Yea, and Min is looking at the wife of Osiris, Isis, with lustful, lascivious and libidinous eyes-- while Set (Setan) the god of evil is threatening Osiris’s other little sister Nephthys, with a long pointed spear.
All Osiris is doing is just standing there holding his signature Shepherd’s Tools the darn crook and flail. The Shepard is supposed to protect the flock, what the hell is Osiris doing.
Jesus is a Shepard who protects his flock. If the Egyptians were Christian this type of sexism, improper sexuality, intimidation and violence would not have occurred.
Some of the post’s on Boing Boing are funny. I don’t know about Kemetc-central–“enso” many words that could be racially biased and considered Afro-central or Euro-central.
Christians are weird about sex, but they’re been pretty comfortable with violence for a long time - they did adopt an image of a guy being tortured to death as their logo.
The Scarab is an amazing bug, incredibly strong, what it does in the wild to birth it’s young is also amazing. It was used to symbolize creation. When I get home I will post in reply to you about why it was used as a bug to symbolize creation, you may already know, but someone else may find it interesting.
The people of ancient Kemet did not worship animals, the animals were symbolic, allegorical and metaphorical. The animals represented the attributes and characteristics of the numerous mythical gods and goddesses they worshipped and revered.
If you see a pictrue of the.Grim Reaper you think of death.
So, how does this make them different from the deities/spirits/etc of Abrahamic religions? Saying that some people doing this is cool because it is allegorical, while others are sheeple for doing the same thing, might seem like something of a double standard.
The oft-depicted bones and scythe remind me of “harvest time”, and by association with the cyclical nature of seasons and time, as well as agricultural society. Obviously, birth, death, and rebirth factor heavily into this. Internally, I think of life and death as the same continuum, so I have lifedeath - not unlike spacetime - since nobody has ever experienced one without the other.
Do you really think they were one coherent religion though? We have almost nothing to go off of and we know from real world experience that what’s written in books/stone and what people do are often two completely different things…and this was BEFORE your average person had access to printed text.
I’d argue that the people of ancient Kemet did lots of things, as did people all over the region…and ideas bounced around and shifted from culture to culture and what we’re looking at are two very narrow views of a far more nuanced and complicated whole.
There were probably people in ancient Kemet who did indeed worship animals, true?
You need take the time and learn about African-Kemtic religion and culture before assigning conclusions to me, or answering questions by trivializing, assuming or oversimplifying for the express purpose of oversimplification.
A lot is known about the mythical gods and goddesses of ancient Kemet/Anu—you don’t know a lot about ancient Kemet/Anu.
Why don’t you present the documented examples (covering the 31 Kemetic dynasties and pre-dynastic period, covering some 10,000 years) that confirm the ancient people of Africa-Kemet/Any worshipped animals.
Don’t ask me if a culture worshipped animals, if I cannot validate something, I do not assume, state or make a claim.
So basically, this could have been a thread which was interesting and educational, but instead it has convinced every reader not to bother to learn any more on the subject.
while Set (Setan) the god of evil 
is threatening Osiris’s other little sister Nephthys, with a long pointed spear.
doing.
