Ok. It's probably too late for anyone to notice this little piece here so, I'm going to show my ignorance. What is it? It almost looks like a logo with the beetle being a celebrated creature of the country. But too detailed for a logo. It looks like a boat being carried with all the people of a nation. It's Atlas carrying the populous. No, it's rising waters. We'll all need to get into boats. Hopefully someone can carry us off somewhere else. And when Atlas weakens, there are oars to use. I guess I need to go look it up.
Good luck looking it up, it took me forever to understand what 'Inun' means. And I only have a very rudimentary grasp of it, of the story itself.
Inun is a concept of the time before recorded time for the Egyptians. Kinda a pre-Cambrian type of concept. A time so vast it can not be measured.
Apparently what this painting depicts is the birth of man, being ferried into the world by a god, and therefore bringing an end to unrecorded time.
That is my understanding of it.
BTW, I will notice you no matter what thread you post on, all the comments go directly to my email, so even if I don't see them here, I'll see them there!
True. Who else but the self-important royalty? That makes sense. I figured the scarab (wasn't game to call it that in case I was wrong) was some kind of sacred symbol at the time I first saw the picture here.
If they were getting a *lift* to the new world, I hope they didn't get any workers carried there to hover around at their beck and call. But of course they did. Only the strongest and fittest who could walk and swim far would be worthy to serve them.
Interesting depiction. The people are more important than the gods themselves. The gods should carry the human *royalty*. It's a perversity that exists in all kinds of places in our world today.
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Ok. It's probably too late for anyone to notice this little piece here so, I'm going to show my ignorance. What is it? It almost looks like a logo with the beetle being a celebrated creature of the country. But too detailed for a logo. It looks like a boat being carried with all the people of a nation. It's Atlas carrying the populous. No, it's rising waters. We'll all need to get into boats. Hopefully someone can carry us off somewhere else. And when Atlas weakens, there are oars to use. I guess I need to go look it up.
Good luck looking it up, it took me forever to understand what 'Inun' means. And I only have a very rudimentary grasp of it, of the story itself.
Inun is a concept of the time before recorded time for the Egyptians. Kinda a pre-Cambrian type of concept. A time so vast it can not be measured.
Apparently what this painting depicts is the birth of man, being ferried into the world by a god, and therefore bringing an end to unrecorded time.
That is my understanding of it.
BTW, I will notice you no matter what thread you post on, all the comments go directly to my email, so even if I don't see them here, I'll see them there!
The scarab is a royal symbol, so the family on the boat are most likely depictions of royalty.
Who else would a god bother to ferry into the world?
HAHA!
True. Who else but the self-important royalty? That makes sense. I figured the scarab (wasn't game to call it that in case I was wrong) was some kind of sacred symbol at the time I first saw the picture here.
If they were getting a *lift* to the new world, I hope they didn't get any workers carried there to hover around at their beck and call. But of course they did. Only the strongest and fittest who could walk and swim far would be worthy to serve them.
Interesting depiction. The people are more important than the gods themselves. The gods should carry the human *royalty*. It's a perversity that exists in all kinds of places in our world today.
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