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 No.16609

What the FUCK is this?

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 No.16612

>>16609

He's right you know. It's a shame all you ever really hear about Egypt is how they built the pyramids. I have never heard of any texts written by ancient Egyptians. But many Greeks went there to learn among other places.

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 No.16613

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I imagine a translation into modern English of a ancient Egyptian text would be riddled with footnotes to explain something a modern English speaker wouldn't understand.

A translation from ancient Greek to English is one thing, but imagine a stranslation from ancient Egyptian… How much would be lost in translation?

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 No.16614

Reading a Greek Orthodox bible translated was surprisingly difficult. Really though i'm a bit surprised i have never heard of even a single great Egyptian thinker. No one has taken to the challenge of writing on the content of such works?

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 No.16615

>>16609

That's retarded. Your average Greek barely knew that Egypt existed until they were both under Roman rule. Besides that, the Egyptian way of thinking was pretty different from the Greek way of thinking. Egypt always sort of trended toward a sort of quasi-monotheism. Obviously there's the well-known example of the Aten controversy, but even before that it was common for Egyptian thinkers to claim that all of the important gods were just aspects of Ra, and near the end of classical Egyptian religion it was common for Egyptians to worship Isis exclusively. Greece, on the other hand, always trended toward polytheism. Greek gods were basically just superpowered human beings, so giving them metaphysical, mysterious properties such as all being the same person somehow would sound nonsensical to their highly materialistic way of thinking. And you couldn't take two steps in Greece without looking at a river or tree or something with its own minor god associated with it. Another way in which they differed was that Egyptian heroes were priest-magicians who saved the day by having magic spells memorized, while Greek heroes were cunning warriors who saved the day with strength and wit. Egyptians essentially lived in a world of vagueness and rampant incomprehensible magics, while Greeks lived in a world where everything was clearly defined and magic was materialistic if it existed at all. The central theme of Egyptian thought was maat or divine order, which represented cosmic, supernatural good. The central theme of Greek thought was basically defining things such as courage, piety, or featherless flat-nailed bipeds.

I just don't really see a basis for comparison.

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 No.16616

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>>16615

According to this guy Egypt (and some jews) was very influential to Greek society. They taught irrigation and may have ended some disease outbreaks. Great men went their to study and their… is priests the right word? traveled to Greece and conversed with kings and aristocracy. Nothing was said about impacting their religion. But as i understand Greek religion. Some regions at different time were more monotheistic. Some favored Zeus, some Apollo, other Dionysus. It's hard to make one rule for all of classical Greece because they did not have one state ruling all. Rather, their different regions generally maintained autonomy and did things their own way. Resulting in a vast difference of practices. This is fresh on my mind as i just read his book on Greek society. That is volume two, volume one focuses more on Egypt and India and other places. I would like to read it.

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 No.16618

Start with the ancient Paleo cave societies you tard. The Egyptian were just regurgitating things from the previous 8,000 years.

t. Paleontologist.

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 No.16671

>>16609

Why not start with the Sumerians?

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 No.16674

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>>16671

Start with the bronze age folks

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 No.16699

>>16609

>>16615

>was pretty different from the Greek way of thinking. Egypt always sort of trended toward a sort of quasi-monotheism. Obviously there's the well-known example of the Aten controversy, but even before that it was common for Egyptian thinkers to claim that all of the important gods were just aspects of Ra,

this is really really bad and outdated education from some hippie faggot whos probably being used as a puppet with this kind of shit intellect

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 No.16700

>>16618

no writing

fucking nigger

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