Principia Wrote:
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Petry: "365b. he ascends on the smoke
> (incense) of the great censing
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> They take N. to heaven, to heaven-on the smoke of
> incense."
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> And from whence does the dead pharaoh ascend on
> the smoke; from whence are they taken to heaven?
The PT is very explicit about this. The funeral pyre is called the "iskn of heaven". It is apparently on the east side of the first step of the pyramid and is fired up on the 5th day of the w3g-festival.
> If the pharaoh is going to somewhere, he must be
> coming >>from<< somewhere. Where would his
> physical body be, if not in the pyramid where the
> very texts are written to accommodate / support
> this transition?
The king is killed (probably poison) and mummified so he's ready for the w3g-feast on the last of the epagomenal days before the w3g feast and the beginning of pyramid building season.
> Did they place the body in some far away, unknown
> hole in the ground, then toil to build an edifice
> just to house texts?
Each pyramid was different and none required much "toiling".
When the mummification process was complete he was "freed from his bandages" by the fire.
> Your mind-boggling oration of
"Egyptology is
> wholly wrong about absolutely everything" is
> the galactic apex of irony when you employ
> derivations of texts from the field of Egyptology.
I certainly can see your point.
But the fact is the assumptions that underlie all of our beliefs about the great pyramid building age are in error. This allows everything derived from these assumption to also be in error.
I started with none of these assumptions so anywhere I'm wrong will be different than where Egyptology is wrong. But this isn't really relevant and what is relevant is that there is no direct physical or cultural evidence showing that the pyramids were tombs and there is extensive direct evidence both physical and cultural that show they are not tombs.
On this basis I believe no great pyramids were used or intended as tombs with the exception of Djoser's Pyramid which was originally designed as a mastaba and has extensive circumstantial evidence of having been used as a tomb.
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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.
