the gardener1965 wrote:

> Before you prove your position, you will have to explain why
> the five epagomenal days are divided - three meals in the
> horizon and the two meals in the earth.

The "five epagomenal days" are the five days added to the calender to make it coincide with the lenght of the year. Actually, to be precise there were twelve months of three decades composed of ten days each added up to only 360 days. Rather than have uneven months they simply tacked these days on at the end of the year when the Nile flooded and the water began spraying up in the west, in the land of rainbows. These five days were a time of feasts and celebration anyway as well as the beginning of pyramid building season. This was when Atum/ Osiris was born each year as the geyser. It's when the king was tested to be sure he was still fit to be king. If he wasn't then he was mummified and his heart was used to calibrate the lifting equipment by weighing it against a feather in the ascender. If it moved then the heart was fed to water below for use as fertilizer and if it weighed the same as the feather then he ascended on the pyramid and he was cremated. The pyramid became "his" or, more accurately; him. He would become "khufu's Horizon".

This festival and associated feasts lasted eight days and it was during this time that most of these rituals were read to the crowds. It was the beginning of the pyramid building season when the fire-pan was uncrated from Anubis' chest and horus's were coaxed from the earth under the watchful eye of Horus the elder.

The ancients are difficult for modern people to understand because they were not only completely different but they had a different way of thinking and expressing themselves. But at the same time they were exactly like we are. Where modern people are removed from nature ancient people reveled in it. They understood themselves as a part of nature and their science (gods) was even given human characteristics. They wouldn't even understand the concept of "man made" because man is nature. They'd use a term like "by means of Thot" to express the idea that an object was designed and built by man since Thot was the "phenomenon of human advancement".

Much like us though they believed that "you are what you eat", and this obviously applied equally to all the phenomena of nature (the gods). When speaking of gods "eating" they were referring to the way a thing can consume material, aspects of nature, or parts of itself. The pyramid as stone "ate" the stones that came up the ascender. It "ate" the water that came up in the mehet weret. And it "ate" the water loaded as Seker (wdn.t offerring) into the counterweight. These were the three "meals" in heaven. They are the three meals at 81' 3". Each is the dead king (N) who is also the "bull of heaven" which lifts the stone.

717a. To say: N. is the bull of the Ennead,
717b. lord of the five meals, three in heaven, two on earth.

Two meals were on earth where the spent ballast was emptied and the stones were loaded.

The boats must be tied together so that the thirsty gods might be slaked and the hungry gods sated.

1376a. The ropes are knotted; the boats of N. are tied together
1376b. for the son of Atum--hungry and thirsty, thirsty and hungry--
1376c. on the southern shore of the Winding Watercourse.
1377a. Thot, who is in the shade of his bush, (note that men must sit in the shade counting the work as it ascends from the south side of sacred apron)

It is Shu (phenomenon of upward) who is the son of atum and lifts both the stones and the water to the pyramid top.

This varied dependent on the specific perspective of the observer. The language looked at every subject from the "inside" so as the subject changed the perspective changed. One didn't have to view these meals from inside their location but could view them from inside a different location like the geyser itself;

1064c. his meal (shall be) as his who is chief of the ’itr.t-palace
1064d. Two of N.'s meals (shall be) in the Ddi.t;
1064e. [three of his meals (shall be) in the horizon -------]

Here two meals are seen as the water spraying up and that same water being caught. The other three meals are all on the "horizon" because this term merely referred to the area up out of the valley so could apply to any level of the pyramid and its base. Indeed, it could apply to almost any place in the land of horus. But the "’itr.t-palace" is the feminine form of "sacred apron" when occupied by Set.