Re: [NTLK] [OT] Avi's Backdrop wallpaper images

From: Lou Forlini (lforlini_at_sspi-software.com)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2002 - 12:06:09 EST

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At 9:48 PM -0800 1/27/02, Ed Kummel wrote:
>In Victorian times, when people
>were visiting th Egyptian ruins or the Pompei ruins,
>sculptures and mosaics that had been standing for
>thousands of years, depicting the god Osiris (god of
>fertility, whose main distinction was an erect phalus)

Ed,

I think you are confusing Osiris, Lord of the Dead, with Min, God
of Fertility. Min is the one who is depicted as you describe
(although there was that one incident after Osiris's death...)

Regards,

    - Lou Forlini
      Software Engineer
      System Support Products, Inc.

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