Monday, May 24, 2010

Insurance

Him: It's looking nice and sunny for your arrival!

Me: Excellent! We may need to sacrifice a small child to Ra every day this week, just to be on the safe side.

Him: Consider it done.

3 comments:

The Masked Pedant said...

Technically, for influence over the weather, you would make offering to Maahes or Tefnut. Ra was not primarily associated with the weather, even though he was the god of the sun.

Oddly enough, the ancient Egyptian deity of wet weather was usually represented as a cat, which probably explains why Egypt is so hot and dry.

Liz said...

Huh, that's really interesting!

I actually know so little about Egyptian mythology/deities/religious figures.

What I know about Ra is that he's usually a default clue in big crosswords!

hayles said...

did it work? we had crap weather here....