The Egyptian believer displays his faith and his devotion in quiet and calm behavior during divine service. The instructions repeatedly call for silence while offering sacrifices in the temple… or while engaged in activities in the necropolis, whose epithet is ‘the place of the quiet.’ The gods – Amun, Wesir, Sobek-Ra – are ‘lords of silence’. The priest whose behavior follows this pattern may take pride in being the ‘possessor of balanced steps’ (qb nmt.t) in the holy of holies and in not ‘raising his voice’.

N. Shupak (1993) 159, H. Frankfort (1948) 66.

mfw my upg of my Father not being talkative is canon

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