cladking Wrote:
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> Jon Ellison Wrote:
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> > I can't find a single reference to "stinky
> footed
> > bumpkins" in any egyptological material
> anywhere.
>
> Mebbe you're reading them wrong? ;)
I was just looking for "stinky footed bumpkins".


>
> > I think Claddy is going to have to break down
> and
> > admit that not all egyptologist believe in or
> have
> > even ever mentioned "stinky footed bumpkins".
> > Hardly any in fact.
>
> When you say something quacks like a duck, waddles
> like a duck, and leaves a mess on the sidewalk
> like a duck but then name it a Beautiful Swan,
> it's still a duck.

Can't argue with that, a duck's a duck.
(Stinky footed white swan)??


>
> The translators suggested their gods tiptoed in
> corpse drippings. I'm merely extrapolating from
> that. If their goddess stank to high heaven and
> squished her toes in corpse drippings then would
> you want to smell the feet of a stone dragger?

Gotcha..
And er... no.


>
> 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)."
>
> I DIDN'T translate this. I merely read it. I
> know what it means and why they said it and it's
> not because what Egyptologists believe.
> Egyptologists believe the ancient imaginary
> consciousness named :"Isis" stank to hell. THEY
> ARE WRONG. They couldn't be more wrong because
> there were no powerful imaginary consciousnesses
> and if there were they wouldn't have squished
> their toes in corpse drippings. This is all the
> imagination of Egyptology because they assumed the
> writers of the Pyramid Texts were just like the
> writers of the book of the dead .
>
> Did I mention they are wrong?

Yep.

Now I know what a "stinky footed bumkin" is, I stand corrected.
Should have asked earlier.
Been googling it for the past three years..
Three times a day.
Never mind....