"::darkshadows::" <behind@u.org> wrote in
news:eerbv2tfc27sqd2v7c28atc49fndvq7vu7@4ax.com:
> 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
>
Dont panic old one, it will be carefully bandaged and will have included
within the wrappings a small ankh to ensure life and that it will work on
you arrival in eternity. But as a precaution, may I suggest you make
arrangements to have it encased in plaster just in case.
Mercury.
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