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The history of Judgment

Trimijopulos

Hard-core atheist
Premium Member
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Before the decipherment of the hieroglyphic script the only direct reference to the judgment, outside the literature of the Abrahamic religions, was, as far as I know, that of Plato (Gorgias 523-524) who wrote that initially the gods were judging humans alive.
In popular legends, from cultures all around the world, reference is made to one of the gods being the judging god but these legends were recorded in modern times and they may had been contaminated by the modern concept of the Last Judgment.

On deciphering the Egyptian script, it was realized that the entire corpus of the religious texts, which had been used from 2500 BCE up to the Christian era, had to do with the judgment of the dead (not of their souls) by the gods and that the texts were composed of “speeches” (“prayers” is not the correct term) which the person being judged should deliver in front of the judging gods. It appeared as if the ancient Egyptian people suffered some kind of compulsive preoccupation with the judgment, as if the judgment of living people, that Plato mentioned, was to them a fresh and painful memory.

In the Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible, one of the books is called “Judges”. What short of judges were they? I think that the following passage will provide an idea:

Then his master shall bring him unto the judges (Elohim) he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever. (Ex. 21:6)

These judges of the Israelites held office at a time when there were no kings yet. The judges were the precursors of the kings.
The Elohim are the gods, and if we take into consideration the fact that the God, the One and Only, Yahweh, is reported as having said that he intended to go down to earth to judge the Sodom people alive (something that eventually he did not do and burned the people alive without ever finding out whether they were guilty or not), we are to seriously suspect that we are indeed dealing with memories of actual events and not theological concepts (the theologians would not have presented the omniscient God as not knowing whether the people at Sodom were wicked or not).

Our only chance to collect some more evidence, or even indications, of an actual judgment of living people having taken place in the past, is the corpus of the oldest texts of humanity, the Pyramid Texts, but then they are religious texts. Not authored by the priests originally, but edited by them and thus unsuitable to be used as evidence (although they still contain intact accounts, such as the one with the Sodom story in the Tanakh).
Then, along come royal instructions to princes and royal decrees to high officials by kings of the Old Kingdom (5th-6th dynasty, 2300 BCE) of the same kings to whose pyramids the Pyramid Texts were inscribed. We learn of human breeding grounds (women abducted or women taken prisoners kept in closed spaces and raped by members of the Egyptian nobility), also of a judgment to which the half-breed offspring was subjected to and, finally, of the extermination of the children who were regarded as unsuitable (born in the image of their mothers rather than in the image of their fathers, the lords).

Thus we came to the source of the story of the judgment; and now compare the following two sentences:
1) Lords create fresh citizens and slaves in human breeding grounds. They evaluate the product of the breeding grounds by means of a judgment procedure and keep only the kids who look like the noble fathers exterminating the ones having the appearance of the mother, who is regarded sub-human.
2) Gods create humans by raping non-god women (the sons of the gods who married the daughters of the men according to the Tanakh). They evaluate the demigods produced and keep only those that came out in the image of the gods!

That is the story of the gods!
Question: How come and the scholars do not know of the ancient Egyptian human breeding grounds, the judgment and the execution of the sub-humans?
Answer: The Egyptologists (the translators among them) intentionally mistranslate the texts in order to protect religion.

Relevant evidence supporting the above claim is available in the form of “Open letters to Egyptologists”. Letters Nos 1, 3 and 4 at:

Dimitrios Trimijopulos - Academia.edu

Note: the letters are written to be read by Egyptologists but those interested in the subject are welcome to ask for clarifications and further information.
 

Rival

Si m'ait Dieus
Staff member
Premium Member
Zoroastrianism has Judgement and we came before Plato; he took a lot from us, apparently :D
 

Trimijopulos

Hard-core atheist
Premium Member
Zoroastrianism has Judgement and we came before Plato; he took a lot from us, apparently :D
Plato reported Judgment of living people. Zoroastrianism is a purely theological religion and has nothing to do with judging and exterminating living people.

Moreover, Plato got his information from the Egyptian theologians, the tutors of all modern theologians (yours are considered moderns too, compared to the ancient Egyptians).
 
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