Hi Anthony,


> Good point... but could this be the result of the
> overshadowing importance of the mortuary temples
> as opposed to the tomb itself?


Could be, but then was the MT ever less important. Or what it represented i.e. the deceased as a god. The sedabs in the mastabas have, IMO, the same function.




> > But...
> > all of these tombs do have their false
> doors.
> > Therefore I am inclined to think, that the
> > mummified body in it's sargophagus and the
> false
> > door were what really counted.
>
>
> "Really counted the most" might be my only
> modification.


Yes. It does seem as the rest is just bonus. Or more like a confirmatio of what is and what will be i.e. the king (or the commoner) will survive in the afterlife. The true tools were the body and the false door.




> Well, I won't pull Osiris back to Dynasty IV, but
> even without him, there's plenty that can go just
> fine in a burial. Obviously... since they were
> doing it for centuries before Osiris was even a
> glimmer in his mother's eye.


Actually, I don't need to pull back Osiris either. Orisis is not the important factor, but sAH. I don't think sAH is one of Osiris' aspects, I think it is the other way around. Are you familiar with Lorton's suggestion of Osiris being the mummified body?


> > Heheh, and hey, if you are trying to imply
> that
> > since the mids themselves were not all that
> > important (whether finished or not, that is),
> then
> > the Giza formation cannot be correlated to
> sAH.
>
>
> I would never suggest it was.
>
>
>
> > Well, as you know, the MTs correlate better
> to sAH
> > and the false doors were in all probablity in
> the
> > MTs.
>
> Nor would I suggest the MTs were in any way
> correlated to anything "stellar". Based on my
> Dynasty 1-5 studies, I simply can't even begin to
> understand where that would come from.



Yeh, we have been through this so many times. And yet, I still can't see why you'd choose to divide between solar and stellar, while they are the two aspects of the same: one is day and the living, and the other is night and the deceased. You do know that the AEs had two different conceptions of time, right? Where do you think those conceptions come from?










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