Sorry, I had completely missed the above posting of yours.
I think it is a huge injustice to the AE thinking to squeeze the Eye of Horus into just one meaning. It evidently was used in several different menings in several different contexts. The Eye of Horus of the afterlife is not the same as the one seen during the full moon by the AEs. Even less has it do do with the one relevant to measur
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Cool might be a word somewhat too lame to describe that!
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Hi Wayne,
The first mentions of Nun are in the PTs, throughout which it is referred to as an element (a deity) outside the created world i.e. the hidden Abyss. Here's a quote from Wilkinson about Nun: "The only relationship between this world and the outlying waters of Nun is found in the fact that beings such as stillborn babies and condemned souls who had no part in the afterlife w
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Yeh, here's hoping the Oklahoma catfish live long and prosper....
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Humanities
Nominees for the Darwin award?
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Psusennes I's burial was intact also. With a golden burial mask and a silver coffin among other beautiful things. Unfortunately Montet's find was lost under WWII.
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Hi K-K,
You read my mind. I wanted to post just that, but didn't get round to do it. Thanks!
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Cladking,
Wouldn't you say that all this depends on what one sees the Eye of Horus as being in that very context?
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Hi Dave,
The handle bosses would have been there for the same reason they would be on any vessel!! As for the size, as I said, my suggestion was just a suggestion based on no facts, except for the known means of praying of the ordinary people. I don't know how many libations were made daily, for example. Would the size possibly have to do with the evaportaion of water in that climate? Bes
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Hi Dave,
Well, if those vessels are "all over the temples", then the logic would have it that they are not for baking bread. My guess would be, and mind you this is just a wild guess, that they are for the libation offerings frequently made with water (as per offerings and preayers made by the commoners). Which does not exclude them from the settlements, either.
Ritva
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That's an awful lot of material that they hauled away.
Yes, it was. But they have been known to carry away whole temples....
And why would they start at the top of the pyramid and work their way down taking a chance on getting killed by falling stone and rubble?
You know how I feel about Hawass, but this does make sence. Imagine them starting to rip off the casing from the lower l
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Hello hello!
His conclusion was, that the pyramid first of all did not collapse during the construction, but some time after it (time enough to let the bees build nests in the construction...) and that the rubble would more likely be due to some kind of ramps having been built in order to take stone FROM the construction.
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Hi Don,
See: KMT, summer 1993, Meidum Part I, George B Johnson.
and KMT, spring, 1994, Meidum Part II, George B. Johnson.
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I wrote "laid down", because the statue must have been lifted from the hole dug in the ground and then laid down on the even surface. Just using logic.
My question about your possible doubts as far as the identification of the statue goes is due to you writing "identified" instead of just identified.
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I don't know, but seen the size (almost 4 meters high!) of it it probably was laying down!
Do you have a reason to doubt the identification?
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What is seen in the image is the head of the statue, photographed after the statue was laid down on it's side. The large statue was not in the form of a sphinx, even if two sphinxes (one representing AIII and the other Tiye) were also found.
I am not aware whether the statue was inscribed, even if that seems to be the only means of identifying something in a condition as bad as the photo s
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I think Hendrik meant "written" when he wrote "represented".
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Hi Robert,
Quote:
O Osiris the king, arise, lift yourself up… Your sister Isis comes to you rejoicing for love of you. You have placed her on your phallus and your seed issues into her, she being ready as Sothis, and Horus-Spd has come forth from you as ‘Horus who is in Sothis’”
Doesn't this passage clearly say, that Horus-Spd has come forth from the deceased king? If yes, why, then,
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Hi Charlotte,
Can't help it, but all this still reminds me of the heliacal rising of a star, which in the PTs seems to be the goal of the deceased. Standing in the Eye (of Horus, in this case being the sun) could mean just that. Moreover, Venus and Mercury were identified with Osiris and Seth....
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Hi Kat
Seriously! Throw a looping DOS their way .... or a nuke ....yeah... nuke 'em. I'm tired of being asked if my male member is large enough, strong enough, or lasts long enough.
Exactly! The worst part is, some of this "advertisement" seems to be sent by.... me! I mean, I could understand the use of my gmail or yahoo addy, but my true e-mail addy. Go figure!
I
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Well, we do know the sun is a star, we do know the earth orbits the sun and the moon orbits the earth, we do know there are other planets orbiting our sun etc. The AEs didn't, because they had no such scientific means to find out as we do. I'm sure you get the picture... if you want to.
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Thank you, Lee. As usual your postings have been most enlightening.
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Hi cladking,
They may have looked at the world differently but it was the same world operating on the same laws. They were people the same as us.
The point is, the AEs were not aware of the operating laws.
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Clive,
To understand the earth's angular tilt wouldn't the AEs have needed to know the earth was orbiting the sun? They didn't know, and that's a fact evidenced by the AE cosmological texts.
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I wouldn't be so sure the AEs thought the earth was flat....
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It's not really a matter of hitting the dust as we mean by hitting the dust, heheh. But what we need to keep in mind is, that the early translators didn't have the knowledge of the AE language we have now. Add to that the undeniable fact, that they tried to explain the AE culture through Christian looking-glass using a Victorian vocabulary and you do get the picture.
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