Here's an utterance that just comes alive and paints a picture when inserting the new definition for horus (phenomenon of locally quarried stone).

Utterance 538.

1302a. To say: Back, thou lowing ox.
1302b. Thy head is in the hand of Horus; thy tail is in the hand of Isis;
1302c. the fingers of Atum are at thy horns.

Everyone sees just gobblety gook because we are trying to understand this symbolically when this was not the intent of the author. It looks at a glance as some strange threat against a bull by a three gods. Obviously to modern readers no matter how we interpret or deconstruct it it appears to be some sort of religio/ magical twaddle of one sort or another.

But bear with me a bit.

This must be understood in the minds and language of the builders to make sense.

First off this is a ritual. Forget the nonsense that these are spells or magic, or prayers because they are not; they are obviously not and I'd be happy to show this again. "To say" at the beginning simply means the "utterance" is to be read and spoken aloud. "Back thy lowing ox" is relatively straight forward; an ox is too far forward and they (Thot/ mankind/ the pyramid builders) desire it should back up. When this ox moves it makes a lowing sound;

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The head of the ox is in the hand of horus the stone. The hand is the means by which horus affects things meaning this is the weight of the stone. Horus had no arm because he couldn't affect things at a distance but he "sat on his hands" as it were;

1965a. "I have given birth to him for thee; I have deposited him for thee; I have certainly spit him out for thee."
1965b. He has no feet; he has no arms,

The utterance is a description of the "bull of heaven" which is the device they used to lift stones on the pyramid. The head was the ascender with the stones, and the back end was the counterweight overseen by isis; the phenomenon of falling weight.

The fingers of Atum are the means by which the water affects the front of the contraption. Atum is the weight (as seker) in the counterweight. and can only manipulate the head of the bull through his horns by which the counterweight is attached.



if pic doesn't show look for the head of an ox about a sixth of the way down here;

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The rest of this is something that has to be deduced from the rest of the text. The "lowing" is the sound of the heavy wooden sled partially loaded with stone. This sled carries about 20 tons of stone (horus) straight up the 70 degree side of the pyramid. It is loaded at the pyramid base as the counterweight is being filled. The objective is to keep subsequent stones being added to the sled at the same altitude where the loaders are working. They have a device under it to help, and close communication with the ferryman loading the counterweight in order to keep the sled in the proper position. Each stone added causes the sled to depress lower. Each horus makes the ox come closer. {503a. which allows each Horus to glide through, in which N. will glide through, in this flame under that which the gods create (the flame comes from the fire-pan).}

In other words they added too much weight to the ascender relative the counterweight and the sled sank too low to add the next stone. They were on a very tight schedule to get these loaded and sent on their way. While waiting for the counterweight and the min (the phenomenon of an hydraulic leveling device) to lift the sled a little higher they said;

1302a. To say: Back, thou lowing ox.
1302b. Thy head is in the hand of Horus; thy tail is in the hand of Isis;
1302c. the fingers of Atum are at thy horns.

They are simply announcing that the sled is too far advanced and needs to be retracted while they wait for the counterweight to fill. You can virtually still hear the heavy wooden timbers of the sled grinding on the timbers of the "ladder to heaven". You can almost see what the ascender looked like with its runners and the horns at the back by which it is pulled. This "layering" of information and communication seems to take place throughout the PT.

It's almost like being there.

There's little good justification for understanding horus, son of Isis as being stone which can be extracted from the PT because it is too deeply embedded in the meaning. However I will post the justification in this sub-thread.



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