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The mystery animal on an ancient god's head

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  1. pluc · · focus · HN ↗
    There is no conclusion in this article if you care about such things.
    1. ludamn · · focus · HN ↗
      Yeah, I'm a fan of Egyptian mythology and enjoyed reading it, for one moment I thought the article would present some new evidence/findings to settle the debate, unfortunately that's not the case

      NGL, the quote below was a nice way to end the article giving all the data we have though

      > So we may not know for sure what the Set animal is, [...] And maybe that’s exactly how a god of chaos within an ordered world would want it to be.

    2. fooker · · focus · HN ↗
      The great thing about history is that there can only be conjectures, never conclusions.

      Unless you invent a time machine of course.

      1. yipinwong · · focus · HN ↗
        i meant to say there is no such thing either, but your comment changed my mind. eye opening.
    3. MomsAVoxell · · focus · HN ↗
      I believe it is best left to fantasy now anyway, personally.. Set is indeed a random seed; may as well be "an alien races head" as anything else, given the actual utility of Set, contextually, in the dogma. '?'-Set is fine by me.

      The value of a 'mystery head' may actually indeed have been the intention of the original artists. A '*'-char for Ra.

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