Thank you more than words can say.

I am very pleased that anyone else reads these as well.



Audrey wrote:

> 1529c. N. leans on the [earth] on his left side, having life
> (or joy?);

In ancient Egypt the king was responsible for every single thing in life. If there were no justice or the sun didn't shine or even if he merely got old or faltered then he was killed and a new king assumed the title. The PT was written over many centuries starting with the invention of writing about 3200 BC. "N' is simply the specific "dead king" for whom the specific ritual is applied. This writing is mere ritual; it was of almost no importance to the culture because the culture was about life not death. These utterances were mere ritual that were read at the ceremonies involving the ascension of the king on the incomplete pyramid to be cremated.

Where the king was responsible for everything in life, he became everything in death. He was the pyramid. He was the geyser. It was "Osiris/ dead king" for whom most of these are written. It was geyser/ dead king. The geyser sprayed a little to the SE before it achieved full pressure. As the pressure built it moved more toward the SW.

The line above is speaking of the geyser functioning at reduced pressure. It has life yet it "leans on the earth rather than spraying nearly straight up.

> 1529d. he lives his life, because (the gods) have ordained that
> he live.

It requires the proper behavior of several natural process so that the geyser can "live its life". It requires fluid flow (nehebkau) through the "eye of horus" and "risings begetter" (Osiris' efflux)(CO2). Of course it required that the "arm of Nut" be unobstructed and Set to not flow back into the well. They knew other natural processes as well and would have had names for each. Many of these exist untranslated or mistranslated in the work. They believed the universe was deterministic and that the laws of nature determined reality of the past, present, and future. "natural law (physical phenomena) ordained that the geyser lives.

> 1530a. N. ascended on the eastern side of the sky;

This gets a little more complicated here because these last lines in an utterance are a sort of determinative for the entire utterance. They break the pattern of the computer code and are almost like modern languages in expressing meaning directly. It's also missing a few key words leaving the meaning a little open to question. I believe those words in line 1530c are probably "as he who is", but this is critical to meaning so these last four lines are tentative. My understanding of these final four lines is a result of the rest of the utterance whose meaning is more clear.

N ascended as the geyser on the eastern side of the pyramid.

> 1530b. he descends as a green bird;

They are comparing the ballast in the counterweight and its movement as like a "green bird". This was probably a specific bird that landed at high speed until the last moment and teetered after landing. All flora and fauna in the PT are of utmost importance. This is Osiris/ Seker/ dead king and is often referred to by other names, the most common being; wdn't-offering.

> 1530c. he descends ---- lord of the Dȝ.t-lakes.

Even as the earth opens to recieve the dead king (spent ballast) he remains the "lord of the geyser lake" often called "lake of the jackal" (queen's chamber). "Dȝ.t", "D3.t", "duat" is mistranslated. It didn't become "dead gods under the ground" until people became superstitious. To the pyramid builders this word meant "a natural phenomenon that existed above and below the ground tossing water". When it died only the dead part under the ground was left.

> 1530d. N. is purified in the lakes of the śmn-goose

This, no doubt, is primarily in reference to a type of goose that lived downstream from the pyramid. When the water flowed all these bodies of water were "purified".

> To make sense of this I'd have to pour through a ton of books
> to learn about hieroglyphs. Been there, done that, and it's
> maddening ! The back ground to the translations is enough to
> drive you nuts. It's not a science, I don't care what they
> say.

All the books are wrong and they'll do you no good. All the translations are wrong. If you study the books it is a kind of assuming the conclusion because they have translated this as gobblety gook; or more precisely, they have translated this in terms of the book of the dead which is magic. The PT are not spells. they are not magic and incantation. The authors did not believe in magic, gods, and incantation. They just expressed themselves differently than Egyptologists.

> So what we have in the above utterance is N. (whatever a N is)
> leaning on earth (??) going into the sky, metamorphosing and
> coming down as a green bird into some lakes of some goose. And
> they call this a religion ?! I don't think so. It could
> describe a fireworks display over a lake, for pete's sake. And
> what's with the "N" anyways?

The way it's translated is gobblety gook. They didn't realize that the work is written in something like computer code that can't be parsed. You can't rephrase computer code without destroying allthe meaning. They have destroyed the meaning and it needs to be retranslated in light of author intent. Everything means what the author thinks it means not what people from a thousand years later believe! The meaning is there hiding in plain sight.

> And personally, I don't think the writers of the text knew who
> built the pyramids. I think the texts were written long after
> the pyramids were built.

This isn't true. The PT existed in some form perhaps even before writing itself existed. Some of these would have simply been memorized by the "priests" for recital at the ceremonies.