Ken B Wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I think that there is good evidence that the
> different pyramid text kings added new material as
> well as selectively using older material.

True.
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> I took the PT material concerning Osiris (not
> including the Osiris-King text) and charted it by
> king. See here for the results:

I went to your website and it was great, it kind of confirms what I've been thinking. That this was the introduction of a new set of texts or a revision of texts with a new Hero "Osiris"
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> It is clear and very significant imo that Teti,
> Pepi I and Merenre chose not to use the Unis
> Osiris texts. Rather, they introduced other
> material. Pepi I uses very little of Teti's
> Osiris texts and adds his own. But Merenre
> repeats material from Teti and Pepi I, and lastly
> Pepi II repeats extensively from all earlier kings
> as well as introducing more material.

This constant recycling of material suggests to me that it's original source was one author or one editor who was collating material together for future use.
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> What this indicates to me is a distinct pattern
> which stronly suggests that PT material was added
> in stages, at least concerning Osiris, thus
> arguing against a single source and surely against
> a single author.

I agree that the material evolved after it was introduced in Unas's tomb, but the evolution was due to the rise Osiris. The fact that all of the texts are pretty much in amazing concordance with each other would be what we would expect to find from a single author or a group of men who were editing a diverse set of documents into one primary set of texts.

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Rick
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