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. >