Humanistheart
Well-Known Member
On another thread clear has made this claim, that egyptian symbolism parrallels christians. However, as his posts have become increasingly irrelevant to the main topic of the thread I've created this, in hopes that he will provide evidence for his claim here and stop further derailing the premise of the original thread.
Part of the point in this exercise is that the egyptian symbolism has perfectly legitimate Christian parallels. For example, the Christians USE the same ANK symbol as the egyptians, and they COMBINE symbols to create new and different concepts just as we combine different stock symbols in a 26 letter alphabet in various ways to create words (which ultimately represent concepts). The egyptologists are able to match stock symbols just as any kindergartner child can match the letter "A" on a page with one on another piece of paper. It is a "lower level" matching game. To suggest the egyptologist Deveria "translated" the document given him in the last century simply reflects a huge overstatement. To Deveria, MOST of a redacted hebrew story, using non-stock egyptian symbols WOULD HAVE BEEN "gibberish".
The hebrew redactor would have combined symbols as best he could, IN THE SAME WAY THE EGYPTIANS THEMSELVES DID THIS, and just as languages continue to do today. We SHARE words and they become part of our new society. The Germans will, for example, OFTEN use the american word "Perfekt" (meaning "perfect") rather than the german word "volkomen" (meaning "perfect") and it is acceptible to do so.
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