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I don’t care how great the musical sound, or how “stunning” the visuals are, it’s the worship of anubis in that concert that totally turned me off.

I love music and was drawn to watch this video because of that love of music. The drums, and bells have such a lovely effect, and the backdrop of the pyramids all add to the magnificent timeless grandeur, I remember how I felt when I stood in Cairo and first saw the pyramids standing right on the edge of the city, it was like passing through a “time rift” from modern to ancient. So, I was loving this video right up until the visual effect of anubis strutting in the background while the crowd swayed almost hypnotically to the music. That’s when I turned it off.

I can understand your sentiment to some extent, however I have not seen the rest of the concert yet to see where he takes the theme in this particular case. Much of his work since 1979 has been a musical exploration of human progress; some examples of his past work in this vein include Industrial Revolutions which opens with a musical painting of the stark brutality of pre-industrial and early industrial times and transitions to an ending that expresses the unrestrained joy that industrialization has made available to the masses by liberating them from the desperate struggle to meet their basic needs. The progressions expressed in most of his post-1980 works mirror the progression of his own worldview from the largely pessimistic and borderline misanthropic Oxygène, through the wonders of space travel in Rendez-Vous, and the re-purposing of two of his pieces to commemorate the Solidarity movement and subsequent end of the Cold War.

I will be expanding on this theme in a couple of days after viewing the entire 12 Days show to see whether my own theory applies in this case and ping you to it from this thread, so you are free to reconsider your position if you so desire. In the meantime, I will leave you with a link to his tribute to Pope John Paul II at his 2005 Gdansk show, which opens with him discussing his own meeting with His Holiness in Lyon.

Solidarność Live - Tribute to Pope John-Paul II