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| Hidden dangers among the hidden secrets of ancient Egypt? |
In my ancient Egypt trilogy of adventure thrillers, the renegade archaeologist hero Anson Hunter is something of a phenomenologist, one who believes you have to experience and give value to the sacred in order to deal with it.
As a mainstream Egyptologist, Dr Melinda Skilling, says to him in The Smiting Texts:
“You’re special, not only because of your grasp of arcane Egyptian knowledge and practice, but because of your standpoint. I must confess that mainstream academics, restrained by what has been termed the ‘agnostic reflex’, are somewhat in the position of outsiders looking in, careful to keep an objective distance from Egyptian religion, mystical texts and esoteric practices. You, on the other hand, are a phenomenologist, one who believes that you must grant value and credibility to the sacred and engage with it experientially in order to appreciate it fully. I have a certain sympathy for that position.”
A certain sympathy. Was she trying to be nice? Perhaps. She’d certainly earned points from him for her candour. But the blunt instrument in the big blue suit didn’t try for points. His words came down on Anson like a mallet.
“Frankly, to many people you’re just a wild theorist. And that gives you a lot more freedom to operate in. Nobody listens to you - and nobody watches you. We can hide behind you.”
The Smiting Texts is followed by The Hathor Holocaust and The Ibis Apocalypse (Kindle and paperback). See them here
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