09-17-2011, 04:27 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction
After reading the wiki article on deconstructionism I'm still not sure I entirely understand it but it has led to one insight;
"Its apparently solid ground is no rock, but thin air."
What I've been doing with the Pyramid Texts is to some extent deconstructionism and what I've been doing the the pyramid is reverse engineering.
But where as wiki says all texts from western civilization have nothing outside the text, the ancient thinking and ancient texts are different and this might be part of the reason they were not understood. There is solid ground in the Pyramid Texts. It is all solid ground but it is "landscaped" by hyperbole and rhymes. It is full of puns and word play and it is built on solid ground while complete in itself.
I believe it is complete because the authors used the words of the "Neters" (the Gods) (the natures). It is an expression of the Gods because they thought in term of those Gods. Even what they built and how they lived were an expression of the Gods. Each term, each part of nature in the PT is defined in terms of each other part so it is complete in itself. It says what it says and means what it means even though it is broadly mistranslated and wholly misunderstood. Even the lack of referrents can't obscure its meaning because these referrents can be deduced.
What we say and what we write is dependent on our place in time and space. What the ancients wrote transcends it's authors because the authors lived through nature and were in a time and place that were ageless and independent of influences outside of nature which apply everywhere.
It is the Greek misunderstanding of this which created western civilization and it is our misunterstanding of western civilization which makes these words so opaque. But it is nature itself which can and will unravel these words so that everyone can see them. I may have to be nature's instrument in this case.
Most people say I'm a tool anyway.
