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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Please call me MIDOGBE: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [QB] I wrote that piece a few years ago and now don't have the index cards noting who drew the Isis analogy or why. Probably, as you said, it resulted from pro-Egypt diffusionists from back in the day before the "Bird Lady" paintings were disclosed as fraudulent.[/QUOTE]I have it (from a note by serious and apparently relatively unbiased French scholar MUZZOLINI)that this paintings were a joke from his crew to make LHOTE believe that XVIIIth Dynasty's artists created this paintings in Algeria, not that it was ideologically driven. Do you know more about it? [QUOTE]The scarification pattern most closely matched that of what I've seen on Chadic female bodies hence my call on a Chadic feel. I can't articulate what about the entire scene (which isn't in the cheezy image I had no choice but to use) culturally resembles which cenral/east African ethny. [/QUOTE]Is this the kind of scarifications or their repartition on the body that made you feel the character looked "Chadic"? I'm saying that because I've seen several Vodun/Orisha priests with this kind of spotted scarifications. Also still referring to religious Bight of Benin people, I'm wondering if the spots on the character's skin aren't painted spots rather than scarifications. What do you think? (I'll try to take a look at the books I've seen these pics for more precise infos asap) [QUOTE] I never given any thought to similarity of Saharan and Kemitic art because frankly I don't see any. I'm very interested in your opinions about this painting and hope you get to look at a quality repro. Also what do propose in answer to your last two questions? [/QUOTE]Actually, that's not that I don't see any similarities between them, but rather than I don't know how relevant they are! When I started to compare arts at a layman level (as I still do), I noticed some common features between Dahomey, Saharan , Kemetic arts that were mostly dealing with style of human representations (i.e.the stereotypical Ancient Egyptian posture, important characters being depicted as much bigger than less important ones, skin tone, etc.), but I quickly realized that those features were universal and couldn't be attributed to a common way of thinking/heritage especially with a such important hiati between the different arts (know this can sound stupid but that was actually what I was first thinking at the time!). Same with animal-headed characters. Even cases like the orned rams/sun-disk headed Amun comparison leave me suspicious although I've never seen similar instances in distant cultures. I guess only specific and complex ornaments such as the Atef crown would convince me but I've yet to see one. French scholar LE QUELLEC also made a mention of mythological similarities illustrated by an Egyptian scene featuring Hathor resembling a Messak scene which sounded pretty convincing to me. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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