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The nemyss is the ritual Egyptian head-dress of the pharoahs. It is best known from images of King Tutankamun- a folded linen cloth that rises from the brow and hangs toward the shoulders.

The nemyss is still in wide use today by Kemetic practitioners and a number of magickal orders, including various Golden Dawn reconstructions and in Thelemic rituals.

Pharoah wearing a nemyss head-dress

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