H.R Giger's Egyptian Mysteries

leading from Afterworldsanddevelopment of gigers art and paintings that inspired design of the alien  H.R Giger's Black Room, Egyptian Burial chamber, on the third floor of his parents' house at Storchengrasse 17, Chur, 1958(source,  WWW.HRGIGER.COM (book) p9)a) H. R. Giger in his artwork has often used ancient Egyptian themes and ideas, and some of these he brought into the concept work for Alien, many of which can be found...

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Evolution of Space Jockey from the Egyptian Book of the Dead

Part of: Unlocking the design of the Space Jockey&H.R Giger's Egyptian Mysteriessokar funerary barge from Papyrus of Ani. Giger's space jockey paintingdrawing of the Ramesses II funerary barkGiger appears to have taken the design of the Space Jockey in another direction far beyond Ridley's initial concept, for a good couple of decades I wondered what exactly it could have been, to me it seemed as if there was some completely unimaginable...

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Egyptian Secrets of The Life Cycle Tableau

Leading from H.R Giger's Egyptian Mysteries andAlien Life Cycle Hieroglyphics  Giger's Alien life cycle tableauGiger has displayed throughout his works that he has shown an interest in ancient Egyptian art and mythology. Starting with Ron Cobb's Alien Life Cycle Tableau inspired perhaps by ancient South American culture shown in the side of his Alien birth temple painting, Giger has brought the ancient Egyptian mythology into the Alien...

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Necronom IV inspired by Embalming Ritual

Part of The Development of Necronom IV&H.R Giger's Egyptian Mysteriesa). Necronom IV is the image which caught the eye Ridley Scott when he was handed a copy of Necronomicon and he knew which way to take the design of the Alien. We can see a general suggestion from his earlier work how this entity began to take form but this entity contained mysterious questions that needed answering. As I looked at Necronom IV and asked myself where the inspiration...

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The whole story from Issue No.8 of Weird Science that inspired the chestburster

15th July 2012. Issue No.8 of Weird Science inspires the chestbursterI tracked down the comic story from Weird Science that inspired Dan O'Bannon in the 1950s and you'll probably be delighted how obvious it is. Here is the whole thi...

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Necronom IV's leonine shoulder

H.R Giger's Egyptian MysteriesNecronom IV's bulbous shoulderAnother point to note about the Necronom creature is the bulbous shoulder is very reminiscent of the way the ancient Egyptian depicted the shoulders of large wild cat such as a lion . f. i) The Lion God Aker: The hieroglyph for the horizon guarded by Aker or Ruti, the god in the form of two lions (yesterday and tomorrow) believed to guard the eastern and western horizons as the points...

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Vestigial remains of the Eye of Horus

leading from H.R Giger's Egyptian MysteriesWadjet - Eye of Horusa) Once I worked out the heavy inspiration from embalming ritual image form Necronom IV, I had on my computer page a selection of Googled Egyptian images which contained somewhere down the line Eye Of Horus and I had my Necronom IV image open and I noticed something similar about the latter's pipes to the structure of the Eye Of Horus, and it made more sense when I turned the Necronom...

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Giger's Facehugger inspired by the opening of the mouth ritual

Part of: H.R Giger's Egyptian MysteriesFacehugger IIH.R.Giger "Since it had to pry open the victim's mouth, I gave it an instrument something like the old Egyptians used on their dead to force open the mouth and let the spirit out" (Cinefex 1, p36)Opening of the mouth ritual "At the entrance to the tomb, the mummy was raised to an upright position, the Sem-Priest would then speak the words of ritual while lesser-ranked priests would...

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The Was-Sceptre, the head of the alien?

seated humans and deities bearing was-staffs from the Papyrus of Ani Leading from :H.R Giger's Egyptian Mysteries& The Development of Necronom IV H.R Giger's Black Room, Egyptian Burial chamber, on the third floor of his parents' house at Storchengrasse 17, Chur, 1958(source,  WWW.HRGIGER.COM (book) p9)H.R.Giger in his Black Room,  Egyptian Burial chamber,  1957 (source: Giger's Necronomicon p12)On the walls in various...

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