Tutankhamun
The Ancients
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Toussaint Commons' Restoration of the Old Ways
The restoration of the old ways was I think in many ways very very simple. They left a manna and they moved back to the traditional cities. So Memphis and thieves flourished again. And yes, it must have been an amazing thing to do because for the Egyptian people who had been told that they had to worship one god and then suddenly to have the old gods put back again. Tutankhamun comes along, puts Osiris back in his right place as god of the dead and suddenly the elite can once again look for an afterlife in the field of reeds.
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