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The wallpaper comes from Pharaoh, an Egyptian city-builder for the PC. The icons come from various sources, including a few that I drew.

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:iconegyptmaniac:
Pleaseeeeeee, make an Theme with Kamose's Desktop in DeviantArt, PLEASE.
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How do you make themes?

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Michael Jack-o'-lantern: [link]
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I loooooooove Pharaoh.

Do you find yourself placating a few of the gods and not caring as much about the others? I'm totally into Bast(et) and Set(h). Who needs armies when you can have a god strike down your enemies?

Speaking of gods, how do you usually spell the above two?
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Pharaoh is a fun game. In the game, I try to keep all of the gods really happy, and my cities thrive. Sometimes -- in the case of Osiris -- you just want to avoid punishment. Other times -- in the case of Ptah and Seth and -- the blessings are really helpful. It's really important to placate Seth in the earliest military levels, because your military is so weak that you have trouble fending off even the small desert raiding parties.

My favorite Egyptian god is Thoth, god of wisdom, inventor of writing, and patron of scribes. (Thoth, the Greek name, is much more well-known. The Egyptians called him "Djehuty.") It's too bad that he is only a minor god in the game.

Like Hebrew, the Egyptian language does not contain written vowels. This is why the gods' names have so many variants. In the case of Bast/Bastet and Seth/Set, both spellings are equally acceptable. I generally use "Bast" and "Seth," which seems to be the most common way. Seth is pronounced "Set." (This may explain the origin of the Set spelling.) Seth is actually the god's Greek name. The Egyptians called him "Sutekh." (There are other versions.)

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Michael Jack-o'-lantern: [link]
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That's a little like the Nahuatl language, too -- for instance, Nahuatl is pronounced nah-wat. There's a slight exhale of air after the T but it is, to English-speakers, pretty much like a silent L.

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