Greg - Thanks for this link, but unfortunately it is to Faulkner's Concise Dictionary, and not to his Pyramid Texts translation. The "Supplement" is to the latter, and not the former.
I do appreciate your thoughtfulness, though. Thanks again.
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Macquarie University has just put the Supplement to Faulkner's 1969 PT translations online
Quite the boon. Now, if only someone would put the rest of this volume online,,,,
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I wonder if anyone has asked why they made one pillar out of stone and the other out of brick? If they were concerned about handing down their astrological (astronomical?) knowledge to posterity, why not construct both pillars out of stone?
I believe that the clues as to what this was initially really all about can be found in the fact that there are two "pillars"involved, and not o
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I took a look through the sources I have at hand and failed to find it. I thought it might be in Parker's Demotic Papyri, but did not see it listed there in his Index of Egyptian Words. Perhaps it's in a medical papyrus? Good luck, and let us know if you do locate it.
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Rick Baudé Wrote:
> "If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't
> have sweated as much."
> Nikola Tesla
Tesla was a seriously smart guy - and was plugged into many inciteful truths about how the universe actually works. See a long list of his interesting comments here -
The quote about Edison actually went (I think) like this:
“If he had a needle to find i
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Yes, very good catch. Turns out Tompkins also used it, although with a much darker reproduction - and also without attribution. It's on p. 69 of his Secrets of the G. P.
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WVK Wrote:
> "Ocean circulation in North Atlantic is at its
> weakest for 1,500 years - and at levels that
> previously triggered a mini Ice Age, study
> warns":
Somewhere around here I've got tucked away a number of articles written back in the 60's and 70's on this very subject. The gist is that as the ice in the northern Atlantic region melts the f
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Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> I want to know this, too. He's original as there's
> a star where his head should be.
Priskin discusses a possible explanation of the headless man and of the overall context in his essay here - see especially pp. 146ff.
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Really hard to say what is going on without seeing the actual glyphs being used. Do you know of any photos that show the name? Does seem curious that the two given transliterations would be so different....
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And very many more are available here - along with a good amount of informative detail in regard to what is being depicted.
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I would have thought that it was Petrie who conducted the first serious dig, but don't really know.
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An interesting thesis - quite the extensive crew that was working on it.
Seems to me that they failed to bring into their argument perhaps the one strongest potential rationale in its support - namely the close spatial association between Algol and the constellation of Aries - and more specifically, with the "First Point of Aries" as it was when it originally earned rights to this no
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By gawd I do believe that Heinrich was completely submerged by his jealousy that it wasn't he who had made some of these discoveries. He is off to the races on the issue of whether or not these maps are imperfect copies of far more accurate originals, and seems to totally ignore the much more central fact that the Oronteus Map of 1532 not only shows some form of integral something at the sou
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Hermione Wrote:
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> Some discussion of "Piri Reis and the Hapgood
> Hypotheses."
Thank you very much for the link to the Aramco article, I don't believe I'd ever seen it. Hapgood's work deserves alot more recognition from scholars than it has received - the mystery behind these maps is indeed one of the be
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I haven't the slightest idea what the video is purporting to show, but of perhaps greater interest are the very old maps that show features of Antartica that would not have been at all visible - even to aerial photography (had it then existed) - at the time when these maps were drawn.
I'm speaking of the Oronteus Finaeus Map of 1532 and the Philippe Buache Map of ca. 1760 - both maps
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I would have thought that there would have been lots of copies of the Rome Morning Tribune hanging about in the lavs for this purpose. What more convenient way to first read, and then express your response to, the day's news?
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Sam Wrote:
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> I was able to see the links this morning, now I
> can't. Read a lot till I started going in circles.
> Still could not determine what Conman believes the
> AE called the ncp region.
I've read through her "Sky Lore" book and I don't think she ever does address this. Her theme seems to
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Hi Rick,
All else being equal, I DO most often prefer Faulkner’s translations of these texts as opposed to Allen’s – and this for a number of reasons.
While I realize that Allen’s work has the advantage of nearly 40 years more scholarship than what was available to Faulkner, I feel that Allen in his striving to be technically correct often seems (to me) to miss the torchlight feel of the la
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kborissov Wrote:
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> What or Who is the Horus in this (ie., Utt 437 §801b) sentence?
A not uninteresting question. Given that the next line of the text is (in Faulkner's translation) "Seth is brotherly toward you as the Great One of On", who or what would YOU opine that "Horus" was meant to be referring to in t
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Lord Harry Wrote:
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> And by the way, the ancient Egyptian word for road
> is "w3t." The Egyptians may indeed have considered
> a ramp to be a type of road, both structures after
> all facilitated the movement of men and materials,
> therefore the use of the same or a similar word
> for "ramp" would
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> However, using a ramp built at a much
> steeper angle would have reduced its volume
> considerably.
In cross-section a ramp will present, most usually, as a right triangle, where - again usually, the base of this triangle lies horizontally along, or parallel to, the ground. A trigonometric table tells us that the tangent (ie, the ratio of the opposite side over the adjacent si
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Pistol Wrote:
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> Heliopolis is mentioned and attributed far more (x
> 10) in the PT's in comparison to the circumpolar
> stars... Heliopolis is the nexus of solar worship
> and by extension pyramid building. Daily rituals
> to Atum-re at sunrise were performed annually for
> thousands of years, can't say the
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Pistol Wrote:
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> To be clear, I do not doubt the importance of the
> polar stars in the context we find them in the
> PT's, however to assume that any pyramids'
> orientation is the result of their afterlife
> concepts in this regard begs the question(s)...
> Why shafts in only one pyramid? Why? Why are the
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Pistol Wrote:
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> The PT's referencing what we all know to be the
> circumpolar stars is being used out of context in
> my view to satisfy a theory that can never be
> proven without direct evidence.
Okay, I'll bite. Why do you feel that the PT's abundant and ever-present concern with the circumpolar stars
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I fully agree with your statement from your previous post that "the alignment of the pyramids was intentionally to the STARS that circled the celestial pole", and I also agree with what you say here to the effect that they were aware that these pole stars travelled in "a circle around the pole."
I further agree with your statement that:
"this circle was 'squa
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This might be a silly question, but I wonder if the proper motions of any of the stars involved might be of relative consequence, and whether such motions have been accounted for in the computations working backwards to ca. 2500 B.C.?
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I don't think I know of any one text that answers your question. I use a variety of sources when trying to get a sense of this.
Faulkner, in his 3 vol. Coffin Text translations, will often give information in his footnotes as to which spell, or which part of a spell, likely derives from much older source material. Then there's Allen's Coffin Texts Vol. 8, "Middle Kingdom
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Hi Avry - Thank you for your thoughtful reply to my query.
My main problem with Conman's approach is that she seems to be placing too much connection between the Dendera and Edfu findings with the far earlier Middle and Old Kingdom material. She appears to want to see an early form of astrology at the heart of the Pyramid and Coffin Texts. I don't see this at all, especially not in
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I'm just now reading Joanne Conman's book, "Ancient Egyptian Sky Lore" for the first time. I am wondering if anyone else has read this work and what their take has been.
While I believe that she is wildly off the mark in some respects, I don't know enough about Decan studies to assess her claims in this regard. Anyone well versed in this stuff?
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Thank you very much for finding this, but unfortunately it concerns Pyramid Text 'Spell' 373 and not Coffin Text Spell 373, the latter being what I am looking for. An easy confusion to make, especially given that the translator of the Assmann work used the term "Spell", rather than the term "Utterance", "Saying", or some such, in regard to a PT text.
Th
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