America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization by Graham Hancock

Author:Graham Hancock [Hancock, Graham]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781250153746
Google: 1O5wDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B07FM68G9Z
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Goodreads: 42111547
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2019-04-01T23:00:00+00:00

This is not the place to elaborate further on the Birdman myth, or on the extensive traditions surrounding the god Horus, one of the most famous and complex figures in the ancient Egyptian pantheon. Entire books could be, and have been, written about each and there are great differences between the two as well as some rather striking similarities. What remains to be resolved is whether these similarities are purely coincidental or whether there is some deep, hidden, and previously undetected connection.

Then there’s the question of pygmies and dwarfs. They enjoyed special favor in ancient Egypt, where their mummified remains have survived in a number of tombs. They were regarded as possessing more than human powers—there is even a pygmy god named Bes—and they were given positions of importance in the funerary texts.114 For example, in a vignette to chapter 164 of the Book of the Dead we see a goddess flanked by two dwarfs, each of whom is depicted with two heads, one of a man and one of a falcon.115 And in the Pyramid Texts, the deceased on his afterlife journey declares:

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