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quote by Skooter327:

Explain this:
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Found on an Egyptian mythology site
Hathor - The goddess of love, dance and alcohol was depicted as a cow.
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Hathor started off as a helpful and gentle goddess, the cow image probably came because she wet-nursed Horus when he was an infant. In later days, the festival of her birth which coincided with the Egyptian new year became notable for being a riotous drunken orgy, which led to her being associated with dance alcohol and general merriment.

**methinks this X-men thread is drifting from its legit purpose, which is of course to discuss DCI comics **

Oh the irony of that statement...

Originally posted by Osiris
Hathor...the cow...wet-nursed Horus...
...riotous drunken orgy...dance, alcohol, and general merriment.

Yes, but still. A cow!?! Imagine trying to flater a girl on a date, and instead of calling her Venus or Aphrodite, you call her Hathor. When she askes who Hathor is, what do you say to her?

Originally posted by Skooter327
Yes, but still. A cow!?! Imagine trying to flater a girl on a date, and instead of calling her Venus or Aphrodite, you call her Hathor. When she askes who Hathor is, what do you say to her?

If you want to flatter her, something very complimentary, of course!! You've already dug your own grave by calling her Hathor in the first place, now get yourself out of it. BTW calling her Taweret (another goddess) would be even worse - she's always shown as a pregnent hippopotamus.

Originally posted by Osiris
Taweret... - she's always shown as a pregnent hippopotamus.

Ouch!
What were they putting in the beer in those days anyway?!?

Taweret was the goddess of childbirth and maternity (often identified with Hathor BTW). Not a bad symbol when you think of it - all hippos (even male ones that work out) have swollen guts - sort of a permanently pregnant appearance.

They usually don't work out for too long. Treadmills, for example, tend to collapse as soon as they get on them.

Originally posted by Skooter327
Perhaps they could've used hippos to haul stone from the quarries to the monuments. Seems like it would be mutually benificial, right?

Hippos are very nasty creatures at the best of times. When I was working in a zoo, one of the hippos took a dislike to a water buffalo in a neighbouring enclosure. It busted through the fence between them and crushed it to death.

Originally posted by Kayless
You disappoint me, Mr. I know everything about Wang Chung and the Edmund Fitzgerald.

LOL I know a lot about select things. Im obsessive like that.

Cows are sacred to many religeons...so some women would find it flattering to be compared to one.

Originally posted by Tybaltus
Cows are sacred to many religeons...so some women would find it flattering to be compared to one.

Have you ever tried this? I'd be very interested to see the percentage of "successful hits". Baboons are sacred to some religions also, so you could try that as well.

Originally posted by Osiris
Have you ever tried this? I'd be very interested to see the percentage of "successful hits". Baboons are sacred to some religions also, so you could try that as well.

No. Im not one to test my own theories.

Originally posted by Jaesha
Ew, I always miss out on the good conversations!

That was one criking (?) pic, Kayless... I vote for that one in the comic!

I guess a lot of you would like to see Khaggoth and his pet Lemure in the comic.

Originally posted by Tybaltus
LOL I know a lot about select things. Im obsessive like that.

Ah, I see. You're a specialist on certain things, rather than a generalist wise man.

The latest comic is up and running.

Originally posted by Robnark
feel the anticlimax nice one.

I wonder if I’m filling up my anticlimax card though. Sooner or later I’m going to have to deliver on those climatic confrontations.

well, you could just bluff your way through it, a la archdruid?

Originally posted by Robnark
well, you could just bluff your way through it, a la archdruid?

That'll eventually get annoying too, but hopefully I'll think of some satisfying alternative before it comes to that.

Oh, and I just want to thank all of you for reading DCI. When I started in it February it only got a single hit. Over the next seven months it got an amazing 33 hits. I had pretty much given up on the comic (and was only doing one issue every couple of months). Then in October Rob-Hin PM’s me and asks if I’m still doing the comic. Good god, I have readers! I start getting my ass in gear, (updating regularly and sending the comic to the major search engines and Top Web Comics) inspired by you folks. By the end of October hits have jumped to 75. There were an extra 210 hits in November. We're only halfway through December and we already have last month beat by a good margin. If this trend continues... Anyway, thanks a lot guys. Couldn't have done it without you.

Originally posted by Kayless
If this trend continues...

.....and you end up making millions of dollars, national syndication etc., don't forget the "little people" who supported you in the early days. (BTW I'm talking of spreading some cash around here - a complimentary box of sour quince logs won't be enough).