Sunday, March 30, 2014
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Thursday, March 27, 2014
The radiation scan - at a dose lethal for the living - blasted through her linen windings... 'The Egyptian Mythology Murders'
The Egyptian Mythology Murders - fiction on Amazon Kindle |
The radiation scan - at a dose lethal for
the living - blasted through her linen windings. It was like a penetration of
sunlight warming the bones after the ache of the desert night.
The CT machine hummed. A spinning cylinder
curved around the mummy’s head like a night sky arching over Egypt.
The sand-dry cells of the body, spread out
in an undulating landscape on the CT tray, stirred in a sudden breath.
Life!
Resurgent life! It eddied, thickened, mounted in force, blowing, gusting, then
blasting through the mummy like a desert sand storm...
AMAZON kindle and paperback
AMAZON kindle and paperback
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Seshat - 'the Internet goddess' features in 'The Forbidden Glyphs', Egypt Fiction
Egyptologist Anson Hunter starts receiving intriguing emails from a female who calls herself Seshat... |
Seshat - 'the Internet goddess' features in 'The Forbidden Glyphs', Egypt Fiction
Seshat… Egyptian goddess of the Internet.
Seshat… Egyptian goddess of the Internet.
In a curious loop of time, the
ancient Egyptian goddess Seshat has found new recognition today. Referred to as
the ‘Silicon Goddess’ or ‘Glass Cat’, she is seen as the spirit of the Internet,
computers, operating systems, software, web and game architecture,
telecommunications, electronic networks and knowledge systems.
Originally, Seshat was ancient
Egypt’s goddess of writing, chief librarian and keeper of the forbidden scrolls
of Thoth, goddess of knowledge, architecture, science, mathematics, astronomy, reckoner
of years and of foreign booty as well as a keeper of history and memories.
UPDATED cover in the series
Fiction that puts the mysterious pieces of ancient Egypt together - on Amazon Kindle
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Thursday, March 20, 2014
‘A museum is a dangerous place...’ from The Hathor Holocaust
The British Museum |
Prince Khaemwaset, seeker of forbidden knowledge? |
‘A MUSEUM is a dangerous place.’
Sir Flinders Petrie, pioneer British
Egyptologist, first said those words, but today Anson was thinking them.
A man had followed him to the British
Museum.
Who was he?
Petrie had been thinking about another kind
of danger when he’d made his famous remark about the dangers of museums. The
founder of modern scientific Egyptology had been alluding to the manner in
which the early Cairo museum had dealt with a royal mummy fragment found at
Abydos, a single, bandaged arm, covered in jewels, the only remains of First
Dynasty king Zer.
The curators took the jewels and tossed the
arm way, the earliest royal mummy remains ever to come to light. It was a mummy
horror story to eclipse any devised by the most febrile imagination, Anson had
always thought, but right at that moment his mind was on the other worry.
Anson went up the steps and between the
Ionic-style columns into the building. He passed through a crowded reception
hall to arrive in the Great Court beyond.
Above the court, a tessellated glass and
steel roof spread out overhead like a vast, glowing net, catching clouds, blue
sky and a spirit of illumination, while the round, central building swelled
like an ivory tower of learning. He crossed the clean bright space before
heading left to the door of the Egyptian section.
Inside the dimmer light of the hall, a group
of school children crowded around the Rosetta Stone in its glass display case.
Two little black girls peered inside, their heads close together as they
examined the stone, their hair braided in cornrows. An African look, he
thought. It linked his thoughts to Africa’s greatest river, the Nile, and to
Egypt’s irrigated fields that bounded it and made Egypt the breadbasket of the
ancient world.
He made for the sculpture gallery.
Egypt, both divinely monumental and
naturalistic, surrounded him. Two statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, powerfully
formed in dark granodiorite, flanked the entranceway to a hall, granting
admittance, and inside, as stone slid by, other familiar sights came into view,
a red granite lion with charmingly crossed forepaws, and further on, the statue
of the Chief Steward Senenmut tenderly holding the daughter of Queen Hatshepsut,
the little princess Neferure, on his lap - the child wrapped within his cloak
and her face peeping out - then a soaring, crowned head of Pharaoh Amenhotep in
the background. And people everywhere, creating a sound of buzzing like voices
in a cathedral at prayer time.
But he barely saw or heard them. He paused
at a figure standing on a pedestal near a wall on the right hand side, almost
overshadowed by a colossal granite torso of Rameses the Great in the centre of
the hall.
Khaemwaset, the priest-prince and magician.
Anson confronted the figure. The sculpture
depicted the prince in a pleated kilt, stepping forward while holding a pair of
emblematic staves at his sides. The conglomerate stone must have presented a
technical challenge to the sculptor as it was shot through with multi-coloured
pebbles. It made Khaemwaset look as if galaxies were exploding out of his
chest.
A museum label said:
Red breccia standing figure... one of the
favourite sons of Rameses II, the legendary Khaemwese…
The label used a variant spelling of the
name Khaemwaset.
He looked up at the face. Intelligent,
sensitive features, faintly saddened. An air as haunted as the face of the
sphinx.
Anson silently interrogated the statue.
Open up, Khaemwaset. As one renegade to
another, what do you really know? As a seeker of forbidden power, did you open
the sanctuary of Hathor, provoking fiery destruction, plagues and pestilence on
your father Rameses and his kingdom? Legend tells that you found the magical
Book of Thoth, so why not the disc of Ra, too?
Egyptologists agreed on one thing. Prince
Khaemwaset was a kindred spirit. ‘The world’s first Egyptologist’ they called
him, as a result of the prince’s peculiar antiquarian interests. Khaemwaset
lived a few thousand years before his time and had a fondness for digging up
and restoring ancient tombs and monuments in the Memphis and Saqqara areas,
some already more than a thousand years old at the time of his attentions. He
did this he said, because of his ‘love of the ancient days and the noble ones
who dwelt in antiquity and the perfection of everything they made’.
But another reason was his love and pursuit
of secret, forbidden power. This led to his being venerated by future
generations as a great magician and remembered in a cycle of stories.
Khaemwaset, seeker of illumination, put a good official complexion on his
activities by dedicating the exploration and conservation work to the honour of
his vainglorious father, Rameses, yet he did not shy away from leaving his own
name recorded on the monuments.
“I did not expect to see an alternative
theorist looking up to the figure of an Egyptologist with such respect,” a
voice said, interrupting his contemplation.
A man joined him and shared his inspection
of Khaemwaset.
He was a Middle Eastern man with tight,
curly hair and a widow’s peak and he had a whiff of tobacco smoke on his
leather jacket.
THIS HALLOWEEN, a wonderfully macabre ancient Egyptian mummy
British Museum |
Did
the ancient Egyptians go to their graves resting on a broken
reed, believing in a non-existent eternity?
He sometimes wondered if they had achieved some sort of ghostly existence within the withered husks of their remains, suspended, like their bodies, in stasis, where the relative motions of space and time no longer operated...
He sometimes wondered if they had achieved some sort of ghostly existence within the withered husks of their remains, suspended, like their bodies, in stasis, where the relative motions of space and time no longer operated...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
"A good read for Egyptophiles". Hathor's Holocaust
**** on Goodreads |
"HATHOR'S HOLOCAUST" second in the series of Ancient Egyptian adventure mystery thrillers.
Can a renegade Egyptologist stop the re-activation of an ancient apocalypse of plague, pestilence and global scorching?
An apocalyptic danger has arisen from the ancient past in Egypt today bringing a threat to the Middle East and also to the West - of plague, pestilence, fiery destruction and global scorching.
Anson Hunter, controversial, alternative Egyptologist, theorist, blogger and phenomenologist is the hero of this historical adventure novel with a rich mythological vein. Followed by Western Intelligence organizations, shadowed by a mysterious androgyne assassin, he must race to avert a crisis in a quest spanning USA, Britain and Egypt. Who is behind the plan to trigger an apocalypse? Neo-religionists, Torchbearers with a dangerous New Age agenda, Christian dispensationalists who are eager to bring on the 'end times' or radical Islamists with a hatred of the West?
In mythology, Ra Egypt's sun god, hurled an execration upon a rebellious humankind and, in a hot rage, despatched the scorching Eye of Ra, a holocaust sun in the form of the goddess Sekhmet, to destroy them. A marauding lioness, her breath spread pestilence and plague and her claws and teeth death as she swept through Egypt in an orgy of killing. Then Ra had second thoughts and halted her apocalypse.
But the execration had been uttered and it was always feared that the inherently unstable agent of destruction - the Female Soul With Two Faces - would one day return to finish off what she had started, cleansing the earth.
Monday, March 17, 2014
"WHAT IF...?" 7 hooks of Egypt-based adventure thriller novels (UPDATE)
What if a powerful execration or curse used by the ancient Egyptian state as an esoteric weapon of destruction is activated against America today? |
What if the scorching power of an ancient holocaust sun threatened today's world? |
What if a stone book of power kept making its appearance in history at times of war and catastrophe and it emerged today? |
What if an assembly of the world's top Egyptologists were taken over by invaders dressed as gods... to bleed them of their secrets? |
What if satellite technology found a dangerous secret under the sands of Egypt? |
What if conspirators raced to find Egypt's Lost Library of forbidden secrets and technology? |
What if an afterlife conspiracy could shatter the belief systems of the world? |
What if you found out today on Amazon Kindle? |
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Saturday, March 15, 2014
***** Enjoyed any of these Egypt titles on Amazon? Love you to take a moment to rank your favourites!
The Roy Lester Pond fiction collection on AMAZON KINDLE
See The Anson Hunter series and my stand alone titles |
Eye in the sky sees dangerous secrets beneath Egypt's sands. Adventure fiction
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EGYPT EYES - “Be my eyes in Egypt,” she said. The celebrated young Egyptologist and
space archaeologist Dr Constance Somers had once explored ancient Egypt’s lost treasures
using satellite imagery. But now she is legally blind. She hires controversial,
alternative Egyptologist Anson Hunter to be her guide on a Nile cruise. ‘Show
me the hidden Egypt of your imagination,’ she says. But does she have a darker purpose,
planning to use his unique skills to help her penetrate a secret and dangerous site
that she found?
And why are agents of the US National Reconnaissance Office, a secret
Intelligence agency in charge of satellites and overhead security, suddenly
taking an interest in the work of the space archaeologist? Has she made a
discovery in her satellite archaeology that has global security ramifications? Anson
must face unexpected enemies at every turn and use his skills to survive the
dangers of a lost underground sanctuary as he tries to unlock its shattering
secret. A groundbreaking adventure and mystery fiction with an Egyptologist’s
blogs and photos.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Fiction that "deserves a far wider audience than the Egyptology community"...
"Roy Lester Pond provides a sumptuous feast on which to devour multiple strands of Egypt's ancient past and potential future." Truth about Books
EGYPT ON AMAZON
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Why does Intelligence call in an Egyptologist as US faces unknown threat?
Conspiracies involving the dangerous secrets of ancient Egypt |
Anson Hunter is an alternative Egyptologist who theorises about dangers from the ancient past.
How do his investigations attract the attention of US Homeland Security, Mossad, British Intelligence - as well as Egyptian authorities, US New Age groups, neo-pagan organisations and fundamentalist Christian organisations?
Discover why in the Egypt adventure series on Kindle and in paperback.
Monday, March 10, 2014
Adventure fiction that spans the archaeological sites of Egypt
Come under the spell of ancient Egypt... |
Come under the spell at Amazon
Thursday, March 6, 2014
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