Warwick Wrote:
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> Good grief.
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> "squished their toes in corpse drippings"
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> That's insane..Where do you get this stuff?
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> and please..don't trot out "The Idiot's Guide to
> Hieroglyphics"


This stuff all makes perfect sense to Egyptologists.

This is exactly how they translate this incomprehensible gobbledty gook;

722c. Thy foot shall not pass over, thy step shall not stride through,
722d. thou shalt not tread upon the (corpse)-secretion of Osiris.
723a. Thou shalt tiptoe heaven like Śȝḥ (the toe-star); thy soul shall be pointed like Sothis (the pointed-star).

The dead king who lives forever shouldn't stride through the corpse dripping of an imaginary consciousness but rather he should tiptoe in them.

So of course they all stink even their favorite goddesses stink;

1272a. If Isis comes in this her evil coming;
1272b. do not open to her thine arms; that which is said to her is her name (of) "wide of ḥwȝ-t (evil-smelling)."

Of course dragging stones hither and yon while living on ramps and dragging everything you own up the pyramid is likely to result in some foul odors as well.

This is what Egyptologists believe or they wouldn't transalate it this way and say they dragged stones up wet sand. There are no alternatives. Labels hurt but definitions hurt more and these people are defined as stench and superstition incarnate.