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Kendra wrote: ↑Sun Feb 19, 2023 3:37 pm

The Great Patriot, who has sacrificed so much in service to his country, chimes in with the MAGA talking point du jour.

humblescribe wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 3:53 pm Once their sperm donor has a date with Charon to ferry him across the Styx, will these imbeciles go away quietly? Just fade away? Pretty please??

Junior says now that Tucker has all the J6 footage we will be able to find out if federal agents instigated the whole thing like he believes.

Gregg wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 5:37 pm Wasn't there some civilization where they buried the master's servants with him, to do his bidding in the afterlife? I would be in favor of using taxpayer money for that.

Frater I*I wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 9:56 pm

Gregg wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 5:37 pm Wasn't there some civilization where they buried the master's servants with him, to do his bidding in the afterlife? I would be in favor of using taxpayer money for that.

I think that was the Egyptians....

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 10:21 pm

Frater I*I wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 9:56 pm

I think that was the Egyptians....

The Chinese? Egyptians for sure.

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 10:21 pm
The Chinese? Egyptians for sure.

Ancient Egyptian retainer sacrifice is a type of human sacrifice in which pharaohs and occasionally other high court nobility would have servants killed after the pharaohs' deaths to continue to serve them in the afterlife. In Egypt, retainer sacrifice only existed during the First Dynasty, from about 3100 BC to 2900 BC, slowly dwindling, and eventually dying out.

Human sacrifice refers to the practice of ritual killing of human beings as offerings to divine patrons, ancestors, or other superhuman forces. While the phenomenon of ritual human killings have been present in many societies throughout history, the types of human sacrifice that were practiced by ancient Chinese and pre-Colombian Mesoamerican cultures, which were exceptional in terms of the sheer number of people sacrificed, the frequency at which it was done, and the high degree of formalization of their sacrificial rituals. Large-scale, systematic human sacrifice functioned as important political and religious spectacles in Shang dynasty.

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 10:21 pm

Frater I*I wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 9:56 pm

Gregg wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 5:37 pm Wasn't there some civilization where they buried the master's servants with him, to do his bidding in the afterlife? I would be in favor of using taxpayer money for that.

I think that was the Egyptians....

The Chinese? Egyptians for sure.

keith wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 2:16 am I don't think Egyptians buried 'human' servants. They buried 'dolls' to be used as servants in the afterlife. They did bury animals however.

Retainer sacrifice

At the royal cemetery of Umm el-Qa'ab, the tombs of the 1st Dynasty kings from Aha to Qa'a are accompanied by subsidiary burials. These burials are arranged in rows or blocks either extending from the royal tomb, as was the case with Aha, or surrounding it. The position of the subsidiary tombs compared to the royal tomb is believed to reflect the relationship of their occupants to the king during life.

Several tombs were found to contain skeletal remains. The analysis of some remains found in the subsidiary graves of Aha's tomb has shown that none of the individuals buried there was older than 25 years. This suggests that each of them may have been chosen to be buried along with the king.

From the time of Djet onwards, the owners of the subsidiary tombs would often be identified. Exceptionally, their name was painted in red ink on the south wall of their grave, but mostly it would be inscribed on a small stela that was placed in the tomb. This identification sometimes included a title. Thus we learn that a “royal sealbearer" was buried adjacent to Qa'a.
The most elaborate stela, also found in a grave next to Qa'a's burial chamber, belonged to a man named Sabef. On the stela, he is represented standing and holding a long stick, the usual posture of a high official . From his titulary, we see that he was “Keeper of the Tomb" of Qa'a and of the palace. He was also a priest and “Keeper of the Secrets and Decrees", a confident of the king.

Some of the people in the tombs next to their king were thus not nameless, anonymous people but individuals with a very distinct relationship to the king. At least a number of them were high officials.

much ado wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 2:27 am

keith wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 2:16 am I don't think Egyptians buried 'human' servants. They buried 'dolls' to be used as servants in the afterlife. They did bury animals however.

There are many sources that state that ritual sacrifice was practiced by the earliest of the ancient Egyptians.

For example...

http://www.ancient-egypt.org/from-a-to- ... ifice.html

Retainer sacrifice

At the royal cemetery of Umm el-Qa'ab, the tombs of the 1st Dynasty kings from Aha to Qa'a are accompanied by subsidiary burials. These burials are arranged in rows or blocks either extending from the royal tomb, as was the case with Aha, or surrounding it. The position of the subsidiary tombs compared to the royal tomb is believed to reflect the relationship of their occupants to the king during life.

Several tombs were found to contain skeletal remains. The analysis of some remains found in the subsidiary graves of Aha's tomb has shown that none of the individuals buried there was older than 25 years. This suggests that each of them may have been chosen to be buried along with the king.

From the time of Djet onwards, the owners of the subsidiary tombs would often be identified. Exceptionally, their name was painted in red ink on the south wall of their grave, but mostly it would be inscribed on a small stela that was placed in the tomb. This identification sometimes included a title. Thus we learn that a “royal sealbearer" was buried adjacent to Qa'a.
The most elaborate stela, also found in a grave next to Qa'a's burial chamber, belonged to a man named Sabef. On the stela, he is represented standing and holding a long stick, the usual posture of a high official . From his titulary, we see that he was “Keeper of the Tomb" of Qa'a and of the palace. He was also a priest and “Keeper of the Secrets and Decrees", a confident of the king.

Some of the people in the tombs next to their king were thus not nameless, anonymous people but individuals with a very distinct relationship to the king. At least a number of them were high officials.

Gregg wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 3:40 am So, we can bury all these phucktwaddle children with him when he assumes ambient temperature?

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 10:21 pm

Frater I*I wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 9:56 pm

Gregg wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 5:37 pm Wasn't there some civilization where they buried the master's servants with him, to do his bidding in the afterlife? I would be in favor of using taxpayer money for that.

I think that was the Egyptians....

The Chinese? Egyptians for sure.