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Jiang's interpretive move in which Egyptian myth is read as a ritual program to enact, not a belief narrative.
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myth as script
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "So Ra must kill him every night, okay? And there are different ways that he kills Ophiathus. Sometimes he stabs Ophiathus with a knife...."
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The Ra, Osiris, and Horus myths are interpreted not as stories to believe but as scripts to act out, because the pharaoh is treated as the literal reincarnation of those gods.
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"So Ra must kill him every night, okay? And there are different ways that he kills Ophiathus. Sometimes he stabs Ophiathus with a knife...."
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"And so Osiris, oh, let me try. So Osiris jumps in the tomb, and he's like, whoa, it's really comfortable. And of course, Seth..."
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"...if you don't see it as a story, but as a script, it makes a lot more sense, right? It's not something to be..."
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The lecture turns evil into a technology of dissociation: ancient priests allegedly learn to split the pharaoh into identities, modern institutions learn to do it to everyone, and the hard refrain is that social...
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