These silly Egyptians and their superstitions...

...imagine they thought that bread could fly and win back for the king his normal condition. They thought bread was eternal and could not mould and that it came on high. They said all these incredible things that we can ignore because Egyptologists don't understand them and pronounced it all gobblety gook. Who are we to argue with 150 years of scholarship that hasn't been able to identify a single meaning in this nonsense.

Just maybe the Egyptologists are all wrong and don't want to even discuss the issue because they can't defend their position but can only repeat it. Maybe, just maybe, the ancients didn't think like Egyptologists but still could think clearly without being hamstrung by superstitions and magic. Maybe Egyptologists misunderstand this so utterly that they are even wrong about it being nonsense!!!

If we ask ourselves at each turn what words have to mean to make sense then a coherent meaning emerges from the PT.

Why can't bread fly?

501. To say: The bread flies, the bread flies to my houses, the houses of the Lower Egyptian crown.

Why can't the meal of the dead king/ pyramid be bread? The bread of Horus?

551d. N. hungers not by reason of that bread of Horus which he has eaten,

Horus gives bread to geyser/ dead king by being that bread;

1047b. take this thy bread, which I am giving thee; I am thy son and thine heir.

Where does the dead king/ pyramid eat bread?

314a. The bread of N. comes on high with (that of) Rē‘;

880e. that he may prepare for you a great meal and a great offering.
881a. He voyages over the sky; ...

If you are what you eat then the dead king can live eternally;

551d. N. hungers not by reason of that bread of Horus which he has eaten,
551e. which his head-maid made for him, with which he is satisfied, (and) whereby he wins back his (normal) condition.

After being transmogrified into the geyser he must "consume" bread/ horus.

695c. mayest thou give bread to N., mayest thou give beer to N.; mayest thou refresh N.,

880e. that he may prepare for you a great meal and a great offering.
881a. He voyages over the sky;...

Bread is horus/ stone, beer is dead king/ geyser;

859a. Raise thyself up for this thy bread, which cannot mould,
859b. for thy beer, which cannot become sour,

1177a. Give thou bread to N.; give thou beer to N.,
1177b. from thy eternal bread, this thy everlasting beer.

There are lots more such references but they are not so easily extracted. One refers to the meals of the king that is taken by "upward" because of "downward". Here's one that suggests his meal comes as that of the "divine boat". This would be the ascender or the head of the bull of heaven;

563c. of N. is from the n‘r.t; the meal of N. is like (that of) the divine boat.

Of course this all makes no difference because everyone knows our ancestors were superstitious and and spoke gobblety gook. Obviously you can't parse gobblety gook so it doesn't matter that these words fit a pattern. We are married to our beliefs and at the very core of those beliefs is that the human race used to be sun addled bumpkins but we're all better now. If there's one concept that unites all people today it's that we come from lunatics but now we know everything.













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Post Edited (04-Feb-13 03:37)