Tonight my local small town theater had a free showing of "Raiders of the Lost Ark". Published in 1981, written by George Lucas and Lawrence Kasdan, and directed by Spielberg. I took the kids since I had never seen the movie before and had never been to this particular theater. I had heard in one of my undergraduate anthropology schooling one of the teachers comment about this movie. He said that it caused an increase in the number of people seeking anthropology degrees and wanting to get into the field. So, since I have a degree in Anthropology and African Studies, I thought now was a prime time to knock this one off my bucket list. I'm glad I did and will write my review here to share with you.
My first thought it WOW, the German's still have a heavy hand in Egypt!! This is what HOLYWOOD was imprinting in the minds of the masses of the 80s!! At the end of the movie I asked my son what he thought of it, he commented that he had seen it before. My son is 14. So I asked when, he said at a theater a few years ago. I googled it and the movie came out in 1981. When I told them that my other son said, "NO WAY, not with those kind of graphics!" Yes, its true, the movie is timeless. I did see masonic symbolism or footprints in the movie. But mostly I took away the German influence and fight for the ancient antiquities in Africa. Another interesting point to me was the snakes on the ground in the room of the ark. When I went to a grave site in Alabama of my ancestors my great uncle told me once to watch out because there are rattle snakes in there, he said that our at our cemetaries, to protect our ancestors. Both actors in the movies looked rattle snakes in the eyes.
When I first was drawn to research Seshat I hit a stumbling block because everything on the internet said the exact same thing, just on different sites. Or it was something that someone "divined". There was hardly any material on her.The only text I could find at Vanderbilt I had to have loaned from another library and it was in German. I searched high and low for someone to translate the book for me. There was only so many renewals they would allow me though. Then one week before I had send it back I met a German man who was interested in my Nashville Urban Food Forest project. We sat down for coffee and he attempted to help me. We didn't get to far because he said that the text had specialized words he was not familiar with. Some of which I could decipher because they were referencing Egyptian places and such. Needless to say, my only resort was retyping the book and using google translate. I didn't get all 400+ pages typed in time. So I didn't get too far. I was left frustrated that the text was not offered in English or that I could not download a copy online. I wondered how could such an important icon only have extensive research done on her by the German's? Outside of my opera vocal training at Vanderbilt I had no background or knowledge of Germans or their culture...except Hitler.
Watching the movie throughout they kept showing the German flag with its red and white and the horus falcon above the flag on the staff. Then when leaving Egypt and coming back to America at the end of the movie the first scene is a shot of the obelisk in DC then a long table with a man seated with the horus falcon directly behind his head. His words were that "important men" were watching over the covenant.
My first thought it WOW, the German's still have a heavy hand in Egypt!! This is what HOLYWOOD was imprinting in the minds of the masses of the 80s!! At the end of the movie I asked my son what he thought of it, he commented that he had seen it before. My son is 14. So I asked when, he said at a theater a few years ago. I googled it and the movie came out in 1981. When I told them that my other son said, "NO WAY, not with those kind of graphics!" Yes, its true, the movie is timeless. I did see masonic symbolism or footprints in the movie. But mostly I took away the German influence and fight for the ancient antiquities in Africa. Another interesting point to me was the snakes on the ground in the room of the ark. When I went to a grave site in Alabama of my ancestors my great uncle told me once to watch out because there are rattle snakes in there, he said that our at our cemetaries, to protect our ancestors. Both actors in the movies looked rattle snakes in the eyes.
When I first was drawn to research Seshat I hit a stumbling block because everything on the internet said the exact same thing, just on different sites. Or it was something that someone "divined". There was hardly any material on her.The only text I could find at Vanderbilt I had to have loaned from another library and it was in German. I searched high and low for someone to translate the book for me. There was only so many renewals they would allow me though. Then one week before I had send it back I met a German man who was interested in my Nashville Urban Food Forest project. We sat down for coffee and he attempted to help me. We didn't get to far because he said that the text had specialized words he was not familiar with. Some of which I could decipher because they were referencing Egyptian places and such. Needless to say, my only resort was retyping the book and using google translate. I didn't get all 400+ pages typed in time. So I didn't get too far. I was left frustrated that the text was not offered in English or that I could not download a copy online. I wondered how could such an important icon only have extensive research done on her by the German's? Outside of my opera vocal training at Vanderbilt I had no background or knowledge of Germans or their culture...except Hitler.
Watching the movie throughout they kept showing the German flag with its red and white and the horus falcon above the flag on the staff. Then when leaving Egypt and coming back to America at the end of the movie the first scene is a shot of the obelisk in DC then a long table with a man seated with the horus falcon directly behind his head. His words were that "important men" were watching over the covenant.
