One of the last things air travelers will see when they go out of Denver Airport will be a twenty-six-foot statue of Anubis, the Egyptian god of Embalming and the afterlife.
What, Osiris, the god of death, wanted too much money for the recreation rights?
They couldn’t use Ra, the sun god? Or even Nut, the god of the sky? (“Denver: We’re Nuts for Flying.”)
PAD
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Hmm. According to Wikipedia, Anubis was the original, only to eventually be replaced by Osiris as the Egyptian god of death and the afterlife.
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But then, ANYTHING is better than that god awful blue horse with red eyes statue that’s out there now. That thing is evil.
Oh, sadly, that stupid blue mustang will be remaining. We’re getting Anubis *in addition* to the dámņëd horse. I never thought I would say that I’m actually embarrassed by my city’s airport!
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*snicker*
I had a similar thought when I heard about the statue on the news…do we really need a death god hanging out at the airport?
Sounds like a movie. “Things To Do in Denver When You’re Death.”
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PAD
Sounds like a good subtitle for your next Blockbuster project, Trancers 7!
So … STARGATE had it right after all? Except for the part about our winning, of course.
Just something else to distract folks from the secret underground facility there.
This is the airport that already has Blucifer, the 32-ft tall blue mustang statue that killed artist Luis Jimenez. Is anyone really that shocked?
Well, it makes sense to ME.
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After all, who better to hang out in an airport TERMINAL than the god of death and the afterlife?
But the better question is whether Jacob will be living in the base of the statue or not.
J
The statue that he lived in was Taweret not Anubus but it is an interesting idea.
The previous answer was by me (Kath) not Peter/
Jacob’s wacky adventures at the Denver airport in the statue of Anibus. He’s left the island and moved into a new foot in the big city with nothing but the clothes on his back and dreams in his heart, but with all his magical powers he still can’t get a bottle of water on an airplane. Guest Staring The Man in Black as the surly baggage handler.
Speaking of the Man in Black, I think it would be a hoot if Terry O’Quinn was cast in a “Dark Tower” movie as the Man in Black. He could easily play that role; he’d be great.
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PAD
Well, the creators of Lost were in talks to adapt The Dark Tower for awhile. That appears to have fallen through, though.
I’d watch Terry O’Quinn play anything (Speaking of which, must see the Stepfather one of these days), but that sounds badass for him to play an out-and-out-heavy. And it’d be kind of funny to keep two Man in Black roles in the Lost “family”. Speaking of which, I’d love to start on Dark Tower but I keep waiting for an omnibus or those revised editions King keeps talking about putting now. Gotta get in those DT comics too. It’s on the bucket list, honest.
Actually, that above statement should be, “I read somewhere on the Internet that King is going to put out revised versions of the earlier Dark Tower books to make them jive with the latter books and it sounded plausible enough to me because I read it somewhere on the Internet”
Well, the main airport in Oklahoma City is named after Will Rogers, who died in a plane crash. There’s also small airfield named Wiley Post, who died in the same crash.
Cue the religious fundamentalist in three…two…one…
Cue the cheerleaders!
“Yay for the sun god!
He is a fun god!
Ra! Ra! Ra!”
As a Denver resident, I’m SHOCKED you were offended by this. You should’ve been shocked by the immense Blue Bronco statue, that aside from haunting the dreams of people who have seen it, killed its creator!
Nut was a goddess, not a god, and she was depicted stretched naked over Geb, her husband the earth god. I can imagine that would look pretty weird.
How about Set, god of chaos, but also of luck (looks a lot like Anubis too, which is weird because he’s just his foster dad) or maybe Isis. I’m glad it’s not that šlûŧ, Nephthys.