cladking, on 15 November 2012 - 04:33 PM, said:
1466b. N. was given birth by his father Atum,
Atum is even the father of N just as is Osiris!!!
It’s obvious that Egyptology is simply misunderstanding the meaning of this work. They believe it has no meaning but this is because they can’t see it and they can’t see it because their assumptions are invalid.
2065a. Behold N., his feet shall be kissed by the pure waters,
2065b. which come into being through Atum, which the phallus of Shu makes, which the vulva of Tefnut brings into being.
Both Atum and Osiris are cool effervescent water!
This is really an extension of post #1125;
Utterance 213.
134a. O N., thou didst not depart dead; thou didst depart living,
134b. (so) thou sittest upon the throne of Osiris, thy
‘bȝ-sceptre in thy hand, thou commandest the living;
134c. (thy)
mkś-sceptre and thy
nḥb.t-sceptre in thy hand, commanding those of secret places.
135a. Thine arm is like that of
Atum; thy shoulders are like those of
Atum; thy body is like that of
Atum; thy back is like that of
Atum;
135b. thy seat is like that of
Atum; thy legs are like those of
Atum; thy face is like that of Anubis.
In each instance there is typically good reason that "Atum" is preserved in utterances.
In some cases it appears the utterance was just never "osirianized";
207c. thou art (king) with thy father
Atum, thou art high with thy father
Atum;
The PT can be projected backward though, of course, one runs a risk of making deductions that
are inaccurate or inapplicable. But projecting the book of the dead back on the PT is a non-starter
right from the beginning.
It would seem that if Osiris and Atum share all their defining characteristics then they must be the
exact same thing in separate incarnations. There are numerous ways the Egyptians could have
handled the death of Atum but they chose to assign his duties to a God (Osiris) who was born "dead"
and retain him as the "father of the Gods". Any other method would have been confusing, probably.
The Greek god Hermes has attributes (connotative characteristics) of both Atum and Osiris but was
probably much more an attempt to incorporate Atum into their own pantheon. It's likely that the Greeks
better understood the nature of these Gods than we do. They might have dropped the scientific de-
scription largely because they were outside Greek experience and they had a similar misapprehension
of the nature of the ancient science.
I think this will prove a difficult question. It seems improbable the Greeks intentionally misled everyone
and much more likely they had a simple misunderstanding.
Men fear the pyramid, time fears man.