Talk:Opening of the mouth ceremony

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WikiProject Ancient Egypt to-do list:

Needed articles.

We should have an article on every pyramid and every nome in Ancient Egypt. I'm sure the rest of us can think of other articles we should have.

Cleanup.

To start with, most of the general history articles badly need attention. And I'm told that at least some of the dynasty articles need work. Any other candidates?

Standardize the Chronology.

A boring task, but the benefit of doing it is that you can set the dates !(e.g., why say Khufu lived 2589-2566? As long as you keep the length of his reign correct, or cite a respected source, you can date it 2590-2567 or 2585-2563)

Stub sorting

Anyone? I consider this probably the most unimportant of tasks on Wikipedia, but if you believe it needs to be done . . .

Data sorting.

This is a project I'd like to take on some day, & could be applied to more of Wikipedia than just Ancient Egypt. Take one of the standard authorities of history or culture -- Herotodus, the Elder Pliny, the writings of Breasted or Kenneth Kitchen, & see if you can't smoothly merge quotations or information into relevant articles. Probably a good exercise for someone who owns one of those impressive texts, yet can't get access to a research library.

Deletion of psalm 51 connection[edit]

An editor reported that a certain scholar pointed out connections between the opening of the mouth ceremony and psalm 51. Because the editor did not say what those connections were and provided a source that is not easy to check to see what those connections might be, I deleted the claim. If you can tell us some information as to what this scholar's views are and why they are relevant, please add the claim back and add that content to the article. Jeff Dahl 21:27, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There are also similarities to the Mesopotamian mis pi ritual. There should be an extensive literature on that, although possibly not on the parallels. E.g., Vladimir Emelianov has an article "The Ritual of Water-Consecration in Sumerian Texts.Analysis of its materials and structure". --Oop (talk) 06:47, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: History of Ancient Egypt[edit]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 4 January 2023 and 17 March 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Skibbitybop (article contribs). Peer reviewers: HammyJammies, SpaceCanyon.

— Assignment last updated by Johnstoncl (talk) 19:23, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]