Who remembers the 2020 Penew Nekhet thread for newcomers: Penew Nekhet is the "all conquering mouse" attached is one of the only existing depictions in antiquity . Most historians place it's origin at 1923 bc. Though it almost certainly existed covertly before. The first conformed Queen of Egypt Sobekneferu is credited with "overseeing the games of the mouse" on here monument at gezer. This was a cult of the el ites, not the peasantry, with all the depictions being found in burial complexes and hanging on the walls of their equivalent of mansions.
For the Egyptians mice= famine. Grain eating little savages, so became linked with death. In the linked image you have a cat waiting on a mouse, or an inversion of societal norms.. what faith does this conjure...
We know it's influence reached Greece because Homer tells us in the Iliad..
"Now Chryses had come to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, and had brought with him a great ransom: moreover he bore in his hand a sceptre crowned with the symbol of the mouse and he besought the Achaeans, but most of all the two sons of Atreus, who were their chiefs, and who too were worshippers of his cult. “Sons of Atreus,” he cried, “may the gods who dwell in Olympus grant you to sack the city of Priam, and to reach your homes in safety; but free my daughter, and accept a ransom for her, in reverence to Apollo, son of Zeus, and to the image of the Mouse, before which we prostrate ourselves as one.”
Charlamagne too? You betcha
"On the most holy day of the birth of our Lord, the king went to mass at St. Peter’s, and as he knelt in prayer before the altar Pope Leo set without warning a crown upon his head, while all the Roman populace cried aloud, ” Long life and victory to the mighty Charles, the great and pacific Emperor of the Romans, crowned of God! ” After he had been thus acclaimed, the pope did homage to him, as had been the custom with the early rulers. At first the king was displeased that Pope Leo should give to himself a power over that of the Augustus, and swore his regret that he had come to his [the Pope’s] aid. However, the next day, the king was called to a second ceremony in the crypts of Rome, whereafter he emerged in a good temper. On his return to Aachen the king then instructed his jewellers that the ears of the Mouse, woven from gold and studded with emeralds, be fixed to his Imperial crown, and sent out inspectors to the churches of his realm to ensure that prayers were conducted in the proper manner as ordained by almighty God."
If this gathers sufficient interest I'll explain how protestantism is penew nekhet rebranded.
