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Subject: Re: Mummies - 12 files - "egyptian-mummy-3.jpg" yEnc (1/1)
Date: 12 Mar 2007 18:50:02 -0500
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On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 06:23:05 GMT, WingedMessenger <Boy@Flying.high>
wrote:
:>"::darkshadows::" <behind@u.org> wrote in
:>news:tns3v25ciq0dbuc51opqe8qeatkp9cabeu@4ax.com:
:>
:>> On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:29:30 GMT, "Rolex" <rolex@astraweb.com> wrote:
:>>
:>>>believe this guy was a slave. notice his arms, as if in a prayer to his
:>>>master
:>>>heard somewhere that only kings were allowed to fold their arms over the
:>>>heart
:>>>any takers on this ??????????
:>>
:>>
:>> I have read the same.
:>>
:>
:>Yes this is the case. Kings only, but his queen would be allowed to have
:>one arm on the chest. Others would have their arms down by their sides.
:>Strange to say that in the UK this is often the case where a man has his
:>arms folded but women down their side. I assume this is a family choice.
:>This was done so the King had his heart protected during transition to the
:>next life. Only after the opening of the mouth ceremony was he able to use
:>them. The heart was protected because it was belief that the heart did
:>what we know the brain to do, and vice versa, the soul was in the heart
:>and so it must be well protected until the weighing of the heart ceremony
:>in the presence of Anubis to determine whether the person was worthy to
:>enter the afterlife or not.
:>
:>Mercury.
Heart and brain be buggered. What status did one have to have in order
to drape one's hands protectively over one's weenie?
If I'm making a transition into a "next life," it's the one part I AM
taking with me...
KH NP-b54
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