http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/460/candace-a-reilly Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:28:14 -0400 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:28:14 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/556/taweret-an-untraditional-egyptian-goddess By Candace A. Reilly - They would keep the amulets in their homes which would create their living surroundings into domestic shrines. The popular household deities that represent fertility are Bes, Hathor and Taweret, and their placement in homes were prominent due to the danger pregnancy and childbirth had on women in ancient Egypt (Robins 87-90). The dead used the amulet in the tomb for the purpose of gaining one preferential notice with a particular deity and protection in the afterlife. “These objects were endowed with magic powers and that where magic is concerned mystery and obscurity of meaning only add... Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/556/taweret-an-untraditional-egyptian-goddess http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/555/bonne-de-luxembourgs-three-living-and-three-dead-abnormal-decomposition By Candace A. Reilly - In fourteenth century Medieval Europe the theme of the macabre was commonplace as seen by an overwhelming obsession of cadaverous legends and images created prior to the Black Plague. Illustrations and tales of corpses cavorting with the living were prevalent; however an image of three decomposing cadavers was a rare commodity to behold by anyone outside of Italy. The legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead began to be disseminated in the late thirteenth century in France from the popular poem by Baudoin de Condé (Sandeno). In the Bonne de Luxembourg's Psalter and Hours the illuminator... Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:12 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/555/bonne-de-luxembourgs-three-living-and-three-dead-abnormal-decomposition