Ancient Egypt's unseen forces in "The Ibis Apocalypse" - Kindle fiction

Spoken, they were like glyphs graven on the air

"And these glyphs on the Stela of Thoth," she said. "What makes them so potent?"

“Glyphs were never just a writing system," Anson said. "They were divine words. It’s for this reason that the scribes were fearful that certain words could have a malignant power and become uncontrollable forces in the tomb and so they would cut off the head of a lion in a glyph, or truncate a serpent or show spears stuck in the back of a crocodile in order to render it harmless. The hieroglyphs in the Stela of Thoth were the most potent of all. When spoken they were not just sounds, but glyphs graven on the air, real things and entities, image-meanings that took shape and activated a world of unseen forces and alternate reality..."

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