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Only Yours Is Right! (Original Post) cleanhippie Feb 2016 OP
I like the one, center, bottome. Great eyes. Hoppy Feb 2016 #1
great post...thanks mgmaggiemg Feb 2016 #2
But the true right one got left off the poster! Binkie The Clown Feb 2016 #3
FSM was the one behind the camera, taking the picture : ) -nt Freelancer Feb 2016 #7
I can't decide. Curmudgeoness Feb 2016 #4
You could do worse than Falcon-guy. onager Feb 2016 #6
Cool post! I wonder what hieroglyphs would spell "Kilroy was here" -nt Freelancer Feb 2016 #8
Ha! I'm sure the equivalent was there. onager Feb 2016 #9
Speaking of Egyptian gods, Manifestor_of_Light Feb 2016 #11
I worship Ted Cruze olddots Feb 2016 #5
They forgot Joe Pesce. (YouTube Carlin and Pesce. Totally.) lindysalsagal Feb 2016 #10
 

Hoppy

(3,595 posts)
1. I like the one, center, bottome. Great eyes.
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 12:37 PM
Feb 2016

Then again, I didn't see the other 4,992. One of them might be hot and a supporter of free love -- maybe even free marijuana.

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
4. I can't decide.
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 04:31 PM
Feb 2016

Do I want to worship that eagle/falcon with the red disk on it's head, or the blue elephant??? Or should it be that cute little pink/purple thing with the big eyes and bumps on it's head? Decisions, decisions.

onager

(9,356 posts)
6. You could do worse than Falcon-guy.
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 07:56 PM
Feb 2016

That's Horus. One of ancient Egypt's most important gods.

When I lived in Egypt, I worked near the city of Dammanhor. That's one of the very few Egyptian cities to keep its ancient Egyptian name. Most cities have Arabic/Islamic names these days. Dammanhor means "city of Horus."

Because it's centrally located in the Nile Delta, Dammanhor always had armies marching thru it. There are some rock formations in the city where soldiers carved graffiti. Stuff is engraved there from soldiers of the Pharaohs, to the Muslim armies that invaded in the 7th century, to the Crusaders, right up to Napoleon's soldiers and the British in WWI and II.

Freelancer

(2,107 posts)
8. Cool post! I wonder what hieroglyphs would spell "Kilroy was here" -nt
Mon Feb 15, 2016, 08:06 PM
Feb 2016

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onager

(9,356 posts)
9. Ha! I'm sure the equivalent was there.
Tue Feb 16, 2016, 09:57 AM
Feb 2016

I lived in Alexandria. Down around the harbors there were all kinds of ancient graffiti and generally weird stuff to look at. Including some drawings of ancient ships scratched into the walls of caves and tunnels.

My favorite tour guide was a woman who grew up in Alex and knew every inch of the city. She planned to show me some tunnels near the harbor one day, and we went charging down some old stone stairs into the darkness. (In many places, Egypt doesn't coddle tourists. No lights, no guard rails, etc. You wanna play Indiana Jones, you do so at your own risk.) Fortunately her cellphone had a flashlight. The tunnels had flooded, and we came to a screeching halt about one stair short of taking a swim.

Alexandria also had some clearly human-made ancient docks and jetties. And nobody, not even archeological experts, seems to know exactly who built them. Their best guess is that they were built for, or by, Greek traders who were dealing with Egypt even before Alexander The Great took over, in the Fourth Century BCE. Or maybe ALIENS!1!

 

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)
11. Speaking of Egyptian gods,
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 12:10 AM
Feb 2016

a friend of mine said that one of her friends had a husband that died. She had him cremated and put his ashes into an urn shaped like Anubis, the jackal-headed god of death! I thought that was really cool.

Here's an example I found on the net:

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