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THE KA STATUE. ‘An ancient Egyptian Ka statue is a resting place for the KA, the life force of a person after death.’
One Ka would never rest.
The most famous son of Rameses the Great and a legendary seeker of forbidden secrets and texts of power, a man who is today known as ‘the first Egyptologist’.
One Ka would never rest.
The most famous son of Rameses the Great and a legendary seeker of forbidden secrets and texts of power, a man who is today known as ‘the first Egyptologist’.
(Opening Excerpt)
British
Museum, London
It exuded, she
thought.
A sense of containment,
of secrets and mysteries held in stony silence.
Madeline Coyle
had come a long way to interrogate the statue of the ancient Egyptian prince.
“Hello
Khaemwaset,” she said.
The Ka statue
of Khaemwaset, prince, magician and seeker of forbidden knowledge - the most
famous son of Rameses the Great - stood holding emblematic staves at his sides
in the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery of the British Museum. It had once been set
up in a temple so that the life force dwelling inside it could receive
offerings of food, drink and prayers for survival in the afterlife.
The sculptor
had carved the statue out of pebbly red quartzite that gave an impression of hidden
worlds emerging from the prince’s torso.
Madeline was
not the first to interview the relic.
In the 1900s a
London group known as The Society of Inner Light regularly conferred with the
exhibit in the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery, convinced that it was a medium for
metaphysical activity and emanated unseen forces.
The youthful
and successful American historical novelist, who had flown from America to
visit Khaemwaset in London before she continued her investigation in Egypt, had
done her research.
She had been on
his trail for so long - like one of those ancient Egyptian jackals that prowled
the cities of the dead, sniffing out buried secrets.
“I wish you
could step out of that speckled stone and speak to me.”
Be careful what you wish for they said.
They might also have added: be especially wary
that your wish is not granted literally, holding you to the tyranny of words.
But no matter
how long she stared, Khaemwaset went on playing statues.
“Come on, speak
to me!”
Then the idea
hit her author’s mind.
Imagine if it
did...
