(December 16, 2011 at 2:20 am)Rhythm Wrote: He didn't stick around to supervise all of the other peasants? Everyone was assigned their own supervisor? Speaking of which, find those execution chambers, or anything else which supports the idea? What exactly were they supervising?.
A Ba was someone who was “at the head of his brothers.”
“His brothers” could be gods, semi-gods, men, or savage primitive men. For this reason the term “Ba” occurs determined by the symbol for god as well as by the symbol for the primitive savages who are the enemies of the gods.
But there is more to it: the famous immortal soul (Ba) occurs determined by the symbol for death!! If you point this fact out to an Egyptologist, you will be informed that such things are to be expected because the texts are nothing more than magic incantations!!
Any how, “supervisor” is the word I use for lack of a better one. The word which is closer in meaning to the original term Ba is the Hebrew word “Addir” for which there are a variety of translations: mighty, nobles, lordly, excellent, mightier, gallant, principal, famous, worthies, captains, rulers etc. But most important is that in the Septuagint "Addir" is rendered in Greek as “rams of the sheep” and it happens that the word Ba can also be written by the ideogram of a ram.
Did the Catholic Church or any other Church ever complained about Campbell’s theory? I do not know but I deem it very improbable. How would, however, had the Church liked it if Campbell insisted that Yahweh went indeed down to the area of Sodom and Gomorra to pass judgment of living people but he was lazy and eventually burned down the entire area without knowing who was a sinner and who was not.
There you have your execution chambers: we may some day come across the ashes of Sodom and Gomorra.
The Egyptian texts, being older, provide accurate, detailed information as to why the gods were burning people alive.
What a story to imagine!! What a story to be created out of thin air in so many different peoples’ minds!!
(December 16, 2011 at 3:27 am)Shell B Wrote: You don't need the funerary texts to know they believed in life after death. Just saying..
Actually you need them only if you want to prove that they didn’t (the texts are evidence that they were preoccupied with life after judgment and that they had no idea about life after death which was invented later by the priesthood).
