Set (deity) or a fennec fox. The animal has a curved snout, long rectangular ears, a thin forked tail and canine body, with sprouted fur tufts in an inverted arrow shape; sometimes, Set is depicted as a human with the distinctive head. Some early Egyptologists proposed that it was a stylised representation of the giraffe, owing to the large flat-topped "horns" which correspond to a giraffe's ossicones. The Egyptians themselves, however, made a distinction between the giraffe and the Set animal. During the Late Period, Set is depicted as a donkey or as having a donkey's head. The earliest representations of what
The Burning Giraffe work. In the distance is a giraffe with its back on fire. Dalí first used the burning giraffe image in his 1930 film "L'Âge d'Or" ("The Golden Age"). It appears again in 1937 in the painting "The Invention of Monsters." Dalí described this image as “the masculine cosmic apocalyptic monster.” He believed it to be a premonition of war. The Burning Giraffe The Burning Giraffe (1937) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. Dalí painted "Burning Giraffe" before his exile in the United States, which was from 1940 to 1948. Although Dalí declared himself apolitical, "I am Dalí,