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It should be read as "Two Banks", not "shores", and refering to the banks of the Nile.
An example from the Seti I temple at Abydos, with Isis speaking these words to the king:
Thou art my son, thou hast come forth from me. I have nursed thee in order to be Ruler of the Two Banks. I have made thy body to be strong in victory against every land. Thy majesty is King of Eter
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Hermione Wrote:
> (But the delivery is very off-putting.)
Tortuous, which is a pity as it distracts, but at least he knows it's an issue. I got that his name was Matt from some replies I read, but didn't know his full name, or that he is a geologist, apparently. I wonder if he reads this forum as he seems to know his way around Ancient Egypt, even if very very wrong at times, but h
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Hans Wrote:
> Howdy Corvidius
Howdy Hans
I thought it had to be connected to some woo.
I propose that Giza be renamed to the Mountains of Madness, and G1 itself should be named The Mountain of Doom, as all attempts to woo it are doomed.
And speaking of G1 I think this Youtube video maybe of some interest. The author, Ancient Architects, has been on a journey from woo to reality.
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cladking Wrote:
> I ask because I believe I understand the author
> intent of this specific ritual and "four" words do
> not fit that understanding. This implies the
> understanding is wrong or the translation is weak
To whom is you original question addressed. I ask becaue if you understand the intent of the AE authors of the PT, why ask here in the first place.
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In the context of the entire recitation and those around it, this refers to the dead king being one with Ra and having his powers. Whether that particular line is translated as making lapis lazuli grow, or cultivating lapis lazuli, it means that he is creating lapis lazuli, just as he creates the acacia in the next sentence, and controls Upper and Lower Egypt, and the Ennead. Recitation 320 furth
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cladking Wrote:
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> You're missing my point.
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> Quote> Yeah, a load of waffle, but it shows
> that
> > sometimes the older translations can be better,
> I
> > think.
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> I most certainly agree with you that older
> translations can be better. I also agree that all
> the tra
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Hermione Wrote:
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> > Perhaps, cladking, you would like to have a go
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> > translating spell 105 and come up with
> something
> > better.
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> > Here you are, good luck
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> > r n sHtp kA n N n.f
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Perhaps, cladking, you would like to have a go at translating spell 105 and come up with something better.
Here you are, good luck
r n sHtp kA n N n.f m Xrt-nTr
i.nD-Hr.k kA.i aHaw.i
mk wi ii.kwi xr.k
xa.kwi wsr.kwi bA.kwi sxm.kwi
in.n.i n.k bd snTr
swab.i Tw im.sn
swab.i ntnt.k im.sn
Ts pwy Dw Dd.n.i
abw pwy Dw ir.n.i
n rdy n.i
Hr-ntt ink wAD pwy
iry xxy n ra
rdy n imyw-Axt
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Thanks Hans. So for what it's worth, while not finding a more modern translation of spell 106, I do find one of spell 105 from a papyrus held at the British Museum and translated in, presumably, 1997. Comparing this translation to that of Faulkner's, I would say that Faulkner's is better. For instance, after the ka's offerings are weighed, it says about truth being uplifted to
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Unfortunately not, I've only the hard copies. The "Coffin Texts" is out there in various forms, but it's not the same thing of course. I suspect the copyright for his translation of the Papyrus of Ani and and related works is enforced more so than for other works. There are reproductions of other BoD papyri, but in hieratic and without translations, for instance here, But t
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Spell 106 is part of the Theban Recension, however, this is reproduced in translation by Faulkner in the reproduction and translation of the Papyrus of Ani, last revised and re-printed by Chronicle Books in 2015. This uses Faulkner's translations from 1972, and going by the care taken with this reproduction I would assume that they are confident of Faulkner's translations.
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Sekhem from the New Kingdom can be used for image of a god. My personal take on this usage is that it is not replacing the usual word for image "tut", but alongside it and has a similar metaphorical aspect. here I mean that Tutankhaten/amun cannot be the physical likeness of the solar disc or of it's rays, and neither can he be the physical likeness of a god who is "hidden&quo
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Excellent guide, thanks for producing this. I find your remarks that this could be similar to the "Amduat tombs" in the VoK to be interesting. I had wondered at first if the plan was based on the Wepwawet/Osiris processional route, but this does not appear to be so.
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While I ascribe to what is written in the pdf that Hermione linked to concerning horizons and pyramids in general, I'm not sure if it is fully applicable to the Great Pyramid due to it's radically different internal layout.
I'm also rather groping in the dark looking for something that we may be missing. My starting point for questioning some of what we see is not the sarcophagu
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As the solar disk, or should that actually be sphere, is so omnipresent in ancient Egypt, and as the OK religion was primarily solar, then the solar disk/sphere should be present, IMO, within the design of the pyramid. The slope of the sides may well represent the rays of the Sun, but I'm thinking that even if so, then it is not as strong a link to the solar disk/sphere as could be expected.
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I have a question to anybody about depictions of the Sun and the Moon. I have always understood that the Sun is represented by an unsupported disk, baring Khepri, and is either gold/yellow or red, and that the Moon is always a silver disk supported by a crescent. Are there any clear examples that run counter to this that anybody knows of?.
I can supply a few, which, to me at least, have been h
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It is an odd thing that Porcelli says the internal scans shows no voids, and then says that the above ground scans do, though going by the data published these two voids are not directly connected to KV62, by a corridor for instance. I presume his use of the word connected implies that he thinks these voids are associated with KV62 in that if the larger one is a tomb, it is for an Amarna personal
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karnsculpture Wrote:
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> Something to bear in mind is that Tut seems to
> have governed from Memphis; it is often stated
> that he "returned to Thebes"
I would not be surprised if by the time he became king that he had never even visited Thebes, let alone lived there in order to be able to "return". It
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Those DNA results should have put a lid on the coffin that the Younger Lady is Nefertiti, but there are still those who think she is, and go into contortions in trying to make Nefertiti a daughter of Amunhotep III and Tiye.
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Thanks, and I've been stuck in this tarpit for years just sinking further and further under
Belief, or not in my case, in an Amunhotep III - Akhenaten co-regency of course make things complicated as we can,and do, talk past each other as if inhabiting alternate universes, a problem in another place at this time. I'm not sure where you stand on this issue, though I'm with you th
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Thanks. I thought to spread my wings a bit, and to contribute after lurking for a while. A few members are familiar with me under this name from another place, Hans and Lord Harry.
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A big problem with this is that she has tripped over box 001K carelessly left laying on the pavement. If, as she proposes, Ankkheperure Neferneferuaten is a single name for the joint monarchy of Neferneferuaten-tasherit and Meritaten, why then does Ankkheperure Neferneferuaten appear on the box bound by their epithets to Akhenaten, and Meritaten as a separate individual. Then there is the issue o
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