Trying to be more specific, it bore sufficient lack of any resemblence to actual Egyptiana as to be completely dismissible as anything other than a bunch of folks saying, "Hey, that's shiny, I'll steal that decorative motif", which is, y'know, that's normal as a human thing.
Consider the treatment of Anubis in SG-1: a malevolent, half-noncorporeal figure whose overt evil had him banished by the goa'uld, a species not precisely known for their cherishing of social virtues. Planet-destroying doom for the win! Or something.
In the actual mythology and theology, Anpu is perhaps the kindest and gentlest god in any pantheon with which I am familiar, whose patronage of enbalming is a service to assist the deceased in re-establishing a connected existence after the dissociation of death, who helps the lost to find themselves, and who looks after orphans. I mean. Orphans. The "boogety-boo" factor, while common in dealing with him, is kind of, well, lacking.
And that's not getting into an entire society of, well, cannibalistic backstabbing megalomaniacs riffing on the aesthetic tropes of a society in which ambition for ambition's sake is considered fundamentally immoral, in which getting along with one's neighbor was an essential principle, and in which legitimate power was expected to be demonstrated via social works.
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Consider the treatment of Anubis in SG-1: a malevolent, half-noncorporeal figure whose overt evil had him banished by the goa'uld, a species not precisely known for their cherishing of social virtues. Planet-destroying doom for the win! Or something.
In the actual mythology and theology, Anpu is perhaps the kindest and gentlest god in any pantheon with which I am familiar, whose patronage of enbalming is a service to assist the deceased in re-establishing a connected existence after the dissociation of death, who helps the lost to find themselves, and who looks after orphans. I mean. Orphans. The "boogety-boo" factor, while common in dealing with him, is kind of, well, lacking.
And that's not getting into an entire society of, well, cannibalistic backstabbing megalomaniacs riffing on the aesthetic tropes of a society in which ambition for ambition's sake is considered fundamentally immoral, in which getting along with one's neighbor was an essential principle, and in which legitimate power was expected to be demonstrated via social works.