ts: ancient mariners

Odysseus or Sinbad, most of the rest of these were douches

write in for Captain Cook

:(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He

also lol at odysseus not being a douche

no offence to posters already in the thread

iirc it was Odysseus's *crew* that were douches and he was a long-suffering, eyeball-rolling wily old pro

Is this the Odysseus who fucked around fathering kids with whoever he could find, then murdered a load of men for the temerity to court his wife?

Because, Gorilla Mindset hero!!

Alt Odyssey where Circe murders him, sails back to Greece and marries Penelope pls

Also Columbus isn't ancient ffs

http://madelinemiller.com/circe/ xp

Voted Leif Eriksson

Actually, this should just be fictional/legendary mariners, in which case I'll go for Aeneas

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7f/ba/15/7fba15028e37d46c0ad309068bc2e4f4.jpg

Ken Griffey Jr.

Odysseus was under the influence of herb when he was philandering, Jason had no such excuse, and fuck a proto-Roman imo

Also "courting" Penelope lol yeah right

Homer really should have thought up some more stuff for Odysseus to do in those ten years. Calypso is basically filler.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/eb/Sub-Mariner1968n1.jpg/220px-Sub-Mariner1968n1.jpg

voted for sinbad over jason because i like his harryhausen movies slightly more

the wedding guest's interlocutor

Fun fact: in Berlin, "Noah" is the second favorite name for newborn boys, after "Muhammad".

cf Ancient Mariner, The Rime of

He shot the albatross. But he didn't shoot the deputy.

OIC, thankig you.

ancient Egyptian mythology is full of ships and sailing to the point where giant ships were constructed and buried entirely for funerary purposes.

first and foremost was the solar deity Re who made a journey across the sky twice a day, once at day, once at night, with special ships for each occasion.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4312789901_7ebcd9a139.jpg

https://a4-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/63/e83d63ba63b655837fbdfb5298286f72/full.jpg

The Neshmet bark was a vessel belonging to the god Nun. The ancient Egyptian deity Osiris was transported in it on the river Nile during the Osiris festival at Abydos. The god's departure from his temple, journey to his tomb, and triumphant return were enacted and drew many spectators who participated in the public parts of the mysteries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neshmet

Osiris's Solar Ark was portrayed in the Marvel comics title "Horus" as the Barge of a Million Years:

https://78.media.tumblr.com/8a2f345c9666333231e126932a5012d1/tumblr_inline_nubpwzvFMu1s7vj63_500.jpg

http://theblackestofsuns.tumblr.com/post/128583046640/1963-book-five-horus-lord-of-light-august-1993

voted Jason for that badass Harryhausen skeletons. almost voted for Sinbad for similar reasons.

i mean
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d1/6b/7d/d16b7d1ebe90a1e6da33883762548a33.gif

https://media3.giphy.com/media/10CRqgwKhTxlVm/giphy.gif

only one of these men ever fought tom baker

voted wedding guest bcz legit

Mookie, you're late; I already made a Griffey joek.

Don't make me invoke Goose Gossage.

Wedding guest's interlocutor bc Iron Maiden

Write-in vote for Ali ibn al-Hassan Shirazi

"Steering down the African coast, Ali is said to have purchased the island of Kilwa from the local Bantu inhabitants. According to one chronicle, Kilwa was originally owned by a mainland Bantu king Almuli and connected by a small land bridge to the mainland that appeared in low tide. The king agreed to sell it to Ali ibn al-Hassan for as much colored cloth as could cover the circumference of the island. But when the king later changed his mind, and tried to take it back, they had dug up the land bridge, and Kilwa was now an island."

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Gallen-Kallela_The_defence_of_the_Sampo.jpg

there are several legendary mariners in the Finnish legend Kalevala. above we have the demi god Väinämöinen in a maritime battle

going with odysseus cos he had a decent beard

"Horus" isn't a Marvel comic, it's an Alan Moore pastiche

voted Popeye

http://marvel.com/universe/Horus#axzz5KU3xbXV6

i know people think Alan Moore is a genius but he didn't invent ancient egyptian mythology

Dude, did you read the page you originally linked to? That's an image from Alan Moore's "Horus" comic from his 1963 line (published in 1993), all pastiches of 60s Marvel comics. Here, I'll quote that page - "This is Moore and Veitch’s take on Thor (right down to the Tales from Heliopolis back up feature)"

yeah that panel is an explicit homage to a particular Thor page

it's just a weird example to use, you could have just linked to an actual Egyptian heiroglyph

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wv-f3DACA4

going with odysseus cos he had a decent beard

!!! >:(

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0c/de/71/0cde71f16da4c6aa8399758af96ee59d.jpg

https://www.museumswellington.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/The-Fish-of-Maui.jpg

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it's just a weird example to use, you could have just linked to an actual Egyptian heiroglyph

well i did that exactly one post earlier lol

Conflict between Horus and Set

Horus was told by his mother, Isis, to protect the people of Egypt from Set, the god of the desert, who had killed Horus' father, Osiris. Horus had many battles with Set, not only to avenge his father, but to choose the rightful ruler of Egypt. In these battles, Horus came to be associated with Lower Egypt, and became its patron.

According to The Contendings of Horus and Seth, Set is depicted as trying to prove his dominance by seducing Horus and then having sexual intercourse with him. However, Horus places his hand between his thighs and catches Set's semen, then subsequently throws it in the river so that he may not be said to have been inseminated by Set. Horus then deliberately spreads his own semen on some lettuce, which was Set's favorite food. After Set had eaten the lettuce, they went to the gods to try to settle the argument over the rule of Egypt. The gods first listened to Set's claim of dominance over Horus, and call his semen forth, but it answered from the river, invalidating his claim. Then, the gods listened to Horus' claim of having dominated Set, and call his semen forth, and it answered from inside Set.

However, Set still refused to relent, and the other gods were getting tired from over eighty years of fighting and challenges. Horus and Set challenged each other to a boat race, where they each raced in a boat made of stone. Horus and Set agreed, and the race started. But Horus had an edge: his boat was made of wood painted to resemble stone, rather than true stone. Set's boat, being made of heavy stone, sank, but Horus' did not. Horus then won the race, and Set stepped down and officially gave Horus the throne of Egypt. After the New Kingdom, Set was still considered lord of the desert and its oases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horus#Conflict_between_Horus_and_Set