Take a picture of the most interesting thing hanging on a wall at your home or work place.
—suggested by sydtheskeptic.
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A boyfriend gave this to me when he returned from Egypt. He said it's supposed to be the Egyptian Goddess of Love, but he was probably just trying to get laid.
Nov 14, 2009 17:54 by lachamuca
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Umm. . . I don't know a heckuva lot about egypt, but I used to love ancient mythology when I was little.
Firstly, the main character is a guy (so no "goddess"), and secondly I'm pretty sure that's a Pharaoh and his family worshiping Aten ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aten ) the sun god.
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@philos-phobos: apparently you missed the "he was just trying to get laid" bit.
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@lachamucha lol. I noticed, I just like passing on random info.
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@philos-phobos: it's cool. thanks for the info!
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That's Ahkenaten making an offering to Ra. He was considered a heretic and a rebel.
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Um . . .if that's the case, then it's even more awesome it's hanging on my wall.
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@passepartout: His hips would suggest that... but wasn't one of the things about art in his time that it didn't apply the strict rules about body proportions, including smaller women? I'm thinking of that famous (infamous?) relief of him and his wife in which they're kissing their babies. Then again... this probably wasn't crafted during his time, eh?
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@merendis: his heresy was his challenge to the official religion and the ultimate power of the theocracy. He shelved the priests (temporarily) and tried to establish a religion around a single god, Ra. Ra is in the papyrus, above, as the red orb with rays of love hitting Ahkenaten.
Ahkenaten deliberately exaggerated his physique in his commissioned portraits. I did see a 'normal' papyrus of him and his family. They had normal proportions.