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ISHMAEL

August 22, 2001 01:56PM

<HTML>I wonder whatever became of the debate over the "Pharaoh smiting his enemies" pose ..... some have said that that is where the association between Pharaoh and Orion came from ....

Are you familar with that Ishmael?
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Yes! But I had forgotten all about it!

Now that you mention it, I recall reading about it. Very Interesting!

And of course, the pose (and the constelation) is associated with Hercules and Samson and many other ancient hero.

I can't see why certain individuals seem to get so upset by the mere suggestion that the Egyptians arranged Giza in such a way as to paralel the arangment of the belt stars.

Why the heck not?

Are we so arrogant as to presume we understand all there is to know concerning their thought process?

I'll tell you something....I have a little theory (speculation really) concerning the "Tomb of Osiros."

I recal reading or hearing that Egyptians of later dynasties often "mistook" the tombs of ancient pharoes for the "Tomb of Osirus" and would bring sacred offerings to those tombs to win the favour of the dead god.

Well it seems to me that maybe it is we who are mistaken!

I think it is just as possible that the Egyptians believed that <i>every</i> tomb of <i>every</i> Pharoe was a "Tomb of Osirus." Osirus, to them, may have been like a heavenly force that inhabited the body of each king - or that each king was somehow a vehicle for the soul of Osirus.

If this is true, searching for the original "Tomb of Osirus" (such as the cavities below the Pyramids excavated now by Zahi Hawas) is a lost cause. Each Pharoe's body is a temple of Osirus and thus it continued to be venrated even post-mortum.

Why were the tombs of certain pharoes the object of pilgrimage rather than others? Perhaps particularly venerated pharoes were considered more perfect vessels for the living incarnation(?).

Anyway....that's just speculation really and no one should use this stuff against me! :-)

ISHMAEL</HTML>

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Subject	Author	Posted
Two Thesies	ISHMAEL	August 22, 2001 10:29AM
Re: Two Thesies	Jason	August 22, 2001 11:17AM
Re: Two Thesies	Katherine Reece	August 22, 2001 11:23AM
Re: Two Thesies	Jason	August 22, 2001 11:31AM
Re: Two Thesies	Claire	August 22, 2001 11:27AM
Re: Two Thesies	Jason	August 22, 2001 11:31AM
Re: Two Thesies	Claire	August 22, 2001 01:49PM
Re: Two Thesies	Katherine Reece	August 22, 2001 02:04PM
Re: Two Thesies	Claire	August 22, 2001 02:15PM
Re: Two Thesies	Katherine Reece	August 22, 2001 02:22PM
Statistical Analysis	Claire	August 22, 2001 02:41PM
Re: Statistical Analysis	Don Holeman	August 22, 2001 07:07PM
Re: Two Thesies	ISHMAEL	August 22, 2001 02:48PM
Re: Two Thesies	Claire	August 22, 2001 03:18PM
Re: Two Thesies	ISHMAEL	August 23, 2001 08:27AM
Re: Two Thesies	ISHMAEL	August 22, 2001 02:16PM
Re: Two Thesies	Katherine Reece	August 22, 2001 02:20PM
Re: Two Thesies	ISHMAEL	August 23, 2001 10:37AM
Re: Two Thesies	ISHMAEL	August 22, 2001 02:13PM
Re: Two Thesies	Claire	August 22, 2001 02:17PM
Re: Two Thesies	ISHMAEL	August 22, 2001 02:51PM
Re: Two Thesies	Katherine Reece	August 22, 2001 02:58PM
n/t	ISHMAEL	August 22, 2001 02:59PM
Re: Two Thesies	Derek Barnett	August 22, 2001 03:12PM
Re: Two Thesies	ISHMAEL	August 23, 2001 08:45AM
Double standard?	Derek Barnett	August 23, 2001 12:08PM
Re: Two Thesies	ISHMAEL	August 22, 2001 01:23PM
Re: Two Thesies	Katherine Reece	August 22, 2001 01:39PM
Re: Two Thesies	ISHMAEL	August 22, 2001 01:56PM
Re: Two Thesies	Claire	August 22, 2001 01:58PM
Re: Two Thesies	ISHMAEL	August 22, 2001 02:58PM
Re: Two Thesies	Claire	August 22, 2001 03:03PM
Re: Two Thesies	ISHMAEL	August 23, 2001 08:30AM
Re: Two Thesies	Martin Stower	August 23, 2001 10:30AM
Re: Two Thesies	John Wall	August 23, 2001 05:15PM
Re: Two Thesies	John Wall	August 22, 2001 07:19PM
Re: Two Thesies	Mikey Brass	August 22, 2001 07:24PM
Re: Two Thesies	John Wall	August 23, 2001 05:15PM
Re: Two Thesies	Dave Moore	August 24, 2001 03:20AM
Re: Two Thesies	John Wall	August 24, 2001 05:28AM
Re: Two Thesies	Dave Moore	August 24, 2001 05:48AM
Re: Two Thesies	John Wall	August 24, 2001 05:51AM
Re: Two Thesies	Dave Moore	August 23, 2001 02:55AM
Re: Two Thesies	John Wall	August 23, 2001 06:02AM
Re: Two Thesies	ISHMAEL	August 23, 2001 08:46AM
Re: Two Thesies	John Wall	August 23, 2001 05:17PM
Re: Two Thesies	Stephen Tonkin	August 23, 2001 01:19AM
Re: Two Thesies	John Wall	August 23, 2001 06:02AM
Re: Two Theses	Stephen Tonkin	August 23, 2001 01:19AM
Re: Two Theses	John Wall	August 23, 2001 05:18PM

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