She uses the bird head example as a facetious comment. In ancient Egyptian polytheistic religion, the bird head belongs to Horus god of kingship, healing, protection, the sun, and the sky.

Great statues, such forms, we revere, we adore, The ancient Egyptian gods. Thoth was often shown with the head of a baboon or an ibis (a wading bird with long legs and a long beak). He was the ...

Image (from CT scan) by Salima Ikram and others, South African Mummy Project Team Peering inside the linen wrappings of an ancient Egyptian bird mummy ... and offered to the gods between about ...

Experts began the restoration by removing dust, bird droppings ... interesting,” adding that some ancient Egyptian texts mention that the gods have golden flesh. “The gilding of the figures ...