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Are you My mummy?
Jun. 29th, 2009 08:45 amhttp://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090626-us-mummies-video-ap.html
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Fascinating how there are at least three possibilities they don't even seem to consider. I mean, even mummies of young boys are typically depicted with a beard.
Perhaps the person was intersexed or transgendered. Most non-judeochristian have been pretty accepting of trans* people instead of burning them as witches.
Or maybe the real lady Hors wanted to escape her life and a body double guard was sacrificed and buried so that she could escape.
Or perhaps the embalmer really really wanted his brother to survive well in the afterlife and figured no one would know once the wrapping was on.
I dunno. I guess the penis=man thing sort of bugs me. I can't think of any mummies that are depicted as withered and aged. The sarcophagus generally seems to portray the occupant in the prime of their life; how they wish to be seen and the body they wanted to live in for eternity even if it was the body they no longer had on the mortal plane. What if that is the case here and our culture has just robbed this person of her eternal identity?
EDIT: Seems I was right. Listen to the person speaking here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brooklyn_museum/3655744562/in/set-72157620271417600/
Fucking mainstream America
WE FUCKING EXIST!!!
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Fascinating how there are at least three possibilities they don't even seem to consider. I mean, even mummies of young boys are typically depicted with a beard.
Perhaps the person was intersexed or transgendered. Most non-judeochristian have been pretty accepting of trans* people instead of burning them as witches.
Or maybe the real lady Hors wanted to escape her life and a body double guard was sacrificed and buried so that she could escape.
Or perhaps the embalmer really really wanted his brother to survive well in the afterlife and figured no one would know once the wrapping was on.
I dunno. I guess the penis=man thing sort of bugs me. I can't think of any mummies that are depicted as withered and aged. The sarcophagus generally seems to portray the occupant in the prime of their life; how they wish to be seen and the body they wanted to live in for eternity even if it was the body they no longer had on the mortal plane. What if that is the case here and our culture has just robbed this person of her eternal identity?
EDIT: Seems I was right. Listen to the person speaking here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brooklyn_museum/3655744562/in/set-72157620271417600/
Fucking mainstream America
