if you love cats, and are considering euthanasia
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Then this upcoming (December) movie may be just the ticket to your own funeral you've been saving up for: [^]. Think how satisfied you will be with the precious gift of life, as you depart this vale of sorrows in which so many kittens die every day, knowing your cats are well provided for after your exit, and that Sekhmet, the protective aspect of Bastet, will guard you through your passage in the underworld as you move toward judgement in the Hall of Maat. This sweet satisfaction: consider how even more honeyed it shall be knowing that you will never see the abomination known as Taylor Swift degrading the sacred nature of Catness with her dreadful mixture of botox, off-key singing, spastic dancing, and paparazzi fueled sneering self-intoxication ! Surely your soul will pass the test of being weighed against the feather of Maat, and you will be allowed rebirth. Meow !
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Then this upcoming (December) movie may be just the ticket to your own funeral you've been saving up for: [^]. Think how satisfied you will be with the precious gift of life, as you depart this vale of sorrows in which so many kittens die every day, knowing your cats are well provided for after your exit, and that Sekhmet, the protective aspect of Bastet, will guard you through your passage in the underworld as you move toward judgement in the Hall of Maat. This sweet satisfaction: consider how even more honeyed it shall be knowing that you will never see the abomination known as Taylor Swift degrading the sacred nature of Catness with her dreadful mixture of botox, off-key singing, spastic dancing, and paparazzi fueled sneering self-intoxication ! Surely your soul will pass the test of being weighed against the feather of Maat, and you will be allowed rebirth. Meow !
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
Sorry, but I'm a staunch member of the Young Men's Reformed Cultists of the Ichor God Bel-Shamharoth.
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Sorry, but I'm a staunch member of the Young Men's Reformed Cultists of the Ichor God Bel-Shamharoth.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
You deny, then, that you worship cats, and abjure Taylor Swift ?
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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You deny, then, that you worship cats, and abjure Taylor Swift ?
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
Of course! Worship is Herself's job ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Then this upcoming (December) movie may be just the ticket to your own funeral you've been saving up for: [^]. Think how satisfied you will be with the precious gift of life, as you depart this vale of sorrows in which so many kittens die every day, knowing your cats are well provided for after your exit, and that Sekhmet, the protective aspect of Bastet, will guard you through your passage in the underworld as you move toward judgement in the Hall of Maat. This sweet satisfaction: consider how even more honeyed it shall be knowing that you will never see the abomination known as Taylor Swift degrading the sacred nature of Catness with her dreadful mixture of botox, off-key singing, spastic dancing, and paparazzi fueled sneering self-intoxication ! Surely your soul will pass the test of being weighed against the feather of Maat, and you will be allowed rebirth. Meow !
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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The good thing is that nowadays you don't need to paint all that stuff on the walls of your burial chamber - you just need to slip a copy of Mr. E. A. Wallis Budge's eminent tome in your coffin for future reference.
Interesting, the many post-death manuals were for the living, as preparation for the deceased's bewildering encounter with the underworld (Duat), as well as the dead. It was believed that the family of the deceased could help the deceased through their understanding of these texts. But, the use of Texts as decorations in tombs was limited to Pharaohs (who had a unique after-death journey), and the powerful. The "Pyramid Texts" were, originally only for Pharaohs. Other classes got coffins, and these were usually decorated with spells, as well as excerpts from post-death guides. The "Book of the Dead" is a later mix of spells and how-to's: an evolved collection from many sources, shaped by unknown editors/compilers, as most so-called "sacred scriptures" are. Its spells were used by all classes. Alas, Budge, the despicable looter, stole the "Papyrus of Ani" from the Egyptians, cutting it into pieces to ship back to England. I am sure Anubis bites his head off daily.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Interesting, the many post-death manuals were for the living, as preparation for the deceased's bewildering encounter with the underworld (Duat), as well as the dead. It was believed that the family of the deceased could help the deceased through their understanding of these texts. But, the use of Texts as decorations in tombs was limited to Pharaohs (who had a unique after-death journey), and the powerful. The "Pyramid Texts" were, originally only for Pharaohs. Other classes got coffins, and these were usually decorated with spells, as well as excerpts from post-death guides. The "Book of the Dead" is a later mix of spells and how-to's: an evolved collection from many sources, shaped by unknown editors/compilers, as most so-called "sacred scriptures" are. Its spells were used by all classes. Alas, Budge, the despicable looter, stole the "Papyrus of Ani" from the Egyptians, cutting it into pieces to ship back to England. I am sure Anubis bites his head off daily.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
BillWoodruff wrote:
Alas, Budge, the despicable looter, stole the "Papyrus of Ani" from the Egyptians, cutting it into pieces to ship back to England. I am sure Anubis bites his head off daily.
Stealing it wasn't so bad - after all, the very best of folks have stolen stuff from time to time, but cutting it up was a truly transcendent crime. Anyway, forget Anubis, he was Greekified and therefore a bit more civilised. The original - Anpu - could summon up far, far nastier things than a mere biting off of the head.
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Then this upcoming (December) movie may be just the ticket to your own funeral you've been saving up for: [^]. Think how satisfied you will be with the precious gift of life, as you depart this vale of sorrows in which so many kittens die every day, knowing your cats are well provided for after your exit, and that Sekhmet, the protective aspect of Bastet, will guard you through your passage in the underworld as you move toward judgement in the Hall of Maat. This sweet satisfaction: consider how even more honeyed it shall be knowing that you will never see the abomination known as Taylor Swift degrading the sacred nature of Catness with her dreadful mixture of botox, off-key singing, spastic dancing, and paparazzi fueled sneering self-intoxication ! Surely your soul will pass the test of being weighed against the feather of Maat, and you will be allowed rebirth. Meow !
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
Bast was shown as a lioness, especially in earlier periods, known for laying the hearts of evil ones at the feet of the king. "Can I haz offendr hartz?" Her city was in the delta, while Sekhmet was more of a southern goddess originally. Budge's books were bad when written and are worse now, but keep getting reprinted because they're public domain. Mention Budge to an Egyptologist and watch for fun reactions (be ready to duck). Ihy would be the god to call on for defense against bad singing. Add his mom Hathor for a double-whammy!
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Bast was shown as a lioness, especially in earlier periods, known for laying the hearts of evil ones at the feet of the king. "Can I haz offendr hartz?" Her city was in the delta, while Sekhmet was more of a southern goddess originally. Budge's books were bad when written and are worse now, but keep getting reprinted because they're public domain. Mention Budge to an Egyptologist and watch for fun reactions (be ready to duck). Ihy would be the god to call on for defense against bad singing. Add his mom Hathor for a double-whammy!
@PaulKemner @User-10966534 The real problem I have with ancient Egypt is that I wasn't there :omg: My impression is that Sekhmet is the leonine aspect of Bast/et, or vice-versa. In reality, even with the best archaeological evidence, it is often hard to discern how/when/where the overdetermined multiple layers of iconic representations originated, and which were salient for different social classes in different periods. There is often a continuity in "little tradition" iconography that is probably "lost to us" forever in the shadows of "great tradition" semiotics. Ancient geo-politics, trade routes, unique cultural contacts, top-down re-formulations of iconography (as, for example, the Mesopotamian priest of Bel-Marduk, Berosus, performed for Ptolemy I Soter of Egypt) ... it's a soup for nuts I always find tasty :) btw, the image of a male human-lion chimera is of great interest to me, going back to the ivory Löwenmensch figurine of the Hohlenstein-Stadel circa 40,000 BCE [^] ... and its many later manifestations, as in the headgear of Herakles, the lion-headed man encircled by twining serpents in the Mithraic tradition, etc.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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BillWoodruff wrote:
Alas, Budge, the despicable looter, stole the "Papyrus of Ani" from the Egyptians, cutting it into pieces to ship back to England. I am sure Anubis bites his head off daily.
Stealing it wasn't so bad - after all, the very best of folks have stolen stuff from time to time, but cutting it up was a truly transcendent crime. Anyway, forget Anubis, he was Greekified and therefore a bit more civilised. The original - Anpu - could summon up far, far nastier things than a mere biting off of the head.
Chris C-B wrote:
Stealing it wasn't so bad - after all, the very best of folks have stolen stuff from time to time,
Please leave your door unlocked, and your credit cards in plain sight, and let me know when you are not home, so I can improve myself :wtf:
Chris C-B wrote:
forget Anubis, he was Greekified
The use of the commonly used spelling of today should not distract an informed reader from the clear meaning of my statement in the context of the millenia of pre-Ptolemaic Egyptian religion where Anubis was known as "a God who swallows millions." The "casting" of the golden wolf of Africa (mistakenly identified as a 'jackal') [^], a feared scavenger of the buried dead, as Anubis, divine protector of the dead, is a very interesting example of what I call "paradoxical juxtaposition of antipodes" in myth.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
