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You deny, then, that you worship cats, and abjure Taylor Swift ?
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Of course! Worship is Herself's job ...
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The good thing is that nowadays you don't need to paint all that stuff on the walls of your burial chamber - you just need to slip a copy of Mr. E. A. Wallis Budge's eminent tome in your coffin for future reference.
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Interesting, the many post-death manuals were for the living, as preparation for the deceased's bewildering encounter with the underworld (Duat), as well as the dead. It was believed that the family of the deceased could help the deceased through their understanding of these texts.
But, the use of Texts as decorations in tombs was limited to Pharaohs (who had a unique after-death journey), and the powerful. The "Pyramid Texts" were, originally only for Pharaohs.
Other classes got coffins, and these were usually decorated with spells, as well as excerpts from post-death guides.
The "Book of the Dead" is a later mix of spells and how-to's: an evolved collection from many sources, shaped by unknown editors/compilers, as most so-called "sacred scriptures" are. Its spells were used by all classes.
Alas, Budge, the despicable looter, stole the "Papyrus of Ani" from the Egyptians, cutting it into pieces to ship back to England. I am sure Anubis bites his head off daily.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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BillWoodruff wrote: Alas, Budge, the despicable looter, stole the "Papyrus of Ani" from the Egyptians, cutting it into pieces to ship back to England. I am sure Anubis bites his head off daily.
Stealing it wasn't so bad - after all, the very best of folks have stolen stuff from time to time, but cutting it up was a truly transcendent crime.
Anyway, forget Anubis, he was Greekified and therefore a bit more civilised. The original - Anpu - could summon up far, far nastier things than a mere biting off of the head.
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@Chris-C-BChris C-B wrote: Stealing it wasn't so bad - after all, the very best of folks have stolen stuff from time to time,
Please leave your door unlocked, and your credit cards in plain sight, and let me know when you are not home, so I can improve myself  Chris C-B wrote: forget Anubis, he was Greekified
The use of the commonly used spelling of today should not distract an informed reader from the clear meaning of my statement in the context of the millenia of pre-Ptolemaic Egyptian religion where Anubis was known as "a God who swallows millions."
The "casting" of the golden wolf of Africa (mistakenly identified as a 'jackal') [^], a feared scavenger of the buried dead, as Anubis, divine protector of the dead, is a very interesting example of what I call "paradoxical juxtaposition of antipodes" in myth.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Bast was shown as a lioness, especially in earlier periods, known for laying the hearts of evil ones at the feet of the king. "Can I haz offendr hartz?" Her city was in the delta, while Sekhmet was more of a southern goddess originally.
Budge's books were bad when written and are worse now, but keep getting reprinted because they're public domain. Mention Budge to an Egyptologist and watch for fun reactions (be ready to duck).
Ihy would be the god to call on for defense against bad singing. Add his mom Hathor for a double-whammy!
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The real problem I have with ancient Egypt is that I wasn't there 
My impression is that Sekhmet is the leonine aspect of Bast/et, or vice-versa.
In reality, even with the best archaeological evidence, it is often hard to discern how/when/where the overdetermined multiple layers of iconic representations originated, and which were salient for different social classes in different periods.
There is often a continuity in "little tradition" iconography that is probably "lost to us" forever in the shadows of "great tradition" semiotics.
Ancient geo-politics, trade routes, unique cultural contacts, top-down re-formulations of iconography (as, for example, the Mesopotamian priest of Bel-Marduk, Berosus, performed for Ptolemy I Soter of Egypt) ... it's a soup for nuts I always find tasty 
btw, the image of a male human-lion chimera is of great interest to me, going back to the ivory Löwenmensch figurine of the Hohlenstein-Stadel circa 40,000 BCE [^] ... and its many later manifestations, as in the headgear of Herakles, the lion-headed man encircled by twining serpents in the Mithraic tradition, etc.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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If your significant other asks you to do an unpleasant chore and you botch it up bad enough they'll never ask you to do it again.
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And bring it up at every dinner with their family for the rest of your life together.
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Mike Hankey wrote: If your significant other asks you to do an unpleasant chore and you botch it up bad enough they'll never ask you to do it again.
for those not married yet:
once you are married make that above a priority SOP when asked to do 'a favor' for in laws (esp if it's a big family) otherwise it never ends.
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In-laws and out-laws implied!@
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And most important of all: you know nothing about computers.
Otherwise, you are tech support for anything more complicated than a mains plug for ever ... and for free.
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computers,
these days it's them damn smartphones, and they're worse:
"can you help me setup ..." as they shove it into your face
(that's why worse - unlike computers they don't have to lure/bribe you to their desk/home)
truth is I really do know bugger all about smart phones beyond calls, basic messaging, and setting up standard wifi. my old eyes and fat fingers (and total lack of interest) aren't made for much more than that.
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Yeah ... Android I can cope with - I have an Android phone, and tablet - but how would I know why Apple are suddenly complaining each time they check their email?
And frankly, it's not very obvious or easy to use once you get past "run farcebok" and "lemme into iTunes" territory.
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"Uh, sure, which version of OpenVMS are you using?"
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"uh ... Vista, I think." 
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"Oh, then you'll need a complete reinstall."
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True story...Meeting minute-taking duties used to go round-robin at a company I worked for. One of my co-workers had permanently got himself out of it with that approach.
It only works for the first person who does it, however.
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True, after that they either catch on or run out of people to do it!
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It's blunt, I now have a long beard (it's been blunt for quite a while). 
Also I avoid making decisions I don't have to. I usually find if I ignore things long enough the problem goes away. It's amazing how effective this is! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: if I ignore things long enough the problem goes away
And how do you sneak past the hordes with torches and pitchforks that have set up a camp at your door?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I ignore them, of course!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I Igor[^] them!
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Forogar wrote: Also I avoid making decisions I don't have to. I usually find if I ignore things long enough the problem goes away. It's amazing how effective this is!
I learned that many years ago!
Corollaries:
If I ignore tasks created by managers, the task usually goes away. And better yet, the manager.
If I ignore customers, they usually figure out what they did wrong on their own.
If I ignore my significant other, new problems get created and the original one escalates!
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