cladking Wrote:
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> Hermione Wrote:
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When a dead person’s journey to the
> > afterlife
> > had successfully finished and he/she was
> > justified, transfigured into an akh, and
> > resurrected, the person became a mighty and
> > mysterious entity, which participated in the
> > divine sphere of existence and yet still had
> > some influence upon the world of the living.
> > The akhu guarded their tombs ... (3)>
>
> I believe this very much expresses later Egyptian
> beliefs. But is does not appear to be
> consistent with the earlier writing or the
> physical evidence which all show the kings' bodies
> were cremated in the "iskn of heaven".
>
> > So Khufu became an akh, and dutifully guarded
> his
> > tomb (not all that well, as it subsequently got
> > robbed ... But I'm sure he did his best.)
>
> The ancient writing says the king is the pyramid
> and as the pyramid (his mnemonic) he protects the
> Egyptian people;
>
> "He, he is the pyramid, he protects"
>
> Atum protects the pyramid;
>
> 1656a. no one among you separates himself from
> Atum, (when) he protects N.,
> 1656b. (when) he protects this pyramid of N.,
> (when) he protects this his temple,
>
> > Hence all Merer's references to akhet Khufu - a
> > term in use in the great pyramid building age -
> to
> > which Merer was delivering all that limestone
> ...
> > to cover the pyramid ... Khufu's burial place
> ...
> > in which he was buried ... during the great
> > pyramid building age.
>
> Whatever "Ro She Khufu" means it is still not
> established that "akh", "horizon", or "pyramid"
> mean "tomb".
Cladking - YOU CANNOT READ THE LANGUAGE YOU HAVE NO STANDING IN THIS MATTER.