Corvidius Wrote:
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> Hans Wrote:
> > REALLY making up stuff
>
> I'm sitting back and chuckling over this. We can
> all make errors, read something too quickly and
> make a false assumption, as I did recently in a
> thread asking about a hieroglyph, and read tekenu
> as tekhenu, a small difference in spelling, but a
> huge difference in meaning. It happens, but it's
> not the end of the world, but never have I seen
> anybody not only refuse to admit error, but double
> down on their errors, and then need to make stuff
> up in order to try to cover their errors.
>
> I'll just make these observations for clarity as
> they have not emerged yet in this thread, and I
> know you will know this. The king's "soul"
> certainly does go to the heavens, but not his
> body, and the references to Nut in Recitation 364
> have a double meaning. Yes, the king's soul is in
> heaven, but also his body in a sense, as the
> internal surface of the coffin lid is Nut, as is
> the vault of the burial chamber, and this does not
> come from the "Book of the Dead", but from the PT
> themselves, if they are read correctly. This,
> again, leads to the issue of how they are
> translated, as a certain degree of knowledge is
> presumed by all the translators over the years.
> Here in this thread, and countless others here and
> in other fora, we see the results of the not well
> informed not understanding what is actually meant,
> and so making stuff up. I know there are parts of
> the PT that really do read as "gibberish", or seem
> to, vide the Byblite saga on UM, but not 364.
>
> And as for the discussion on ntr, I wonder if it
> can be ascertained if this is a generic name, or
> the name of a god, in particular, Osiris, a name
> he may have had before he appears in the record as
> Osiris, and is Osiris an epithet of
> Khenty-imentiu, which may, or may not, be an
> epithet of ntr, if it started as the name of an
> individual god. These are the matters I would
> prefer to discuss, but, alas, static always drowns
> out the transmission.
One has to admit he is a master of making up really off the wall nonsense! The problem of course is that he then thinks the stuff he made up is real or 'evidence'...lol