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From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: The Saturn Myth:  Ra
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Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 14:14:47 EDT
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It amazes me: Ted Holden probably laughs at his own postings. I know it!

In article <385@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes:
>     You've  seen  it  in  the  movies,  you've  read  it in books;  Ra
>was the great sun god of the Egyptians.  Right?  Maybe.

I guess Ted got conflicting evidence from the TV.

>     The following lines  are  direct  quotes  from  "The  Gods  of the
>Egyptians", Vol I, pages 339-348:
>[A lot of out-of-context quotes from the Egyptian Book of The Dead
> mentioning circles and Ra]
>  .....
>          Think real hard, readers.  What is the one thing in our solar
>     system which is surrounded by Circles, or a greak Disk? 

The Sun. Darn Ted, almost and large body in our Solar system has a ring.
Jupiter has a ring, maybe even Uranus too.

More importantly, the circle was a SYMBOL to the Egyptians. You see,
they beleived that the SUN was perfect, because it was a PERFECT CIRCLE.

A story:  An Egyptian scientist noticed that on a particular day in one
Egyptian city, the shadows were straigh up-and-down (a deep well had no
shadows on the sides). Now, the Egyptians knew the sun was so far away,
that it's rays we perpendicular, so when the same scientist noted that
on the SAME DAY and SAME TIME, the shadows were angled in another city,
he realized the EARTH WAS ROUND. He hired a man to walk the distance
between the two cities and used this data to actually calculate the size
of the Earth. These calculations were found about fifty years ago in an
Egyptian library. 

How could this scientist have noticed these shadows in a binary star
system?

-- 
Charles Forsythe
CSDF@MIT-VAX
"We pray to Fred for the Hopelessly Normal
	Have they not suffered enough?"

from _The_Nth_Psalm_ in _The_Book_of_Fred_