cladking Wrote:
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> Until we understand the PT we can not understand
> the pyramid builders. Until we understand the
> pyramid builders it might be impossible to
> understand ourselves.

You can't understand the PT until you understand each one in its place. You can't fully understand them if you look at the mish-mash collection where "N" represents "some pharaoh but not necessarily all of them."

That's the beauty of the Allen translations. He shows what each individual pharaoh chose for their tomb instead of a wild conglomeration of texts written before and after a certain Pyramid Text. To be convincing, you have to show your versions with respect to where they're found in the tombs (because that is actually significant) and what it means for each individual pharaoh. Your version picks up on some items that appear in only ONE tomb and try to apply them to all tombs.

And that didn't happen.

-- Byrd
Moderator, Hall of Ma'at