I'm a bit obsessed with Egypt, Pharaohs, pyramids and the likes.
Here's another Giza scene.
Cheers for looking! :)
wait a minute... that does'nt spell DandelO in english!
i like the reflection on the sand
Awesome smooth desert there. I don't know how realistic the reflection is, but the surreal effect is quite enjoyable.
- Oshyan
Very cool. I have a friend who would love his image. She's ancient Egypt obsessed.
Cheers, folks! :)
Z: There were at least 3 different variations of the sounds of the hieroglyphic letters in 'dandelO'.
These ones go; Hand, forearm, water, hand, vulture, lion, quail.
The only real liberty I have taken is using the forearm hieroglyph instead of the vulture for 'a', as I have used the vulture for the short 'e'(both are valid but the forearm properly sounds 'ay/ai', not 'ah', while the vulture can be used for both 'ah' and short 'e'). My ancient Pharaoh name then is 'dayndelO' so, yes, you're correct. ;)
The signature is actually meant to be drawn in the sand with negative displacement. In final tweaks before hitting render, though, I moved my camera to tilt more towards the sky as there was nearly an exact half sky/half ground POV. I fixed the POV but neglected to readjust the signature image so, it's out of shot. Damn! :D
Cheers! :)
I also am into ancient things and this is cool....the sky symbol closely resembles "Ra" or "Ray" I believe...the sun god. You should have placed your dandelO space patch there...:).
I really prefer central and south american pyramids as they have a more jungle apperance rather than desert....still, the Egyptians were exceptional builders. More please...and maybe a Mayan jungle theme???
Beautiful!
The mummy returns (again... from China)
excellent scene, is that the eye of Horus?
Simplistic, yet beautiful. I like it. :)
Thanks, folks! :)
Aye, Markal, Inky: It is the Eye Of Horus/Ra/Wedjat/Edjo/etc.
While yous are all here...
Does anyone else find it a little strange that throughout the entire ancient Egyptian's documented history, from tomb paintings, to artifacts, jewellery, everything, really, there is no mention of pyramid structures? No references to the building, or even simply the presence, of these great monuments? I can have my head in knots over this.
Plenty of symbols of animals, Pharaohs and their coffins, Gods, amulets, I haven't actually pondered this until recently, I think it very, very strange, were they built long, long before we imagine? I've read and watched some striking stuff on this, dating their structure to around 10,500 B.C. which most Egyptologists strongly deny, other respected people think otherwise, though.
There are also records of 'doctoring' and faking graffitis and tomb contents from the 1800's, was there even a race of Egyptians as we imagine them? Absolutely fascinating. The entire subject of this civilization simply boggles me.
Cheers, again! :)
I'm coming in late, but wanted to also say that this render has a very nice feel to it. Well done, Martin!!
That IS Strange... :o now you have me thinking deeply about this too.
Quote from: dandelO on April 27, 2010, 10:25:25 AM
Thanks, folks! :)
Aye, Markal, Inky: It is the Eye Of Horus/Ra/Wedjat/Edjo/etc.
While yous are all here...
Does anyone else find it a little strange that throughout the entire ancient Egyptian's documented history, from tomb paintings, to artifacts, jewellery, everything, really, there is no mention of pyramid structures? No references to the building, or even simply the presence, of these great monuments? I can have my head in knots over this.
Plenty of symbols of animals, Pharaohs and their coffins, Gods, amulets, I haven't actually pondered this until recently, I think it very, very strange, were they built long, long before we imagine? I've read and watched some striking stuff on this, dating their structure to around 10,500 B.C. which most Egyptologists strongly deny, other respected people think otherwise, though.
There are also records of 'doctoring' and faking graffitis and tomb contents from the 1800's, was there even a race of Egyptians as we imagine them? Absolutely fascinating. The entire subject of this civilization simply boggles me.
Cheers, again! :)
I do find that their not mentioning a World Wonder very odd. I think they are far older than 10,000 years. Smaller pyramids built by them may have been mimicry. There may be more evidence of an older civilization in the Sahara under the sands. But it is also odd that satellite imaging does not show this. Maybe they exist in more than our universe. We have the end which is broken.
Guys be careful you are going to go to uncertain places ;)
I think most of you does remember this guy . Read the Criticism section especially .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniken
I like the pyramids and old civilizations and such and maybe more then you . But i trust the scientists in such matters :)
Quote from: dandelO on April 27, 2010, 10:25:25 AM
Thanks, folks! :)
Aye, Markal, Inky: It is the Eye Of Horus/Ra/Wedjat/Edjo/etc.
While yous are all here...
Does anyone else find it a little strange that throughout the entire ancient Egyptian's documented history, from tomb paintings, to artifacts, jewellery, everything, really, there is no mention of pyramid structures? No references to the building, or even simply the presence, of these great monuments? I can have my head in knots over this.
Plenty of symbols of animals, Pharaohs and their coffins, Gods, amulets, I haven't actually pondered this until recently, I think it very, very strange, were they built long, long before we imagine? I've read and watched some striking stuff on this, dating their structure to around 10,500 B.C. which most Egyptologists strongly deny, other respected people think otherwise, though.
There are also records of 'doctoring' and faking graffitis and tomb contents from the 1800's, was there even a race of Egyptians as we imagine them? Absolutely fascinating. The entire subject of this civilization simply boggles me.
Cheers, again! :)
It does boggle the mind but I don't get how the absence of them in the paintings, jewelry and things like that suggest an
earlier construction? If they were built later the absence would be understandable but earlier?
A more likely cause of the absence could be that the pyramids are tombs and maybe the depiction of a tomb was prohibited or something.
Oh, I've heard all the alien technology ideas, too. I'm not really willing to put much belief in any of that. Not that I find it hard to believe that we aren't the only things with a conciousness in space.
Other ideas about their far advanced ancient technology include things like this... http://www.catchpenny.org/abydos.html
Granted, I can see flying machines in these, I can also see, maybe, a sarcophagus? Temple walls? A curling stone? Who knows?
There's also the face on Mars theory and the nearby pyramid mountains. The main pyramid in question has some ridiculously accurate geometry going on but, aren't numbers another invention of Man? Numbers can be manipulated to fit anything, they are merely an 'expression', made by Man to decode the world around him.
The face on Mars can also be split vertically by a mirror; one half and it's symmetrical reflection shows the face of a man - the other half viewed symmetrically shows the face of a lion.
I would like to think, however, that at some period in time, people had an understanding, maybe access to the xx% of brain that we today apparently never use, as a given, just a simple, elegant way that everybody thought. ??? We now tend to 'over-think' everything, possibly to make up for the 'base-thought' that we now lack and that would have been taken for granted when this knowledge was second nature, providing the answers to 'How could we build the most amazing, astronomically accurate mark on our part of the Earth?'.
I think I'd like to think that, anyway.
These creations couldn't be built by us today with manpower alone, simple as that. I'm as baffled as the next person. I had some difficulties just making a true-scaled .ter! :D
Rimmon: Maybe so. I would imagine I'd like to document what I'm building/have built, in some way.
Possibly it was sacrelidge to paint a pyrimid, I don't know. I have thought on this, too.
I'm just in awe of the whole thing, I don't believe we even deserve the answers to this one, in this day and age. Imagine the mess we'd make if we were given the key to such perfection! :D
Wonderful glow in the foreground.... good idea with the sign in the sky
Thanks, Kasalin. :)