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| The dangerous Stela of Thoth |
Divinisation also
meant to become all knowing.
All the wisdom of
the world and the world below seemed to swirl around him.
Anson Hunter's eyes fell on
the Stela.
Moses came down
from Mt Sinai carrying two stone tablets – stelae – inscribed with the Ten
Commandments, scored laser-like in the stone by the finger of God and which by
Jewish accounts opened with a mention of Egypt
- "I am the Lord your God who brought
you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery. You shall have no
other gods before Me…”
Had Thoth, the
Egyptian god of the Word, scored these words in the basalt as the Egyptians
believed?
Ancient history's
most powerful tome bulked in front of him. But was this oval-topped slab a
tombstone for humanity?
Carved in sunken
relief in the lunette of the Stela, above the marching rows of text, were
facing images of the god Thoth in the form of an ibis and a cynocephalus
baboon. Like the Merneptah Stela, also known as the Israel Stela, first
translated by a German philologist, it stood around ten foot in height and
spread five feet wide.
It would take a
large gang of men to carry it out on ropes and that was exactly what his captors had brought with them.
When you read this book, you
will behold and possess the powers of the earth, the sky, the waters, the infernal
regions of the abyss - the underworld, that is - the mountains, beasts, birds,
creatures, reptiles, the fishes of the darkest sea, as well as the magical
powers of the gods themselves...
Was its power now his to grasp at that moment? Did he
want it? It was time to choose. He thought of the evil this stone had brought.
The shiny black basalt seemed to leap into flames. He saw images in the twisted
flames, the faces of Rameses and Khaemwaset in a swirling plague of locusts,
thick as smoke, Hitler ranting, men, women and children writhing in a furnace…
