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> Show evidence it was used in that method - and no
> your opinion isn't evidence.

The PT is obviously a list of the rituals read to the crowds and the work gangs at the kings;' ascension ceremonies. We've been through this multiple times before so you can once again ignore this post except to say I'm repeating myself. I wouldn't need to repeat myself if you read the posts in the first place and then responded to what I actually wrote.

I say it's obvious because it is. The "spells" or "utterances" start out with the words that "mean" "read aloud". I say it "means" it because the language was not like ours. It was representative rather than symbolic and it respected theory and logic so it can not be translated. The clues are everywhere in this and one doesn't really need to understand author intent to see all these clues. In many places it gives directions to the speaker. One of the more dramatic instances is #618; 1746a. "To say: Now be still, men, hear --------------------". Obviously the men (work crew, no doubt in this case) usually get emotional at this point and the so-called priest must admonish them to listen up.

None of these "spells" sound like abracadabra because they are not. They don't sound like prayers. They are each and all rituals and many can be deduced for their time and location that they were read at the "w3g-festival" on the epagomenal days when the gods are born and the pyramid resumes building itself. They sound like ritual because they are rituals.

The Pyramid Texts were translated in terms of the "book of the dead" and then they were interpreted in the same terms. This is why they look like "spells" and "incantation". They look like the earliest version of the "book of the dead" but this is mere appearance caused by the methodology that was used to parse them. In reality the authors of the "book of the dead" revered their ancestors and wanted to be just like them but they couldn't understand the ancient writing so they corrupted and confused it into the "book of the dead". We can't parse the Ancient Language and neither could the authors of the "book of the dead". Ancient Language simply can't be parsed. It doesn't work like our language where every word in a sentence modifies every other word. A sentence was a complete thought and you understood it or you did not. We don't understand it any better than the authors of the "book of the dead". The nature of language changed but we can still see the directions to the reader in this writing which shows them to be ritual and not magic.

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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.