Hello Everyone
I had a funny dream a few weeks ago. It was due to some Anime I saw, it was Overlord. The lord there could revive his fallen comrades, using his necromancy magic. So somehow I had this dream about reviving someone, making them into some zombies lol.
But I won't talk about my dream here, I will talk about what I want to do if I can do what I did in my dream... bringing someone back to live... I won't do that in personal level, so I won't think about my parent, grand parents, soul mates or anyone... let say I want to bring life some great figure from the past...
He was IMHOTEP
I know what you guys thinking..
IMHOTEP from the Mummy movies, it's an old movie from early 2000s. IMHOTEP was the main antagonist character in that movie, even until today some old people still remember his funny quote such as “Death is only the beginning.”
The character of Imhotep himself is based loosely on a real historical figure, a very famous Polymath from ancient Egypt. He was described as a tragic villain, once a high priest however later he had an affair with Pharaoh's mistress.
They worked together to plan an assassination and it worked well. They managed to murder the Pharaoh, however Imhotep was cursed and mummified alive. Somehow he got resurrected and became an invincible being, a true cinematic monster.
In any movie, especially adventure and heroic movie like this the mummy, protagonist always win. So later Imhotep plan to reclaim the world, somehow fails and the peace is restored. That's the end of the moview
The Real Imhotep
So I want to resurrect this Imhotep and conquer the world? Sounds fun isn't it, but that's not the case. Even The mummy using historical IMHOTEP figure, the character development in that movie is fictional. That's not the real Imhotep.
The real Imhotep is not some mambo jambo monster who can spread plague... Or some megalomaniac who seeks Immortality... And He is not the cat that GROOK has drawn then I have been using his picture in my post here.
Imhotep is a real person, a polymath from Ancient Egypt. Historically he lived around 2650 BCE. BCE stands for before commons era, or before christ, it's the same. He was recorded on Egypt third dynasty, when Pharaoh Djoser in reign.
If you are not familiar with a polymath, it is a vocab to describe an Individual who has many knowledge in may different subjects. Not only in knowledge and science, some are gifted in abstract things, such as music and other sort of arts.
For Imhotep himself, he was well known as an architect, physician, priest and scholar. Yes he was gifted with many great aptitude. Maybe he was like nowadays Elon Musk lol.
As an architect, he was the first one to design the Step Pyramid at Saqqara. It was Pyramid of Djoser, which was the first pyramid made of stone and it was considered as the first monumental stone structure in human history.
For physician, he was known as descendant of God of Healing. Some said He was God of Medicine. Unfortunately there isn't any hard facts that could prove this one based on medical science. Only records about people coming to his place to seek for some cure of illness.
So Why do I want to meet this kind of guy?
I will be straight and honest here. He is the earliest polymath recorded in history. Most of ancient polymaths were from ancient Greek, but that was 2000 years after Imhotep.
I believe there were many polymaths in that era, but due to limited literacy and recorded writing, we could not find out the truth. But one thing for sure, IMHOTEP is the oldest one recorded in history.
I think it is not only me, but many people want to know how he could figure out about building a monument or pyramid using stones. How he figured where to get those stone from and how to mobilize those stones, glued it, and many more.
Even nowadays architect and civil engineers, which in ancient era there was no such thing as civil engineer, collaborate together they might not even able to make one stone pyramid. IMHOTEP could do that, how? where and when he learnt to plan it?
so many question about it.
And how about you? Do you think IMHOTEP, the real one not the movie demigod one, is a historical figute you want to meet too? feel free to leave your comments below...
Thank you for coming and reading my post. I live in Jakarta, Ex-Capital City of Indonesia. Currently I am running a small business with less than 10 people. I used to live by making money online, that's why I like being here, on HIVE, and in #PIMP - (Paper In My Pocket) community.
