Hunting Hunting, fishing and animals in ancient Egypt

1 hunting

1.1 hippopotamus
1.2 wild bulls
1.3 lions
1.4 elephants

hunting

a common hobby in our time, hunting practiced way gather food or self-defense against wild animals in ancient egypt. once people started domesticating animals , depended on reproduction of animals food, hunting lost importance source of nutrition. result of loss of dependency on hunting food source, hunting became recreational sport. hunting practiced royalty signify power , ability protect people danger.

hippopotamus

the hippopotamus signifies chaos , evil in ancient egypt, hippopotamus believed incarnation of god seth, opponent of gods osiris , horus(photo). horus avenged father osiris killing seth, incarnated hippopotamus. king takes role of horus whenever kills hippopotamus. first dynasty onwards, pictures have been found scenes in king hunts alone, hippopotamus became symbol of chaos , evil. hunting hippopotamus displayed king s unmatched power, depicted in king dewen s cylindrical seal, wrestles , pins down hippopotamus weaponless. other pictures have been found of tomb owners in new kingdom killing hippopotamus, these pictures believed have exclusive religious significance.

wild bulls

wild bulls hunted kings, evident in story of king amenophis iii; man informed king there wild bulls in desert in area of fayum. king traveled north fayum accompanied army , ordered soldiers observe wild bulls , confine them fences , ditches. king amenophis iii spent 4 days in hunt without resting horses , had tally of ninety-six wild bulls out of total of 1 hundred , seventy bulls observed. moreover, drawings of bull hunting have been represented on walls of ramesses ii s funerary temple in madinet habu, stabs last breath out of injured bull.

lions

often identified king of jungle , symbol of power in animal kingdom. earliest pictures of lion hunting came late pre-historic or historic times , in beginning not intended sport, rid country of plague, threatening people. later pictures emerged of king taking hold of lion stab death displayed in ramesses iii s temple @ medinet habu. moreover, tuthmosis iii bragged ability hunt lions, claiming killed 7 lions in 1 second using arrow shot. amenophis iii, fan of big game hunting had list of animals hunted, 1 hundred , 2 wild lions in first decade ruler.

elephants

in prehistoric times, elephants despised , driven out egyptians because of consumption of crops , damaging agriculture. not until egyptians push asia in 18th dynasty egyptian came contact elephants. hunting elephants treasured egyptian kings because of ivory, , remains valuable, moreover, hunting elephants displayed power of king because of immense size. tuthmosis iii reported killed 1 hundred , twenty elephants.