quote:Originally posted by the lioness,: is that supposed to be good or bad?
I don't know, but if that's truly the case then you must be brain moor. LOLPosts: 26238 | From: Atlanta, Georgia, USA | Registered: Feb 2005
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Africans did not call themselves KMT only Egyptians
Being dead is good, look:
The Book of the Dead (translated as "Book of Coming Forth by Day") is an ancient Egyptian funerary text, used from the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BCE) to around 50 BCE. The Book of the Dead was part of a tradition of funerary texts which includes the earlier Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts, which were painted onto objects, not papyrus. Some of the spells included were drawn from these older works and date to the 3rd millennium BCE. Other spells were composed later in Egyptian history, dating to the Third Intermediate Period (11th to 7th centuries BC. At present, some 192 spells are known, though no single manuscript contains them all. They served a range of purposes. Some are intended to give the deceased mystical knowledge in the afterlife, or perhaps to identify them with the gods. The texts and images of the Book of the Dead were magical as well as religious. Magic was as legitimate an activity as praying to the gods, even when the magic was aimed at controlling the gods themselves.[Indeed, there was little distinction for the Ancient Egyptians between magical and religious practice.
One aspect of death was the disintegration of the various kheperu, or modes of existence. Funerary rituals served to re-integrate these different aspects of being. Mummification served to preserve and transform the physical body into a sah, an idealised form with divine aspects
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