RE: Agnostic Atheism? Your opinions..
December 16, 2011 at 11:06 am
(This post was last modified: December 16, 2011 at 11:09 am by dtango.)
(December 16, 2011 at 3:20 am)Rhythm Wrote: Yet he is the last word in comparative mythology, textbooks are based upon his work..
Well, Campbell’s followers believed in him and they now pay the price of their naiveté.
Egyptologists have no problem with texts other that those belonging to the funerary group. Even texts dealing with mythology have been translated with no problem and their translations are quite comprehensible. Yet, along came a text that does not belong to the funerary ones but carries the mentality of the oral tradition which is the true author of the funerary texts.
As you know, around 60 to 70 official translations of that text can be counted to date but the story the text relates remains incomprehensible.
The text is dealing with a dispute between a man who is on his way to his personal judgment and his supervisor. The man wants to try for the best possible result, which is to be recognized as equal to the gods. The supervisor does not agree because he thinks that the man does not qualify for the status of god and is risking his life.
The supervisor’s reputation would be endangered if the man fails and thus he threatens to leave the man alone (in which case the man would have been condemned beforehand without a witness of defense) but he eventually concedes and stays with the man.
The translators and Egyptologist in general believe that the man is some sort of lunatic who is having a dispute with his own soul.
“Oh, what is it today?”, the man says, “my soul refuses to answer back to me”!!
I regret to have to say that what we have here is a case of utmost conformism on the part of Campbell’s pupils.
