Ken,

Actually, at this point I don't know what to say anymore. You seem to contest even the simplest and most generally known things....

As for the facing south and having the head turned. Firstly, use your common sence: a person can turn his/her head any way he/she wishes and yet the basic orientation of his/her worldview does not change. The Egyptians oriented themselves towards the south, yet they looked backwards, turned their heads towards east and west, and maybe even walked backwards (when drunk!). The orientation of their worldview that is the basis of all their perception and conceptions did not change even if their bodies moved.

Secondly, haven't you noticed that the AE ways of picturing things that do not always concord with "reality", such as all faces pictured from the side, while the bodies were twisted to show the upper body from front and the lower from side. We do kow that this sort of convention in art was used in the funerary art also. Therefore I don't see any point in you taking sAH out of the context.

And no, you may not have argued the basic orientation being towards south, but you did manage to ask for a map reference where you could see the south was up by writing: PS: I'm also still waiting to see all those ancient Egyptian maps that show south to be up. Here: [www.hallofmaat.com]


Ritva