Talk:Serpopard

Inexpert Speculation
I was looking at the excellent photos of the Narmer Palette in the Oxford History of Ancient Egypt (ISBN 0-19-815034-2, pgs 48 and 79-80) and wondered: The Palette dates from ca 3000 BC. So does Arabian domestication of camels.

Given the Semitic appearance (big noses, curled (?) hair) of the vanquished foes on the palette, it looks to me like serpopards are based on nth-hand reports of camels ... notoriously foul-tempered creatures, with a smell that repels horses (and perhaps other animals).

-- Jon Shemitz 04:05, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I wonder if the Serpopard was based on a creature similar to the Linsang ? They have a serpentine body and are related to cats.Longfinmako (talk) 07:50, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

FFXI
Since so little information exists, perhaps the fact that a serpopard, a creature of roughly this description, appears in Final Fantasy XI under the name Serpopard Ishtar should be mentioned. That's all I know about it and haven't played the game, so I'll leave the choice and writing to someone who knows.

--209.159.176.244 23:00, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Link between Mesopotamia and Egypt
The Serpopards from Uruk and the Serpopards on the Narmer Palette are clearly the same invented creature. Both of these artefacts are from around 3000 BC. The Narmer Palette is one one of the first examples of the use of hieroglyphs. They demonstrate cultural contact between Uruk and Egypt at this early time in Egyptian history. Anyone got any refs that say that? Aarghdvaark (talk) 08:23, 23 November 2014 (UTC)