Finished up something I left last year because the anime is announced!!!
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Sketch in between animating at work…
Pentel brush pen on yellow paper and cel shading in photoshop.
Informative Ancient Egypt Comics: BROS
Our 1st place contest winner requested a Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep comic as their prize.
I took a class about Ancient Egypt last semester and we had a whole lecture dedicated to talking about how gay Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep were.
Their tomb walls were decorated with scenes of them ignoring their wives in favor of embracing each other. In one scene, the couple is seated at a banquet table that is usually reserved for a husband and wife. There’s an entire motif of Khnumhotep holding lotus flowers which in ancient Egyptian tradition symbolizes femininity. Khnumhotep offers the lotus flower to Niankhkhnum, something that only wives were ever depicted as doing for their husbands. In fact, Khnumhotep is repeatedly depicted as uniquely feminine, being shown smaller and shorter than his partner Niankhkhnum and being placed in the role of a woman. Size is a big deal in Egyptian art, husbands are almost always shown as being larger and taller than their wives. So for two men of equal status to be shown in once again, a marital fashion, is pretty telling. Not to mention they were literally buried together which is the strongest bond two people could share in ancient Egypt, as it would mean sharing the journey to the afterlife together.
And yet 90% of the academic text about these two talks about these clues in vague terms and analyze the great “brotherhood” they shared, and the enigma of Khnumhotep being depicted as feminine. Apparently it’s too hard for archaeologists to accept homosexuality in the ancient world, as well as the possibility of trans individuals.
On the last note, I was walking around the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and there is a mummy on exhibit. It caught my attention because the panel that was describing it was talking about how it was a woman’s body in a male coffin and wow, the Egyptian working that day really screwed that up. My summary, not actual words, sorry I can’t remember verbatim but it basically said that someone screwed up.
They claimed that the Egyptians screwed up a burial.
The Egyptians. Screwed up. A burial.
Now I’m not an expert in Ancient Egypt but from what I know, and what the exhibit was telling me, burials and the afterlife and all that jazz DEFINED the Egyptian religion and culture. They don’t just ‘screw up’. So instead of thinking outside the box for two seconds and wonder why else a genetically female body was in a male coffin, the ‘researchers’ blatantly disregard the rest of their research and decided to call it a screw up. Instead of, you know, admitting that maybe this mummy presented as male during his life and was therefore honorably buried as he was identified. But it would be too much of a stretch to admit that a transgender person could have existed back then.
(Sorry I can’t find any sources online and it’s been like 2 years but it stuck in my mind)
OKAY THING THAT HAPPENED WHEN MY SISTER AND I WENT TO SAQQARA, IN THE TUMB OF NIANKHKHNUM AND KNUMOTHEP
Egyptian tour guide: See here, you have a whole wall that depicts them both embracing, and another wall shows them eating from the same table like a couple would do.
My sister and I: *share sideway glance*
Tour guide: But they’re not a couple of course not, they are brothers.
Me: *snicker* Yeah right.
SO YOU CAN IMAGINE HOW VINDICATED I WAS TO DISCOVER THEY WERE LOVERS, HA.
Also, if all this doesn’t convince you, there is an engraving above a door that calls them Niankhkhnumothep (YES THEIR NAMES ARE FUSED LIKE IN SLASH PAIRINGS I KID YOU NOT) and the Hieroglyphics used to illustrate their FUSED NAMES I JUST CAN’T GET OVER THIS actually mean JOINED IN LIFE AND JOINED IN DEATH.
I SIMPLY CANNOT BE CHILL ABOUT MY OTP OKAY
LIKE PEOPLE ABOVE ME SAY THEY HAD LECTURES ABOUT THEIR GAYNESS BUT I SWEAR YOU JUST SEE THE TOMB AND YOU’RE LIKE WELL DAMN SON THAT SHIT GAY AS FUCK, EVEN THE SUPER CLOSE-MINDED TOUR GUIDE FELT THE NEED TO SAY NO HOMO THEY’RE SO GAY FOR EACH OTHER THEIR LOVE TRANSCEND MILLENNIA
YOU WANT MORE I GOT MORE
They both had the title “Official Manicurist of the King.” I kid you not, there was the gayest job you could have in the Empire of shirtless dudes and they both had it.
They were married to women! But you need to look REAL HARD for their wives in the representations because they’re like, super tiny, and you know Egyptian Hieroglyphics are all SIZE=IMPORTANCE. So you have those dudes, super huge and embracing, and oh yeah right, wives somewhere.
THE PICS I TOOK OF THE TUMB ARE SOMEWHERE I CAN’T FIND THEM BUT HERE’S HOW CUTE THEY BOTH WERE.
NO HOMO THO
