Even though Pantheon: The Heavenly Cow is a prequel and essentially the first chapter of the full graphic novel, the first page of it is actually page 10. I’ve included parts of the Egyptian creation story in the book too.
These are pages 5 to 7 of Pantheon.
The Ancient Egyptians had many creation stories over the years and some varied from region to region. I’ve settled on the version told in the city of Heliopolis and included the shared elements from the other versions. Some versions don’t have the lotus emerging from the mound but when I read the version that did, I knew I wanted to draw it. This is the way I wrote the script of Pantheon – I read the different versions and settled on the common elements plus what would be nice visually.
This looks incredible.