Ritva Kurittu Wrote:
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> Really? But with this kind of logic, couldn't we
> as well say, that we don't know about Osiris
> existing before the fourth dynasty. We only know
> that no evidence survived.
>


Absoutely we can.

It is a speculation, though, and as such we can not use it as the foundation for more speculative theories.

Notice I did not offer any speculations on the material they might have used to create such maps. The reason is simple: if we are spending our energies arguing over whether they would have used papyrus, wood or clay, we could be completely missing the (potential) fact that their navigation was an oral tradition.

In the same way, many have been so pre-occupied with the probably non-existant Osiris at Giza that they have utterly failed to study the definitely existing god Khnum and his likely roll in the mortuary beliefs of Dynasty IV.

> Or, as I'm sure you'd love to hear me say, maybe
> they used Peter Pan directions?
>
> "Second star to the right, straight on till
> morning!"
>
> Aren't you transposing your own mindset over the
> Egyptian one? While you see fit to mix Peter Pan
> into this, they didn't even know who it was.
>

I was making a joke about stellar navigation, Ritva.

Never mind.

Sigh...


Anthony

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.