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Concept sketch for "Jerry the Vampire"
My daughter and I are reviving "Jerry The Vampire" http://jerrythevampire.blogspot.com/ -- after a VERY long sleep for the saucy guy. He has the occasional encounter with other supernatural beings (deities)... make that STRANGE encounters. Here's a concept sketch of Set, god of deserts and chaos.
Set had red hair and white skin (in spite of the tendency of modern artists to draw him as black on black) and was a god of warriors, desert, storms, thunder, and chaos. He's one of the oldest gods in the Egyptian pantheon. Ramses the Great, who had red hair, had Set as his patron god and named one of his regiments for Set.
Anyway, rough sketch with his outfit based on Ramses' "returning home victorious from the war" scene.
Set had red hair and white skin (in spite of the tendency of modern artists to draw him as black on black) and was a god of warriors, desert, storms, thunder, and chaos. He's one of the oldest gods in the Egyptian pantheon. Ramses the Great, who had red hair, had Set as his patron god and named one of his regiments for Set.
Anyway, rough sketch with his outfit based on Ramses' "returning home victorious from the war" scene.
Category All / Miscellaneous
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So how'd the whole "Set is black" thing get started? I know that the Egyptians had this whole color scheme thing going on, and usually black is all nice fertile stuff where white is royalty and all, and I can see either of those matching what they thought of Set.
It's interesting with you comparing Set to Coyote. The whole Egyptian focus on "well there's civilization which is all lawful and ma'at and wholesome goodness, and as soon as you leave it's this horrible chaotic lawless place populated people who don't even have the common decency to be Egyptians" really reminds me of a lot of Navajo stuff, and their attitude towards the Utes, stuff like that. Maybe it's just how agrarian urbanized desert-dwellers tend to think.
It's interesting with you comparing Set to Coyote. The whole Egyptian focus on "well there's civilization which is all lawful and ma'at and wholesome goodness, and as soon as you leave it's this horrible chaotic lawless place populated people who don't even have the common decency to be Egyptians" really reminds me of a lot of Navajo stuff, and their attitude towards the Utes, stuff like that. Maybe it's just how agrarian urbanized desert-dwellers tend to think.
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