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Whats intresting princess is that the priests of a temple worked in 5 rotations throughout the year, they worked one rotation from surviving records in that year, the rest of the time they were farmers and merchants and also would offer there services to there village/town. So the divide in egypt was very different to how we concieve of the priest from a largely christian or monothiestic view point, the priest was a priest magician not a dual functionality but a fused role.
The documentary i watched was on the history channel its called land of the gods, it has alot of very intresting other magical techniques not to dissimilar to babylonian demon bowls, and some very intresting views on the relationship of egyptian pharonic tradition to judaism and coptic and early christianity. Also how islam in cario seems to have become flavoured by the egypt of the past. First time ive seen what elaine pagels looks like as well, her book the gnostic gospels/scriptures was a big influence on me just after me mde.
One particular striking image from the program was of horus riding on horse back spearing a crocodile, not too dissimilar to images of st george, and images of st michael also come to mind.
nde, i never had an experience as a piece of model driven engineering, perhaps thats what the dolls feel like?
So has anybody actually employed barbie or action man in this fashion? a picture i couldnt find but is reminiscent of bondage were figures the egyptians bound in there traditional captive pose to bring enemies i guess under there control, the figures were kneeling with there arms bound to there lower legs, bondage for barbie anyone?
Something else comes to mind from an anime i watched recently, ghost in the shell 2 - the innocent, that presents the idea of why people deign to fashion life like replicas, that the playing of dolls serves for practice to the raising of children, that the games we play as children act as not only practice for our adult life, but also reflect how we will form associations and relations to replicas of humanity, images of humanity that we suspend our disbelief for for the reality they offer, the symbolic presence they create in our own reflections upon ourselves and our humanity. Good anime if anybody gets chance to catch it. |
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Tommorow I'll go about researching the distinction and try and prove it rather than just go the full Starhawk. Although it's more than likely offtopic, so I'll start a new thread about "Pseudo-Marxist Interpretations of the High\Low divide". Thanks for the links Slackula, some interesting stuff.