Richard Parkinson - The Queen Shrieks: The Impact of Ancient Egyptian Poetry

April 20th, 2015 - Richard Parkinson is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford and a fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford. He is also Director of the Griffith Institute at Oxford University. He was a curator in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, British Museum until December 2013.
This lecture is the last in the Ancient Egypt/Future Tense series, which is co-sponsored by the Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, and ARCE New England.
View the podcast of this talk at Oxford which includes actress Barbara Ewing: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/queen-shriek...

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Intriguing how similar the sounds (and names) of ancient Egypt are to those of the Aztecs

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And they wanted us to believe that Egyptians only wrote in hieroglyphics...
Their pictorial messages were created specifically to speak directly to all of us in future times...

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55:40 *and a very great cry was heard from the audience members who worship the Bible*

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48:16 How do you know what the kings and queens were like and how they were expressing their emotions? It may be that Egyptologists from temperamentally different cultures that have different social norms regarding expressing emotions would suggest different interpretation hypotheses.
On another note, might one’s own identity or merely preferences and/or life experiences have an impact on what they see when they look at an offering scene to Min? I suspect that sexual acts, symbols, and other references to sex had different meanings to them than to us. Initiatory sexual relations were still present in Socrates’ time, weren’t they? (Granted, it’s quite a stretch of imagination to visualise Socrates as Seth 😄).
There is talk these days about all sorts of ‘-centrism’s. Maybe we should have also, another term- chronocentrism, for example, when we try to interpret a material not only from a very different culture, but placed so far back in time from us.

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52:39 How else could have Gardner have interpreted this? Men knew then with an even greater clarity than now that women are hysterical creatures at the whim of their uteri. Obviously 😄
Has it ever occurred to anyone that the queen might have cried out because she was empathising with/ feeling pity for poor Sinuhe and/or appalled at the prospect of him being punished harshly?

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Could there be a slight xenophobic element to the queen's cry? Like, "Oh my god, he became like a Syrian?! The poor thing!"

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46:25 Maybe he was bisexual 🤷‍♀️ Just sayin’ 😄