Rick:

Have been under the impression that *mndt* (amenti), The Western Lands, The
Seven Souls were the first civilization-based concepts of a truly pleasant
afterlife. Perhaps you can disabuse me of such notions.




on 8/31/03 8:12 PM, Richard Seddon at [log in to unmask] wrote:


>
> Boris/Pound have inverted the proper sentence order, changed the emphasis
> and wrongly introduced the idea of "Paradise" (A Western Christian concept)
> to the translation.


> I can find no translation of "Pet" as "paradise".   In fact a "p"
> with a little star hanging from it is a logo for night,  with zig zag lines
> coming down it is a logo for rain.  Boris/Pound's changes do not even fit
> within Pound's generous translation ideology of making/letting an author
> speak in a different language.  The Egyptian was not trying to say what
> Boris/Pound have him saying.  Boris has not "humanized the egyptians/ and
> Budge didn't".  Boris has struck out totally on his own.
>