Warwick,

Thank you for your modicum on the subject:


...*are part and parcel with the AE experience...and hardly subject to debate by anyone with a modicum of knowledge on the subject

Finally someone to put the record straight.

*Why else did they need a Divine King to Intercede with the Gods?

Well of course, its because of the reasons you have posted, surely it couldn't and wouldn't have anything to do with their afterlife beliefs, because the living god king could intercede to fix the problems after his heavenly communications with all the gods. And just like that either the river would stop flooding, or the river would overflow, the torrential rain would stop, or the rain would come, disease and pestilence would end, and warfare turn to peace, and if the desert incroached he could just blow it back to where it came from.

*Why else did they go to such great lengths to do so?

Your right there's no other reason for them to go to such lengths to provide their kingdom with a Divine King.

*Why else did so many succesive King's have to Reunite the two Egypts?

You got me there, I never knew so many of the 1st - 6th dynasty kings were busy reuniting the 'two Egypts'.

*you do not have to read about each and every indiviual extrmeme of environment to Know they existed...Most of the denominators exist today.

I think I read these exact words in the works of Borchardt, Brugsch, Fakhry, Gardiner, Lepsius, Maspero, Petrie, Reisner, Verner and Wilkinson; to name a few. Its great advice Warwick.

*If you wish to opine that every last Royal Tomb was actually an empty cenotaph..fine.

Thank you, but I do not opine "that every last Royal Tomb was actually and empty cenotaph". As I recall I only offered the possibility of a 'collective' gathering of the royals as an alternative for the first 6 dynasties. Perhaps you should look up the definition of cenotaph; and please post my exact reference to this illusion you are talking about.

*But if you want to convince Egyptology to change it's mind YOU have to provide a good reason why. Unless of course you maintain that the only King ever buried in his tomb with Grave goods was Tut.

Warwick, I am not interested in convincing the whole of Egyptology to change their conflicting suppositions' regarding tomb robbers of the 1st - 6th dynasties. And, I have never even remotely put forward to anyone that the only king ever buried in his tomb with grave goods was Tut, could you please post them for me to read?

Best Regards,

B.A. Hokom