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  • BLACK CORPSE HAIR Witch Wig zombie ghost pirate mummy bubba hotep mummy zombie elvis movie prop bust mask DWN

    Mummy Zombie | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • The sound crashed in my ear destroying the peace—the hotep—I felt.

    THE EXORSISTAH CLAUDIA MAIR BURNEY 2008

  • The sound crashed in my ear destroying the peace—the hotep—I felt.

    THE EXORSISTAH CLAUDIA MAIR BURNEY 2008

  • Last month saw an important pioneering spirit of jazz initiative to honour miriam makeba, winston mankunku, hotep idris galeta, jonas gwangwa, kiepie moeketsi, chris mcgregor, basil mannanberg coetzee, zakes nkosi and ntemi piliso take place at the newtown cultural pricinct in johannesburg.

    Speech by Peter Maluleka on the Arts & Culture Department Budget Vote Debate 2007

  • Prah-hotep said in his Instruction, “Eloquence is more hidden than the emerald, yet it may be found with maidservants at the grindstone.”

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO 1968

  • Sehket -- but it's a riddle why the Amen-hotep person who built this temple to the goddess Mut should have put Sehket here.

    The Palace of Darkened Windows Mary Hastings Bradley

  • Amenophis (Amon-hotep) IV. of Egypt have been found at Tell el-Amarna.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

  • Books were multiplied, and if we can trust the translation of the Proverbs of Ptah-hotep, the oldest existing book in the world, there were competitive examinations, [civil service!] already in the age of the sixth Egyptian Dynasty ....

    The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments

  • Nu triumphant, son of Amen-hotep, says: Let me remember my name in the great House below on the night when years are counted and months are reckoned up.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy Various 1909

  • Serapeum is grand in its vastness, with its long and high galleries and its mighty vaults containing the huge granite sarcophagi of the sacred bulls of Apis; Mera, red and white, welcomes you from an elevated niche benignly; Ptah-hotep, priest of the fifth dynasty, receives you, seated at a table that resembles a rake with long, yellow teeth standing on its handle, and drinking stiffly a cup of wine.

    The Spell of Egypt Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

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  • }”Don’t assume that everyone knows what a hotep is,” he told a student who had written about an encounter at a barbershop with an exemplar of the type, a man whose Afrocentrism was mixed with regressive sanctimony. “Hoteps are pro-black but anti-progress,” James explained to the class. “They’re stunningly sexist. Your favorite rapper is probably a hotep. He also might be gay.”
    Jia Tolentino,The Book of Spirits, New Yorker (Jan. 28, 2019) (quoting Marlon James)

    February 8, 2019