eyeofhorus33 Wrote:
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> ...perhaps you could enlighten Sam in
> respect of the clear distinction between the
> statement that "Osiris is the moon"
> and the Nile waters being the "Effusions of
> Osiris" as he appears to think I am claiming that
> the two are "identical"; I think he is more
> in need than I of your wisdom.

I'm sure I understand your position. Despite the fact that neither of these contentions are supported ANYWHERE in the Pyramid Texts and they literally said something else I do understand what you believe. I could even cite chapter and verse of how what was said got tangled up in confusion to become the beliefs of the authors of the book of the dead and eventually the beliefs of Egyptologists. Such endeavor would be wasted time though. How do you parse confusion even where its origins are right before you? How do you parse nonsense? How do you parse a book of incantation?

How can you parse gobbledty gook and then convince everyone you can actually understand it?

At least Scott Creighton is using the literal meanings of words rather than appealing to what they mustta meant according to later generations and Egyptologists.

You have to understand that I'll almost invariably support literal interpretation of these words. And they never said the moon is osiris or the Nile his "i3.t-wt.t"/ efflux/ drippings. You are interpreting the PT in terms of the book of the dead which is the origin of all Egyptological confusion regarding the ancient people and the nature of their gods.