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We should have an article on every pyramid and every nome in Ancient Egypt. I'm sure the rest of us can think of other articles we should have.
Cleanup.
To start with, most of the general history articles badly need attention. And I'm told that at least some of the dynasty articles need work. Any other candidates?
Standardize the Chronology.
A boring task, but the benefit of doing it is that you can set the dates !(e.g., why say Khufu lived 2589-2566? As long as you keep the length of his reign correct, or cite a respected source, you can date it 2590-2567 or 2585-2563)
Stub sorting
Anyone? I consider this probably the most unimportant of tasks on Wikipedia, but if you believe it needs to be done . . .
Data sorting.
This is a project I'd like to take on some day, & could be applied to more of Wikipedia than just Ancient Egypt. Take one of the standard authorities of history or culture -- Herotodus, the Elder Pliny, the writings of Breasted or Kenneth Kitchen, & see if you can't smoothly merge quotations or information into relevant articles. Probably a good exercise for someone who owns one of those impressive texts, yet can't get access to a research library.
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In some myth's
Ma'at was created by
Atum when we sat down on the hill. So I would specify (in some myth's) for her. Also in some myth's Satet was created by Ra through Heka for his own pleasure, So I would do the same for her. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Netjerudua (
talk •
contribs)
19:06, 8 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Not done. The simplest reason is that you haven't provided any
sources for the change. But because we get requests like this a lot, I'm going to explain what kind of source support you need.
Per
this discussion, articles should not call two deities "equivalent" unless ancient sources explicitly equate the two deities. Such equations were very dependent on the circumstances, so that, for example, in one context a Greek might equate
Aphrodite with
Hathor, but another Greek in different circumstances might equate Aphrodite with
Isis. Because such equations were so fluid in the ancient world, cross-cultural equations of deities are not
transitive. The Greeks and Romans fairly universally equated Aphrodite with
Venus, but if one particular Greek equated Aphrodite with Hathor in one context, that did not guarantee that a particular Roman a few centuries later would equate Venus with Hathor.
By the same token, while Greek sources did sometimes equate Ra with
Helios, that does not necessarily mean that a Roman would have equated Ra with
Sol. The main obstacle here was probably that the active worship of Ra wasn't very visible in Egyptian religion by Roman times, and Romans generally had less direct contact with Egyptian religion than the Greeks did and were less likely to draw such equations. So it's possible that no Roman had occasion to equate Ra with Sol. If some Roman did do that, we would have to find a source that says so.
A. Parrot (
talk)
19:23, 23 May 2024 (UTC)reply
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We should have an article on every pyramid and every nome in Ancient Egypt. I'm sure the rest of us can think of other articles we should have.
Cleanup.
To start with, most of the general history articles badly need attention. And I'm told that at least some of the dynasty articles need work. Any other candidates?
Standardize the Chronology.
A boring task, but the benefit of doing it is that you can set the dates !(e.g., why say Khufu lived 2589-2566? As long as you keep the length of his reign correct, or cite a respected source, you can date it 2590-2567 or 2585-2563)
Stub sorting
Anyone? I consider this probably the most unimportant of tasks on Wikipedia, but if you believe it needs to be done . . .
Data sorting.
This is a project I'd like to take on some day, & could be applied to more of Wikipedia than just Ancient Egypt. Take one of the standard authorities of history or culture -- Herotodus, the Elder Pliny, the writings of Breasted or Kenneth Kitchen, & see if you can't smoothly merge quotations or information into relevant articles. Probably a good exercise for someone who owns one of those impressive texts, yet can't get access to a research library.
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In some myth's
Ma'at was created by
Atum when we sat down on the hill. So I would specify (in some myth's) for her. Also in some myth's Satet was created by Ra through Heka for his own pleasure, So I would do the same for her. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Netjerudua (
talk •
contribs)
19:06, 8 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Not done. The simplest reason is that you haven't provided any
sources for the change. But because we get requests like this a lot, I'm going to explain what kind of source support you need.
Per
this discussion, articles should not call two deities "equivalent" unless ancient sources explicitly equate the two deities. Such equations were very dependent on the circumstances, so that, for example, in one context a Greek might equate
Aphrodite with
Hathor, but another Greek in different circumstances might equate Aphrodite with
Isis. Because such equations were so fluid in the ancient world, cross-cultural equations of deities are not
transitive. The Greeks and Romans fairly universally equated Aphrodite with
Venus, but if one particular Greek equated Aphrodite with Hathor in one context, that did not guarantee that a particular Roman a few centuries later would equate Venus with Hathor.
By the same token, while Greek sources did sometimes equate Ra with
Helios, that does not necessarily mean that a Roman would have equated Ra with
Sol. The main obstacle here was probably that the active worship of Ra wasn't very visible in Egyptian religion by Roman times, and Romans generally had less direct contact with Egyptian religion than the Greeks did and were less likely to draw such equations. So it's possible that no Roman had occasion to equate Ra with Sol. If some Roman did do that, we would have to find a source that says so.
A. Parrot (
talk)
19:23, 23 May 2024 (UTC)reply