Nikolaj Coster-Waldau To Play Horus In Gods Of Egypt.
of certain few gods, most of the Egyptian pantheon doesn’t even have human heads, so…
After that, the land was called “The Black Land” because it literally was, due to how fertile and rich the earth that washed up from the floods on the Nile was, not due to the ethnicity or skin color of the residents.
They’ve done forensic reconstructions of the faces of the mummies we’ve discovered and didn’t put back, and their ethnicity shows not one jot of negroid characteristics. They’re all more Middle Eastern than African, per se. Furthermore, the Egyptians themselves made quite clear in their tomb art and elsewhere which were the Nubians and which were themselves. The Nubians were all portrayed with jet-black skin, the Egyptians were portrayed with tanned skin.
So if we can find enough sufficiently-talented Middle Eastern actors, then yeah, knock yourselves out. Personally, I can’t see any problems with the proposed casting. Those gods might be personally quite happy just to have some attention paid to them once more. ;p
Queen Tiye isn’t having any of your white nonsense. Go read some books before you start waxing on about the diverse racial makeup of Ancient Egypt, or the sordid history of European Egyptology trying to crush Egypt’s African/Arabic identity identity and cast it as an exceptionally white nation. For starters:
- Whose Pharaohs?
- Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity
- Egypt Land: Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania
- Mummies in Nineteenth Century America: Ancient Egyptian as Artifacts
…and like a bajillion other books in my bookcase. Seriously. Not hard to learn this stuff.
I LOVE Egyptology, but I’m also not afraid to call out the fact that it’s steeped into some racist, racist stuff- lots of which persists today in, y’know, casting white dudes as POC deities.
“Forensic reconstruction” is a fancy word for “artist’s rendering based on our preexisting assumptions” Those things are heavily biased/”creative” and about as accurate as Jonathan Rhys Myers playing Henry VIII. They can’t even accurately guess the races of remains from 50-100 years ago, much less ancient times.
PFFFFFFT.
(Source: jadescreen)
