![]() ![]() Egypt coursed through him like an uncheckable river, sparking and fizzing, stunning him with its immensity, with its stupefying aliveness. ![]() Even the air had texture, contradictory and confusing, a softness and a roughness, a heaviness and a giddy lightness. He wandered for some indeterminate span of astounded time in shimmering dream-forests. The sensory impact pressed in on him from all sides at once in the first dazzling moment of his arrival: a fierce bombardment of smells, sights, sounds, everything alien, everything much too intense, animated by a strange inner life. O Nefertum who came forth from Memphis, I have done no wrong, I have seen no evil. O You of the darkness who came forth from the darkness, I have not been quarrelsome. O Eater of entrails who came forth from the House of Thirty, I have not committed perjury. ![]() O Bone-breaker who came forth from Heracleopolis, I have not told lies. Thy beauties are thine, O Amon-Re, Lord of Karnak! -The Liturgy of Amonįlame which came forth backwards, I have not stolen the god’s-offerings. The Great Nine are exalted upon their seats! ![]() Heaven is opened, the company of gods shines forth!Īmon-Re, Lord of Karnak, is exalted upon the great seat! ![]()
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