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From: cej@ll1.UUCP (One of the Jones Boys)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: The Saturn Myth:  Ra
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Date: Sat, 31-Aug-85 19:27:52 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 31 19:27:52 1985
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>      You've  seen  it  in  the  movies,  you've  read  it in books;  Ra
> was the great sun god of the Egyptians.  Right?  Maybe.  Let's see what
> the Egyptians  themselves had  to say,  without the interference of any
> modern interpreter standing between us and them.

	Sorry Ted, I can't read any type of Egyptian.

> Consider E. A. Wallis Budge and  his two  volumn "Gods  of the
> Egyptians", published in 1904...
>
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> 
>           Think real hard, readers.  What is the one thing in our solar
>      system which is surrounded by Circles, or a greak Disk? 

	Uh, let's see Ted.  Gee, the first thing that comes to mind
is the solar system.  Lots of planets making circles around the sun,
kind of lined up in a disk (except for crazy little Pluto).  Gee,
that wasn't hard at all!

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	disclaimer: I didn't have my breakfast this morning.

...ihnp4!mgnetp!ll1!cej		Llewellyn Jones
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