Byrd Wrote:
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> Hans_lune Wrote:
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> > cladking Wrote:
> > >
> > > Yet the builders repeatedly said the king is
> > both
> > > a pyramid and a star ("he, he is the
> pyramid")
> > > ("he is a star"). There is apparently some
> > sort
> > > of correspondence of stars to pyramids or
> > pyramids
> > > to stars. I don't see any reason to rule out
> > some
> > > kind of spatial relationship.
> >
> > Neither of those two English phrases, 'he, he
> is
> > the pyramid' or 'he is a star' show up in Unas'
> > Pyramid Texts witch I believe is the oldest
> > version of the PT. They may show up in later
> > versions.
> >
> > The use and occurrence of Pyramid Texts changed
> > between the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms of
> > Ancient Egypt. During the Old Kingdom can you
> > point to date of when they started to use those
> > phrases?
> >
> >
> [www.pyramidtextsonline.com]
>
> Loath as I am to admit it, the phrase DOES indeed
> show up in the Pyramid Texts.
>
> From Allen, James Peter, and Peter Der Manuelian,
> eds. The ancient Egyptian pyramid texts. No. 23.
> Brill, 2005. page 178 and 179 (pyramid texts of
> Pepi)
>
> "Don’t plow [into the ground, Pepi’s arms that
> bear Nut] as (does) [Shu], this Pepi’s [metal]
> bones, his imperishable limbs! Pepi is a star that
> strews the sky."
>
> (p 179) "Pepi is a star. The Sun’s aegis is over
> this Pepi, and the Sun’s aegis cannot be severed
> from over this Pepi"
>
> There are also references to the king ascending to
> the Imperishable Stars, becoming Foremost of the
> Imperishable Stars.

They sure do show up later but NOT in the oldest copy we have in Unas' tomb - which was my point.