Dr. Campbell Price
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And there are economic reasons that closing all the temples, which are huge hubs for agricultural administration, if you do that, you kind of complicate the whole system of taxation.
of governance of the country.
So there are good reasons probably to revert those things that maybe a nine-year-old wouldn't understand.
Yes, although it's later claimed that it's edited to suggest that it was later kings that did it.
I mean, yeah, Tutankhamen in a way was relatively insignificant, but one of the, if not the most significant thing he did was the counter-reformation, the counter-revolution, the restoration of the old gods.
This is a very significant historical document, but it should be seen in the context of the fact that any new power, any new king says that
Everything that went before wasn't quite right, and I've restored things back to the way they should be.
So that is a literary trope.
It is used hundreds of years before.
So Tutankhamen in a way is following that, but the language that's used in that inscription, we know of at least two copies of it from Karnak, the home of the traditional god Amun, Amun-Ra.
The language in it is quite emotive, and you could imagine people felt pretty disenfranchised, and so the king is...
is doing probably what most people want.
Right.
Well, okay.
So I don't like to use the term propaganda for ancient Egypt because it has a set of assumptions in the more modern world that probably aren't appropriate.
Most people, you know, 95% of people can't read.
So any statement that's written is directed first and foremost to the gods themselves.
a metaphysical audience we totally underestimate and then the few elite people invested with any power uh to convince them that what this the state such as it is is doing is the right thing so i don't think it's propaganda necessarily for the populace thought just to dwell on it so all the stuff that we are reading that we assume people could read
and and is going out there is actually a lot of it's directed at the gods it's not directed at human beings at all yes exactly so i think that's important to to bear in mind in a pre-modern setting but uh you're right the the writing is emotional in a way and it does break kind of formulaic customs uh although the tropes are echoed from from centuries uh before
Yeah.
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