Anthony Wrote:
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> Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> >
> >
> > 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"
> > >
>
>
>
> It seems to be a new set, from what I can tell.


I'm not going to argue the point to stridently. Can we compromise and say a blend of old and new texts into a kind of Reader's Digest Condensed version?


>
>
>
> >
> > 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.
> > >
>
>
>
> Or that it was still being developed at the
> time.... especially the Osiris materials.
>
>


I don't have any problem with that.



>
> > > 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.
>
> We're on exactly the same page here.


>
Good!



>
> > 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.
>
>
> No, it means that of the giant corpus of texts
> that may have existed from the 27th Century BCE
> onward, the ones SELECTED were the ones that fit
> the overall worldview of the 23rd Century BCE.
>



Kind of what I said. Same idea different words.

>

Rick
> [www.GizaBuildingProject.com]
>
Quote:"Men are apt to mistake the strength of
> their feeling for the strength of their argument.
> The heated mind resents the chill touch and
> relentless scrutiny of logic." -- William E.
> Gladstone
>
> For magic is so mixed up with the world's history
> that, if the latter is ever to be written at all
> in its completeness, giving the truth and nothing
> but the truth, there seems to be no help for it.
> If Archaeology counts still upon discoveries and
> reports upon hieratic writings that will be free
> from the hateful subject, then HISTORY will never
> be written, we fear.-- H.P. Blavatsky
>