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The mystery animal on an ancient god's head

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  1. tomrod · · focus · HN ↗
    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.

    1. btilly · · focus · HN ↗
      From the article, "Egypt was conquered several times by foreign nations that the Egyptians perceived as worshiping Set."

      So while the Egyptians might have seen Set as the god of Libya, the Libyan representations might not be the one that Egyptians were comparing to.

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