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Have you read 1984?
Do you know the meaning of 'double-think'?
Can you relate this to such notions as -> Egypt may be in Africa, but Ancient Egypt isn't African, because it belongs to 'middle east', or 'near east' or 'west' ? ? ?
How about the irony of people professing to teach a 'western civilization' in which the notion of 'blacks' is a claimed invention of the 'west'.
In fact historical references to 'blacks', ie -> km.t, in Africa, in South Asia and elsewhere go back to the very dawn of history, whereas 'western civilization' itself *does not exist* in history.
Don't you have any thoughts on this?
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Good topic as food for thought and spotlight on the fraud called "Western civilization", something that I've made a point about many times on this board.
The deceitful have long seen *repetition* of disinformation and lies as a necessary propaganda tool for the "manufacture of consent" and "rewriting history"; the notorious Nazi spin-doctor doesn't make this fact any blunter when he says:
"If you repeat a lie often enough, it will be accepted as truth." - Josef Goebbels, Propaganda Minister for Hitler.
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Precisely: People routing refer to the history of Western Civilization as if they are describing a polity with a several thousand year old continuous history, never stopping to even ask the obvious questions about why this supposedly 'naturalized' construct fails to appear in history books, or occur to any of it's protagonists or adversaries.
There is no Western Civilization in the works of the Roman or Greeks.
There is no Western Civilisation in the writings of Sun Tzu or Machaivelli or Al-Jihaz.
From Jihaz: The Superiority of the blacks over the whites
We Blacks have conquered the country of the Arabs as far as Mecca and governed them. The desert swarm with the number of our men who married your women and who became chiefs and defended you against your enemies. You even have sayings in your language which vaunt the deeds of our kings - deeds which you often placed above your own; this you would not have done had you not considered them superior to your own. We defeated Dhu Nowas (Jewish ruler of Yemen) and killed all the Himyarite princes, but the Arabs and Whites (from Europe) have never conquered our country. ->
We know of Blacks and Arabs, we know of whites, but where is this 'west'?
Is it and invisible reality of history that simply failed to occur on historians until Rockerfeller discovered it?
Where is the west in the writings of the Buddha?
Where is the west in the writings of Jesus Christ?
Yet we are told Christainity is *Western*.
When the Romans killed Jesus Christ - was this intracene violence between *westerners*, or was Jesus and Eastern religious cult leader murdered by the west?
Apparently the power of propaganda is the power to make up a story, and project back onto the past as if it were and eternal reality.
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Mr ws.t(aka Rasol) is right, but you have some kind of obsession with the ws.t, you stopped using that "ws.t" word in your posts when someone mentioned that to you. I'm trying to moderate that thread. It's an interesting one, but let's keep it objective. Especially for Africans who were not exposed much to European culture or oppression...From my point of view it's a racist term that would like to define a civilized world: Western Europe, North America and Israel, yes Israel, since many of their leaders clearly state that they are part of the western civilization in many interviews...I remember few years ago, Ehud Omert was the mayor of Jerusalem and was talking to a CNN reporter and mentioned that Israel was part of the civilized world(aka the Western Civilization). The problem is that it's very difficult to fight that notion since it is intertwined with human rights values and democracy in the 20th and 21th century. Whereas it was linked to oppression and colonization in the early 20th century and slavery and colonization in the 19th century, 18th century and to a certain extent in the 17th century...
It's important to analyze how the notion of the Western world evolved, otherwise it can lead to generalization that are not intellectually sound...As an example, without the SADC(Southern Africa organization), South African Blacks would have had a hard time to fight apartheid, but at the same time the West not Russia or Eastern European countries or Asian countries helped to create conditions for Black South Africans and Namibians to be free from the racist Boer(Dutch Bastard(genetically) or Mulatto) and German oppression. Let's have an intellectual discourse here. How the notion of "Western civilization" evolved from savagery in the 17th, 18th and 19th century with respect to slavery to a noble notion in the late 20th century and 21st century, to the point American leader, some Western European and Israeli leaders keep quoting it in the 21st century...Let's analyze that evolution...
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As an example, without the SADC(Southern Africa organization), South African Blacks would have had a hard time to fight apartheid, but at the same time the West not Russia or Eastern European countries or Asian countries helped to create conditions for Black South Africans and Namibians to be free from the racist Boer(Dutch Bastard or Mulatto) and German oppression.
Really? How do you suppose the apartheid state got a hold of Mirage jet fighters, and even produced local spin-offs from it, namely the Cheetah jet fighters, which were used mostly against Black Africans. Who do you think helped them in this project, in the Levant? The same could be said of Puma helicopters, in terms of where they purchased that technology. In fact, what do you suppose the apartheid state started an 'indigenous' attack helicopter program for, and to be used against whom, and based on what technology? Who do you think assisted the apartheid state in their effort to develop nuclear weapons, which was apparently abandoned upon the dismantle of the white-run apartheid state? Why did the apartheid state fight in Angola against "communism" [perceived to be Russian cancer]? How did the apartheid state last as long as it did, if it weren't for the assistance of the so-called "west"?
Your statement has contradiction, when you say:
the West not Russia or Eastern European countries or Asian countries helped to create conditions for Black South Africans and Namibians to be free from the racist Boer(Dutch Bastard or Mulatto) and German oppression.
Is Germany not part of the "West"?
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Your statement has contradiction, when you say:
the West not Russia or Eastern European countries or Asian countries helped to create conditions for Black South Africans and Namibians to be free from the racist Boer(Dutch Bastard or Mulatto) and German oppression.
Is Germany not part of the "West"?
^ How much longer before Africa starts to grasp that the definition of West is whatever whites remake it into, in order to best control how he thinks, and so order the world, and even the past... to their advantage?
He provides excellent example of how effective propaganda can be.
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Where is the west in the writings of Jesus Christ?
The Passion of the Christ
The most pernicious aspect of Passion plays is the repetition of the charge of deicide, that is, that the Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus. The charge of deicide lies at the core of Western antisemitism.
- ah, so Jesus is not and Eastern Jewish leader. He is the God of the West, murdered by the Eastern Jews.
It's clear now.
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Is Germany not part of the "West"?
I'm talking about Germans in Namibia. They are Africans not part of the West as are Afrikaners in South Africa.They tried to make Namibia and SA part of the "West" but they failed after the Black African successful struggle.
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How the notion of "Western civilization" evolved from savagery in the 17th, 18th and 19th century with respect to slavery to a noble notion in the late 20th century and 21st century, to the point American leader, some Western European and Israeli leaders keep quoting it in the 21st century...Let's analyze that evolution.
Let's analyze that, that was my point, I would like to bring some nuances into that thread instead of delving into Rasol's obsession. I intend to stay the course, please feel free to address the above. That's called a healthy discussion...
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^ How much longer before Africa starts to grasp that the definition of West is whatever whites remake it into, in order to best control how he thinks, and so order the world, and even the past... to their advantage?
He provides excellent example of how effective propaganda can be.
That provides excellent example to your paranoia...you thoughts should be delivered to a professional that can help you better resolve your psychological fears...
The Multinational Monitor
September 1988 - VOLUME 9 - NUMBER 9
S O U T H A F R I C A T H E S T R U G G L E C O N T I N U E S
BUSINESS AS USUAL WITH PRETORIA
By David Bates
TRADE SANCTIONS AGAINST South Africa, adopted in various forms by most governments of the industrialized world, have failed to spark major changes in that nation's policy of apartheid. The primary cause of this disappointment is the failure of sanctions to reduce significantly foreign trade with the racist regime in Pretoria. Despite the sanctions, many multinational companies continue to conduct large scale and very profitable business with the South Africa regime. Japan--which bans all direct investment in South Africa--and the United States, which adopted bans on a variety of South African imports in 1986, remain Pretoria's two largest trading partners.
Economic relations with these and other industrialized nations are vital to the prosperity of South Africa's economy. An estimated $21.5 billion, 10 percent of South Africa's total investments, are derived from direct foreign investments. As recently as 1985, more than 90 percent of the total foreign investment in South Africa was held by transnational companies based in Britain, the United States, France, West Germany and Switzerland, according to a United Nations survey. Foreign trade plays a crucial role for Pretoria as well, generating some 55 percent of South Africa's gross domestic product. Roughly 70 percent of that total foreign trade is conducted with Japan, the United States, West Germany and Britain. As of 1985, these four nations supplied more than 75 percent of South Africa's machinery, electrical equipment and chemical imports, 89 percent of its motor vehicle imports and 95 percent of its railway equipment.
Japan Moves Up
In 1987, Japan surpassed the United States as South Africa's largest trading partner, with bilateral trade of $4.27 billion. During the first six months of 1988, Japan's trade with South Africa was $2.15 billion. The Japanese government, sensitive to criticism over increased trade with South Africa, sought to downplay the figure by pointing out that South African imports had declined 9.2 percent, to slightly over $1 billion, in the first six months of the year. "It can be said that the Japanese government's request calling for business to restrain their trade with Pretoria in a voluntary manner is having an effect," said one ministry official. The decline in imports, however, was more than offset by Japan's $1.13 billion in exports to South Africa, which created a net increase in bilateral trade of 13.3 percent in the first half of 1988.
Non-Equity Links: Big Bucks for Auto Makers
Although the Japanese government forbids direct investment in South Africa by Japanese firms, Japanese companies may legally establish subsidiaries there. With such "non-equity" links, Japanese auto companies relinquish profits and direct control of the subsidiary's production and marketing activities in exchange for the subsidiary paying licensing royalties and buying parts and unassembled, "knockdown" vehicles.
In just the first half of 1988, the Toyota Motor Corp. subsidiary Toyota South African Manufacturing, Ltd.--a company wholly owned by South Africans--imported 47,927 cars and knockdown vehicles from the parent company in Japan for assembly in South Africa. The Toyota subsidiary has become South Africa's largest automaker, and Japanese cars are estimated to total 55 percent of all automobiles sold on the South African market. Japan sold a total of $954.5 million worth of completed and unassembled vehicles to South Africa in 1987, comprising almost half of all Japanese trade with that country.
In response to Japanese government pressure and international criticism, the Japanese auto industry announced in August 1988 that it would voluntarily reduce auto exports to South Africa, in terms of the yen value of the exports. But, because the yen has increased in value relative to other currencies, the industry's announcement was disingenuous. In yen terms, Japanese-South Africa trade for the first half of 1988 fell 3 percent, to 272 billion yen. In U.S. dollars, however, bilateral trade jumped 213 percent, to $2.2 billion. Favorable currency exchange rates would permit the Japanese auto industry to "reduce" exports on paper, even if the exports were increasing. Because the auto makers did not reveal the size of their proposed reduction, it is impossible to tell whether it is an accounting trick or legitimate.
Pretoria considers its economic relationship with Japan so important that it lifted apartheid restrictions on the 800 Japanese business people and their family members living in South Africa, granting them the status of "honorary whites." Mine Yoichi, an activist with the non-governmental Japan Anti- Apartheid Committee, called the honorary racial status "a shameful situation for us." West Germany's Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) and Audi also assemble cars at South African facilities and export South Africa-made auto parts back to West Germany. Volkswagen recently launched an expansion program in South Africa, while Daimler Benz has invested more than $100 million in the country since 1981.
Strategic Minerals: Pretoria's Insurance Policy
A common excuse for continued trade relationships with South Africa, particularly in the United States, is the enormous mineral wealth of the country and neighboring Namibia, a former German colony illegally controlled by Pretoria. The United States relies on South Africa for all of its andalusite imports, 58 percent of its chromium, 46 percent of its platinum-group metals and 27 percent of its manganese imports, according to the General Accounting Office (GAO). Because these minerals are needed in numerous military applications, they have been declared "strategic minerals" by President Reagan, exempting them from the import restrictions contained in the 1986 U.S. sanctions law. South African hard metal exports to the United States have almost doubled in the last year as U.S. buyers have stockpiled their inventories in anticipation of a total ban on South African mineral imports. The buyers hope augmented inventories will tide them over until alternative sources of supply become available. This dependency cuts both ways.
In 1985, South Africa pulled in some $11 billion in mineral export earnings. Moreover, in exchange for its strategic minerals, South Africa's white minority regime obtains from its industrialized foreign trading partners nuclear technology, transport equipment, computers and other vital electronic items.
In an October 1987 report, the U.N. Council for Namibia accused multinational companies--essential to these modern sectors of the South Africa economy--of reinforcing the country's apartheid system. "Since the benefits from those sectors accrue almost exclusively to whites, it can be said that transnational corporations are of particular importance to the preservation and growth of the privileges enjoyed by the white minority," the report stated.
Fuelling Apartheid
The United Nations, as well as many anti-apartheid groups and activists, place particular blame on foreign oil companies for helping the apartheid regime maintain its grip on power, noting that South Africa's dependence on imported oil could be a powerful lever for reform.
South Africa imports two-thirds of the oil it needs. "Almost all crude oil shipped to South Africa originates from countries that forbid their oil to be sold to the apartheid regime," the United Nations has found. Most of South Africa's oil is imported from Caltex Petroleum Corp. and Mobil Corp., both of the United States, British Petroleum, PLC, Royal Dutch/Shell and Total-Compagnie Miniere et Nucleaire of France.
The United States, Britain and France, not surprisingly, have consistently used their veto powers in the U.N. Security Council to block a measure--already adopted by the General Assembly and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)-- calling for a mandatory oil embargo against South Africa. Caltex and Mobil play a crucial role in the South Africa economy, supplying and refining an estimated 55 percent of South Africa's oil. Last December, when the United States adopted an anti-apartheid measure requiring U.S. firms in South Africa to pay taxes to the United States in addition to the taxes already being paid to the South African government for profits earned in South Africa, Mobil defiantly refused to pull out. Mobil's office in Cape Town said the new law would increase the company's tax rate from 57.5 percent to 72 percent, "significantly increasing the cost of doing business in South Africa." "Mobil nevertheless reiterates its determination to make its presence in South Africa an effective force for social change."
Undoubtedly, Mobil's decision to stay in South Africa was influenced by its $400 million presence in the country. British Petroleum and Royal Dutch/Shell supply Pretoria with oil and hold investments in South African gas stations, coal mines and petroleum refineries. The British engineering firm of Brown and Root was reported in March of 1987 to be trying secretly to recruit some 100 oil workers from the North Sea oil fields to work in South Africa's offshore gas field in Mossel Bay, east of Cape Town. Production there is expected to begin in 1991. Another U.S. multinational, Fluor Corp., has been managing two of South Africa's three oil-from-coal conversion plants as part of a $1 billion contract. West Germany's Lurgi GmbH company also helps operate the coal conversion facilities.
In 1984, Fluor also landed a joint contract with the French- based Framatone corporation to maintain South Africa's first nuclear-powered electric plant at Koeberg. Framatone, owned by the French government's Creusot-Loire group and the French Atomic Energy Commission, delivered the Koeberg nuclear reactors, which were built under a license held by Westinghouse Electric Corp. of the United States. Alsthom and Spie Batignolles, both from France, also helped build the Koeberg facility, while Credit Lyonnais of France led the group of banks which financed the project. Fuel rods for the Koeberg facility are manufactured by Eurofuels, a subsidiary of France's Framatone and Pechiney- Ugine-Kuhlman firms and Westinghouse. There is a good probability that many of those fuel rods contain Namibian and South African uranium mined by Rossing Uranium, Ltd. Rossing--an international conglomerate 46.5 percent owned by Britain's Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ) Corp. and lesser ownership spread among French, West German and South African companies--operates the largest open-pit uranium mine in the world. The U.N. Council for Namibia has reported that Rossing Uranium has been the "largest profit generator for its parent multinational (RTZ)" since 1982, earning the British company some $40 million in both 1986 and 1987. The U.N. council was quick to point out that Pretoria's racist and laissez faire policies made such profitability possible. "It is relatively inexpensive to produce uranium in Namibia because of racial discrimination in wages, low taxation rates and the relative freedom from societal, political, environment and other legal restraints on foreign corporations operating in the Territory," the council said.
The Rossing operations also place the company's unprotected workers and local residents--who are predominantly black--at risk because of tremendous health hazards, according to U.N. experts. "The lack of safeguards and standards to protect black workers and local inhabitants against radioactive contamination from Rossing has made mining, processing and transportation of uranium particularly harmful to these people," a U.N. report found. "Thus, the plunder of Namibia's uranium by Rossing is likely to present a serious health and environmental hazard for generations of Namibians."
South Africa's two other nuclear facilities--the Pelindaba plant, which produces radioisotopes for research, and the Valindaba uranium-enrichment pilot plant--also were built with equipment and expertise from foreign multinationals. Companies such as West Germany's Siemens AG, Messerschmidt- Boelkow-Bloem, and Leybold-Heraus, Switzerland's Sulzer Brothers and France's Hispano-Suiza helped develop the Valindaba plant, which produces enough enriched uranium to build two or three nuclear bombs each year. Foreign firms such as these have played a crucial role in providing Pretoria with the technology it needs to develop its highly secret nuclear program. Western governments, such as France, the United States and Britain, must also bear responsibility for South Africa's step into the nuclear age because they have permitted transnationals to transfer nuclear know-how to Pretoria. Pretoria's refusal to sign the Treaty of Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, its potential to build nuclear weapons and its November 1986 purchase of two converted Israeli Boeing 707 in- flight refuelling tankers have caused alarm among South Africa's neighbors. Using the 707s, South African warplanes could conceivably deliver a nuclear or conventional air strike as far as 1,200 miles from South African territory, making every city south of the Sahara a potential target of South Africa's air force.
Divestment: Money Talks
Since the U.S. Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act took effect in October 1986, over the veto of President Reagan, the campaign for divestment has led at least 19 U.S. state governments, 70 U.S. cities and some 120 universities to approve measures mandating withdrawal of more than $18.5 billion in investments in companies doing business in or with South Africa.
In 1985, France announced a ban on new investments in South Africa by French companies and said state-run public utilities would not renew contracts for South African coal purchases. Also in 1985, the governments of Denmark, Finland Iceland, Norway and Sweden adopted a sanctions program in unison, and other sanctions individually, which virtually ended their commercial relations with South Africa.
In 1986, seven Commonwealth state leaders agreed to ban new investment and reinvestment of profits earned in South Africa, all government procurement and contracts with Pretoria and all financial loans to the regime. Since the U.S. Congress approved sanctions in late 1986, 162 U.S. firms have reduced or severed their ties to South Africa, including General Electric, General Motors, IBM and Coca-Cola.
Many of these companies, however, maintain a presence in South Africa through licensing or distribution agreements. IBM, for example, sold its South Africa operations, but continues to sell products in South Africa. General Motors sold its South Africa facilities to local managers, who will continue to build and sell GM vehicles in South Africa, and GM itself will continue to send spare parts to South Africa for assembly. While sanctions have not stopped the flow of dollars or the transfer of technology to South Africa's racist government, the actions of some of South Africa's largest trading partners have raised the financial and public relations costs of doing business there. Companies with interests in South Africa, however, seem willing to bear a high price in the pursuit of profit.
David Bates is a Washington, D.C. journalist.
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Where is the west in the writings of Jesus Christ?
The Passion of the Christ
The most pernicious aspect of Passion plays is the repetition of the charge of deicide, that is, that the Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus. The charge of deicide lies at the core of Western antisemitism.
- ah, so Jesus is not and Eastern Jewish leader. He is the God of the West, murdered by the Eastern Jews.
It's clear now.
All of which is a reflection of Osirian rituals, which embodied the concept of the generative power of the earth, the black people as the seed of the earth and the jealousy of others toward this, which would lead to the dismemberment and destruction of the "original" black god. But as god of the earth itself, it is impossible to kill him because he continues to grow with renewed strength, just as the black nation will never die but always grow back.
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I-Kher-Nefert stele
Much of the extant information about the Passion of Osiris can be found on a stele at Abydos erected in the 12th Dynasty by I-Kher-Nefert (also Ikhernefert), possibly a priest of Osiris or other official during the reign of Senwosret III (Pharaoh Sesostris, about 1875 BC).
The Passion Plays were held in the last month of the inundation (the annual Nile flood), coinciding with Spring, and held at Abydos/Abedjou which was the traditional place where the body of Osiris/Wesir drifted ashore after having been drowned in the Nile.[12] The part of the myth recounting the chopping up of the body into 14 pieces by Set is not recorded until later by Plutarch. Some elements of the ceremony were held in the temple, while others involved public participation in a form of theatre. The Stela of I-Kher-Nefert recounts the programme of events of the public elements over the five days of the Festival:
* The First Day, The Procession of Wepwawet: A mock battle is enacted during which the enemies of Osiris are defeated. A procession is led by the god Wepwawet ("opener of the way").
* The Second Day, The Great Procession of Osiris: The body of Osiris is taken from his temple to his tomb.
* The Third Day, Osiris is Mourned and the Enemies of the Land are Destroyed.
* The Fourth Day, Night Vigil: Prayers and recitations are made and funeral rites performed.
* The Fifth Day, Osiris is Reborn: Osiris is reborn at dawn and crowned with the crown of Ma'at. A statue of Osiris is brought to the temple.[12]
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Contrasting with the public "theatrical" ceremonies sourced from the I-Kher-Nefert stele, more esoteric ceremonies were performed inside the temples by priests witnessed only by initiates. Plutarch mentions that two days after the beginning of the festival “the priests bring forth sacred chest containing a small golden coffer, into which they pour some potable water…and a great shout arises from the company for joy that Osiris is found (or resurrected). Then they knead some fertile soil with the water…and fashion therefrom a crescent-shaped figure, which they cloth and adorn, this indicating that they regard these gods as the substance of Earth and Water.” (Isis and Osiris, 39). Yet even he was obscure, for he also wrote, “I pass over the cutting of the wood” opting to not describe it since he considered it most sacred (Ibid. 21).
In the Osirian temple at Denderah, an inscription (translated by Budge, Chapter XV, Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection) describes in detail the making of wheat paste models of each dismembered piece of Osiris to be sent out to the town where each piece was discovered by Isis. At the temple of Mendes, figures of Osiris are made from wheat and paste placed in a trough on the day of the murder, then water added for several days, when finally the mixture was kneaded into a mold of Osiris and taken to the temple and buried (the sacred grain for these cakes only grown in the temple fields). Molds are made from wood of a red tree in the forms of the sixteen dismembered parts of Osiris, cakes of divine bread made from each mold, placed in a silver chest and set near the head of the god, the inward parts of Osiris as described in the Book of the Dead (XVII). On the first day of the Festival of Ploughing, where the goddess Isis appears in her shrine where she is stripped naked, Paste made from the grain is placed in her bed and moistened with water, representing the fecund earth. All of these sacred rituals were climaxed by the eating of sacramental god, the eucharist by which the celebrants were transformed, in their persuasion, into replicas of their god-man (Larson 20).
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Although there were ethical and ceremonial considerations none of these could compare to the power of the divine eucharist, since it was literally believed to be the body (bread) and blood (ale) of the god. Since the ancient Nilotics believed that humans were whatever they eat, this sacrament was, by extension, able to make them celestial and immortal. The doctrine of the eucharist ultimately has its roots in prehistoric (symbolic) cannibalism, whose practitioners believed that the virtues and powers of the eaten would thus be absorbed by the eater. This phenomenon has been described throughout the world.
One of the oldest of the Pyramid Texts is the Unas[13] from the 6th Dynasty (circa 2500 BC). It shows that the original ideology of Egypt commingled with Osirian concepts. Although ultimately given a high place in heaven by order of Osiris, Unas is at first an enemy of the gods and his ancestors, whom he hunts, lassoes, kills, cooks, and eats so that their powers may become his own. This was written at a time when the eating of parents and gods was a laudable ceremony, and this emphasizes how hard it must have been to stamp out the older order of cannibalism. “He eats men, he feeds on the gods…he cooks them in his fiery cauldrons. He eats their words of power, he swallows their spirits…. He eats the wisdom of every god, his period of life is eternity…. Their soul is in his body, their spirits are within him.” A parallel passage is found in the Pyramid Text of Pepi II, who is said to have “seizeth those who are a follower of Set…he breaketh their heads, he cutteth off their haunches, he teareth out their intestines, he diggeth out their hearts, he drinketh copiously of their blood!” (line 531, ff). Although crude, this was a core concept, the conviction that one could receive immortality by eating the flesh and blood of a god who had died became a dominating obsession in the ancient world. Although the cult of Osiris forbade cannibalism, it did not outlaw dismemberment and eating of enemies, and practiced the ritual rending and eating of the sacred bull, symbolizing Osiris.
Although this sacramental concept only originated once in history, it spread throughout the Mediterranean area and became the dynamic force in every mystery cult. It was only by this sacerdotal means that the corruptible deceased could be clothed in incorruption and this idea appears again and again in infinite variety. The scribe Nebseni implores: “And there in the celestial mansions of heaven which my divine father Tem hath established, let my hands lay hold upon the wheat and the barley which shall be given unto me therein in abundant measure” (Ibid. LXXII). Nu corroborates that this is the eucharist by saying: “I am established, and the divine Sekhet-hetep is before me, I have eaten therein, I have become a spirit therein, I have abundance therein.” (Ibid. LXXVII) Again Nu states: “I am the divine soul of Ra…which is god…I am the divine food which is not corrupted” (Ibid. LXXXV). The ancientness of the concept is again reaffirmed in the Pyramid Text of Teta (2600 BC) where the Osiris Teta “receivest thy bread which decayeth not, and thy beer which perisheth not” In the Text of Pepi I we read: “All the gods give thee their flesh and their blood…. Thou shalt not die.” In the Text of Pepi II the aspirant prays for “thy bread of eternity, and thy beer of everlastingness” (Line 390).
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris
