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I finally finished the backdrop for my "senut shrine." (I drew the figures by hand with pencil and ink, scanned them, colored them and scaled them down on the computer via GIMP (allowances I made for my aging eyes :)) and had them printed on photo stock online at Deviant Art (because my actual printer isn't always reliable). It is, at present, focused on Hathor and Bast and has a handful of useful things on it, the rest are in a basket underneath.

Here's a front view:

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And because the backdrop is also on the sides of the shrine box, here is a left-hand view:

leftside

and here is a right-hand view:

rightside

It has, I hope, a kind of a simple and straightforward look to it; if I sit on the floor in front of it, it is at eye level. When not in use it is curtained off (you can see a bit of the cloth in some of the pictures). Also, there are (in addition to the two statues) forty-four different gods pictured on the backdrop!
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To Wepwawet, Opener of the Ways, I offer my praise.
O great god who stands at the fore of the sun-barque,
watchful and wary one, first to set foot on hostile ground,
first to go forth into battle, warder of the standard-bearer,
companion of kings, bearer of the cudgel and the shaft,
piercer of flesh, crusher of bone, you walk with the seeker
and the wanderer, you follow the unseen path, you unlatch
the hidden door. Well honored you were in Asyut, city of wolves,
O Wepwawet of the keen eye and the sharp tooth; well known
you are by those who seize the gifts of life, the joy and the sorrow,
the flood and the drought, the chance firmly taken, the risk understood.
Yours are those who search, within and without; yours are those who strive
and fail, who strive and succeed, who look beyond the garden wall
into the wilderness beyond. Teach me to stand firm-rooted,
to bend with the wind; grant to me your wisdom and your grace.
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