>Media revolving around ancient Egyptian religious figures and culture>Anubis is the bad guy What's with this? Even a cursory understanding of or basic research on Egyptian religion tells you that Anubis is a relatively gentle and kind guide and protector of the dead. Egyptian mythology actually features genuine bona-fide bad guys too like Set and Apophis who are actually are just evil and easy to turn into villains with arguably way more interesting "abilities" than Anubis himself has.What's up with this? Is it just because he "looks cool" or because he's associated with death?
>>18105685No its the croc Ammit Abrahamics and Ancient aliens theorist use not Anubis or Apophis then it's Ra because in Hebrew it means Evil.
>>18105685>Set He also was originally not the evil God but became that after time. I think he is a bit similar to Loki in that regard. The main reason for why Anubis is demonized in modern media is because he is a God of the underworld. And that is often associated with the devil. It's similar to Hades. Hades is sometimes translated as hell despite Tartaros being more similar to a hell concept.
Why did the Egyptians think preserving corpses for as long as possible was a good idea?
>>18105990>IncorruptibilityThey thought they could come back to it but the Abrahamic cults claiming their Prophets and Saints don't spoil yet can't provide dna are crazier.
Something moderns have trouble understanding about old polytheistic religions is that they were rarely monolithic entities, they were a patchwork of cults and individually powerful temples. This is why if you try to read up on any particular ancient god they seem to have a dozen different aspects and variations to their stories. Because depending on which temple and cult you consulted, the god's role in the myth and the pantheon might change. There's also the problem with mapping modern religious connotations onto the past. It's why deities associated with the "underworld" tend to be seen as evil. In post-Manichean religions, the concept of an "underworld" is negatively aligned. In Abrahamic faiths in particular, the afterlife is dualistic, with punishment and reward being very simply delineated: if you are bad, you go below, to hell, and if you are good, you go up, to heaven. This isn't really how the afterlife was thought of in Egypt, Mesopotamia, or Greece, back in the iron age and earlier. The "underworld" was the entire afterlife, the good and the bad, you went "below" regardless of how you were judged to have lived. That was the lot of all mortals. So a god like Anubis is seen as inherently bad by post-Manichean interpretations of the afterlife.
>>18105986>Hades is sometimes translated as hellthe reason is because the word hades is literally used that way in the New Testament
>>18106051Because the people writing down the new testament knew fuck all about Greek myth, they were Christfaggots drawing analogies with their own understandings
>>18106063They were speaking the Greek language, not commenting on Greek mythology.
