The hunting of the hippopotamus is represented on the walls of the tombs from the time of the pyramids until the moment when Alexander penetrates Egypt. Some ritual objects testify to the same concern; in the tomb of Tutankhamen, for example, two statuettes of the king, standing on a papyrus basket and ...
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The hunting of the hippopotamus is represented on the walls of the tombs from the time of the pyramids until the moment when Alexander penetrates Egypt. Some ritual objects testify to the same concern; in the tomb of Tutankhamen, for example, two statuettes of the king, standing on a papyrus basket and harpooning the invisible enemy, were found.
On his back, which evokes the surface of the water, one can sometimes distinguish the drawing of butterflies or dragonflies and often the image of a lotus heart that emerges from the basin, ready to give birth to the sun, since any evil obstacle is thus kept at the bottom of the abyss.
The blue-turquoise color, a stone so characteristic of Egypt, extracted from the mines of Sinai, is beneficial par excellence and also recalls the eastern horizon where the sun bathes before its birth.
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