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| Painted grapes hang in cluster from the tomb ceiling.(One of my early visits to Egypt - tomb of Sennedjem) |
There is little sense of gloom and despair
in Egyptian tombs, Anson Hunter believes. None of the horror that hangs over our modern
graveyards.
The painted walls are quick with
life, activity, music, dance and partying, food and drink.
Everything about them attests to
the Egyptians’ conviction about survival, confirming that they went to their
graves believing firmly in an afterlife.
Anson Hunter has studied death,
tombs and mummies for the better part of his life. Yet death - the first
mystery - does not come any easier to him than to any other person, even though
death is his stock in trade. Without death and the Egyptians’ love of life and
determination to prolong it eternally, little of what he knows and loves about
those distant days would have reached him. Death is the silent teacher and
guide that leads him through the wonders of Egypt.
Yet death in his personal life is
a different matter, it seems. A lifetime’s contemplation of the funerary habits
of a long-dead people does not prepared him for death in real life…
MEET Anson in THE SMITING TEXTS series
UPDATE : THE ANSON HUNTER SERIES ON AMAZON
MEET Anson in THE SMITING TEXTS series
