Quick correction from last night, now that Iβm awake and my brain is online.
That lioness silhouette is the whole point. If a design loses that instantly recognizable identity, then itβs not βa creative take,β itβs just a different character wearing the label. When Egyptians wanted to communicate death/ afterlife/regeneration, the colours that consistently show up are BLACK or GREEN. Not blue.
Black connects to the underworld and regeneration and to Kemet (kmt), the "black land" (Because it was the dark, fertile silt of the Nile floodplain, contrasted with the surrounding desert/deshret). Green signals rebirth, renewal, and resurrection. Blue is typically tied to the sky, water (the Nile), divinity, protection, and cosmic power. A bunch of Egyptian deities can be shown with blue (or blue-green) skin, usually to signal water/sky/primeval creation/divinity, not βdeath.β Egyptian art isnβt always βone fixed palette,β and symbolic colors can vary by period, workshop, and purpose.
This is why it matters to consult Egyptians and serious sources when you pull our deities into big media. Otherwise you end up teaching millions of people the wrong visual language, and then Egyptians are left correcting it for years.
- Signed, a disappointed Egyptian.
I saw the new God of War clip with Sekhmet and the design has a lot of creative liberties. Why is her skin blue? The color of a god's skin was highly important in Ancient Egyptian mythology.
Therianthropomorphism also extremely important in Ancient Egypt. Why give her a nornal human head? Secondly, as a female lion, she does not naturally have a mane, so why give her head piece a mane? *sad Egyptian sigh*