Re: [NTLK] [OT] Avi's Backdrop wallpaper images

From: Ed Kummel (tech_ed_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2002 - 14:50:58 EST


yeah sorry...this all happened way before I was born,
so my memory isn't so good...
I remember seeing some stuff about this on the
television, and then reading about it in later
years...It just POed me to such a point my anger
clouded my memory.
Ed
web/gadget guru
http://newton.tek-ed.com (download Newton packages)
http://65.84.243.167 (my NPDS server)

--- Zachery Bir <zbir_at_urbanape.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday, January 28, 2002, at 12:06 , Lou Forlini
> wrote:
>
> > At 9:48 PM -0800 1/27/02, Ed Kummel wrote:
> >> In Victorian times, when people
> >> were visiting th Egyptian ruins or the Pompei
> ruins,
> >> sculptures and mosaics that had been standing for
> >> thousands of years, depicting the god Osiris (god
> of
> >> fertility, whose main distinction was an erect
> phalus)
> >
> > Ed,
> >
> > I think you are confusing Osiris, Lord of the
> Dead, with Min, God
> > of Fertility. Min is the one who is depicted as
> you describe
> > (although there was that one incident after
> Osiris's death...)
>
> Yeah, I would imagine that Osiris is very rarely, if
> ever, depicted
> cum pudendum, as it was eaten by a fish when Set cut
> him into
> thirteen pieces. ( And why, as I understand it,
> Egyptians didn't
> [don't?] like fish - and why they rarely show up in
> hieroglyphic
> art ).
>
> Zac "Indiana" Jones - ( well, I did go to IU, and I
> did almost get
> a Folklore degree )

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