> However, as I clearly demonstrated from AE
> geography and from their texts, your statement is
> woefully inaccurate - acceptance of your mistakes
> is the first step to recovery.
AS: "I don't have to recover from anything. Your pitiful attempts at embarassing me are pretty transparent. No serious Egyptologist is going to look at your strained special pleading and try to rewrite Egyptian cosmology based on a seasonal exception in one remote location."
Embarassing you? I don't need to - paranoia is the last refuge of the desperate, and you embarrass yourself when you attempt to lose your false claim that "The sun never set over water in ancient Egypt" in the cauldron of your overheated rhetoric.
Invariably when your position becomes untenable, you resort to misrepresenting what I actually wrote - its not "a seasonal exception in one remote location", but actually:
1. the whole of the north coast of the Delta, all year round.
2. much of the Delta region
3. much of the fertile Nile Valley affected by the inundation (one of the most important 'events' in the AE year)
4. the important Faiyum, again all year round
and that more or less covers much of habitable ancient Egypt, and all the year - and you have the audacity to reduce all this to "a seasonal exception in one remote location".
The bottom line is, that you still stand by your false claim that "The sun never set over water in ancient Egypt." even though you now know that's clearly wrong.
AS: "I ignore nothing. I do, however, understand Egyptian cosmology... clearly better than you do, as you wish to continue to superimpose your modern view of things onto ancient religion practices and worldviews."
This might come as a shock to you - AE cosmology is not based on your squat sun.
You fail to understand the real facts, and you impose your unfamiliarity with AE geography, your very selective and limited understanding of their funerary texts and AE cosmology, onto "ancient religion practices and worldviews".
So what is my "modern view" exactly - that contrary to what you claimed, the sun did indeed appear to rise and set over water in many areas of AE, and of course over dry land too - and this is clearly reflected in their beliefs - you have the references - what is "modern" about that?
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