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Tuesday, July 30, 2019
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BOOK POSTER: "ONE DAY I'LL TELL YOU SOMETHING"... past-life memories of ancient Egypt?
A child obsessed with the ancient past, a young mother who discovers adventure…
“I remember Egypt,” Cooper said gravely. “Long, long ago.”
Her little boy was gorgeous, she thought, but his imagined past life could be a bit hard to take. Especially at 8.30 in the morning, when she was busy having a this-life crisis, running late for work and her eight-year old was about to miss his school bus.
Then young single-mother Catherine meets a past life researcher and also a mysterious Egyptologist Simon Priestly and she and Cooper are off to Egypt on an extraordinary quest to follow a young boy’s dreams… or are they actual memories of the ancient past?
What will they find and what will Catherine find as she warms to the impressive British Egyptologist as they uncover a shattering secret from Egypt’s past?
Disturbing and intriguing adventure fiction with a twist of the unknown.
A CHILD who SEES the ANCIENT DEAD... memories of Egypt. 'ONE DAY I’LL TELL YOU SOMETHING'
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Thursday, July 25, 2019
Did early Egyptian embalmers DISLOCATE ONE ANKLE of a MUMMY to slow it down?
Did very early Egyptian mummy
embalmers deliberately dislocate one ankle of the dead so they couldn’t come
after, and catch, the living? (At least not without a telltale
warning sound of their approach, like the dry swish of a grass broom.)
I believe the source of this
macabre twist was the now notorious Egyptologist Wallace Budge of the early British
Museum, and I used it in a story.
“It’s a little known fact, you
see, but in very ancient times, the embalmers deliberately dislocated one of
the ankles of the mummy so that if it decided to get up it couldn’t catch the
living. So if there were a mummy stalking us in the darkness, you’d probably
hear it shuffling as it dragged one foot behind itself. Like the swish of a
grass broom on stone. Stop – and we’ll listen.”
How would a mummy sound?
It must have stuck with me.
In my more recent novel “THE
EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY MURDERS”, I refer again to the swishing sound of a mummy's progress (though
no broken ankle).
‘Osiris. I will begin a
new journey for you,’ she vowed, lying flat on the CT machine tray.
‘I, Isis, Great of
Magic, will rise and search for you – for your remains, your pieces, even the
atoms of your dust - and through the power of my magic I will restore you.’
Isis renewed the vow of
a new cycle, a cycle that the Egyptians believed took place every 5,000 years
and that had now been re-activated by a blast of twenty-first century
radiation.
But first, she must
revive herself and that meant seeking the life force.
She gave a dusty croak
and writhed like a serpent sloughing its skin, snapping the rotting bonds that
held her limbs against her body and her legs together. She sat up, as slowly as
the ancient ceremony of the raising of the Djed pillar.
She rocked and swung
stiff legs over the side of the CT tray. The knees would not bend, so she slid
the rest of the way stiffly to the floor.
The feet of Isis touched
earth again.
Now walk.
The thin bones in her
feet cracked like breaking tubes of glass. Gingerly she took one step and then
another, shuffling out of the CT suite into the big city hospital, in darkness.
Isis walked the earth
again.
The dry flesh of her
long, slender feet made a soft swoosh like a grass brush sweeping an earthen
floor, but this was a smooth hospital corridor... (excerpt)
Fascinatingly, in early mummy movies, Kharis
the risen mummy, walks with a sinister dragging of one foot.
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| (The influence of Budge again on early screenwriters?) |
Yes, and in my mind, I hear a dry, swishing sound of his dragged, bandaged foot, like the sound of a grass broom on
stone.
A
(dislocated) Footnote: If the bandaged nemesis in the first Mummy
movies did have a deliberately dislocated ankle, it certainly didn't
stop him catching up with the unfortunate victims of his revenge.
If you want to hear - and feel - the presence of a risen mummy, take a look at The Egyptian Mythology Murders
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
The dry swish of an ancient Egyptian mummy dragging one broken ankle... with a nod to Wallace Budge
Did very early Egyptian mummy
embalmers deliberately dislocate one ankle of the dead so they couldn’t come
after, and catch, the living? (At least not without a telltale
warning sound of their approach, like the dry swish of a grass broom.)
I believe the source of this
macabre twist was the now notorious Egyptologist Wallace Budge of the early British
Museum, and I used it in a story.
“It’s a little known fact, you
see, but in very ancient times, the embalmers deliberately dislocated one of
the ankles of the mummy so that if it decided to get up it couldn’t catch the
living. So if there were a mummy stalking us in the darkness, you’d probably
hear it shuffling as it dragged one foot behind itself. Like the swish of a
grass broom on stone. Stop – and we’ll listen.”
How would a mummy sound?
It must have stuck with me.
In my more recent novel “THE
EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY MURDERS”, I refer again to the swishing sound of a mummy's progress (though
no broken ankle).
‘Osiris. I will begin a
new journey for you,’ she vowed, lying flat on the CT machine tray.
‘I, Isis, Great of
Magic, will rise and search for you – for your remains, your pieces, even the
atoms of your dust - and through the power of my magic I will restore you.’
Isis renewed the vow of
a new cycle, a cycle that the Egyptians believed took place every 5,000 years
and that had now been re-activated by a blast of twenty-first century
radiation.
But first, she must
revive herself and that meant seeking the life force.
She gave a dusty croak
and writhed like a serpent sloughing its skin, snapping the rotting bonds that
held her limbs against her body and her legs together. She sat up, as slowly as
the ancient ceremony of the raising of the Djed pillar.
She rocked and swung
stiff legs over the side of the CT tray. The knees would not bend, so she slid
the rest of the way stiffly to the floor.
The feet of Isis touched
earth again.
Now walk.
The thin bones in her
feet cracked like breaking tubes of glass. Gingerly she took one step and then
another, shuffling out of the CT suite into the big city hospital, in darkness.
Isis walked the earth
again.
The dry flesh of her
long, slender feet made a soft swoosh like a grass brush sweeping an earthen
floor, but this was a smooth hospital corridor...(excerpt)
Fascinatingly, in early mummy movies, Kharis
the risen mummy, walks with a sinister dragging of one foot.
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| (The influence of Budge again on early screenwriters?) |
Yes, and in my mind, I hear a dry, swishing sound of his dragged, bandaged foot, like the sound of a grass broom on
stone.
A (dislocated) Footnote: If the bandaged nemesis in the first Mummy movies did have a deliberately dislocated ankle, it certainly didn't stop him catching up with the unfortunate victims of his revenge.
If you want to hear - and feel - the presence of a risen mummy, take a look at The Egyptian Mythology Murders
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Tuesday, July 23, 2019
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Monday, July 22, 2019
ANSON HUNTER, Fiction's Haunted Egyptologist
As Anson
walked back to his hotel from the Egyptian galleries of the British Museum, he
felt a sense of exposure. Currents, people and events swirled around him like
the cold London air, crowding his world.
Fallen
leaves from oak trees in a park cluttered the pavement, curled up like papyrus
scrolls, archaeological spoil heaps of rust, yellow and brown. For a moment,
his shoes vanished under this detritus of time and the seasons. Dead leaves,
yet they crackled like scrolls of power.
The
pavement narrowed, the black railings of the park pushing him closer to the
street and the passing traffic, rattling black London cabs and rumbling, red
double decker buses that looked as if they were about to overbalance. A gust
from a passing bus scattered leaves.
What was
it that drove him?
A desire
to save the world?
He recalled
the same question put to him by the Egyptian man and the antiquities girl.
Aren’t
you afraid you’ll trigger an apocalypse?
Was it
simply a hunger to feel the crackle of the numinous, to find the great source
of Egypt’s power heka?
Heka was the power behind
the civilisation of Egypt, behind every idol, every execration text and smashed
jar, every sweating wax effigy in the flame, every stabbed, trampled and spat
upon image, every prayer to a god, every amulet and love spell.
He
certainly did not want power for himself, only perhaps the power that could
come from knowing that such power existed, because if that power existed and
could be held in his hands, then so did another power.
Where
there was shadow, there had also to be the light.
Yet there
could be another reason, one that he had enough honesty and self-knowledge to
recognise - a hunger for acceptance, sparked by an Egyptologist father who had
abandoned him as a child. It would be sweet to shake up the profession and
topple their ivory tower.
Maybe a
combination of all of these impulses.
In the
end, though, would it be worth taking the risk?
Why did
he imagine that he could encounter and experience such terrifying psychological
and existential danger and remain immune to its effects?
And how
did he think he was going to avoid the consequences for the region and the
world that others feared?
He
crossed a street and had the distinct feeling in the nape of his neck that
somebody was watching him. Was he being followed?
(Excerpt from the adventure thriller HATHOR'S HOLOCAUST (second book in the Anson Hunter 9 novel series)
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Sunday, July 21, 2019
Saturday, July 20, 2019
Sarah Parcak's Space Archaeology is a "THING" - IN FACT... and FICTION...
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Friday, July 19, 2019
ARCHAEOLOGY FROM SPACE Sarah Parcak's great EYE OPENER in the sky in FACT (and also in Fiction)
| 'Archaeology From Space' (not in space as some might imagine!) is a popular read in Sarah Parcak's new book. See article "Space archaeology is a thing" |
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Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Did SUNSTROKE give birth to Akhenaten's ATEN god?
As she raised her coffee glass in the Siwa Oasis restaurant, he glimpsed a golden link bracelet on her
arm with a medical ID tag.
E p i l e p s
y
Co-incidence, synchronicity?
He recalled that the Greeks favoured epileptics as Sybils for Oracle
prophecies, believing that seizures and convulsion showed that they were
spiritually closer to the gods.
Did the Siwan priests think the same way?
“You’re looking at my bracelet and I know what you’re thinking.”
“That Sybils were usually epileptics, chosen for their condition. The
Greeks called it the Sacred Disease,” he said.
“Yes, I know.”
“I suppose because of the ecstatic appearance of a seizure.”
“Partly, she said, “but there’s another reason. There is a link between
epilepsy and psychic ability in many cases. In fact, there’s even a diagnosis
called Epilepsy-Psychic type. I was psychic from a child, but when my condition
developed it seemed to heighten things. In fact I was a little concerned that
by controlling my seizures with medication I might lose my sharpened ability. But
I think I have found a balance, although stress can still trigger an event.”
“And do you black out?”
“Invariably.”
“Do you need help?”
“Certainly not putting something in my mouth in spite of what you hear.
If I’m bad, rolling me into the recovery position after the seizure helps. But
don’t panic if it happens and you’re around. Mostly I come around okay in two
minutes and I’m fine afterwards, just a bit drowsy and confused.”
“I’ll
try to remember. Interestingly, that link between epilepsy and psychic
activity. Historians have wondered about epilepsy, whether Tutankhamun and his
family suffered from an inherited epilepsy disorder. If the boy king was
accident prone because of seizures, it may have contributed to his early death.
The theory goes that earlier members of his family, like Thutmosis IV, were also
affected. As a young man, while resting during the heat of the day, Thutmosis
fell asleep between the paws of the Great Sphinx. In a dream, the sphinx told
him that if he would clear the desert sand that had encroached on the sphinx’s
body, he would be crowned king, which of course came to pass. A sun-induced
psychic episode? Thutmosis recorded his fulfilment of the prophetic dream on
the ‘Dream Stela’ that stands between the paws of the sphinx.
The theory also raises questions about
the heretic king Akhenaten, who famously worshipped the sun disk Aten. Even his
temples lay open to the sun’s rays. It seems when people with epilepsy are exposed
to sunlight they are susceptible to seizures, hallucinations and strong religious
visions. Maybe sunstroke gave birth to the Aten...”
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Monday, July 15, 2019
Archaeologist mysteries - 2 latest stories in Anson Hunter series
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DEATH in Egypt LIVE
The Oracle Stone of Siwa Oasis - source of infallible prophecy. It inspired arduous treks across Egypt’s desert by history’s military heroes.
Alexander the Great, Lysander the Spartan, Hannibal... and possibly even Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps...
Did they all seek what today's world powers now seek?
A source of infallible truth?
But could it be the most dangerous weapon of all in today’s powder-keg world?
Latest in the Anson Hunter mystery adventure series.
ARTEFACT
A traveling antiques show at an English castle...
A rich young aristocratic heiress reveals a mysterious, haunted heirloom from Egypt’s past... an ancient Egyptian curse visited on her family... tragedy... unexplained deaths...
Independent renegade Egyptologist Anson Hunter is called in to help her break a family curse in the strangest archaeological hunt of his life... to find the lost hiding place of a dangerous artefact in Egypt... and rebury it.
But unknown forces are against them and death is never far away.
And what is meant by a threat picked up Intelligence: ’Death will be sent to the west from the ancient land of Egypt’?
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Action Adventure in "I, THE MUMMY"
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The Ancient Defender arises to fight against a ruthless oppressor.
The Hyksos have seized Egypt at a time of weakness following the Middle Kingdom, overpowering all with their superior technology of chariots, hardened bronze weapons and compound bows.
And they are now plundering Egypt for its forbidden secrets of power.
Can ancient history’s most unlikely hero stop them and resurrect a divided land before the Hyksos can gain Egypt’s most powerful and dangerous secret of all?
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