Egypt ever seems like a place of culture that is mostly undiscovered and even less understood. Before any definition of the Ancient Egyptian culture that produced the pyramids and hieroglyphs was what was translated into that culture and that mythology worked its way into other cultures. The same entities are mentioned, in some way, in all mythologies. The experience and practice of that is not the same as mere study and analysis.
It's difficult to imagine the motivation behind the ralliement, monumental expenses of resources and time over countless generations to build structures that very few, if any people are supposed to use. Their engineering went into seemingly less useful things than did the Romans. For a desertic people, I'd assume more intellect would've been poured into the development of aqueducts over sphinxes first. But, if I was worried about pleasing a series of unfathomably terrifying gods, I assume I too would put the displacement of water on the back burner while I figured this whole proper worship thing out.
Egypt ever seems like a place of culture that is mostly undiscovered and even less understood.
Before any definition of the Ancient Egyptian culture that produced the pyramids and hieroglyphs was what was translated into that culture and that mythology worked its way into other cultures.
The same entities are mentioned, in some way, in all mythologies.
The experience and practice of that is not the same as mere study and analysis.
It's difficult to imagine the motivation behind the ralliement, monumental expenses of resources and time over countless generations to build structures that very few, if any people are supposed to use. Their engineering went into seemingly less useful things than did the Romans. For a desertic people, I'd assume more intellect would've been poured into the development of aqueducts over sphinxes first.
But, if I was worried about pleasing a series of unfathomably terrifying gods, I assume I too would put the displacement of water on the back burner while I figured this whole proper worship thing out.