Origyptian Wrote:
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> Audrey Wrote:
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> >
> > Correction - at least 2.
> > What you call the AE, those who you believe
> built
> > the great pyramids, did have a religion.
> > The actual pyramid builders may not have had
> > religion or beliefs.
>
> Make that 3.
>
> Many users here still seem to use "AE" to describe
> those who built the pyramids rather than those who
> simply lived during the traditional timeline's
> Dynastic period. The Dynastic AE apparently did
> have quite a strong belief system that focused
> deeply on a funerary context and the afterlife.
> Virtually everything is a temple run by priests.
> And the Dynastic AE likely had nothing at all to
> do with building those megalithic pyramids.
> Rather, I suspect that the entire funerary context
> was invented simply as a way to explain the
> immense infrastructure that the Dynastics saw all
> around them that was already ancient when they
> arrived at the scene and which they needed to
> explain in the only terms that made sense to them.

I use AE's to describe the known residents of the Nile Valley.

When I employ OK (Old Kingdom) I am referring to the 4th,5th and 6th dynastys.

When I employ 4th dynasty AE's, I am being more specific.

Your 'suspicions' as you call them, are based on an assumption.

To date you have provided ZERO evidence supporting that assumption.

The evolution of their elemental beliefs is well documented.

Warwick