A sellsword from ancient Phrygia was looking forward to an amorous evening with the God’s Wife of Amun in Kush, with whom he’s maintained a passionate if illicit affair. Little did either of them count on a demon of Assyrian origin crashing in to cause trouble for them both!
If you don’t know who the Phrygians were, they were an Indo-European-speaking people who may have originated in what is now Bulgaria before migrating into Anatolia (now Turkey) and establishing a kingdom there that lasted between 1200 and 675 BC. As for the demon attacking our lovebirds, it’s inspired by those from Mesopotamian mythology such as Pazuzu.
These noble sportsmen from the Asante Empire in West Africa are on a hunting safari out in the American West sometime in the 19th century. I wouldn’t know how plausible such a scenario would be during that time period, but if you had all those rich White dudes traveling to Africa to shoot at the local wildlife, it seems only fair to me to have African nobility venture to North America for similar adventures. From their point of view, animals like bison, deer, and grizzly bears would be every bit as exotic as African buffalo, antelope, and lions would be to Americans.
6,000 years ago on the plains along the Nile River, these predynastic Egyptian hunters are hauling a dorcas gazelle on the way back to their village.
