Ya know what happened to Apep(the deity)?
He got his fucking ass kicked by Ra. Hell, if I remember right, he also gets his ass kicked by Horus at least once.
Basically, don't fuck with the sun. It's got hands. And a beak.
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We stand for Sol
We stand against false gods.
they named an asteroid after apophis, because the astronomers were fans of the show, and yes its also egyptian mythos irl.
That looks kinda like the guy who played Ragnar in "Vikings."
(cautiously checks for weird things like too many fingers, armor features that make nonsense, or other visual anomalies before cautiously asking...)
What's this from?
It looks pretty rad.
Raised by wolfs
Appreciate it, thanks! :D
Watching the two on the left go from hardnosed atheist commandos to saying “Praise Sol” with conviction, what a wild fucking trip of a show.
I’m still upset that this was canceled.
What is this show?
It’s called Raised By Wolves. It was on HBO Max before Zaslov took over. He scrapped it completely and pulled it off the platform. I think it’s on one of those free ad-supported channels now.
The show is produced by Ridley Scott and his production company Scott Free Productions .
It’s quite hard to describe. At its core, it’s a sci-fi series focused on a couple of androids who are sent to raise human kids on another planet when Earth is destroyed by a religious war.
Beyond that, it’s like someone took LSD before writing the weirdest sci-fi shit they could think of. I mean like:
Tap for spoiler
androids giving birth to flying snakes, acid aliens storing babies in their chest cavity, and people turning into trees
I don’t even know how to describe it without spoilers because it’s so wild. I absolutely loved it.
As someone who did watch it on acid, fully agreed. I had to rewatch it sober because I thought the whole show had been a fever dream. It was even trippier sober.
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I thought these were Whitecloaks from WoT at first and then my dumbass was like "no, Whitecloaks have golden sunbursts on the chest of their uniforms, not red. Wait, what about The Hand Of the Light? No, that's crimson shepherd's crooks, not sunbursts"
That continued for a while before I noticed their fucking guns
Doesnt he get his ass kicked by Ra nightly as Ra travels through the underworld every night?
I'm fairly certain you're right, I just can't remember if it was that exact attempt at fucking with the Sun that started that, or if that was another time.
Because Ra has nothing but burning hatred for Apep, and it was well damned earned. Snake refuses to learn the lesson.
there's probably a version of the myth for each. you know how the Greeks kinda had an established canon for their mythology? Egyptians did not lmao, there are very few (if any at all tbf) constants in their religion and the 3000 years of an Empire has produces many different versions of the state standard, and that's to not even mention the stuff nobody wrote down.
bonus fun fact! in some versions of the infamous cum salad myth Thoth creates a solar disk made out of Horus's cum that gets summoned from Set's body at the trial. next time you look at Thoth know that his hat is made of cum
there is also a goddess who is a brick, she has a human face and the rest is a brick :)
Look it doesn't matter much to me my heart weighs way more than a feather
NASA has a huge history of nerdy names with mythological references, allegedly rituals too
Most people doing the science there are likely on the spectrum, so I wouldn't expect anything less
One of the rockets sprays water at the sun.
This is to see what would happen, but is also an attempt at extinguishing the sun.
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A word for this is ‘backronym’
Wouldn't they hit the moon instead?
Yea extinguish that mf. Dude causes way too much light pollution already
The moon is super important because it shines during the night when it's dark, while the sun is only ever in the sky during the day when it's bright outside, so it's much less important.
Thank you Terry.
I think tides might be important too
Not to me they're not, I think we should stop giving tides so much attention. Ocean goes up, ocean goes down, blah blah blah, such a neat trick. Ridiculous.
Juno was mad, he knew he'd been had...
Literally the plot of American Gods
Don't piss off Aten
Apep... I mean... I get why they'd want to extinguish the sun, I can't imagine they had a good time in grade school with a name like "Apep..."
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