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A Pharaoh's ultimate role was to serve as a maintainer of order, to keep the realm in the good graces of the gods and ward off the corrupting influences of chaos. While ethnically Greek, the Ptolemaic rulers continued these vital Kemetic duties in the tradition of thousands of years of dynastic predecessors. The great bulk of these spiritual tasks were tightly-guarded secrets maintained through oral transmission between generations of priests, and thus their details are almost entirely lost to us. What can be parsed are scant records of a particularly treacherous ritual that entailed the Pharaoh venturing unaccompanied for several days walk into the desert. The destination and purpose of this endeavor, however, are no longer known and its practice dissipated with the title of Pharaoh itself. Egyptian preoccupations with solar and celestial alignments lend themselves to theories of a sort of recalibration of a now-lost spiritual 'reference point'; perhaps ensuring the living world and the afterlife remained aligned and accessible to one another.
A wing-it commission from
Zephra. I honestly didn't quite know what to go with as a prompt but the end result turned out to be quite impressive!
A wing-it commission from
Zephra. I honestly didn't quite know what to go with as a prompt but the end result turned out to be quite impressive!
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fantasy
Species Snake / Serpent
Size 1280 x 720px
File Size 319.8 kB
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