Sirfiroth Wrote:
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> The Astronomer Priest
>
> "I have been designated among the chiefs of men
> the guides of the country chosen by the King. One
> will not find anyone more favored than I telling
> the hour conforms to the desire of the god so that
> he may give order to erect constructions
> announcing to man his future, telling him about
> his youth and his death; telling the years, the
> months, the days, and the hours, the course over
> every star by observation of its path.
> Senty, son of Pen -Sobek justified.
>
> "Oh, Master of the Gods, in whose retinue you have
> caused me to reach a ripe old age a beautiful tomb
> in the temple of (…...) I having been an
> Astronomer in the temple of his lord.
> Senty, son of the same Pen-Sobek justified."
>
> Senty Astronomer-Priest in the Temple of Sobek in
> Khenty...
> 3rd Century B.C.
>
> Marshall Clagett's "Ancient Egyptian Science
> Vol.II",pg.490
>
> First, why do you not believe the written word of
> the Ancient Egyptian Priest who clearly states
> they were encoding messages in structures?

For the following reasons, as revealed in Greg's answer.

1. The quotation in your post is both defective and deficient. It omits important material that shows that the original meaning of the passage is completely different. The AE priest does not:

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clearly state(s) they were encoding messages in structures

2. The passage is, in any case, very late, dating from c. 300 BC (as Greg explains in his original post).

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