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> Strawman, Tommi.
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> What I said was that change in Egyptian cosmology
> was the rule. Assuming it suddenly remained
> static prior to its first recording is the problem
> with your request to provide evidence that it
> changed. It always changed.
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> It is up to the proponents of a static system to
> demonstrate, via evidence, that it actually
> remained static.
Whoever proposed that it was static? From what I can see from the posts the only person using the words "static" and "stagnant" are you. From what I can see nobody has even entertained that possibility. Talk about a strawman argument.
Evidence from both ends that
> show the same practice/belief/cosmology would be
> of great value in this. I am fully aware of the
> suggestion that Seth was a got of foreigners, in a
> continuum, all through the Old and Middle
> kingdoms. I don't have a problem with a plausible
> speculation that we can backdate that relationship
> to even earlier times.
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> What I do have a problem with is those who want to
> take elements, such as Osiris, and consider him
> backdatable just because he's in the PTs, and its
> the earliest record. That's a problem... a
> serious one.
Why is it a serious problem? Are you seriously proposing that the AE's just made up Osiris out of whole cloth when they began engraving the PT's on Unas's tomb? Do you seriously suggest that the first time Osiris is mentioned is the earliest time that he was mentioned? I'm not a big fan of trying to apply logic to mythology, but even for me this is way over the top. It strike me that there are only one of two possibilities here; Either the AE's made up the entire PT's along with the entire osirian philosophy just prior to Unas's death or Osiris had been around for a long, long time in one form or another before Unas carved his (osiris's name) on his tomb walls.
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