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The Strangest Sexual Practices of Ancient Egyptian | Calming Sleep Stories

Step into the lamplit courts of ancient Egypt as we trace how royal bodies, temple rites, and everyday objects braided intimacy with state power. This 122-minute journey moves from hypostyle halls to palace gardens, from festival avenues to quiet workrooms, revealing how a pharaoh’s wellness stood in for the Nile’s flood, how queens managed empires from textile rooms and diplomacy tables, and how love poetry and amulets softened the edges of a very public life. Grounded in real places and practices—Opet processions between Karnak and Luxor, Heb-Sed jubilees in stone courts, birth-room reliefs at Deir el-Bahri and Luxor, amulet kits of Bes and Taweret, and medical recipes from Ebers and Kahun—this film balances ceremony with tenderness. We sift rumor from procedure in the embalmers’ house, smile at playful cosmetics spoons and lion-leg beds, and read letters that stitched peace with brides, lapis, and gold. Across it all, we see how Egyptians used ritual, humor, and meticulous craft to align desire with order, inheritance with theology, and private comfort with public plenty. Join us as we explore: 0:00 Introduction: Divine Bodies, Public Harvests (kingship as fertility emblem, incense, barques, and lettuce lore) 8:20 Keeping It in the Family: Royal Marriage Math (sibling unions, legitimacy, and palace logistics) 16:40 Festival of Min: Processions, Music, and Vegetable Jokes (public renewal without indecency) 25:00 Heb-Sed Jubilee: Running for the Throne’s Renewal (twin kiosks, crowns, and a raised pillar) 33:20 The Great Royal Wife: Power Beside the Throne (household governance, diplomacy, and ritual roles) 41:40 Inside the Women’s Complex: Work, Music, Security (looms, tutors, guards, and a famous conspiracy) 50:00 Playing God with Goddesses: Sacred Union Imagery (Opet rites, oracle barques, and careful euphemism) 58:20 Paper Hearts: Love Lyrics and Flirtation (Chester Beatty songs, mandrakes, riverside teasing) 1:06:40 Amulets & Household Magic: Bes, Taweret, and Knots (birth wands, faience charms, tattoos debated) 1:15:00 Remedies & Recipes: Desire and Caution (acacia-honey pessaries, sprouting tests, frankincense) 1:23:20 Rumors & Realities: In the Embalmers’ House (natron, heart scarabs, safeguards vs. scandal) 1:31:40 Art That Blushes: Playful Objects, Serious Craft (cosmetic spoons, lion-leg beds, a discreet papyrus) 1:40:00 Foreign Affairs: Brides, Treaties, and the Amarna Letters (silver tablets, gifts, and a widow’s bold request) 1:48:20 Divine Paternity: Birth Bricks and Potter’s Wheels (Amun’s visit, Khnum’s craft, names and fate) 1:56:40 Love After Life: Field of Reeds and Eternal Comfort (banquets, shabti helpers, corn-mummy renewal)