The Rose of Love: Discovering the Beauty of Ancient Egyptian Love and Devotion
This statue depicts a husband and wife from our ancestors over 4500 years ago. I won’t talk about the wife’s beautifully intricate hairstyle and braids, or her linen dress with long, tight sleeves and a pleated pelisse bodice, which was ahead of its time. Nor will I mention that our Egyptian grandmother was wearing a sophisticated dress while the rest of the women on the planet were covering their bodies with fig leaves in the summer and animal hides in the winter.
I won’t talk about her very beautiful features, her striking sesame eyes, and her delicate arms that embrace her husband with tenderness. When you touch her hand and fingers, it’s as if you’re holding a mythical creature. This is a man she loves, and he is her husband, and even if he didn’t love her, he would still give her all the love and tenderness that he surrounds her with.
I won’t talk about her husband’s handsomeness and beauty, nor will I mention their light reddish-brown skin color, so those who claim that ancient Egyptians were black or dark-skinned can stop and think for a moment.
While everything I mentioned deserves praise, the most striking thing, in my opinion, is the rose in the wife’s hand! A rose from her husband to his wife over 4500 years ago! Our ancestors were the ones who discovered and appreciated the beauty of noble human emotions, the delicacy of feelings, and the gift of roses to lovers and wives, at a time when people were wandering in the prairies and forests with matted hair and unbearable odors, barefoot and naked, chasing after prey or fleeing from dangers, driven only by instincts and hunger. There were no noble feelings, no polite sentiments, and certainly no roses!
What was a woman to them? Merely a body to possess for satisfying their instincts and to compete among males for who could possess bodies with more violence, blood, or killing. They did not know the meaning of marriage or family, and they did not even have a home. Their last resort was a cave in the forest or a hideout under a goat’s skin in the desert.
Our grandmothers were undoubtedly the first women in humanity to be treated with respect, delicacy, and love. They were the ones who received roses, the symbol of love and fidelity. The ancient Egyptian civilization was the greatest civilization that existed and persisted because it respected women, appreciated their feelings, and remained loyal to their wives for life. Even after death, they were buried together like these two spouses.
Noble emotions, loyalty, and love are what made the ancient Egyptian family, supported their society, and created civilization, art, and creativity. There is no civilization, progress, stability, or prosperity without respecting the family and marriage. If a woman’s feelings, sentiments, dignity, and rights are not respected, and if she is not given roses, there is no civilization, progress, peace, happiness, or even a successful society, but rather a collapsed and failed society that produces only failures, harassers, extremists, and mentally distorted terrorists.
One last question: How many of this man’s descendants are still giving roses to their wives today?
This magnificent sculpture is located in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
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