And Now: 26-Foot Tall Statue of Anubis, the Egyptian God of the Dead, Installed at Denver International Airport
June 4th, 2010Via: 9News:
Ever since it was first installed at Denver International Airport, the 32-foot-tall blue “Mustang” has been the talk of the town, but a new addition is sure to get plenty of attention.
A crew is installing a seven-ton, 26-foot-tall concrete sculpture of an Egyptian god at the airport.
Anubis, a statue with a jackal-head, will be built south of the Jeppesen Terminal.
Although part of the lore of the 9,000-pound “Mustang” is that its creator, Luis Jiménez, was tragically killed while making the piece, Anubis may be even more notorious. He’s the Egyptian god of death and the afterlife.
It’s being put in to preview the Denver Art Museum’s King Tut exhibit.
The exhibit runs June 29 through Jan. 9, 2011, and Anubis will be standing guard during that time.
Anubis? At the Denver Airport? I can’t believe it. They’d never have weird stuff there. 🙂 An Obelisk may have been more appropriate if they were advertising the museum exhibit, but bringing out Anubis himself is just weird.
Its seems to be a way point or node for the escaping US elite.
Way too much over build for the local needs. Even for 1960-80’s coldwar dual use in plain sight efforts.
Death and the afterlife seems to fit in with escaping glances of the selected as they flee to bunkers/safer areas- their afterlife.
Yes @Ahuxley I too think this is supposed to be some symbol to the TPTB that the Denver area is supposed to be some “blessed place>’
A place cannot be blessed with all of the crimes against the Native Ameicans committed in the state of Colorado, let alone the nation.
I guess I believe that there are some souls who do not rest until justice is done. Methinks there will be a reckoning.
Several years ago, with a bad hangover, I walked in the door of the Denver airport and smelled mildew, which promptly sent me to the nearest ladies room to throw up. Mever has a physical place affected me so negatively. Maybe a giant lawsuit is coming their way that this is a sick building.
Whatever the case may be, this airport, as well as Colorado Springs is an atrocity, with its big statues of Indians on buffalo. Who the hell does such “artwork?” The symbolism escapes me.
I don’t know, but when those with power think that they can justify their monstrosities with symbols of even more crappola, they are just making themself ripe for picking off by angry people who are tired of being used as symbols in the sport of conquest.
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