The mystery animal on an ancient god's head

tomrod•about 2 hours ago

Huh. Pretty clearly a dog/jackal though, right?

Set was the god of Libya and was at war with the "good guy gods" in Egypt, so one has to assume the civilization based in Libya would be were we could correlate the answer -- and we have the contention that the Sahara has grown since the early days of Egypt, so its possible the definitive answer remains buried.

emmelaich•about 1 hour ago

Aardvark to me. Similar snout, long ears. They were probably in the southern reaches of Egypt.

With regard to differences that could be explained by stylisation and the lack of familiarity due to it's rarity in most of Egypt.

asdff•22 minutes ago

Could be a combination of stuff too like a birds beak shoved on a cat shoved on a human body.

card_zero•8 minutes ago

See also: serpopards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpopard

guelo•about 2 hours ago

They already had a jackal god in Anubis which is represented without the weird down slopping snout and squared ears.

pluc•about 2 hours ago

There is no conclusion in this article if you care about such things.

fooker•about 1 hour ago

The great thing about history is that there can only be conjectures, never conclusions.

Unless you invent a time machine of course.

yipinwong•about 1 hour ago

i meant to say there is no such thing either, but your comment changed my mind. eye opening.

yipinwong•44 minutes ago

Per google, 200~thoundans(??? quite a range) of species dying off every year.

It could be head of a dodo or other extinct animals.

astral_drama•about 2 hours ago

I like to think Set's form is emergent and takes whatever form you want see, or a group of people want to see. Set sort of emerges from the chaos, and that's what his image does for me, sometimes I see a dog, sometimes an anteater and so on. I think the Egyptians probably imagine that the world is always emerging from the primal chaos, it's not something that simply occurred in the past, and it's up to us what we make of it.

cgriswald•about 1 hour ago

That’s clearly a Groening rabbit.

emigre•about 2 hours ago

Is it Cerebus the aardvark perhaps?

BeetleB•about 2 hours ago

Terrible background choice for this article!

fsckboy•about 2 hours ago

if you right click and open the images in new tabs you'll be able to see them because the unfortunate blue background will be gone. in B4 "i don't see that in reader mode"

the Set animal has a snout that is more bird/reptile-like. the ears are a cipher.

The mystery animal on an ancient god's head

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