There's a bit of history I'm going to go through before I show the larger size...

It all began with what I thought was a Set sighting. I was so excited when this image popped before me during Bob Brier's DVD lecture about Seti I. So I took a photo of it. It's rather streaky, because of it being on the TV screen, but I could not find a better image on the web. Meanwhile, I was thrilled, another Set sighting! Set and Pharoah Seti I (from Touregypt): "Seti I was the father of perhaps Egypt's greatest rulers, Ramesses II, and was in his own right also a great leader. His birth name is Seti Mery-en-ptah, meaning "He of the god Seth, beloved of Ptah." Seti I's cartouch, with the heiroglyph for Set (aka 'Seth') But as you can see, that image I captured is awfully fuzzy. I wanted a clearer one. I didn't find one until I broadened my search a bit. And a image I did find, but it both surprised and disappointed me. For what so clearly looks like a long snout and squared off ears becomes the short snout and tapered ears of Anubis! Copyright free image... I determined this came about because the images from that DVD are designed to fit a more square TV monitor, the only kind they had back in 1999, when the lectures were filmed. We have a wider digital screen, and older images are just stretched to fit it. But this widens everything, including ears and snout! I felt SO disappointed. So I was determined to right my disappointment and MAKE it a Set Sighting. But as I drew, an understanding came over me. The original is showing Anubis leading the newly dead pharoah to the next events in his after life. Spooky! So after the legs turned out badly, I just let my subconscious have at the background. Hence an odd shadowy figure is off to the left, behind Set, among other things here and there. And Seti I looks truly scared, there: ©JAL However, on reflection, we know this is a most 'UnEgyptian' picture. And it's not just due to my adding the unusual background. This picture shows truths which the ancient Egyptians would rather not show. As I've studied the Egyptians, they never liked to speak of 'bad' news, news which distresses them. If something seems 'out of order', they simply delete it from the records. Thus, the existence of a female Pharoah is expunged from the records. That whole unpleasant Amarna period, expunged! They scratched out the heiroglyphs which named anyone connected with it. As I learned from an article in the KMT magazine, they may have had Bubonic plague just before the Amarna heresies. But to find evidence of this "Less Than Idyllic Time", the author Arielle Kozloff had to examine all sorts of evidence, for there was certainly none of it in the written records. The Egyptians liked to ignore 'bad' news. It is well understood that the deceased person 'became as Osirus'. Remember Set's role, the one for which he is so unpopular, in the making of Osirus the king of the underworld? Set has a role to do, which only he can. Way to the east, the Indians understood the role of _Shiva_ as creator and destroyer. It is just part of the cycle that the One who plugs you into the electrical life force and into materiality is also the one who unplugs you when that cycle of incarnation is done. But ancient Egyptians didn't like 'scary stuff'. They HATED change. So my picture shows quite another truth than its original. In the original, Anubis is gently leading the soul of the deceased pharoah into the realms of the afterlife. It may be because the black paint didn't last, but those all white otherworldly eyes of the pharoah further suggests the departed soul. In mine, Seti I is still in his body. Set looks rather firm, not cruelly so, but firm. He comes to tell Seti I, "It's time!" Seti I clutches his Ankh like a good luck amulet, as he's about to be severed from his body. And he's SCARED! Later, after the change happens, Anubis will come and guide his KA and BA through the necessary steps... June 3, 2006 Speaking as Set... There are those who say I become "joyous at the moment when life becomes death". This is not true. I am not the wind. I am not the stars. I am not the fear. I am not the wild raging anger, though you thought it was I. I am the fire. I am a consuming fire. I am a heat giving fire. I am the force at the beginning and the end. I am forever. Many lies have been said in my name. (This is not the time.) But time it will come, when lies are put away, with the sharp point that fells the Apep. Lies will be put away! Fear me, mortals if you must. But I like the brave one who looks me in the eye. (Lies will be put away.) Have you the courage? Look me in the eye? Do you think it would be your death? But all that dies is reborn. Can you bear it, the cycle of transformation? I am not the first, nor will be the last. Nuit listens long and for longer even than I. Come, then, party while we can, let's taste of life!