cladking Wrote:
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> If you stop this at 2:32 you can see the phallus
> of Shu, the God of Upward, and the vulva of
> Tefnut, the Goddess of downward.

I missed that somehow. All I saw were shots of a geyser in Utah.

Osiris stands in
> the djed where Atum once stood in the ben ben and
> spit and sneezed out his children and creating
> himself. The utterance would have been Osirinized
> except that it would have made Osiris the father
> of Atum's children. It would have made Osiris
> dependent upon his children for his existence.
> The Egyptians didn't have any particular problem
> with this except where it's linear. ie Horus
> could rule in the house of his father and his
> father could need his son's eye to see but
> Obviously things take place linearly and Osiris
> could not be the parent of his parents.

What on earth are you going on about? What does this have to do with AE myth and theology?

> It's all really quite simple if you take what they
> say literally.

Why would anyone do that?

> Utterance 685.
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> This might have been meant literally.

Why? Because it suits theories about geysers in AE (for which, AFAICS, there is no evidence)?

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