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mortalshinobi — Even Pharaohs Die...
Published: 2011-06-11 05:10:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 1342; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 16
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the pharaoh watches the dark spectre from his death bed and coughs, spitting blood into his hand. "please..." he says, "I have money, wealth, power... I'll give anything. Just give me more time!"Annubis looks on coldly. "What does a god want with material wealth?"
the paraoh looks on with widening eyes. "please... I..."
"do not think you are greater then the commoner or any other simply because you are ruler. Even ruler's must face judgement sooner or later. And yours will not be most kind."
"Please...! have mercy!"
"I am the great equalizer. And mercy is not a thing i can afford in my position." And with these words anubis closes the gap between he and the wretched old man and begins to draw forth his soul.
"Death equalizes all..."
my entry for this week's with the theme character being anubis of egyptian mythology. hope you enjoy!
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thanks. this one was 100% me. loved annubis and somehow managed this from beginning to end in one day. course then i got a week long cramp in that hand. lol.
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Pain well worth it
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killer piece again - great pose, colors are really ripping it from your lab these days. Always love how you add a story.
The green in this is awesome.
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thanks! glad you enjoy!
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This might be my favorite piece of yours. Really dig the colors and the pose. Great little story telling too. Really dig it and great to see a piece which really focuses on the theme character. This really shows your skills.
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heh. well for once I enjoyed the theme character. most of the time the theme characters are ones i don't care for so I kind of end up "offing them" hehe. But i'm actually a fan of anubis so i took a little extra on this one. and thanks for the compliments!
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This is Great Humida! Real nice and different from you.
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NICE man woo looks like i got another tough one on my hands lol your piece is bangin man good job on it and may the better piece win
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thanks! glad you enjoy it! 
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Yea I see lol but dont worry ill give you a good run keep up the good work man
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heh. well good luck then!
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your best piece to date i think.excellent job!
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Hmm. As I recall, Anubis was the god of the rites of mummification. The lord of the afterlife- death- would be Osiris.
I wonder also why the pharao would be protesting. He if anyone should know what is awaiting him, and that no begging could change it.
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While Osiris is the god of the afterlife, he is not a god of death. He just rules over the underworld in a manner similar to Hades, but does no soul-reaping himself. Anubis, being the god that resides over mummification and judges the dead and such, makes the most sense for a god of death in Egyptian mythology, even if he doesn't explicitly kill anyone.
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Thanks, I didn't remember it too well myself.
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you know old men and power, they don't want to let it go. (Plus I imagine the pharaoh realizes he isn't a god, so it's a (i'm fucked) situation.)
i remembered from my old classes anubis judged your acts after death and based on the balance would let you go through or feed your soul to horace, the hippo crocodile.
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Well, given that the Pharaoh had the highest possible standing in the religious hierarchy (being the living embodiment of a god), he shouldn't have much cause to worry.
Horace? In egyptian mythology?
Anubis was the god of embalming, I recall, although it is possible he also acted as a judge. I don't rightly remember.
Sadly, popular fiction tends to make him evil, simply because he was associated with the underworld and has a fierce demeanour.
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as they do with hades.
here I put it that anubis judged pharaoh based on what is real, and obviously a pharaoh is not god. and this one was a baaaaad pharaoh. so guess were he went? that's how real gods should be. fair no matter wether you got lucky enough to have a gold spoon in your rear or not. buh-bye paraoh. have fun in hades!
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And Loki. There's even a trope for it. [link]
Well, given that he was the pharaoh, he would still go to "heaven" or the equivalent of it, since he was the pharaoh. Unfair, but that's the mythology.
Not sure if they even have a hell as such.
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sigh. explaining... again...
this anubis is explaining to the pharaoh that his ideology of godhood or heaven simply for being pharaoh is false. and just like any other schmuck, he's gonna face the consequences. (In other words, this is how I believe a real anubis would work and not the made up shit the rich believe.)
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I see.
Just FYI, this was not something just the upper classes believed. All classes firmly believed the Pharaoh was a god. His wellbeing was considered a matter of national importance by all people. It was what motivated the pyramids to be built by volunteer workers, not slaves.
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yeah... volunteers. I'll remember 100% of them were volunteers. eye roll.
and don't forget, the pharaohs and rulers ended controlling a lot of beliefs of people. it may have been an equal belief of status at the beginning and the pharaoh made up shit to get more status and after so many generations commoners actually believed it. but if the religion had any truth I'm sure the pharaoh being god was part of the bullshit portion. (this is something I get finnicky about.)
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For the most part, yes.
It wasn't so much a wilful deception as a religious view. The pharohs might have been realists, or they might not have- but their status in life and death was a religious belief held by all, including the pharaoh himself.
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uh-huh. I wonder if it was made up by him or not though?
you do recall how many pharaohs there may have been and how things can change. anyways... (this anubis is biting the pharaoh cuz he got the religion wrong! lols.)
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You do realize that it was a tradition that lasted for more than two thousand years, right? And that no one person invented it for the sake of duping others- religion was serious business back then, in a way we can't really understand today.
I mean, there were HUNDREDS of pharaohs.
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yep. and like the religions today i'm sure they were bastardized to serve the higher ups.
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No doubt it was used to pacify populations, but it was also taken very seriously even by the higher ups.
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heh. their self delusions. oh, i'd love to see their faces when they got to see their gods and realized how they fucked up.
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Well, I seriously doubt there's any time to do that when you're dead.
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depends if it's aethist dead, or afterlife dead.
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Well, since there's no tangible evidence of an afterlife...
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lols. and none against really. just the what is out there if anything is more the question.
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Well, one goes with what one can see and touch, what can be proven.
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one can not prove or see everything. bacteria for ex. can not be seen or touched normally even though they are there. there is no evidence contradicting the existence of a soul for example, and none for it. so how does one know if it exist or not?
anyways... you online today?
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Well no, not everything can be proven, far from it- that's why one has to stick to what can be proven.
In a while.
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all i can say to that is there are things that are proven to myself that I can not prove to you. something unshakeable that does not leave. But yes, in many respects I agree with you. Though it must be an individualistic search. Trusting in the mass for such things of such serious nature is truely folly and misleading.
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What is proven to you personally is not scientifically viable, though. It is valid as evidence only to you.
I feel one- and humanity as a whole- needs to base knowledge on hard evidence, and never on spiritual experiences or such bogus.
And there's no "e" in "Truly".
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lols
there is some truth there, though i disagree with following the whole. most seem self deluded and foolish.
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There's no "t" in "Nazi", either.
Some truth where, in what?
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n what you said earlier. lol.
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