An old high-resolution photo of the Egyptian temple at Abu Simbel:

https://preview.redd.it/purkti9cs7n61.jpg?width=1864&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a61526f0fcf873b2967c87c7eaf451fb3031ec9

Information about this photo from the wikipedia page:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abou_Simbel_LCCN2004671976.jpg

>Date: 1856
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>Source: Library of Congress
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>Original url: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004671976/
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>Author: Good, Frank Mason, 1839-1928, photographer

A closer look at this photo reveals a lot of graffiti, carefully scrubbed in modern times:

https://preview.redd.it/sjercd5hs7n61.jpg?width=808&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aeb9cc2d3c9657d4ad049f4521ee4c55d96bc253

>ADUXKULL
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>1823
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>18?? MUSKAU

Remarkably, other inscriptions bearing the name Puckler Muskau have survived in this region. Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau visited Egypt, was a noble landscape architect and was even buried in a pyramid, though not in Egypt, but in his family English park in Lusatia:

https://preview.redd.it/s5jgu5kls7n61.jpg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c576b135d90ac1d19f3a722e79c4e6c0d4a5be1e

The other graffiti is from an old photograph, as the Library of Congress states, taken “between 1856 and 1860”:

https://preview.redd.it/4fz4tivns7n61.jpg?width=808&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2193ba04f06f0c4c332f5feb6f62ebe4f20f55d9

>ALFRED ARAGO 1867

In the now-deleted digital version of an issue of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Middle East, there was a short article about the graffiti, supposedly made by a French Legion officer visiting Egypt just this year, some 10 years after photo was taken (according to the Library of Congress):

https://preview.redd.it/dz3pagxss7n61.jpg?width=806&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f613c265da16bc34249aa65020d9e0818e551b99

It

In the light of my upcoming Exodus debate, to push myself farther, I'm designing a series of posts to demonstrate that the Exodus did, absolutely happen. You guys get the benefits at some of my expense. Here is my primary resource.

Secular Egyptian chronology starts us off at 3150 B.C, which is before Noah's Flood, in 2,348-2,302 B.C, and 1,000 years before Constantine Manasses' date of 2188 B.C, as the start of the Egyptian timeline. The reason traditional Egyptian chronology is so long, is because the assumption that certain dynasties did not act as co-regents, but rather they acted as consecutive. The dates given below are from (Shaw, 2000) for secular Egyptian Chronology.

The chronology above contradicts both secular and Biblical chronology. In this post, I will point out flaws, and introduce a better chronology. The next paragraph is a piece written by Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell I revised to look pretty:

*This chronology, or any similar chronology, is at feuds with other histories, especially this Hittites. The date 1275 B.C. for the battle of Kadesh, at which both Ramses II and Hittite king Muwatalli II claimed victory, comes from the traditional dates for Ramses the Great. Finally, when Ramses III recorded his traditionally dated 1180 B.C. victory over sea people, he said that the sea people had already annihilated the Hittites. According to these Egyptian dates, the Hittites became extinct about 1200 B.C. The Egyptian version of Hittite chronology falls apart, however, when compared to more recent Assyrian archaeological discoveries. Assyrian inscriptions record wars with the Hittites during the eighth and ninth centuries B.C., centuries after the Hittites supposedly ceased to exist. These inscriptions describe wars during the reigns of Assyrian kings Shalmaneser III and Sennacherib and even name the same Hittite kings as the Egyptian records. The Assyrian timeline is consistent with well-established dates such as Nebuchadnezzar’s conquest of

A complaint I have seen proposed before is that we can't know anything about the past before humans because there were no humans to witness the event. "You can't know, you weren't there!" This is an actual defense put forth by actual adults at the head of certain Young Earth Creationism websites.

My minor in undergrad was Anthropology, primarily Bioanth (human evolution) but we had to take a fair bit of cultural anth. as well, and I chose to spend my time in an Egyptology Lecture. So much of my knowledge is based off of the textbook "An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt" by Bard, and "A History of Ancient Egypt" by Mieroop (from 2015 and 2010 respectively).

So in this post we're going to examine how Egyptian Chronology is problematic for a literal Genesis interpretation, and also WHY we know the Chronology is sound. I am by no means an Egyptologist, but I am using sources written recently by very good ones, so if you have more in depth questions I would recommend checking them out.

Part 1: Egyptology 101

Ancient Egypt is located where modern Egypt is today, in *Northeast Africa hugging the Nile river. It can be separated into several time periods: Naqada 1-3 (Also known as the Predynastic Period), Old Kingdom, First Intermediate, Middle Kingdom, Second Intermediate, and the New Kingdom.

We primarily care about the Predynastic Period and the Old Kingdom in this post, the reasons being the former begins the concept of Regnal years (how long a Pharaoh ruled) and the latter sees the building of the Pyramids of Giza.

Part 2: The Naqada Problem

Radiocarbon dating is a double edged sword for many YEC's. On one hand, it can corroborate certain biblical events as well as the consistency of parts of the modern text. On the other hand, Naqada 1 begins in 4400 BC according to the multiple radiocarbon dates of fossil remains of humans and other animals, grains and reeds. This is outright problematic because using Lightfoot's age of 6000 years old, this enormous culture would be creating pottery, jewelry, their own religions, and trading with the equally large Nubia in a vacuum.

It becomes more problematic when Naqada 3 rolls around with the advent of writing systems and Regnal Years with which to record history. These writing systems are the first hieroglyphs, and in conjunction with graphic narratives on palettes, they begin to record the first Kings. This will become more relevant in a moment.

**Part 3: The Flood and the Pyramid Probl

One of the common complaints creationists raise about radiometric dating is about how reliable it is, and whether there are independent corroborators. Never mind the fact that six(!) different radiometric methods are in consilience in dating meteorites

http://questioninganswersingenesis.blogspot.com/2014/05/andrew-snelling-concedes-radiometric.html?m=1

Or that dendrochronology, ice core rings, lake varves and Egyptian chronology all independently corroborate radiocarbon dating

The Hohenheim tree ring dendrochronology extends back 12460 years and corroborates c14 dating (and corroborates ice core dating and varve dating).

https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/view/4172

The Vostok ice cores go back 420 000 years, again corroborating radiometric dating

http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and-climate/ice-cores/ice-core-basics/

The lake Suigetsu varves go back 60 000 years (article written by a Christian professor of biology), again corroborating radiometric dating)

https://thenaturalhistorian.com/2012/11/12/varves-chronology-suigetsu-c14-radiocarbon-callibration-creationism/

Egyptian chronology confirms radiocarbon dating

https://www.reddit.com/r/debatecreation/comments/c6cgb9/possibly_my_alltime_favourite_c14_dating_graph/

Now, in addition to the above evidence, GPS data also confirms radiometric dating

https://thenaturalhistorian.com/2014/09/10/smoking-gun-evidence-of-an-ancient-earth-gps-data-confirms-radiometric-dating/

I am still also awaiting a reply, viable or not, explaining distant starlight.

https://www.reddit.com/r/debatecreation/comments/dwnne7/basic_trigonometry_and_the_age_of_the_universe/

Perhaps some young earth creationists can be excused because they do not know the sheer volume of evidence for an old earth and universe.

But here, I have posted the evidence for an old earth.

Any takers/replies?

As said above, I'm wondering if you know of any comprehensive, reliable works that talk about the entirety of the different dynasties present in ancient Egyptian history. For example, Aidan Dodson's "The complete royal families of Ancient Egypt" and Peter A. Clayton's "Chronicle of the Pharaohs". Also any really good encyclopedia's encompassing Egyptian political or societal history would be awesome. Love the sub.

I know this is impossible to answer accurately, so I am trying to come to grips with the plausible range based on the uncertainty in both the eruption date and what the different proposal Egyptian chronologies.

Hi everyone ! I am excited to start reading "The Waves" with all of you. I did some reading about the book and the author that I would like to share with all of you.

[Text from Oxford World Classics, by Frank Kermode, with some minor editing ]

About the Author :

TW - sexual assault, depression, suicide

VIRGINIA WOOLF was born Adeline Virginia Stephen on 25 January 1882 at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington. Her parents (Leslie Stephen and Julia Jackson, already had children from their first marriages and whose spouses passed away) have strong associations with literature.

Virginia had the free run of her father’s library, a better substitute for the public school and university education she was denied than most women of the time could aspire to.

Her mother died in 1895, and in that year she had her first breakdown>!possibly related in some way to the sexual molestation of which her half-brother George Duckworth is accused!<

By 1897 she was able to read again, and did so voraciously: ‘Gracious, child, how you gobble’, remarked her father, who allowed her to choose her reading freely. He fell ill in 1902 and died in 1904. Virginia suffered another breakdown, during which she heard the birds singing in Greek (if I am correct she refers in her other works). On her recovery she moved, with her brothers and sister, to a house in Gordon Square, Bloomsbury; there what eventually became famous as the Bloomsbury Group took shape.

It was in 1905 that she began to write for publication in the Times Literary Supplement. Despite much ill health in these years, she travelled a good deal, and had an interesting social life in London. She did a little adult-education teaching, worked for female suffrage. In 1912, after another bout of nervous illness, she married Leonard Woolf.

In 1913, her first book, Voyage Out, was accepted for publication by her half-brother Gerald Duckworth. >!She was often ill with depression and anorexia, and attempted suicide!<She published Night and Day, To the Lighthouse, Orlando a lot of short works and finally ..

The Waves was written and rewritten in 1930 and 1931 (published in October of that year). She worked on Between the Acts her last book and finished it in February 1941. Thereafter her mental condition deteriorated alarmingly>!, and on 28 March, unable to face another bout of insanity, she drowned herself in the River Ouse.

Today I'm going to discuss the relative chronology of Egypt and Ḫatti, two of the most powerful kingdoms of the Bronze Age. Ḫatti (1650-1180 BCE), also known as the Hittite kingdom/empire, was located in what is now central and southern Turkey and northern Syria.

Periodization

Historians typically divide early Egypt into three periods of centralized rule (Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom) and two periods of decentralized rule and competing polities (First and Second Intermediate Periods).

• Old Kingdom (ca. 2650-2150 BCE)

• First Intermediate Period (ca. 2150-2030 BCE)

• Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030-1650 BCE)

• Second Intermediate Period (ca. 1700-1550 BCE)

• New Kingdom (ca. 1550-1070 BCE)

Additionally, each of these periods consists of one or more dynasties. The New Kingdom consists of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Dynasties, for example. "Dynasty" is a bit of a misnomer since there are instances of a dynastic break despite the same family staying in power (e.g. the 17th/18th Dynasty transition) as well as dynastic continuity despite a ruler from another family ascending to the throne (e.g. Horemheb in the 18th Dynasty), but the term has been in use for so long that I fear we're stuck with it.

Similarly, modern historians have divided the history of the Hittites into two periods.

• Old Kingdom (ca. 1650-1400 BCE)

• New Kingdom, or Hittite empire period (ca. 1400-1200 BCE)

Thanks to the efforts of early Egyptologists, we have a fairly complete relative chronology of the most prominent Egyptian kings. In other words, we know that Khufu (4th Dynasty) reigned earlier than Amenemhat I (12th Dynasty), who in turn reigned earlier than Ramesses II (19th Dynasty).

We also have a relative chronology of Hittite rulers. For example, the New Kingdom consists of the following kings:

• Šuppiluliuma I

• Arnuwanda II (son of Šuppiluliuma I)

• Muršili II (son of Šuppiluliuma I and brother of Arnuwanda II)

• Muwatalli II (son of Muršili II)

• Muršili III (son of Muwatalli II)

• Ḫattušili III (uncle of Muršili III and brother of Muwatalli II; seized the throne in a coup)

• Tudḫaliya IV (son of Ḫattušili III),

• Arnuwanda III (son of Tudḫaliya IV)

• Šuppiluliuma II (son of Tudḫaliya IV and brother of Arnuwanda III)

So how did scholars reconstruct this sequence of rulers? How do we know which kings ruled when?

King lists

Scribes in ancient Egypt dated texts according to the regnal year of a king. An example from a scarab of Amenhotep II

This is a controversial opinion because mint choco haters will side with Hongjoong (and his avid supporter Park Seonghwa) and innately understand what he means, whereas mint choco lovers will vehemently agree only with San and his fellow lovers of this flavour (in ATEEZ, we have Mingi who also enjoys this flavour. The remainder are neutral about it).

Preface

Let's set the scene for this discussion. I'm sure some, if not, most kpop fans operating within the idol-sphere has encountered the debate, "Do you love or hate mint choco ice-cream?" It's a simple question, but as with most things ATEEZ enjoys, they had multiple extended debates ^(()1^(,)2^(,)3^(,)4^(; will be referenced at specific timestamps in later links)) about why they dislike/like this ice cream flavour, with one of the most intellectually intriguing debates appearing within the conversations of the idol kpop group, ATEEZ.

The crux of these heated and often anger-inducing debates is that ATEEZ's Hongjoong has asserted repeatedly that mint choco people are extremely healthy because they brush their teeth, several times for general dental hygiene, and "then again for dessert"(2021). He also states that he admires those who invented the "toothpaste-flavoured ice cream"(2020). He has been highly consistent in his argument, expressing these views and emotions towards this flavour even in his leisure time (VLive, 2020-2021;Universe PM, 2021).

However, we are not here today to talk about Hongjoong's commitment to his campaign against a controversial ice cream flavour, but to discuss why San is also correct in stating that mint choco does not taste like toothpaste, but rather, toothpaste tastes like mint choco.

Thesis - The one that came first, wins.

The validity the arguments that we will be presenting will be based on a single driving principle, which is that whichever item (mint choco flavouring or toothpaste) historically *pr

Hi again. Three weeks ago I posted about a project I'm working on. For those who haven't seen it yet:

>So, I am embarking on an interesting project. I intend to experience the best art and media humanity has to offer before I die. Namely this is all the highly notable and interesting books, plays, art, music, films, TV shows, and video games. I guess you could call it a bucket list. I've been indexing it chronologically and downloading it to an external hard drive.

I then solicited suggestions for highly notable/significant ancient and medieval literature that I was missing from an early draft of what the list would cover. I got over 100 responses; it was clear I was missing a lot. So, I pretty much started from scratch, doing multiple sweeps of any pre-Renaissance literature, and incorporated many of the suggestions I received, ranging from missing individual works to missing authors and cultures.

I should also note that in order to prevent this list from becoming unwieldly, I am limiting myself to 10,000 entries total, forcing myself to take a more deliberate and top-down approach. So far, I have 261 entries for the time span 4000 BC to 1400 AD: 12 Ancient-era, 121 Classical-era, and 128 Medieval-era works. 251 are literature, 10 are music. In other words, 2.61% of the list is Medieval era works or earlier, which seems quite reasonable to me and leaves plenty of room for more modern works spanning across more mediums.

I thought I would share what I have so far before I begin work on more modern stuff. Note that bolded entries are in the top 1,000 works, the cream of the crop, the most notable of all. If you're following along with me and don't want it to take a decade or longer to get through the whole completed list, just sticking to the bolded entries will give you a good taste too.

Ancient Era (4000 BC - 1001 BC)

I hope this posts here. r/History auto removed my theory and has not replied to my request for review.☹ Perhaps low karma. Shares and upvotes are much appreciated. I rarely post on Reddit. Mostly just read. Lets get into it....

Eureka!

I had a hunch, and after a bit of research, it turns out, I may have discovered something. Rediscovered is more like it.

There is no official recorded source of origin for the Ankh. The ancient Egyptian symbol, like a cross, but on the top is a loop. The best theory out there is that it was inspired from the thong of a sandal or a belt of god.

Its been right here in all of our faces, we just don't know the sun like they did. Ancient Egyptians worshipped the sun. Named it Ra/Re. Different spellings for different schools. Not so important. Just understand what worship means. They worshipped the sun.

The connection I am referring to is the Analemma of the Sun. Analemmae for plural, are natural patterns in the sky. They occur as a result of an asymmetrical orbit around an object in space. You'd have to track the sun's position in the sky from the same place on Earth following a constant interval of time. So everyday at midday you take a picture and after a year the pictures blend together reveal the analemma. It is possible to track analemma without modern technology and no doubt ancient Egypt was adept at doing so.

If you're lost at all right now: Please search Analemma they are beautiful. Also search Anhk now if you are unfamiliar.

The best theory for the origin of the Ankh symbol originating in ancient Eygpt:

"The Ankh was inspired by the analemma of our Sun."

Simple explanation. It also explains the symbol for infinity.

The only other logical explanation would be eye witness acounts of gods, or beings claiming to be gods, bearing real, powerful Ankhs.

So seeing as how no one has made this connection yet, take this post as my declaration of Ankh origin. Link for reference:

https://www.worldhistory.org/Ankh/ Link has picture references to examples used below. Also states clear uncertainty of Ankh origin.

Some realizations for questions that I anticipate people might have:

Not all Ankhs are created equal. There are two variations of it found in historical artifacts, either with a detailed analemma or without.

Carvings and paintings are plentiful and many do not show analemma clearly apon the Ankh. You can find artifacts of Anhks with clear analemma. I suspect records/artifacts with detail

Assassin's Creed: Origins is the 10th main game in the Assassin's Creed franchise, released in 2018 set in ancient Egypt. It was a pretty radical departure from previous games: it was (at the time) the earliest game in the series' chronology, revamped the combat system, and shifted to a far more open-world style. This caused it to get a bit of a rocky reception, and was received less warmly than its sequels Odyssey and Valhalla.

I had a blast with it, but I feel like it squandered its opportunities by setting its plot in Ptolemaic Egypt. Sure, you get all the big players during the final days of the Egyptian Kingdom and the Roman Republic—Cleopatra, Ptolemy XIII, Pompey, Julius Caesar, et al—but the problems it brings are threefold:

1. Since the game is still primarily set in Egypt, the big historical names end up being narratively sidelined. The plot of the Roman Civil War feels almost like a sidequest compared to Bayek's mission of revenge.

2. Since Ubisoft doesn't like to double-dip with settings, it means that we won't get an AC game set in early imperial Rome for the foreseeable future.

3. It glosses over a lot of really fascinating Egyptian history.

So, what era should it be set in, then? Well, I'm glad you asked.

THE LATE BRONZE AGE!

For those of you who didn't spend inordinate amounts of time studying an era of humanity where hitching wheels to a horse was a novelty, the late Bronze Age was an incredibly fascinating and tumultuous time for the Mediterranean and Near East. This was when the Egyptian New Kingdom was at the height of its power, seeing the rule of notable pharaohs like Akhenaten, Tutankhamun, Seti I, and Ramesses the Great. The Hittites were at the height of their power in Anatolia, and engaged with Egypt in what was essentially a Great Game over the myriad city-states of the Levant. Elsewhere, the Mycenaeans flourished in Greece, the Minoans of Crete gradually recovered from a wave of natural disasters, and the Middle Assyrian Empire was ascendent in Mesopotamia. There was a thriving international system of trade and diplomacy that knit the entire region together, from Ur to Ugarit.

And then it all went to shit. The causes are debatable (leading theory is widespread drought), but in the first few decades of the 12th century BC, many of those civilizations straight-up collapsed. The Hittite Empire shattered into squabbling successor states, the Minoans were invaded by the Mycenaeans, and dozens of cities along

Intro

My current pet project was listening through a free yale bible course and looking at where the bible came from and exploring areas of biblical scholarship. From there I went down a major rabbit hole into various topics. I’m also looking at the New Testament, but I feel like I need to write down all the Old Testament stuff now before I move on and forget it. My goal is to fit as much of the relevant Old Testament scholarship as I can in this post, then wrap it up with a Part 2, followed by New Testament Scholarship in another, and finally I will use both of them to go through the different LDS works and teachings that relate to them. And I should add that I’m just trying to share what majority scholarship says. Anyways, here is what I've been able to fit in one post with a logical splitting point:

Two Creation Accounts?

Where else to start other than the beginning. Before getting into the weeds it’s a good idea to read Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 and pay attention to the order. Genesis 1’s order is Light and Dark, Firmament/Dividing Waters, Dry Land, Night and Day, Fish and Birds, Animals and Humans, and rest. Genesis 2’s order is Plants, Water, Man, Fish and birds and animals, and finally Woman. Now try as you might to explain it away, the order is different. Biblical Scholars have concluded that there are two creation accounts that were put together at some point. They come to this conclusion because Creation isn’t the only thing that happens twice, and when scholars took a step back they saw patterns between the various versions of the different stories.

Genesis 7:8-9 has Noah bring 2 of every animal whether clean or unclean, but just before that, Genesis 7:2 emphasized that there were 7 of every clean animal. There are also multiple accounts of Abraham calling Sarah his sister (Gen 12:13, 20:5), Multiple contradicting accounts of how Joseph got to Egypt (Gen 27:28,36), and Jacob is named Israel twice (Gen 32:28 and 35:10). These parallel stories and contradictions go all the way through the Pentateuch, and themes and specific styles begin to emerge.

The Four Sources

There are multiple theories about these sources, but the existence of multiple sources is not debated. Scholars will agree that there are multiple authors, Moses did not write it, and will have some form of the following four sources in their theories. I will be using quotes here, and throughout this post, from Dr. Christine Hayes Yale course on Hebrew Bible to explain th

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

SS: Remembering the Liberty President Lyndon Johnson and World War III?

Long story at the link posits - convincingly - that the Liberty was sent out to be destroyed by the complicit Israelis to give America an excuse to intervene against the Arab states in the Six Day War

Sound familiar? Gulf of Tonkin anyone? USS Maine? 9-11?

This article is important because it demonstrates - along with Operation Northwoods that the people running the US will willingly sacrifice and murder as many people as needed to facilitate their goals.

Just like the current psyop known as Covid

Excerpt follows:

The book itself was of moderate length, running perhaps 100,000 words, but quite professionally written. The author carefully distinguished between solid evidence and cautious speculation, while also weighing the credibility of the various individuals whom he had interviewed and the other material used to support his conclusions. He drew upon most of the same earlier sources with which I was already familiar, as well as a few others that were new to me, generally explaining how he reached his conclusions and why. The overall text struck me as having exactly the sort of solid workmanship that one might expect from someone who had spent three decades in British investigative journalism, including a position near the top of the profession.

As Hounam explained on the first page, he had been approached in 2000 by a British television producer, who recruited him for a project to uncover the truth of the attack on the Liberty, an incident then entirely unfamiliar to him. His research of the history occupied the next two years, and included travels throughout the United States and Israel to interview numerous key figures. The result was an hour-long BBC documentary Dead in the Water, eventually shown on British television, as well as the book he concurrently produced based upon all the research he had collected.

As I began the text, the first pages of the Introduction immediately captured my attention. In late 2002, with the book almost completed, Hounam was contacted by Jim Nanjo, a 65-year-old retired American pilot with an interesting story to tell. During the mid-1960s he had served in a squadron of strategic nuclear bombers based in California, always on alert for the command to attack the USSR in the

Name: milo

Gender: male [technically non binary cuz slimefolk are blobs of slime shaped as humans and probably dont have balls

race: slimefolk [arctic varient]

Age: 18

Height: 5' 5

Weight: 100 lbs

Class: artificer

Appearance: a cyan slimefolk that dawns a white hoodie, and an arm cannon, and sweatpants. and 2 corrode proof gauntlets so he doesnt corrode the weapons he creates and a Phoenix necklace from an ancient temple of illusions

•     the bullet points are optional but helpful

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Abilities: due to the corrosive nature of slimefolk he is able to corrode the following materials: metal wood stone glass and human flesh. due to the quest item of the pheonix necklace he can breath fire for some reason.

Skills: he specializes in making pistols rifles and bombs, what he lacks in making the projectiles fast in strong he makes up for in aim and perception.

Personality: he could sometimes be described as a " hikikomori " [kinda like an introvert but multiplied by 10] but occasionally he goes outside to look for bounty hunting/hitman jobs or people commissioning for firearms, or just going hunting for food.

Equipment: a pistol 3 sentry's, a dispenser, a bit of metal for crafting [the rest of it is at his house] a portable tent, a crafting table, and standard issue tools for making guns. A flying Egyptian coffin powered by plasma (from temple quest) the head of a powerful Phoenix (also from temple quest) a locket and a topaz crystal.

Backstory:

• similar to saigo [ character sheet here: https://www.reddit.com/r/BossfightUniverse/comments/rhsjzz/saig%C5%8D_meiji_the_shogun/]

•he dedicated his life to his passion, even his parents supported it [but mostly just cuz he agreed to split the money for every firearm sold]

•in college he was the top of his class in terms of firearm repair class.

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Flaws and dislikes: he can be selfish, greedy, sometimes spiteful, when hes drunk he starts intense fights, some of them where fatal

Allies:

• ziragh

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Acquaintances: [none right now]

• i dont know if this counts but saigo bought a machine gun from him

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• List of <insert user name>'s cannon(chronological order):

[[https://www.reddit.com/r/BossfightUniverse/comments/rkisai/the_good_the_bad_and_the_ancient_you_arivevin_a/]](https://www.reddit.com/r/BossfightUniverse/comments/rkisai/the_good_the_bad_and_the_ancient_you_ari

Other Names: Imouthes, Asclepius, Immutef, Ii-em-Hotep, Amenhotep

Meaning of Name: “The One That Comes in Peace”

Family: Imhotep was considered to be the son of the god Ptah (by his human mother Khereduankh), and the brother of Thoth and Nefertem. In a few instances his mother was thought to be the goddess Sekhmet.

A rare example of a commoner who reached the rank of god by sheer merit, Imhotep lived in the 27th century B.C.E. He was revered as a genius and showered with titles, eventually becoming worshiped as the god of medicine, knowledge, and architecture. Imhotep is known among Egyptologists as “Egypt’s Leonardo da Vinci.”

Imhotep was the tjaty (vizier), chief architect, high priest, astrologer, scribe, and physician to the Pharaoh Djoser. Besides his weighty duties to the king, the wise man wrote extensively, developed revolutionary medical procedures, and was revered throughout Egypt.

Imhotep is one example of a “personality cult” of ancient Egypt, whereby a learned sage or otherwise especially venerated person could be deified after death and become a special intercessor for the living, much as the saints of Roman Catholicism.

It was Imhotep who created the first monumental building in history made of hewn stone: the famous “step pyramid” of Saqqara. He may have been responsible for the first known use of columns in architecture.

Imhotep also founded a school of medicine in Memphis, a part of his cult center known as Asklepion, which remained famous for over two thousand years. All of this occurred some 2,200 years before the Western “Father of Medicine,” Hippocrates, was born. Hippocrates himself was said to have been inspired by books kept in the Temple of Imhotep.

Years after his death, the Egyptians worshiped him; Imhotep became a god of medicine and healing, and was credited with the invention of building in stone. Imhotep was represented as a seated, head-sho

The nurse asked the rabbit, “what is your blood type?”

“I am probably a type O” said the rabbit.

Hello and welcome to another post where I talk about all the pre-colonial African civs that are up for voting in hopes that you’ll not put them all last on the ballot! This time I’m covering the Upper Nile region. Honestly, there’s a lot here - six civs in total - so I’ll try to keep each one more brief than usual.

Aksum (Kaleb)

Aksum is one of the earliest forms of what could now be called Ethiopia. First forming out of the ashes of D’mt around the first century, Aksum quickly rose to dominate Red Sea trade. It had its own written language likely derived from Sabaean (in Yemen), built huge monuments only beaten out by Egypt’s, and may have even contributed to the fall of Kush (Nubia). Then, around 300 AD, Aksum’s king Ezana converted to Christianity, and things really picked up. Aksum’s peak came with king Kaleb, who in the sixth century conquered the Himyarite kingdom in Yemen due to the persecution of some Christians there. Eventually Yemen was lost again after a couple wars with the Sassanid Persians, but this is still notable as the only time a sub-Saharan African nation has conquered outside of Africa. Kaleb was also in contact with the Byzantines, and the two may have even been collaborating against the Sassanids.

After Kaleb’s abdication, Aksum began a slow decline, no longer minting currency and generally abandoning the coast in favor of the mountains. In the mid-600s, the Arab Rashidun Caliphate conquered Egypt and isolated Aksum from Europe, but a king of Aksum had happened to give Muhammad’s followers shelter at one point, so they were spared from invasion. Aksum continued to exist and even expand south until it was destroyed by Queen Gudit (of CBRX1 fame), after which the region would continue to vibe until the rise of the Zagwe Dynasty a century or so later.

tl;dr badass trade empire in Ethiopia/Eritrea that was pals with the Byzantines and conquered Yemen one time,, also built long sticks

Ethiopia (Zara Yaqob)

I’m going to tackle Ethiopia in chronological order, I hope that’s okay with you. So! After Aksum fell, the Zagwe dynasty arose in its place, but it probably didn’t have direct lineage from Aksum, so the Solomonic dynasty was able to take control from them in 1270 CE or so. By then, Ethiopia was decidedly surrounded by Muslim states, especially the Somali kingdoms to their east. While these two got along well enough at first, relations eventually soured, and the Sultanates of Ifat and the

Heya everyone, and sorry that I’ve kept you waiting - well, I’m actually early on the schedule because I couldn’t help myself. I’m way too deep into this rabbithole to stop now. Persephone was a requested figure and I can totally understand why, her relationships with both Demeter and Hades are an important part of her character and it raises a lot of questions on how could she be adapted for Kid Icarus. She’d still likely be Hades’ wife but what would her relationship with Viridi be, now that’s a discussion-worthy topic - I’m pretty sure she could be divine autochthonous created by Viridi, same with Dionysus. I chose to pair Persephone with him for this part because the two have surprisingly lot in common in more ways than one. Out of the two deities, I think that Dionysus actually has more antagonistic potential than Persephone, or least his antagonistic potential is much more easier to utilize, so be prepared for a ride. Rome also decided to be relevant for once and it made things quite interesting - it becomes much easier to understand certain fictional narratives when you know the possible reasons for how they came to be. And I hope you all now know that while doing research for this part, I saw plebeians being referred as plebs and it was absolutely cursed. If I have to live with that knowledge, so do you. The mental image of Dionysus saying “Plebs love me” gave me really mixed feelings.

And now for something completely different, let’s take a look of the Roman part of Greco-Roman first. You all know who Ceres is? Generally seen as the Roman equivalent of Demeter, she was worshiped alongside her two children, Liber and Libera, as a trio known as Aventine Triad and they were seen as patrons of the plebeians. Liber was a god of wine, wine-making, fertility and freedom and Libera likely started as a female version of him who was later separated into her own figure - then came the Greek influence from both Etruria and Magna Graecia, meaning that things got a bit shuffled. While Ceres’ identification with Demeter was rather straightforward, same couldn’t really be said for her children. It’s easy to see similarities between Liber and Dionysus so former was therefore identified with the latter, but with things weren’t so simple with Libera. Her identification seemed to heavily depend on the context, as Liber’s spouse she was equated with Ariadne and as Ceres’ daughter she was Proserpina. Libera’s identification with Persephone does also highlight clas

The doctor says it terminal.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

He lost May

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

A complaint I have seen proposed before is that we can't know anything about the past before humans because there were no humans to witness the event. "You can't know, you weren't there!" This is an actual defense put forth by actual adults at the head of certain Young Earth Creationism websites.

My minor in undergrad was Anthropology, primarily Bioanth (human evolution) but we had to take a fair bit of cultural anth. as well, and I chose to spend my time in an Egyptology Lecture. So much of my knowledge is based off of the textbook "An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt" by Bard, and "A History of Ancient Egypt" by Mieroop (from 2015 and 2010 respectively).

So in this post we're going to examine how Egyptian Chronology is problematic for a literal Genesis interpretation, and also WHY we know the Chronology is sound. I am by no means an Egyptologist, but I am using sources written recently by very good ones, so if you have more in depth questions I would recommend checking them out.

Part 1: Egyptology 101

Ancient Egypt is located where modern Egypt is today, in *Northeast Africa hugging the Nile river. It can be separated into several time periods: Naqada 1-3 (Also known as the Predynastic Period), Old Kingdom, First Intermediate, Middle Kingdom, Second Intermediate, and the New Kingdom.

We primarily care about the Predynastic Period and the Old Kingdom in this post, the reasons being the former begins the concept of Regnal years (how long a Pharaoh ruled) and the latter sees the building of the Pyramids of Giza.

Part 2: The Naqada Problem

Radiocarbon dating is a double edged sword for many YEC's. On one hand, it can corroborate certain biblical events as well as the consistency of parts of the modern text. On the other hand, Naqada 1 begins in 4400 BC according to the multiple radiocarbon dates of fossil remains of humans and other animals, grains and reeds. This is outright problematic because using Lightfoot's age of 6000 years old, this enormous culture would be creating pottery, jewelry, their own religions, and trading with the equally large Nubia in a vacuum.

It becomes more problematic when Naqada 3 rolls around with the advent of writing systems and Regnal Years with which to record history. These writing systems are the first hieroglyphs, and in conjunction with graphic narratives on palettes, they begin to record the first Kings. This will become more relevant in a moment.

**Part 3: The Flood and the Pyramid

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.