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| Excerpt from THE OBELISK PROPHECY. New archaeology thriller |
“You’re
right though, there’s a phallic link with this and all obelisks,” she said.
“Phallic symbolism was not exactly unknown in ancient Egypt. An obvious example
is the raising of the Djed pillar
ceremony, an ancient Egyptian ritual echoed in the mediaeval harvest Maypole which
revelers raised and danced around, another phallic celebration.”
“Freemasons
believe it,” Jon said. “Firmly.”
“And
in ancient Egypt, many of the golden gods in their shrines in the holy of
holies in temples were ithyphallic in form.”
“Ithyphallic.
Love you Egyptologists. You mean they had erections like obelisks. A high
priestess called ‘The Hand of the God’ would satisfy them each morning to
release the god’s creative force into the new day.”
Although
Jon was a policeman, he’d been in love with ancient Egypt since
he was a child and his
pull towards Egyptology was almost as strong as hers. He
had been a successful police detective at first, before what he called ‘his
useless passion’ drew him to work in London’s
Metropolitan Art and Antiques unit, fighting the illegal trade in stolen
antiquities.
