Since Labor Day signifies among other things, the going back to school I was thinking of dropping this Book Review for aspiring Egyptologist’s today. It also has a full explainer which I’m unsure I should include as it’s not fully finished and I’m not sure I should add it to a lengthy review. Besides there are 14 more reviews I’ve yet to drop. I’ll put these two things in separate covers. Most will not be interested so passing by is fine. But any thoughts on either or combing the two might be found useful.

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Five stars for this epic primer for would be Egyptologists by Christopher Eyre. Published in 2002, 276 pages of dense literature sporting on average 6 foot notes per page that take anywhere up to one third to two thirds of page text and point you to multiple references. All in an effort to explain to you four pages of 71 lines of text known as the Cannibal Hymn found first and primarily in the Tomb of Unas, the last 5th Dynasty King   (2321–c. 2306 BC) and source of what is regarded to as the 1st religious text of Egypt and 1st written religious text of world when discounting the oral tradition of the Vedas and perhaps the oldest stories from the Zend Avesta.

 

Readers will be enlightened to the heavy lifting required of an Egyptologist. With a 26 page Bibliography consisting of over 625 entries, all foot noted throughout the book this is indeed a very intimidating book not to be trifled with, not to be questioned which is likely one of it’s unstated purposes and an excellent working example of the Book of Gates found in Egyptian literature. 

 

By reading this book you will be exposed to some of the more important gates an Egyptologist must pass through in order to rise to notability in order to become an Egyptologist. Run afoul of these gates and you will be crushed and dismembered, then picked apart and scattered like Osirs by the order of Sethian scribes left behind to hide what really happens in King Unas’s Pyramid Text following the traditions of the entire VI dynasty. Unless you can say the magic words for each gate you’ll be condemned and forbidden to take part in Egyptology. 

Gate 1. You did not read what you thought you read. 

 

Gate 2. There is no history in the Pyramid Text, especially that of King Unas.

 

Gate 3. The cannibalism described by King Unas is purely symbolic as he was eating other gods and there is no tradition for kings eating real people.

 

Gate 4. The unstated rule that the myth “Destruction of Mankind” also known as “The Book of the Heavenly Cow” has nothing to do with King Unas’s Pyramid text.

 

Gate 5. Think nothing of King Unas’s claim that Sekhmet was his mother.

 

Gate 6. Ignore all obfuscations that render any semblance of unity to understanding the text in a simplified manner such as; avoiding the use King Unas’s name, except for Piankoff and Rambova, or any other kings name, jumbling the number of Utterances between translations, running the various King’s texts together so you don’t know easily when one stops and the next one starts until you get to Allen who will add the necessary clarity asked for but still maintain Sethe’s tradition of not using the kings name while adding much to the text that previous translators did not see and omitting previous utterances they had given.  And by all means pay attention to any notes that will save you from wrong think such as that given for Utterance 254 which your just going to have to trust without explanation.

Gate 7. The most important gate. Mention nothing about the Flood Hymn which are the combined utterances  248 then 254, 271, 279, 302, 305, 462 used by Mercer, Piankoff, & Faulkner and verily can lead one to believe that King Unas flooded the Nile River, pulled up the papyrus leading to mass censorship and a huge gap in Papyrus being found by which archeologists lament it’s 500 plus year void to this very day, and otherwise annihilated all those and then some that dared to rebel.

 See rules for passing through gate 2 if you do not understand that because “King Unas writes with his big finger and not with his small finger”.

 

Gate 8. Seek not Thoth nor Isis in attempts to circumvent the rules for passing through these gates.

 

Gate 9. No quibbling like squeaking out Mercer mentioning that Sethe said there are at least 7 layers of meaning detected in King Unas’s Pyramid Text.

 

After that, then you may be passed through to the darker chambers of Egyptology where pearls are not tossed to swine but only to the initiated high priests of Egyptology who understand the importance of a King’s Divine Right to Rule and if and when necessary destroy mankind which is still in play today just as it has been for countless centuries as practiced in Persia, Greece, Rome, throughout the Western and Eastern Nations throughout the world actually, wherever Might Makes Right held sway in the body politic be it by King, Parliament, Politburo or Oligarchy, even in finely tuned Great Britan and even covertly in the USA and Canada, so that kings and would be kings can create great things that serve themselves foremost even when they are not the beneficial rulers which most believe they should be.

 

Lastly we’ll not discuss a Gate 10 which would refer to foot note 51 found on page 163 where in Ritner’s “Magical Practice” it’s noted: “stresses the motif (of cannibalism) as an episode and not as a self-standing ritual.” as that would make a vast bulk of this book unnecessary and cause you to think erroneously the book a red herring.  Nor mention Gates 11 & 12 which go without mention as they are to make good use of your negative confessions and by no means lie least you run a fowl of Maat and get eaten by Ammit should Anubis decree your soul too heavy which shouldn’t happen if you make good use of the negative confessions. Or at least that seems the mechanism employed by many a would be king today and yesterday who have high hopes to ascend to the Kings bark unscathed.

 

Actually the book is quite good, a huge and daunting labor, and as stated from the outset written as practical exercise and does give a very strong taste of what it means to be an Egyptologist, minus my reservations mentioned above of course.  Highly recommended to anyone who really wants to know one of the darker well kept secrets that some in world use to hold the peons in contempt with as they hold sway over their fiefdoms.

Hats off to Natacha Rambova and Alexandre Piankoff, the Bollingen Foundation who launched them with good intent and I’d mention our esteemed author but I’d rather he not meet with a sudden fate for hanging about the gates so long by which someone might take notice. All of whom appeared at least to as Piankoff said, offer you the choice of making up your own mind about what was really in the tomb of Unas. 

And no I’m not an Egyptologist nor aspire to be one, but simply took the wrong path to the Pyramid Text of Unas expecting to find a flood and a flood is what I found even after the esteemed George McDonald Frazier wrote a full chapter (but very short) in his flood book ensuring the reader that Africa and Egypt in particular were the only places on earth that never experienced an epic flood of biblical proportions. And what gave it a way? His laudatory comments to the Huxley institute and its founder where he first gave his first flood talk. Now that should be a clue for any thinking person.