What's something you learned in history class that you feel like wasn't the whole truth?

Better yet, what's something you didn't learn at all that was omitted completely?

That's what I like to call Redacted History.

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Podcast, the place where history's forgotten events, heroes, and villains get their story

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never dies Stream the redacted history podcast on Apple podcast Spotify or wherever else you get your podcast. The Egyptian history podcast, episode 11. It's off to Puntwego. Welcome back.

Last episode we ended the fourth dynasty and began our transition into the fifth.

Overseen by the royal mother, Kandy Kouse, a new king named Userkaf had stabilized the royal succession and brought new policies into the government.

The establishment of a temple devoted exclusively to Ray at Abousia, northwest of the capital

city of Memphis, heralded a new theological paradigm.

No longer would the kings of Egypt devote their resources solely to their own glorification,

and to spectacular monuments for their solar apotheosis. Temples to the great God Ray would now

complement the pyramids and ensure that the solar deity was given the veneration which the control over the Sun Temple. The priests and attendance were probably still

appointed by him personally and the material goods that the temple required

such as linen, bread, beer and meat for offerings came from the royal palace.

They were harvested at the extensive royal domains throughout Egypt, then brought to the

main administration buildings in Memphis, and finally redistributed to both the Sun Temple and the temples attached to the pyramid itself.

As long as this system functioned smoothly, the temple operated pretty comfortably, while still being within the control of the king.

If he wanted, he could cut off the supplies at any time but of course he would never want to do

that risking the sun god's displeasure just to spite a few priests?

Unthinkable. Of course I'm describing it colorfully when I say that there even was a possibility of spiteful

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