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Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:05 pm

Can you name them all? Well they are already named, but do you know the myths, legends, and fiction written on all the features?

I think it's a cool item, looks great mrgreen !

Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:05 pm

its not bad

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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:11 am

Haha, Isis and Athena were the only ones that I really got.

There has been a bit of an uproar about a couple of them though, especially the Hindu Goddess. And apparently the arms aren't even under the correct name (it was a different God/Goddess). I'm not that hot with Hindu mythology though.

Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 4:09 pm

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Haha, Isis and Athena were the only ones that I really got.

There has been a bit of an uproar about a couple of them though, especially the Hindu Goddess. And apparently the arms aren't even under the correct name (it was a different God/Goddess). I'm not that hot with Hindu mythology though.

Yea, I don't know much about Hinduism either.

And not to nit-pick the item, but wasn't Hathor much more associated with the cow-horns and the solar disk? True, in some depictions Isis did have them, but by-and-large most of the depictions of Isis show her with that throne (her namesake) on top of her head, and no horns or solar disk.

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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:57 am

Horns are definately Hathor's, although you could give Isis a sundisc, so while it might fit someone else better it could be associated with her, since she is a predominant figure.

I think that more people got upset about the Hindu one because it's still a living religion, so they felt it was disrespectful to muck up the Gods.

On a side note, the wings used for the Isis ones look exactly like the tattoo I'm going to get, only it will be a scarab beetle with those wings. whee

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:35 pm

Ah, japanese mythology. This is where I come in.

I could be wrong about this but I don't think Kaguya hime was a Goddess. Or at least she never was worshiped as one. She was a princess that came from the moon. That's it.

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