Mysteries of Ancient Egypt with Dr. Kara Cooney
Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma
The Priestly Class's Scheme to Kill Animals
As the funding is pulled from Egyptian temples, as decentralization and state collapse begins, the priests are like, well, what the hell do we do now? And they decide to create this animal mummification scheme in which they breed the animal dedicated to in their temple. So if it's temple to so back, they'll breed crocodiles, temple to baste, they'll breeding cats. Then an elite rich person will come to them and say, I have a prayer. And they're like, oh, we got you covered. And we're going to send that prayer directly to heaven with this animal, but we will kill. We'll put your prayers going to go in and
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