cladking Wrote:
Determining author
> intent becomes rather complex but obviously lapis
> lazuli never "grows" and the authors of the PT
> would not have believed it did.

Of course it doesn't we figured that out using science and finding where it comes from and how it was mined. The AE had no idea of any of that - they had no idea what LL was and whether it was made, natural or whatever and only vaguely where it came from in trade to them. As noted before the PT is a religious text and if you take the full context of the utterance instead of obsessing over one line you can see it is stating that Unas (when dead or while alive?) would have the power of a god to create or to make things happen:

Unas is the bull of double brilliance in the midst of his Eye.
Safe is the mouth of Unas through the fiery breath,
the head of Unas through the horns of the lord of the South.
Unas leads the god. Unas rules over the Ennead.
Unas lets the lapis lazuli (xsbD) grow (srwd),
Unas causes the southern twn-plant to grow.

Unas has twisted the SmSm-plant into ropes.
Unas has united (zmA) the heavens (pt.w).
Unas rules over the lands (tA.w), the South and the North, (as) the god of those who were before.
Unas has built a divine city as it should be.
Unas is the third when he appears.

Cladking look at the line before and after the one you are interest in and are trying to force to become some sort of chemical reaction - what are those two lines talking about? Who are the Ennead and what does the second line mean?
>
> "Turquoise" is used a couple of times in the PT
> with one usage apparently meaning the color and
> the other is likely the stone.

That is fortunate for if it didn't you would insist it didn't exist....lol