"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"

but that's the whole point..the magic takes place in the afterlife.
following the utterances of Unas.... we discover that it is in the Duat that the dead King is the companion of Re..it only stands to reason that that is where the dead King's divinity holds the most sway. The funerary rituals are there To insure he makes the transition.

as to a collective burial.... to my mind the idea goes against the grain completely. each king is THE KING. While he IS part of a succession, his funerary arrangements ttbomk are solely and wholly his own.

when the same thing happened in teh Vok it was an after the fact collection of mummies.

as I mentioned earlier..the evidence suggest that there are grave goods from many previous burial Under Netjerikhet's Step... this would sugges that the burials had been comprimised. and then there Hetepheres..Khufu's mother. apparently her tomb must have been comprised quite soon after her burial.

"could you please post them for me to read"

sorry..please post what?


warwick

" I have always found that the main obstacle to free
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misconception that what we do not know is more
significant than what we do know."

Warwick L Nixon, March 8, 2019