#1 Mensajes privados antiguos (ENG)

Robus — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:17:47 +0000

En el antiguo egipto se han podido encontrar, en tumbas, cartas a los muertos explicandoles como les iban las cosas y pidiendoles que intercedieran por ellos, me parece curioso que pensaran que los muertos necesitaban leerlo en vez de ir a contarselo directamente de viva voz en la tumba.

Most of the surviving Letters to the Dead date to the late Old Kingdom (about 2686-2181 BC) and First Intermediate Period, and were found in or at the tomb. They are generally written on bowls, with some examples on linen or papyrus. These letters never have just the simple purpose of keeping in touch with the dead. Instead, they have a practical and urgent motive, and request help for insoluble problems of the living. The dead was treated as still very powerful. A negative spirit of a dead man or woman could be responsible for whatever might be going wrong in life. In the Letters to the Dead the writer insists that she or he has treated the dead person well in life and, by maintaining the cult of the dead, after death, and that there can be no reason for allowing ill fortune to strike the writer. The letters all refer to recently deceased members of the family - husbands, wives, parents - and not to ancestor figures. The misfortunes that cause the letters to be written range from ill health to disputes over property. The dead person is expected to intervene in the afterlife, sometimes at the court of the underworld, to put an end to the problem.

From their immediate family environment, and apparently with no person between living writer and dead reader, the letters are among the most personal expressions in Ancient Egyptian writings. They include the first recorded messages of women from Egypt. The examples from the provinces are among the earliest examples of writing in those regions.

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#1 Mensajes privados antiguos (ENG)