Quote:It all seems complicated because we do not respect the texts as we should.
That might be simply because our readings of them are uncertain.
Quote:The texts written in the Pyramids are not the work of the priesthood (the funerary texts in general were not inspired by the priests, or some theologians or philosophers), the texts were not composed for the first time there, into the chambers and corridors of the Pyramids. They are edited copies of some archaic originals on which the oral tradition was recorded.
That's speculation, though. For all we know these things existed from the pre-dynastic days as oral traditions that were maintained by the priest class as a sort of sacred knowledge before they were written down. There are other examples of this in history. The Zoroastrian Avesta dates from the Sassanid period but we know that Cyrus and his gang were Zoroastrians centuries earlier. Even the so-called Old Testament does not exist in written form prior to the Greek Septuagint. Priests have a vested interest in keeping sacred knowledge "secret." Helps them maintain their power over the dolts.
The "Mystery Cults" of the first century AD were also not dependent on "scriptures" but rather on knowledge transmitted from masters to apprentices.
We're unlikely to ever really know what happened in the pre and early dynastic periods in Egypt.
