Talk:Book of the Heavenly Cow

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Merger proposal[edit]

I believe The Legend of the destruction of mankind should be merged here. The "Destruction of Mankind" title was applied by Miriam Lichtheim to the portion of the Book of the Heavenly Cow that she translated in Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume II. Really, though, that text is simply the first part of the unified Heavenly Cow narrative; in the remaining portion Re withdraws into the sky, apparently tired of governing the rebellious humans, and begins the cyclical journey to and from the underworld that the Egyptians saw as the cause of day and night. The book also compares the death of the pharaoh and his spirit's flight into the afterlife—which is the purpose of the whole book, because it is a funerary text—to the sun god's original withdrawal to the sky.

The part of the story described in The Legend of the destruction of mankind is the impetus for the god's withdrawal and the subsequent reorganization of the cosmos. There's really no reason the whole text shouldn't be covered in a single article. A. Parrot (talk) 20:07, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nobody objected, even the creator of the other article, so I went ahead and merged. A lot of the text in the other article, analyzing the book, was sourced to a website that didn't seem to have anything except the bare translation by Budge. Therefore, I did not include that content in this article, although where possible I replaced it with my own content, supported by my own sources. The only content that I actually merged into this article was the sentence about the Akhenaten connection, plus two external links (one with the Budge translation, one with the original hieroglyphs.) A. Parrot (talk) 01:21, 11 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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