• Flying SquidOP
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    125 months ago

    There’s something to it in that the archaeologists who discovered it named that sort of thing a Benben stone after the mound of creation they are supposed to symbolize. I’d put that at more like 99% wrong but I’m willing to concede that they got the word Benben from something related to whatever the fuck they were trying to say.

    • @over_clox@lemmy.world
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      55 months ago

      In all fairness, I wasn’t there when the archaeologists named it, and I have no idea why they named it that, but yeah it’s called a Benben stone, they’ve been called that for a long time. Yeah it sounds silly, but that’s probably the only correct word in their post. 🤷‍♂️

      • Flying SquidOP
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        75 months ago

        Yeah, but like I said to someone else, not really… it’s like calling the Cleopatra’s Needle “the Egyptian obelisk.” I mean, yeah, it’s an obelisk. But it’s not THE obelisk.