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I provide evidence and you only can afford commercials for prestigious universities!!
I said Campbell is a treasury of information but when it comes to his esteemed Egyptian mythologies he is so ignorant as your illustrious universities of Harvard, Cambridge and Stanford.
The top Egyptologist of our time is James Allen, an American too. Here is his excuse for not translating in his works three key Egyptian words:
The crucial terms bA, kA, Ax are rendered as “ba,” “ka,” and “akh,” respectively, rather than by a translation, because they each carry a wealth of connotations that is often impossible to capture in a single English word (see the Glossary). In a few cases, our knowledge of the Egyptian language has not (yet) made it possible to know the meaning of a verb or noun; such words are represented in the translations by a transliteration of the Egyptian term.
It is neither the “wealth of connotations” nor our limited knowledge of the Egyptian language that is to be blamed but the fact that we believe that everything there is to know about myth it has already been told by Campbell and Jung.
We cannot understand the funerary texts because we believe Campbell who had no idea of what is written in the funerary texts. And, of course, he cannot be blamed for being ignorant in this aspect since we, today, also cannot understand the texts as long as the translators are afraid of really translating them.
It may be true that there are different meanings for the word “ba,” for example, but when it occurs with the meaning of “soul” it could be so translated, when it occurs as the name of the person who acted as defence witness during judgment it could also be rendered as such, when it occurs as the name of the person who is at the head of a group of gods, humans or loathsome sub humans, it could also be rendered as such but then... explanations would have been required and these cannot be provided when thinking Campbellwise.
We are not talking physics here. We are talking about the subject that I have studied and I know. Your prestigious university professors are either ignorant or dishonest. The choice is yours.
I provide evidence and you only can afford commercials for prestigious universities!!
I said Campbell is a treasury of information but when it comes to his esteemed Egyptian mythologies he is so ignorant as your illustrious universities of Harvard, Cambridge and Stanford.
The top Egyptologist of our time is James Allen, an American too. Here is his excuse for not translating in his works three key Egyptian words:
The crucial terms bA, kA, Ax are rendered as “ba,” “ka,” and “akh,” respectively, rather than by a translation, because they each carry a wealth of connotations that is often impossible to capture in a single English word (see the Glossary). In a few cases, our knowledge of the Egyptian language has not (yet) made it possible to know the meaning of a verb or noun; such words are represented in the translations by a transliteration of the Egyptian term.
It is neither the “wealth of connotations” nor our limited knowledge of the Egyptian language that is to be blamed but the fact that we believe that everything there is to know about myth it has already been told by Campbell and Jung.
We cannot understand the funerary texts because we believe Campbell who had no idea of what is written in the funerary texts. And, of course, he cannot be blamed for being ignorant in this aspect since we, today, also cannot understand the texts as long as the translators are afraid of really translating them.
It may be true that there are different meanings for the word “ba,” for example, but when it occurs with the meaning of “soul” it could be so translated, when it occurs as the name of the person who acted as defence witness during judgment it could also be rendered as such, when it occurs as the name of the person who is at the head of a group of gods, humans or loathsome sub humans, it could also be rendered as such but then... explanations would have been required and these cannot be provided when thinking Campbellwise.
We are not talking physics here. We are talking about the subject that I have studied and I know. Your prestigious university professors are either ignorant or dishonest. The choice is yours.