Random thoughts 1: Just Sayin'

[shadowplay]

I love watching the BBC World News weatherman trying to give the forecast for 2/3rds of the globe in 90 seconds.

 

[Takhisis]

 

[Commodore]

While messing around on YouTube I stumbled on some videos about a theory that the Sphinx in Egypt wasn't a Sphinx at all originally, but rather a depiction of Anubis and the head was just recarved at some later date into the form we see now.

My question is: The evidence presented for this theory seems pretty compelling, but I'm no Egyptologist. Is there any legitimacy to this theory? Or is it just a bunch of hooey made up to sell books (because apparently some Egyptologists have written books about this)?

 

[Hrothbern]

While messing around on YouTube I stumbled on some videos about a theory that the Sphinx in Egypt wasn't a Sphinx at all originally, but rather a depiction of Anubis and the head was just recarved at some later date into the form we see now.

My question is: The evidence presented for this theory seems pretty compelling, but I'm no Egyptologist. Is there any legitimacy to this theory? Or is it just a bunch of hooey made up to sell books (because apparently some Egyptologists have written books about this)?

The mainstream archelogy takes it that the head is the head of the Pharao Khafre of the nearby Khafre pyramid and Khafre temple.
One big complex from one masterplan suggesting it was always Khafre.

The only hard evidence besides the geometry is that the fingerprint of the limestone of the Sphinx, the temple and part of the pyramid is the same. The fingerprint being the kind and distribution of small fossils.
To be taken into account is that the Sphinx is carved out of the limestone bedrock of the Gizah plateau.

So the mainstream story is:
They had 1 masterplan in honor of Khafre.
They made a horseshoe limestone quarry around the piece of limestone protruding from the flat Gizah plateau to carve out the lower part of the Sphinx
They used those quarry stones to build the complex and carved out the higher part of the sphinx including straight on the head of Khafre.
Why would they carve out anything else ?

EDIT
Come to think of it
I had no recollection of any big statue of an Egyptian god. I found meanwhile some, but there are not many of them.
The Pharao's were the living gods and that's all what the common Egyptians should see.
Anubi is only in smaller statues, sculptures and on walls. And I guess those were not in reach of common Egyptians.

 

[shadowplay]

Let's say your name is David Jones. You're signing your name. Let's say you're endorsing a cheque. You sign "Dave Jones".

Bad?

 

[Synobun]

Let's say your name is David Jones. You're signing your name. Let's say you're endorsing a cheque. You sign "Dave Jones".

Bad?

Not bad. Dave is an accepted short-form of David.

That being said, it's always better to be safe when it comes to sensitive documents. Someone might be insistent on the full first name if they're having a bad day or it might muck up the evidence if you ever find yourself in trouble. With something like finances, there isn't much of a reason to be nonchalant with your naming convention. There's no gain and something to lose (however small the risk may be).

 

[Arakhor]

When I set up my bank account, I was only allowed one confirmed signature, but I was never told that it had to match my full name or anything.

 

[shadowplay]

It had never been a problem for me for anything until the other day, when a teller at the bank seemed confused by me signing my name using the short form instead of the longer version (which I don't think I've ever actually signed in my entire life!) She made me cross it out and sign using the longer form. It seems weird to me that she made me alter my own signature.

Even in the past when doing more official things, like government forms and licenses, me printing out my full given name but then signing the shorter version has never been a problem.

 

[Cutlass]

When I set up my bank account, I was only allowed one confirmed signature, but I was never told that it had to match my full name or anything.

My signature doesn't even match any letters used in the English language.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

My signature doesn't even match any letters used in the English language.

Nor mine. For a couple years my job required me to sign my name dozens, sometimes hundreds, of times a day. My signature deteriorated appropriately into a sort of ink swirl.

 

[Takhisis]

So, in effect, Cut's signature is his avatar?

 

[Cutlass]

So, in effect, Cut's signature is his avatar?

nothing that coherent.

 

[Zkribbler]

I've been doing some random research on the island of Catalina, 20+ miles off the coast of Los Angeles. Two facts struck me:
Catalina was never part of the mainland.
The common southwest rattlesnake is found on Catalina.

Q: How did the rattlesnakes get there? Did they swim?

 

[Commodore]

How did the rattlesnakes get there?

Brought there by humans? That seems to be the go-to answer for explaining how a species got somewhere it isn't supposed to be.

Unless they were there before humans. In that case, I have no idea.

 

[Takhisis]

There are water serpents. :shrug:

 

[Commodore]

There are water serpents. :shrug:

Yeah, but the rattlesnakes Zkribbler is referring to aren't water serpents.

 

[Synobun]

Birb pick up snek. Snek goes on adventure. Birb drops snek on odd and unfamiliar island. Snek decides this is its new home. Babies.

 

[shadowplay]

I've been doing some random research on the island of Catalina, 20+ miles off the coast of Los Angeles. Two facts struck me:
Catalina was never part of the mainland.
The common southwest rattlesnake is found on Catalina.

Q: How did the rattlesnakes get there? Did they swim?

Stowaways on ships and in cargo, mostly likely.

 

[Borachio]

Or driftwood.

 

[Hygro]

Anyone know anything about ancient headgear?

I'm looking for the name of a metal headband that has the metal strips that go down by the cheekbones or in front of the ear.

So much so it is my waking mission.