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Khufu is 6'2" and wearing Size L
SHE LOVES THE SILENCE.
The Egyptians believed a mountain above the Valley of the Kings was a goddess, a cobra named She Who Loves Silence. The back carries her face in black ink, framed by a headdress of oxblood bands and black scale, two small cobras curling at its base. The chest holds a small eye beneath a crest of red scales.
The Story
On the west bank of the Nile at Thebes, a limestone peak shaped like a pyramid rises over the valleys where Egypt buried its kings. The Egyptians called it the Peak of the West, and a goddess lived in it. Her name was Meretseger: She Who Loves Silence.
She was a cobra, shown as a rearing snake or a snake with a woman’s head. She guarded the necropolis: the royal tombs, the temples of the dead, and the craftsmen of the village of Deir el-Medina who cut and painted the tombs and knew exactly where the kings lay.
Those craftsmen carved prayers to her on stone slabs. They are confessions. A man wrongs the Peak, something terrible happens to him, and he returns to admit it in writing. The texts warn that she strikes like a lion at anyone who sins against her. They also say that when a man called on her, she came to him like a sweet breeze.
The back print is her: a woman’s face with a blunt black fringe and kohl-dark eyes, framed by a headdress of oxblood bands and black scale, two small cobras curling at the base. The chest carries the eye in black ink under a crest of red scales, rising like a cobra’s hood.
She is neither gentle nor cruel. She is watching.
The Details
Care
Machine wash cold, inside out, with similar colours. Do not bleach. Do not tumble dry. Iron on reverse if needed. The fabric softens with each wash but holds its form.
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