[OLD] Egyptian mythology art

Notes & Credits

This is part of my school history project involving art based off of ancient mythology. The first one of these is here: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/84255228/ The higher-quality version of this one is here: https://horizonpenblade.wordpress.com/2015/11/06/egyptian-mythology-art/ Anyways, so this is the one for Egypt. It's representing an ancient Egyptian goddess named Isis, and her son Horus (there are apparently multiple Horuses, but this one is her son). So, the story is, Horus's dad, the king of the gods at the time, Osiris, had been killed by another god--Osiris's brother, actually-- named Set/Seth, who, once he found out that Horus existed, was also trying to kill Horus now. Or, in the meantime, bug him as much as possible. Seth would send a lot of things at him--headaches, burns, stomachaches, and, as pictured here, nightmares. And then Horus would, like any kid call for his mom--you know, wake up in the night and yell, "Mom, Mom!" in panic, etc. And she would come and help him out. Eventually Horus overthrew Set, but that's another story. Anyways, this was kind of a really apt culture/mythology in general for my project (writing/drawing scenes in other settings) because the ancient Egyptians applied their myths to their everyday lives. So anytime a mom was comforting her son, it was kind of seen like the myth repeated again. One language arts reference that's kind of interesting is that Shakespeare's Hamlet might have been based on this story (and the . Shakespeare based a lot of his plays on myths, kind of like all of the books based on fairy tales that have been coming up lately. (For example, on the Shakespeare thing, Romeo and Juliet was based an ancient Roman myth about these people named Pyramus and Thisbe.) The plot of Hamlet is kind of like this-- although this one has a little less tragic of an ending. Bibliography: Shaw, Garry J. The Egyptian Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends. New York, New York: Thames & Hudson, 2014. Print.