border Towns. bas1809 Says:

    The Race Card, Last Refuge Of The Scoundrel « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

  • Those dumbells......are they menat to be cheerleader pom poms?

    Patriot Day 2009

  • However, Aquinas does not say that the government can condone and support certainly a grave evil, or protect evil as a "right" whether "absolute" or not- whatever tha quasi-legal distinction is menat to do.

    Obama's "Humble Realism"??? 2009

  • Offered to the gods, these objects were a token of renewal and strengthened the seduction of their owner, which the texts describe as “mistress of the sistrum,” “lady of the menat” and “whose pure hands hold the sistrum to charm her father Amon with her voice ….”

    Exhibit of Egyptian Queens Jan 2008

  • It looks as if she also might be wearing a menat necklace around her neck.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008

  • Aside from the Indian "devi" we already know Hathor's menat necklace, menat offerings and the expository ritual framework of senet are conjoined in a way that suggest "chess".

    Archive 2008-10-01 Jan 2008

  • Using their charm to conciliate the gods, they wave musical instruments about rhythmically: sistrums and sacred rattles whose music pacified and thrilled the divinities; the menat, whose rows of pearls banging together produced a rustling sound soothing to divine ears.

    Exhibit of Egyptian Queens Jan 2008

  • Aside from the Indian "devi" we already know Hathor's menat necklace, menat offerings and the expository ritual framework of senet are conjoined in a way that suggest "chess".

    Disagreement Behind the Scenes Jan 2008

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