Hermione Wrote:
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> Corvidius Wrote:
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> > Hans_lune Wrote:
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> > > ...or is it modern art?
> > >
> > >
> >
> [img.tineye.com]
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> > Byrd has precisely nailed this, though I will
> just
> > add that it represents the rejoining of the
> soul
> > with the body, of Ra that is of course. The
> actual
> > mechanics of now Ra and Sokar-Osiris "merge"
> is,
> > apart from on the second shrine of Tutankhamun,
> > which is, er, enigmatic, is hidden within the
> > hidden chamber, only alluded to, or so vague as
> to
> > not explain anything at all. This scene in the
> > Sixth Hour is then the first appearance of the
> > regenerated, but technically still dead Ra, he
> is
> > still called "Flesh" as well as being called
> > Khepri.
>
> AE theological and ritual thought could get very
> complicated, couldn't it ...
I've read Hornung's "Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt" and Assmann's "The Mind of Egypt" several times, and often return to both, yet I still cannot properly understand what the AE actually thought and why they were so complicated and contradictory. It is though easy to see why Hornung needed to address the issue of if they did or did not believe that there was one god behind it all. A good case could be made for either Atum or Ptah to potentially be this one original god, and both are irreconcilable, yet the Egyptians were not bothered by this at all.

I sometimes wonder who, between us and them, is the more complicated though. Let's argue about transubstantiation and consubstantiation, and have wars over it. I think I prefer the Egyptians.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/26/2023 10:09AM by Corvidius.