B. A Return to the Catastrophist Problematic
Is this formula true?
Or has Alford misconstrued close association
or approximation in the texts of those three components with
equality and identity? Is the formula
this:
where “≡” means “is identical to”, or this:
where “≈” means “is closely associated with”?
Mountains ≡ planets ≡ gods,
Mountains ≈ planets ≈ gods,
If the latter, then
the three things, while closely related in the text, remain
distinct, requiring not the reduction of various levels of meaning
in the texts to one prosaic and materialistic level, as with
Alford’s formula, but rather the careful unpacking of several
intertwined levels of meaning. This brings us to something I
discussed briefly in my book The Giza
Death Star Destroyed: