"Flaming God Of Opar - A 15mm Lost Outpost Of Atlantis" Topic
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Cacique Caribe | 25 Jan 2014 5:08 p.m. PST |
For those familiar with the ERB Tarzan novels about La of Opar and her Flaming God
How do you envision the "Flaming God" in the sacrifice room? As an actual idol? A simple sunburst sculpture on the wall? A giant stone skull with flames? A pyramid symbol with a flaming sun behind it? Something else entirely? Thanks, Dan TMP link |
Cacique Caribe | 25 Jan 2014 8:33 p.m. PST |
By the way, by "sunburst" this is what I mean:
link The producers of this 1929 also seemed to think it was a simple sunburst of some sort:
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pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Opar But is that what YOU Opar fans imagined "the Flaming God" to look like? And here's an illustrator who visualized a large Egyptian-ish skeleton idol:
erbzine.com/mag23/2383.html No sign of the Flaming God anywhere on this illustration:
link Illustrator Joe Jusko has Tarzan blocking the idol, I think:
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Greylegion | 26 Jan 2014 2:40 p.m. PST |
That first pic is what I would envision. If not a carving on the wal, then banners or flags of some sort. |
Cacique Caribe | 01 Feb 2014 12:09 a.m. PST |
I always wondered about the Apis bull with the Aten sun disc between its horns (just like Isis does):
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