You may not know of the decorations upon the burial jars at Tabon Caves. Therefore, to help entice you to look closely, one image is that of a boatman waiting to paddle someone deserving into the next world.
Develop your skills and challenge yourself. Use hints until you learn how to find these images. This is a good challenge to encourage children to become more immersed in history and learn how to use a computer for a better purpose.
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| Photo by Philip Maise 2013 |
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A boatman waits in his canoe. He is a seated and looking to the right. Your angle of view is from above. Every part of his body is in correct ratio and his muscular structure can be clearly seen. He has two dark bands of tatoos on his right bicep. He has long hair and his face may be canine.
-Here you can see his canoe. The block is broken, however it is easy to piece the two together and see the canoe comes to a sharp point in front. It is curved behind him.
His face appears to be cannine. It is unlikely just coincidental that the boatman with the same duty to usher the dead in Egypt has a cannine face too. That Egyptian diety, Anubis, appeared in their First Dynasty (c. 3100 – c. 2890 BC). Jar burials in Tabon Caves also began at this same time.
So who came up with the idea of a boatman with a cannine face?
There appears to be at least one more figure in the scene. He is a tall skinny fellow with arms pressed high above his head that is looking at you. Notice the bundle he carries and that it has been presented in front of the boatman for inspection. It is unlikely just another coincidence that in ancient Egypt, Anubis inspected a heart cut from the dead to determine if the person earned passage.
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