On 12 Mar 2007 18:50:02 -0500, kidhacker@nym.alias.net (::KidHacker
NP-b54) wrote:
>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
I thought you would be taking Dude with you.
LOL,
darkshadows
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