Anthony,


> > Really? Then why, even on the piccie Greg
> posted
> > the sun was pictured in the highest point of
> the
> > image with wings?
> >
>
>
> Reverence to the divinity, not reference to his
> altitude.



But shouldn't all the divinities then be pictured in the middle of the highest point of the picture and wearing wings? Are they?
Btw, have you any idea to what dynasty the picture in question dates to?



> You did not say it translated as "between the two
> horizons", you said "of the two horizons". That
> puts the emphasis on the horizons, not on the
> space between them.



Really? Or is that the way you choose to see it? Have you taken a look at the sun temples of the sixth dynasty? The solar boats built of stone? Do you think those boats were for staying moored in one of the horizons?



> > Moreover, "akhety" is referring to two
> horizons or
> > a pair of horizons (the famous "y"). I see
> this as
> > meaning between the horizing of rising and
> that of
> > setting.
>
>
>
> As I said, I'm not sure that makes sense.



Maybe it would make better sense if you took a look at what the sun does. And btw, the sun did exactly the same thing during the dynastic times.



> Really? Does "Unas shall circumnavigate the sky
> like Ra, Unas shall course the sky like Thoth"
> ring a bell?

>
> Yup. Crossing the sky from horizon to horizon.
>
> Not sure how that means anything else.


Really? Maybe you haven't understood the basic idea of the AE beliefs, then. Not much I can do in that case.




>
> Are you suggesting they were made out of
> carelessness? And at what date are we talking?



Not I am not suggesting they were made carelessly. I am claiming a perfect circle is difficult to draw. But that does not matter, because even when the sun is drawn less perfectly, we understand it is the sun depicted, don't we. Moreover, the Egyptians had the tendency to squeeze things when space was limited in a depictations, you should know that.
What do you mean, what date? Did the means of depicting the sun change during the dynastic times? Evidence? Can you, btw, show me a picture of an OK sun? There should be loads of those if the cult of Ra was so prominent, shouldn't there.




> > I think you are
> > clutching to straws to find evidence of the
> AEs
> > not knowing a circle.
>
>
> I never claimed such a ludicrous thing.
>
> If you want to debate with me, then debate with
> what I've actually said, not what you might wish I
> had said.


You know damn well what I meant. Moreover, I don't call this a debate, this is pickering.





Ritva