Pistol Wrote:
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> In this context I suggest we should view
> the ben-ben as being 'the' Ka stone of Re and the
> ben-ben-et as a symbolic replication or duplicate
> ben-ben... intended to be the king's Ka stone,
> after all the king couldn't use/occupy his
> father's ben-ben during his daily rise above the
> eastern horizon - he needed to have his own.
>

Erm...I don't think that (ben-ben as 'ka stone') works. The ka is the personality but it can't act without merging with the ba. In addition, the ka was not found in the head, but in the heart (if I remember rightly) so "on top of the pyramid/obelisk" is not really a logical place.



(***to the best of my knowledge. Can be corrected by appropriate scholarly sources)

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