There is a playful anthropomorphic scroll dating perhaps to the New Kingdom containing a range of scenes apparently found at that time period. It also contains a portrayal of an antelop and a lion playing a board game together found at this link:
I read yesterday of Mayan mythology where the god and goddess of creation formed the animals who first lived in peace – it seems some kind of throwback to Isaiah 11:6, “the lion shall lay down with the lamb,” in the millinneal world – an ultimate peace.
And there was a Mayan scroll much like the above in many details even down to animals walking erect and carrying food and drink as for a banquet. And a MAYAN BOARD GAME IS BEING PLAYED where the contenders are seated just as they are in Egypt (though in Egypt, they are on chairs at the Mayans are seated cross-legged).
In the Mayan mythology, after the god and goddess instruct the animals to form their own language, they had their own “Tower of Babble” event where they could, thereafter, no longer understand each other; and from that time, as lion ate lamb following the biblical Paradise Lost, man, after animal language deversified
“They hissed and cackled; everyone cried differently … and they had to try again, and try again to praise their creators. But, they were unable to understand each other, and could not make themselves understood, because they had not been made that way. That is why their flesh was sacrificed, and from that time they were eaten, they were killed, the animals on the face of the earth.”
Not too important but just to note, the “Paradise Lost” scene isn’t shown in that Mayan accounting. There are two human-like figures in the Mayan scroll and it would rather seem those could be the god and goddess of the Mayan Creation. In Fingerprints of the Gods, it was written that the Conquistadors thought the Mayan religion was so similar to the Christian that they were the anti-Christs and this was another reason the Conquistadors decimated their ranks, Graham Hancock wrote.
Despite the fact that on the far right of the Egyptian scroll, a lion is carrying a roasted antelop seemingly as part of a banquet soon to be held, despite that fact, the overall scroll seems to capture that feeling of “all animals living in peace.” A “Before Paradise Lost” period of time.
With the Mayan Calendar being said to resemble the Egyptian and other similarities between the two, I'd like to get more information.
Can someone tell me what the provenance of the Egyptian scroll is and how, if it’s known, what mythology the scene refers to?
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