What confused me the most was the fact that Nut was pregnant with all of their kids at once. I'm pretty sure that's not how it works, but who knows? Maybe anatomy and conception was radically different back then. Or maybe they just had better excuses for adultry . . .
Anyway, it was also interesting that the story of Isis hiding Horus in the Nile was so similar to the story of Moses. Angry powerful people want child dead, child hidden in river, child grows up to deal with said no good very bad authority. So far Horus hasn't led a nation of slaves through a sea and eventually to freedom, but give him time, right?
Here's a few more things I don't think the Egyptians understood very well: physics and plant life. Okay, if you throw a wooden box containing a person into a river, it could possibly float, depending on the weight distribution, but after dipping it in lead? Come on. And then it just grew into a tree somehow?
Well, at least they weren't pretending to have sex with horses like somebody we know of . . .
I completely thought of The Prince of Egypt too! I thought it was so strange how similar the stories were and I don't think that the Egyptians knew much about physics but to their credit, it was a loooong time ago, lol.
ReplyDeleteThis is kind of off the mark - but isn't it a bit strange that the power of God is shown through that song as a snake? Aren't snakes symbols of the Earth Goddess? Seems a bit wonky to me...
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