#tutenkhamen

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Patina “Tutankhamen” by Alexander Nurulaeff.

One of one in exclusive for our great client.

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Don Marquez, cover art for "King Tut: Truck Driving Pharoah Vs. The Radioactive Trailer Trash" by Simon Sanchez, 2019

[meaningofsquidge]

King Tut - a new Mandela Effect?

I heard recently about a new Mandela effect - King Tut's headdress.

What animals do you remember being on the front of his headdress?

A snake, right? Well there's also a Vulture! Apparently these are the royal insignia and represent his rule of upper - the vulture - and lower - the cobra - Egypt.

I definitely didn't remember the vulture, but my wife @riverdenile suggested that maybe that was because only the snake was shown when Tutankhamen was depicted in popular culture. So I did a bit of a poke around and here's what I found:

The basis of the Mandela Effect - the famous funeral mask, which is currently on display at the Museum of Cairo:

But I found many other other ancient Egyptian depictions of Tutankhamen that show only the cobra, like this one from the promo shot for a Smithsonian Channel show:

Many of these depictions of Tutankhamen, in which he only has the snake on his headdress, show him in childhood. I wonder if this means he only ruled over upper Egypt later on? I wasn't able to find info on this. We do know that he started his rule at 9 years old and died at 19, so I guess all depictions of him are from when he was young.

Here's some examples of him shown with just the cobra on his headdress. All of these, I believe, were found in his tomb:

As for popular culture depictions, it's a bit of a mixed bag, and quite often there is nothing, or a shape or even another animal. Some examples:

The worst one, I think, is from the 1960 television show Batman:

I think that's a scarab beetle? But, really, I think this is the worst one because of this image:

I ask you, what even? White guy with a cigar... that checks out.

So, it seems that both are accurate and it's possible that we don't remember the vulture because he is most often depicted with just the cobra. What do you think? Was there always a vulture on King Tut's golden funeral mask?

[shortace]

Imagine being King Tutenkhamen. For thousands of years your ancestors had a multitude of gods all with associated symbols and rituals. Thousands of years of traditions and beliefs.

But all of that was snuffed out before you were born. For your entire life, all you've seen is the sun disk Aten. All you've known is how to worship Aten.

And then you become king, and you want to go back to the old ways.

But you don't know how.

You literally do not know what each god should look like, or how they should be worshipped. Your sculptor actually fucks up a depiction of Mut because you guys just don't know which hat she's supposed to wear.

You do your absolute best to restore old statuary and inscriptions, replacing Aten with Amun and so on. You even change your own name.

And then that fucker Horemheb comes along a few years after you die and tries to claim he did all that hard work himself.

[xintract]

Tutankhamen pharaoh smoking weed blunt egyptian

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[owlmachine]

What do you call a constipated Egyptian?

A toot uncommon.

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I feel like Ramses the Great's name should be changed to Tutencatmen