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Newsletter 024
Some subscribers have enquired why no newsletter this year, for which I must apologise. The answer is I’ve been involved in a number of time consuming projects to do with my normal job and not concerning ancient Egypt. However, I have worked on a few Egyptian projects in my, inadequate, spare time. This week I completed the Hieroglyphic Typewriter, ‘Ancient Egyptian Anecdotes the Blackberry Playbook edition’ and a Blackberry Playbook version of Senet. In the works is an eBook on hieroglyphs and I’m also writing a digital graphic novel with illustrator Sheila Cartwright.
My best wishes to the Egyptian people and their struggle for a democracy. My hope is that the religious nutters don’t benefit between now and the elections. Of all the place on the world the thought of power, in Egypt, going to the kind of people who destroyed the magnificent Bamiyan Statues in Afganistan is more than a little disturbing.
Aftershocks of freedom
Is Egypt ready for tourists?
Reward for looted ancient Egyptian artefacts
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The Lamp Inquiry
The Egyptians believed that their environment was inhabited by supernatural powers after all the life-giving light of god was a physical presence in the sky. They tried to influence these forces with magic, which could only be performed after elaborate purification procedures; all those involved and their surroundings had to be spiritually cleansed. To achieve this blessed state, magicians sometimes enlisted the help of a medium such as a young boy who was pure in mind and body.
"You go to a clean, dark cell and dig a new hole in the east wall. You take a white lamp, its wick being clean, and fill it with clean, genuine Oasis oil. You recite the spell ‘Praising Ra Rising at Dawn’ and bring the lighted lamp opposite the sun reciting the precise spells four times.
You take the lamp into the cell to the boy who has his eyes closed. Put pure frankincense on the brazier and place your fingers on the boy’s head.
You say the spells seven times, and when you have finished, tell him to open his eyes towards the lamp and he will see the shadow of the god around the lamp. He will then inquire for you concerning that which you desire.
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