Jiang says the tomb theory morally misreads Egyptian divine kingship because it implies the Pharaoh came to earth to make the people serve his private death project, while Egyptian gods are imagined as benefactors of humanity.
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Benefactor Gods
Jiang says the tomb theory morally misreads Egyptian divine kingship because it implies the Pharaoh came to earth to make the people serve his private death project, while Egyptian gods are imagined as benefactors of humanity.
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"For this to be a tomb, this implies that the Pharaoh, because the Pharaohs are divine, right? They are basically the emanation of God..."
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.
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