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Welcome to Our Sampler of Ancient Egyptian Supernatural Beings

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57 pointsThevet10 comments

For the sake of anyone uncertain what to search for: hit 'start searching' and then 'random result'.

It's a worthwhile endeavour.

I had to reload the page or it would generate the same "random" result... but that's exactly the way I found interesting beings!

It shows a placeholder if no image is available, so i too thought at first it were repeatedly showing the same result.

It’s always fascinating to see how innovative ancient Egypt was. This makes me identify with them as normal people that share the same feelings with us. They dreamt like us and imagined stuff like us. I wish I could go back in time and live there for a while.

It's hard to imagine that we aren't somehow "more evolved" than people in the past, but then you see something like the wall graffiti in Pompeii and realize that even our most evolved trait of shit-posting was well established thousands of years ago! [https://kashgar.com.au/blogs/history/the-bawdy-graffiti-of-p...]

That's an interesting phenomenon - assuming that a modern trait is derived from the modern era, until one leaves the modern era with sufficient interest to discover the same trait in earlier cultures.

I've been quite hooked on the "Evidence of Ancient Civilisations and Advanced Technology" series of youtube videos that are there for the watching - mostly because it truly is interesting to think about. We still can't produce buildings as advanced as some of the ancient examples out there in the jungles - we just don't have the technology to do the things to stone that the ancients did. So, there's something else at factor here - the deleterious effects of civilisation.

At some point, we lose the edge. I blame shitposters.

It took me a few rounds to get a non-placeholder image, hopefully they flesh out the rest soon! None of the images I got were for hybrids, but some of the descriptions over placeholder image sounded interesting.

Some of the bunny heads could be donkey heads. The staffs with bunny ears remind of the was scepter.

They could have saved a significant amount of bandwidth by scaling the placeholder image appropriately.

Looks like the server is down.

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