Hermione Wrote:
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> Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> > According to my current understanding the
> PT's
> > were supposedly a collection of texts that
> had
> > been assembled over a period of centuries,
> > rewritten, reedited, recollated and finally
> carved
> > onto the pyramid of Unas.
>
> As Kemp says ...
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ome 500 years separate this time from the
> period of state formation in Egypt, and it was
> during this interval that the basic shape of
> Pharaonic court culture was formalized. The
> process was a dynamic one, involving a
> systematizing of myth, which surfaces eventually
> in the Pyramid Texts, collections of short
> theological statements carved inside the burial
> chambers of pyramids from the end of the 5th
> Dynasty onwards, and the first surviving religious
> texts of any significant length. This effectively
> shuts us off from earlier forms of myths and
> symbolic expression. (1989: 37)
That sounds like "special pleading" to me. The fact that there are apparently no earlier texts or verses strongly suggests to me that the PT's were original or the first collation of a collection of disparate texts into a unified body of literature.
Rick
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> Hermione
> Owner/Moderator