I think the animal that represents Seth is the giraffe and now I'll tell you why. Reading the myth of the Acacia tree something came to mind. What is that animal much hated by the ancient Egyptians because it eats the leaves of the Acacias, sacred to Osiris? Giraffes.

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Spent the evening researching limestone in a manic fog and here are my theories on how ancient egyptians moved big rock and made sick ass shadow puppets

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16 days until History fact: Ancient Egyptians didn't have weddings. A couple would agree to live with one another as spouses and that's all it took! No fancy rings, no dowry - just move right in and you were married!

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Why are you cherry picking erotic art depicting the fertility god Priapus? That's hardly representative of Roman art as a whole, and for that matter the native Egyptians had their own erotic art trends (similar to later Roman art, both of which are funny, don't kink shame, LOL):

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African chieftain N'Kantu defied ancient Egyptians' enslavement of his tribe, the Swarili; the Pharaoh's wizard trapped him as a mighty as revenge; now freed in the modern day, he joins the & others to combat occult threats!

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10/16 But he and the Egyptians refused to cower. They marshalled their armies, aware that against them stood the most irresistible force history had known. At the field of Ayn Jalut in Palestine, Baibars confronted the Horde that had killed his family and sold him into slavery.

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Symmetry was a very important concept to the Egyptians, and does a wonderful job portraying it with the character designs. However there are two characters who lack symmetry: Ra and Thoth.
I wonder if there is a reason behind this design decision +

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Connect the dots...

- Ancient Egyptians smoking Lotus Flower from Pipe (potent psychedelic)
- Pyramid Lotus Skirt
- Eye of Horus/Pineal Gland
- Falcon/Horus/Brain Stem (below Pineal G.)
- “Antenna” above head
- Holding Ankh “The Key of Life”

https://t.co/hnlm6mrRnN

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Fates Right Hand.
Moses , Red Sea.
Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again against the Egyptians. of imagination.
https://t.co/LHckvvYfic

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Correct, and the Minoans also borrowed the concept from the Egyptians in terms of gendered artworks, but this was more of an artistic trend than a rigid rule in Classical and Hellenistic Greek art, plus later Roman art. For instance, the differences are meagerly pronounced here:

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"Die Waldnimphe. Simica Hamadryas"

Hamdryas Baboon Native in Africa and on the Arabian Peninsula.

Sacred animal to the Egyptians.

Copper etching by K. Kinzl

Original hand coloring

Prague, ca. 1780 https://t.co/UT8NSKGEcU

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The Phoenicians, Egyptians, Romans, and others carved and painted feminine symbols on their vessels to protect them at sea.
on a house in Wickford, RI

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Quit trying to change the subject. 🙄

Putting aside the fact that most native Egyptians were brown and genetically related to West Asiatic peoples, not the same as black Nubians of Kush (Sudan), Cleopatra's Greek royal family wasn't even indigenous. They were pasty colonizers:

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Today’s bonus African characters of the day are The Pharaohs of the Nil from Street Football (Foot 2 Rue)! They are Egyptians 🇪🇬

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The number of finger joints on each hand (excluding the thumb) makes it possible to count to 12 by using the thumb. Egyptians and Babylonians were fond of counting in base twelve like this and this is why we have 24 hours in a day & 60 minutes in an hour https://t.co/zIZ5sMvBZq

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and more, fuck it im just gonna compile these as i find em (why tf were there so many cartoons just based off of ancient civilizations/mayans/native americans/egyptians... 2000s were a weird time)

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It's funny because ancient Egyptians used to worship cats, creepers are scared of cats, and then there's Ponk.

We know what happens when a cat who's not Sacrifice gets in Ponk's line of sight.

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