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Greeks took everything from Egyptians and everybody now that. Not order by hundred but 5000 years end more,egipt build piramids in same time Greeks didn't build nothing but minoans.......

at 9:53 J. Quack mentions the association of the Bull with Seth and the cut off leg of the bull as the leg of Seth. Can it then be understood that it is the leg of Seth that is being offered to the recently deceased in some vignettes in the opening of the mouth ritual? Or is it more of the idea of the Big Dipper being offered to the recently mummified?

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This is true, we can see many different cultures blended within phoenician culture. At least it appears this way. My little theory is, the reason why so many different cultures are recognizable in phoenician culture, is because the phonenicians, who traveled to almost every know land, and who assimilated to a significant degree with almost every culture they settled upon, were LENDING their OWN culture more than borrowing from others. Not that they didnt borrow, they most certainly did, but i think alot of the similar elements we see shared between phoenicians and other cultures originated and spread with the phoenicians. For example, the sphinx. I think rather than the greeks, Assyrians, etc borrowing it from the mainly stationary egyptians, they all get it from the phoenicians. This calls the gigantic sphinx in egypt into question lol. The egyptians themselves admit that they discovered the sphinx as a mystery, they didnt know who built it. Northern Egypt was often occupied by western semites like the canaanite hyksos, and by looking at things like the architectural patterns, lack of hieroglyphics in northern egypt(phoenicians are master builders and love to leave behind no writing lol), the reaction the egyptians themselves had to the sphinx, the fascination the phoenicians had with the pyramid as a symbol, all this seems to allow for the ancient fathers of the phoenicians to be a candidate for who built the sphinx. I wouldnt be surprised if they decended from the builders. Btw, LOVE your book "Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean" , just bought it yesterday and i cant put it down, amazing work thank you!

Did Pericles eat gyros?

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