Stargate
So I was on a carriage ride and saw this in the park. It was hysterical if you've ever seen the movie Stargate (Kurt Russel / James Spader) or the TV Series Stargate SG-1 (Richard Dean Anderson) or Atlantis. They use a Egyptian artifact like this to travel to other worlds. Worlds still under the rule of aliens posing as guides gods. Gods using names like Ra and Anubis on planets with names like Abadoes and Karnak (these are egyptian names and places).
The shows uses quite a bit of Egyptology (mythology) and there are always ruins that they have to explore in the show. And occasionally they use some of the old Egyptology stories to figure the interaction between the god/aliens.
See a view of the actual gate from the show.
Read or leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Sunday at 6:55 AM on April 23, 2006.
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Kids are everywhere
So Oliver Twist comes to mind often during these my Egypt trip. I see all these kids running around trying to sell you something. They just swarm you like a group of mosquitoes. It's hysterical on some level it's like on some TV show when you see the little kid with little puppies jumping all over them.
Most of the time it seems like the children are very poor but I think many of them are not poor (at least not by their standards). We were at this one place and these little kids were so dirty it just tears at my heart. When we got back in the van I asked if they dirtied them up on purpose, the tour guide laughed and said they were just dirty, “they're kids, they don't mind”.
Generally when swarmed it seems like they are in a few groups, they all seem to go back to the same few adults for change. But it just makes me think of the groups of orphans in oliver twist. I've spent many dollars/pounds on many of these trinkets if I can haggle down to a dollar or less, it's a safe bet I'll get one (unless I already have 15!).
PLEASE Leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Sunday at 12:43 PM on April 23, 2006.
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