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All the books are wrong and they'll do you no good. All the translations are wrong. If you study the books it is a kind of assuming the conclusion because they have translated this as gobblety gook; or more precisely, they have translated this in terms of the book of the dead which is magic. The PT are not spells. they are not magic and incantation. The authors did not believe in magic, gods, and incantation. They just expressed themselves differently than Egyptologists.

It's pretty much the conclusion I came to.

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This isn't true. The PT existed in some form perhaps even before writing itself existed. Some of these would have simply been memorized by the "priests" for recital at the ceremonies.

I think what we have here is a difference in perspective. You seem to see, and I could be wrong, all the hieroglyphs as being the same language, or as having a common origin, such as American and British english. You seem to give the same meaning to a hieroglyph no matter where it appears. I see a distinct difference in style. There are the beautifully carved glyphs on obelisks and some parts of monuments. And then there are the painted and crudely carved glyphs that seem to be in the majority and look to be from a different era. We may be very wrong in assuming that the glyphs retained the same meaning throughout history. What if the dynastic egyptians came upon the perfectly carved glyphs and gave it their best shot at interpretation? What if the adopters saw geysers where there were none ? What if they were as obsessed as we are with understanding how the pyramids were built?

I think it's obvious they have been mistranslated. Good lord, look what they've done with the biblical hebrew in the bible ! I'm not about to say you're wrong about geysers because I haven't invested the time in it as you have. You very well could be right, but I think you need to expand your peripheral vision. The egyptologists have the time tables all messed up so we really don't know how much time elasped between pyramid construction and painted hieroglyphs. To put them as close together in time as you do is to buy into the egyptologists cockamamie time tables. Personally I think there is more than 8,000 years between construction and painted hieroglyphs. That is more than enough time for all original meaning to be lost. Even 1000 years would be akin to us trying to decipher the Easter Island script.