All my citations come from the Egyptians themselves. Their words speak clearly enough on their own and need no interperetation. Who cares what some other man or woman thousands of years later thinks? They could certainly be wrong as two left shoes.

You lost this argument long ago as soon as you went off into left field with magic is intellectual. That was the best laugh I have had in a long time. And frankly I am beginning to believe you are going over to the fringe side with such a concept.

Now you talk about dreams and amulets and all sorts of stuff that I never even mentioned. You are throwing out strawmen to hide the fact you have been proven wrong. Why not stick to what was cited and stop going all over the planet to find strawmen.

Just because the Egyptians had dreams and dream interpereters does not mean that they considered every act and activity in life as "magical". And again, we come back to and understanding of what magical means. Some people consider magic things like moving furniture "by magic" or moving stones "by magic" or making things appear "like magic". The Egyptians were not into that kind of stuff, that I know of. That is why they did not write math as a form of magic spell. They did not believe that they could "magically" raise blocks to form a pyramid or "magically" cause crops to grow and be harvested. That fact is evident in the amount of work, organization and planning they put into performing such activities. If it was magical then why would they need to develop equations, carve the stones and pay massive construction crews if all that was needed was some "magical" spell?

This nonsense of everything in Egypt being "magical" is an absolute nonsense form of generalization. Period. You can cite who you want because whoever says that stuff will make me laugh even more at how silly some "so called" experts are.

The Egyptians believed that the life force lived and flowed through everything, but that did not mean you didn't have to get your butt up and go to work everyday in order to make things happen. Belief in a life force and other "magical" elements does not change the fact that you need to eat to live and in order to eat you need to either go to work or hunt for yourself. Sure animals had "magical" energies in them, but you sure couldn't cause that cow to come over and slaughter itself through magic. And you couldn't use magic to stop hunger or a leaky roof. Magic, ritual, amulets and incantations all had their place within the Egyptian mind, but that does not mean that everything they did or said was considered "magical".






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