Of the opinion that if Egyptology allowed you take Unas at face value and understand that he may have flooded a portion of the Nile at night, that he conducted some sort of systemic annihilation of his enemies in order to maintain the Union of the North and South, conducted a mass censoring of papyrus and much of the statuary and then declared himself justified it would go far to answering many of the questions from Unas’s time all the way up the New Kingdom.
Example, the myth on the Destruction of Mankind we know of from 900 years later after Unas, but much of it is referenced by Unas and it’s commonly accepted it’s origins are before Unas. We also know that Unas was from Heliopolis, likely a priest there before he took the throne and it’s probable he lived out the myth in order to put down rebellion in his time.
Also of the opinion that much of this is known but was/is not talked about openly at that time when Maspero uncovered his tomb or this time now because Unas would be the poster child for The Divine Right of Kings to Rule and he makes for an extremely bad example of how a king should act especially being discovered not long after the French Revolution or now while NWO types are eager to scrap democracy to establish one party rule.
You mention the "materialisation of magic" through the stipulation of exact materials. Obviously, this would be the ideal, but is the prevalence of faience, and other substitute materials, evidence of a belief that other materials could take the place of those stipulated, through the use of additional magic?
Of the opinion that if Egyptology allowed you take Unas at face value and understand that he may have flooded a portion of the Nile at night, that he conducted some sort of systemic annihilation of his enemies in order to maintain the Union of the North and South, conducted a mass censoring of papyrus and much of the statuary and then declared himself justified it would go far to answering many of the questions from Unas’s time all the way up the New Kingdom.
Example, the myth on the Destruction of Mankind we know of from 900 years later after Unas, but much of it is referenced by Unas and it’s commonly accepted it’s origins are before Unas. We also know that Unas was from Heliopolis, likely a priest there before he took the throne and it’s probable he lived out the myth in order to put down rebellion in his time.
Also of the opinion that much of this is known but was/is not talked about openly at that time when Maspero uncovered his tomb or this time now because Unas would be the poster child for The Divine Right of Kings to Rule and he makes for an extremely bad example of how a king should act especially being discovered not long after the French Revolution or now while NWO types are eager to scrap democracy to establish one party rule.
You mention the "materialisation of magic" through the stipulation of exact materials. Obviously, this would be the ideal, but is the prevalence of faience, and other substitute materials, evidence of a belief that other materials could take the place of those stipulated, through the use of additional magic?
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Excellent topic and informative and interesting conversation