tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post3200776994697532484..comments2024-03-27T18:20:38.176-05:00Comments on TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Were pygmy mammoths present in ancient Egypt?Minnesotastanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-64611041753048110552011-01-23T02:36:25.440-06:002011-01-23T02:36:25.440-06:00I always wonder why modern hieroglyph interpreters...I always wonder why modern hieroglyph interpreters try to take things very literally when they depicted people with dog heads and bird wings. Seems like they would paint things that were slightly more imaginative and less realistic, especially if they were trying to appease/depict Gods and divine behavior. If I were painting stories of how great I was on the side of my tomb, I would make up a lot of great things too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-22567077716940533572011-01-22T17:25:49.316-06:002011-01-22T17:25:49.316-06:00I'd have to say it's not a pygmy wooly mam...I'd have to say it's not a pygmy wooly mammoth, even though the body does look furred, I'd have to say it's just a pygmy elephant, mainly due to the tusks, which on a mammoth would be pointed more downward and curved up, whereas this creature has tusks that are mainly straight.CloudSampsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05459873067554831037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-421452567392824512011-01-22T10:55:11.608-06:002011-01-22T10:55:11.608-06:00The one on the right...possibly (I would have gues...The one on the right...possibly (I would have guessed bear). But the one on the left has a trunk and tusks.<br />In the paper (Masseti, 2001), it's mentioned that ancient Egyptians sometimes scaled figures in art for stylistic purposes. It also says a giraffe in the same procession was drawn larger, but on finding a picture, it's by no means full size (http://wysinger.homestead.com/tombpaintings.html). The bear/hyena/whatever's handler is also holding much larger tusks. <br />Without solid evidence of Old World pygmy mammoths surviving into that time period, I'm of a mind to think it's an Asian elephant. If the artist was used to African elephants, this one would have struck him as smaller and fuzzier, so perhaps he exaggerated those (to him) unusual aspects?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-66624929149904422772011-01-22T08:06:40.040-06:002011-01-22T08:06:40.040-06:00They look more to me like hyenas.
Here is a hyena...They look more to me like hyenas.<br /><br />Here is a hyena on a leash for comparison.<br /><br />http://www.chewingpixels.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/7.jpgKrikkitnoreply@blogger.com