The first page depicts a scene such as found on Egyptian tomb walls that depict everyday activity of the type confirming ancient Egyptian's love for life. They are showing what they hope to encounter in the afterlife forever. An idealized hunting scene packed with an overabundance of wildlife of the Nile delta. It is a family affair. It is a wall painting in 3-D
This shot is showing elements glued onto a series of parallel V-mechanisms that lift up and close flatly carrying content with them, arranged in a chevron pattern built standing up with the point following the central fold. It is a very common mechanism used in various ways. Pretty much the whole world of pop-uppery relies on this basic mechanism elaborated in variously.
A detail.
The second page is a crocodile eating a man.
The crocodile's body is drawn with some detail, you can see behind the crocodile my patience runs short for elaborate detail. The trees are all rapidly scribbled.
The threat cannot stand, it must be neutralized so a separate hunting party sets out to kill the crocodile and take retribution.
The last page is a fashion show featuring crocodile accessories with models arranged around a carousel.
I'm hilarious. There is no such thing as these ridiculous fashion items.
The word for crocodile in ancient Egyptian is "sobek," at least that is the name of their crocodile god. When you see the word sobek you think "crocodile" or a crocodile-headed figure. I honestly did not know how to write the word properly so I made it up based on its sounds without checking first. What the heck. Who's to know? I made the cover page anyway without getting up and checking uncertain if I was actually right. It's how I roll. When I looked it up later after I was finished it turns out I was right. This really is how you write "Sobek" in hieroglyphics. Rather confident and bold, wouldn't you say? I do make mistakes all the time. It is the consonants s-b-k.
Somebody at the P.O. in Concord California got themselves a nice little card that belongs to my brother. I have the tracking that shows the card made it that far. It was never sorted into his box and he didn't receive a ticket to ask for it.
