Then again, I didn't see the other 4,992. One of them might be hot and a supporter of free love -- maybe even free marijuana.

Where is The Flying Spaghetti Monster?

Do I want to worship that eagle/falcon with the red disk on it's head, or the blue elephant??? Or should it be that cute little pink/purple thing with the big eyes and bumps on it's head? Decisions, decisions.

That's Horus. One of ancient Egypt's most important gods.

When I lived in Egypt, I worked near the city of Dammanhor. That's one of the very few Egyptian cities to keep its ancient Egyptian name. Most cities have Arabic/Islamic names these days. Dammanhor means "city of Horus."

Because it's centrally located in the Nile Delta, Dammanhor always had armies marching thru it. There are some rock formations in the city where soldiers carved graffiti. Stuff is engraved there from soldiers of the Pharaohs, to the Muslim armies that invaded in the 7th century, to the Crusaders, right up to Napoleon's soldiers and the British in WWI and II.

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I lived in Alexandria. Down around the harbors there were all kinds of ancient graffiti and generally weird stuff to look at. Including some drawings of ancient ships scratched into the walls of caves and tunnels.

My favorite tour guide was a woman who grew up in Alex and knew every inch of the city. She planned to show me some tunnels near the harbor one day, and we went charging down some old stone stairs into the darkness. (In many places, Egypt doesn't coddle tourists. No lights, no guard rails, etc. You wanna play Indiana Jones, you do so at your own risk.) Fortunately her cellphone had a flashlight. The tunnels had flooded, and we came to a screeching halt about one stair short of taking a swim.

Alexandria also had some clearly human-made ancient docks and jetties. And nobody, not even archeological experts, seems to know exactly who built them. Their best guess is that they were built for, or by, Greek traders who were dealing with Egypt even before Alexander The Great took over, in the Fourth Century BCE. Or maybe ALIENS!1!

a friend of mine said that one of her friends had a husband that died. She had him cremated and put his ashes into an urn shaped like Anubis, the jackal-headed god of death! I thought that was really cool.

Here's an example I found on the net:

The God of Turd Maggots .

Miss you, George. R.I.P.