Timeline for Are the Egyptian historical references in Stargate SG-1 based on actual history?
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| Jan 25, 2013 at 18:56 | history | edited | 1.21 gigawatts | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 23, 2013 at 21:29 | answer | added | nuoritoveri | timeline score: 3 | |
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| May 23, 2012 at 23:34 | comment | added | Izkata | @GorchestopherH Took quite a while, but done with characters... =P | |
| May 23, 2012 at 23:33 | answer | added | Izkata | timeline score: 22 | |
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| May 23, 2012 at 12:55 | answer | added | Gorchestopher H | timeline score: 7 | |
| May 23, 2012 at 12:51 | comment | added | Gorchestopher H | @Izkata You definitely don't need my permission to do so. Instead, I'll provide a list of mention-worthy Egyptian gods and a list of mention-worthy Egyptian kings: phoebe.dws.acs.cmu.edu/~shawn/egypt/gods.html and touregypt.net/kings.htm If any of those coincide with things in Stargate, they are based on something. | |
| May 23, 2012 at 12:31 | comment | added | Izkata | @GorchestopherH Even listing just characters that do will take quite a while. Then there's also a great many references to specific myths. I may take a stab at characters later, if no one else has. | |
| May 23, 2012 at 1:27 | comment | added | Gorchestopher H | @1.21gigawatts Some of their characters aren't based on anything. But then again, they don't claim that all of them are. Chances are that when someone references the ancient Egyptian god of [fill in the blank] that there was actually a god to that effect, and it had a name they'd be able to use given a bit of research. Again, not everything in the show was based on pre-existing mythology, everything is a pretty strong word. The difficulty in explaining every point that doesn't come from an established mythos is the reason no one is answering. | |
| May 23, 2012 at 0:33 | comment | added | 1.21 gigawatts | @Izkata - I was aware of the first few characters (myth and real) like Ra, Apophis and a few others. As the show progressed they started introducing more characters I had never heard of and thought, ok, they could be going back to the history books and getting more characters or creating entirely new ones for the show. I realize the stories built around them in the show are fiction - or are they? jk :P PS I would expect one day an archeologist would read this and add any corrections to it. | |
| May 22, 2012 at 23:42 | comment | added | Izkata | @GorchestopherH Imhotep was a real historical figure. He showed up for maybe 2 episodes later on in the series. | |
| May 22, 2012 at 23:40 | comment | added | Izkata | Have you tried looking for information on any of those gods? (Like Ra?) | |
| May 22, 2012 at 3:35 | comment | added | Gorchestopher H | The references are based on figures from actual Egyptian mythology, not history. Specifically it expands on multiple pre-existing mythologies, Egyptian, Norse, and British. There were many demons and deities in those collective mythos... literally hundreds of names for the writers to use. I don't know if everything they mention stems from a pre-existing being, but at least Ra and Apophis (Apep) are pre-existing characters... | |
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| May 21, 2012 at 22:43 | history | edited | user1027 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 21, 2012 at 0:38 | history | closed |
Bill the Lizard Gabe Willard user56 |
not a real question | |
| May 20, 2012 at 19:55 | history | asked | 1.21 gigawatts | CC BY-SA 3.0 |