Title: Book about pseudo Pythagorean mysticism not ancient Egypt!
Product review: This book is really about some pseudo Pythagorean mysticism with very little to do with ancient Egypt. It's a shame that this book will make it easier for Egyptologists to ignore the the subject altogether.Egyptologist dismissal of the unknown civilization possibility is obviously dogmatic as is the favoring of Greek classic culture over others. However, West's theories - ranging from intelligent guesses to wild fantasies but presented as facts - is every bit as dogmatic and more.Trying to reconstruct something alien to us is usually a result of our own ideas but West take it to the extreme with nothing really to link it to ancient Egypt. This book is more like a Rorschach test...Burgess tells a story about a Moslem scholar trying to figure out the completely alien notion (to him at least) of tragedy and coming to the conclusion that it must be the art of praising something...
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