[Tkaraoke]

How about some stencils of some Egyptian gods like Anubis? I haven't seen any of those on the net or on other sites. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

[Zombie Pumpkins!]

Hey, what a great and original suggestion. In fact, the mythologies of many old cultures are ripe with ideas for gods and monsters. I'm on it.

[Tkaraoke]

Wow! Didn't think you'd respond that quickly! LOL

I can't take full credit for the idea since I did happen to catch
the movie THE MUMMY last night.

Anubis has always been one of my favorite Gods. Humm..now that I think about it, I wonder what HOLLOWEEN would be like in hieroglyphics?! Now that would be interesting to put on a pumpkin!

Well rip my brains out through my nose....I just found a hieroglyphic-to-english letter chart on GOOGLE!

[Aylortay]

Ooh, you know, the mummy from The Mummy would be a good one. Lots of rotted out parts on his face to make lines with And he has various stages of decomp. YUMMY.

[Tkaraoke]

You know, it never even crossed my mind to ask him to do a stencil of the mummy from that movie! Doh!

Now that I think about it, I would also love to have a stencil of the "Face In The Sand". I love that expression right before it tries to swallow the plane. It kind of reminds me of the cover art for Pink Floyd's THE WALL.

[Aylortay]

Good idea! That one in particular might be hard though, it's a lot of smooth lines... Maybe the sand in the face with glasses.

[Tkaraoke]

Just a lttle note:

I did happen to GOOGLE a site that had a translator (hieroglyphics-to-english) which seemed like a cool idea until it started to throw a bunch of pop-ups at me. I can't stand sites like those so I thought I'd just send a heads-up out there.

[sleigher75]

Great idea, I love anything Egyptian so naturally I loved "The Mummy". The Mummy would make a great pumpkin. Maybe some other Egyptian symbols would make good patterns too like an Ankh or a Scarab beetle.

[Dadja]

OMG, how come I never thought of that A lot of people I knew would really love those (seeing how we all study to become history teachers)

It would make for something completely different, great idea Tkaraoke!

[Tkaraoke]

Maybe some other Egyptian symbols would make good patterns too like an Ankh or a Scarab beetle.

I was thinking about this while I was driving and the Ankh popped into my head as well. I love those scarabs to and don't know why I didn't think about those. It's always nice to suggest stencil ideas because it always leads to others. Man, I knew I was going to really dig this site!

[Tkaraoke]

Huhh...you folks have got my brain in a frenzy...

Maybe we could persuade our Patch Master to come up with a complete Hieroglyphics table so we can write "secret messages" on pumpkins for our parties. Maybe give the kids a Hieroglyphic "key" and make it a contest and everybody who can arrange the words in the right sentence wins a prize. It could be a fun activity that the kids can share with their parents...playing archaeologist, minus all the back breaking work/ungreatful museum curators/evil Mummy "Death Comes On Swift Wings" curses!

[Dadja]

Well if you talk about 'modern' hieroglyphics, it'"s not that hard to design yoruself... Just use this atables as a base:

http://www.kingtut-treasures.com/abc.jpg

carving them won't be that hard... SInce they all have a very different shape, even teh difference between teh birds is quite clear when just using the ouline...

[Tkaraoke]

Well if you talk about 'modern' hieroglyphics, it'"s not that hard to design yoruself... Just use this atables as a base:

Thanks for the link. I came across that same table tonight as well.

BTW: I was going to make a comment about being glad to see that someone else doesn't sleep around here until I realized you are from Belgium. Must be early morning/afternoon there right now. I should be off to sleep but for some reason I can't.

[matspud]

Great Idea. Pity I didn't think of it last year when my son was doing his Egypt project. I did manage to find a mummy and King Tut mask and did those but anubis would be great.

[Dans banana Loafcake]

Yeah you could have like a sphinx and king tut!

Also thinking about ancient cultures, you could have loads of greek mythical beasts like medusa or cerberous the hell dog! Or pegasas the winged horse.

Dan