Hermione Wrote:
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> > no ancient author referred to any great pyramid
> > as a tomb

> ...And so did Inspector
> Merer, with his references to "Akhet Khufu."

Tallet specifically warns against reading too much into the diaries in his latest work. There s no mention of any great pyramid being a tomb nor that any great pyramid was built using a ramp. These are mere assumptions made by people whose models of ancient Egypt are composed of Egyptological thought.

> < the day to day life of the actual builders and
> > those who got their hands dirty every day; ie- the
> > real people of ancient Egypt.

> Yes, real people, like Merer, Dedi and the rest
> ... Not to mention the aperu responsible for the
> stonework of the GP (their names visible in the
> relieving chambers on blocks for which a
> particular gang was responsible - for details, see
> Roth, "Phyles," p. 126).

Yes. We can glean insights into the captain named "Merer" who is obviously a real person but the problem is that everything we "determined" from interpretation. He never said he was hauling stones to Giza and the log of his activities might imply he was actually loading and supporting the ships that did. He never said the pyramid is a tomb or that he believed in imaginary consciousnesses that drove behavior or that he believed in magic. Indeed, there is no obvious reference to magic in any of the diaries so far and they appear to be the mundane operations of a shup that existed solely in the real world in the eyes of its captain.

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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.