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Kush generally refers to a pure or hybrid Cannabis indica strain. [1] Pure C. indica strains include Afghan Kush, Hindu Kush, Green Kush, and Purple Kush. [1] Hybrid strains of C. indica include Blueberry Kush and Golden Jamaican Kush. [1] The term "kush" is now also used as a slang word for cannabis.
The Kingdom of Kush ( / kʊʃ, kʌʃ /; Egyptian: 𓎡𓄿𓈙 𓈉 kꜣš, Assyrian: Kûsi, in LXX Χους or Αἰθιοπία; Coptic: ⲉϭⲱϣ Ecōš; Hebrew: כּוּשׁ Kūš ), also known as the Kushite Empire, or simply Kush, was an ancient kingdom in Nubia, centered along the Nile Valley in what is now northern Sudan and southern ...
Hashish (, ( IPA: [ħæʃiːʃ] )), commonly shortened to hash, is an oleoresin made by compressing and processing parts of the cannabis plant, typically focusing on flowering buds (female flowers) containing the most trichomes. [ 2][ 3] It is consumed as a psychoactive drug by smoking or oral ingestion. Hashish has a long history of usage in ...
Kushite religion. Kushite religion is the traditional belief system and pantheon of deities associated with the Ancient Nubians, who founded the Kingdom of Kush in the land of Nubia (also known as Ta-Seti) in present-day Sudan. [ 1][ 2] During the Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom periods, increased contact between Egypt and Nubia through military ...
Napata was the southernmost permanent settlement in the New Kingdom of Egypt (16th–11th centuries BC) and home to Jebel Barkal, the main Kushite cult centre of Amun. It was the sometime capital of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt and, after its fall in 663 BC, of the Kingdom of Kush. In 593 BC, it was sacked by the Egyptians and the Kushite ...
Hathor ( Ancient Egyptian: ḥwt-ḥr, lit. 'House of Horus', Ancient Greek: ἉθώρHathōr, Coptic: ϩⲁⲑⲱⲣ, Meroitic: 𐦠𐦴𐦫𐦢 Atari) was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion who played a wide variety of roles. As a sky deity, she was the mother or consort of the sky god Horus and the sun god Ra, both of whom were ...
Seni was an ancient Egyptian official with the titles king's son of Kush ( Viceroy of Kush ), overseer of the southern countries and mayor of the southern city ( Thebes ). He was in office under the kings Thutmosis I and Thutmosis II. As king's son of Kush he was the main official in charge of the Nubian provinces.
Kush reached the apex of its power c. 739 –656 BCE, when the Kushite kings also ruled as the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt. The kingdom remained a powerful state in its heartland after Kushite rule in Egypt was terminated and it survived for another millennium until its collapse c. 350 CE. Egyptian culture heavily influenced Kush in terms of ...