(April 10, 2017 at 9:24 am)Brian37 Wrote:(April 9, 2017 at 5:28 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Neither of which was the purpose of an Egyptian pyramid.
Boru
Ok then, what was the purpose? I guess I am wrong in reading about how they were monuments to be houses for the dead in the afterlife? That they would bury even slaves and pets? That their organs would be put in jars? All the gods depicted on the walls and the anthropomorphic animal/human deities would guard the entrances to protect the tombs from theft.
They were monuments to superstition, very ingenious sure, very beautiful and artful, but monuments to an afterlife and a vain human attempt to gain immortality.
I think his point was "they died anyway". The pyramids did, indeed, strive to insure a happy afterlife, but "ya gotta die first, now don't ya?"
