Nofret, Old Kingdom 2400 BC, Egyptian Museum, Cairo. If they cast fair Nofret today in an ancient Egypt-based movie would there be calls for a boycott? |
Monday, October 30, 2017
Would a director today dare cast 'Nofret' in a movie about ancient Egypt?
Saturday, October 28, 2017
“Curating THE EGYPTIAN MUSEUM OF THE MIND. What treasures would you keep there?”
We are all curators |
We constantly curate the treasures of our minds,
endlessly labeling and arranging the display.
(Relegating to the many basements below the
stuff that does not warrant seeing the light of day.)
What do I have on display in my ever-changing museum of Egypt?
Not always the gold that dazzles like
Tutankhamun’s treasures.
Some I visit most often...
AUTHOR/'CURATOR'S' NOTE: In my treasure house of the mind, I have also curated a number of mysterious texts - such as "The Smiting Texts" archaeological adventure fiction series and a whole library of Egypt-based fiction (a collection on view at Amazon in Kindle and paperback. I invite you to take a walk through!)
Friday, October 27, 2017
Early German archaeology in Egypt (that found Nefertiti) unleashes "The Ibis Apocalypse"
Neues Museum display - Berlin |
‘Come
to Berlin,’ the German
informant wrote.
‘When?’
‘Tomorrow.
Meet me at Berlin Neues Museum in gallery of Nefertiti… My
grandfather was a member of the German’s Thule Society and there is a German
goup who watch me. They are the Neuen Morgendämmerung (New Dawn) with occult
interest in Egypt and a website: Sanctuary of Ra.’
Was this New Dawn a German offshoot of the
Order of the Golden Dawn, Anson wondered, an occult Nazi group that had links
with the Thule society, shadowy progenitors of Hitler’s Nazi party and a group
that had striven to secure talismans in the past, such as The Spear of Destiny?
The web was full of links with Neo-Nazi organisations, the occult and ancient
Egypt, in particular with Egypt’s western mystical tradition. Were they after
the Stela too?
Drop everything and race off to Berlin?
Was he serious?
He was.
Anson came to a decision. He liked to be
flexible.
(From The Ibis Apocalypse - Amazon Kindle and paperback) Wednesday, October 25, 2017
EVER IMAGINE "WHAT IF...?" 2 Egyptian mummy novels with a difference
Amazon Kindle (and selected paperback) |
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Monday, October 23, 2017
Ancient Egypt - LETTER TO THE DEAD
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The Egyptians wrote pathetic 'Letters to the Dead', usually on the sides of offering bowls or in this case, on a strip of papyrus attached to a wooden statue of the dead wife. (Leiden Museum.)
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(Dear Ankhiry),
Why
are you punishing me when I treated you so well in life? an aggrieved husband
writes to his wife.
The
husband continues...
What evil thing have I done to you, that I should land in
the wretched state I am..?
The Egyptians wrote pathetic 'Letters to the Dead', usually on the sides of offering bowls or in this case, on a strip of papyrus attached to a wooden statue of the dead wife. (Leiden Museum.)
They were not love letters.
They implored the dead to cease their
curses or to come to their aid and provide guidance with the intractable
problems of living.
What have I done to you? I made you my wife when I was a
young man. I was with you when I held all kinds of offices. I stayed with you,
I did not send you away…
Often the letters grew threatening...
I will lodge a complaint against you with the Ennead in
the West, and one shall judge between you and me on account of this letter…
In the spirit of this fascinating ancient Egyptian practice, I feel I should write a Letter to the Dead of Egypt too.
Or at least a thank-you note.
Without the dead of Egypt and their peculiar belief in an afterlife that
allowed the dead to ‘take it with them’, the treasures of their civilization
preserved in their tombs would never have come down to us.
I am grateful that they believed and that they lived in an age where humankind and gods, the living and the dead, and the
forces of good and evil, existed side by side in two parts that held the
universe together
As an author of ancient Egyptian-based fiction I can't thank them enough.
Friday, October 20, 2017
Are your feelings for ancient Egypt a type of ‘intense missing or longing’?
I explore and express
this longing through a number of my novels and characters (in particular through my alternative
archaeological hero Anson Hunter in The Smiting Text series) and more
explicitly in “Pieces of Egypt’, the story of a young mother whose child appears
to ‘remember’ fragments about ancient Egypt (Amazon Kindle).
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Saturday, October 7, 2017
An Egyptian mummy oddity to add to my Egyptian photo collection
Mona Museum, Hobart, Australia. (Thongs oddly fitting in an Australian setting) |
Almost as disturbing as my BM favourite
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