Ka's Early Years...2600 B.C.

                                                  
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                                                 Ancient Proverb...
                                               
                                                What we do in life,
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"maat":  In ancient Egyptian terminology,
               happy state of affairs, order, and
              harmony that prevails when authority
             is respected and traditions are honored.


Upon ascending his throne in 2606 B.C., Pharaoh Khufu commanded his Overseer of "royal works" to start the building of the "Great Pyramid" on the west side of the Nile River across from Memphis in Egypt. Thus began the "maat" of mankind, the real beginning of civilization.
I, Ka, the pharaoh's scribe, was born in 2600 B.C., and at the age of 25 years, I Ka, took a wife whose name was Miw, which means "little cat". She was a beautiful young woman of 15 years in age, the average age for women to marry. I earned my position in my pharaoh's service because of my father Kha, who is now with King Khufu serving the great pharaoh in the afterlife. My father was chief royal scribe to the prior pharaoh. I was graced by the present pharaoh, King Khafra, to serve in my pharaoh's service.
Miw, my beautiful young wife, and I first set eyes on each other in our pharaoh's court. Miw was one of my pharaoh's royal servants whose task was to bring our lord's food to the royal banquet area of the palace. Often, as the pharaoh was dictating some letter of state affairs to me (because I was his favorite scribe), Miw would sometimes bring in our food and drink.
Miw was a slender, but well-proportioned young woman with dark black hair, done in the traditional Egyptian style of the time. She wore only a short loin skirt, and her full, firm breasts were completely exposed, as was the fashion of all court servants. Often as Miw served me my drink, she would brush one of her supple breasts against the side of my shoulder and neck area by chance or purpose, her breast nipples were ripe and fragrant of lotus... Miw was demur and somewhat shy in personality. Every time Miw appeared to serve drinks to the pharaoh and myself, I became 'enamored' and transfixed by her grace and beauty. Her perfumed body permeated the air with the smell of lotus blossoms every time she entered. The pharaoh, Khafra was not unaware of the attraction between I, Ka the scribe and Miw the servant. In the year 2575 B.C. the great pharaoh, Khafra, in appreciation for my father Kha's service to the previous pharaoh King Khufu, thus my lord Khafra gave me Miw as a gift, to be my wife.

                                              The "Blessing Ceremony"

The blessing ceremony for our wedding rites, took place in the inundation season of 2575 B.C. at the mortuary temple of pharaoh Khufu's "Great Pyramid", because my lord Khafra's pyramid and temple were still under construction. The blessing rites were conducted by the great pharaoh Khafra himself, for the king truly loved me as one of his own children. As a present for my "new life" with Miw, the great pharaoh bestowed a wedding gift upon I, Ka and Miw, our own house with a courtyard and spacious garden area in the back, the house was located on the outskirts of Memphis along the Nile, the house came complete with a young maidservant called Myrt and a gardener.

                                                         "Sopdet"

Each year in late June, the star known to the ancient Egyptians as Sopdet (Sirius to a later world) would appear. Sopdet would come forth from hiding, creeping into view just minutes before daybreak. Farther back in Egyptian history, astronomers had noticed that the star's emergence coincided with another annual event: the swelling of the Nile River, presaging a flood that would soak the land and renew it with a fresh coating of fertilizing silt. The coincidence was not exact, because the onset of the river's rise could vary by weeks, but it was close enough that the return of Sopdet became an occasion of great ceremonial importance, launching the new year and festivals of prayerful thanks and great joy. With this inundation, when the Nile River overflowed and replenished the parched earth, the people of Egypt witnessed anew the miracle of creation, this too was part of "maat", the harmony and order of the world. The Egyptian legends attest that the floodwaters once engulfed the world. Nothing stirred amid that dark and dismal expanse. Then, miraculously, a lotus blossom surfaced and opened its petals to give birth to the sun. Rising from the blossom like a golden bird, the sun subdued the waters and coaxed life from the emerging land. Ever after, when the Nile receded and the growing season began, people gave thanks to the sun god "Ra" and to his earthly counterpart, the pharaoh, who claimed divine powers and kept the country fruitful.

                                   Ka and Miw's Royal Barge Honeymoon

After the wedding ceremony, Miw and Ka were granted passage as "royal guests" on the pharaoh's royal barge. The ship measured 75 feet long by 35 feet wide and was made of the finest teakwood and cedar imported from abroad. The king had instructed the ship's royal captain of the magnificent barge to sail the Nile for 10 days and nights, so that Ka and his young new wife could start their "new life" and be blessed by the mother Nile, the giver of life to Egypt...
The first night aboard the royal barge, a special feast was prepared by the royal cooks aboard, in honor of Ka and Miw. The banquet consisted of roasted duck, nut bread, honey, plenty of "memphis crush" and wine. The special feast was served above-deck, because the galley was also above deck. Teakwood benches and tables under canopy graced the magnificent ship, also aboard were the necessary respective servants. The king's royal quarter's, were below deck, a special section below was reserved for guest, servants and ships crew. As they now sailed along the peaceful Nile River at a leisurely pace, all aboard could hear the night sounds of the Nile, the occasional roar of a hippopotamus in the bulrush, and the calls of the waterfowl in the nearby papyrus reeds. The smells and scents of the lotus flowers wafted towards them in the warm night breeze-all of this was theirs. In the distance loomed the "Great Pyramid", with its polished white casing stones of the finest white limestone from Tura and Aswan, "glittering" from the reflection of a full moon, never before or since has such a wondrous monument entranced the world.
As Ka and Miw's first night aboard the ship turned late, they retired to their guest quarters below deck. Miw was "pure" Egyptian female, her bronze soft skin and braided black hair were scented with lotus flower oils,   she radiated the scent of  "pure female". Ka now slowly undressed Miw, letting her elegant white wrap gown fall to the floor, exposing her young ripe breasts, took her by her slender waist, laid her on their bed of white linen, instantly they melted together, both of them, lost in passion in the warm Memphis night...
From thence forth Ka loved to sleep with Miw, his elegant young and beautiful consort, his "nefertiti" is what Ka often would whisper into Miw's ear as he took her for the night. In Egyptian "nefertiti" means literally "the beautiful woman has come".

                                                         The Hunt

The time Ka and Miw spent on the royal barge was truly "maat". Often they would retire late in the evening, when morning broke, they would have their morning meal brought to them while they were still in bed, with the fresh scented breeze of the Nile blowing softly in through their barge window. Their bath quarters were next to their room and had a copper washbasin set on an elegant teakwood table, with an elongated marble bath-tub for bathing. The tub had a large, hollow bamboo tube/stock attached to the lower drain section part of the tub, which led to the outside of the royal barge's lower-side deck, thus acting as a drain, a cork stopper acted as the tub's plug. When one finished bathing, one only had to pull out the cork stopper, which released the water into the Nile. Each morning the royal servants aboard would fill the marble washbasin with buckets that were lowered by rope into the Nile from above deck, then carried to the bath quarters. Scented oils would be added to the bathwater, and a sponge was supplied also to wash with. The servants would assist Ka first with his bath, then Miw, each morning. After Miw's bath, she was rubbed down with scented myrrh, then dressed in either a short or sometimes long white linen form fitting gown, which conformed to her figure not loosely, but tight enough that her slender waist and full breasts were revealed enough, to her advantage.
The great King Khafra was able to spend only one night aboard the royal barge, he had wanted to share in Ka's wedding feast celebration aboard the barge a few days earlier, but the pharaoh had many pressing matters of State to attend to at the palace. Early the next morning the royal barge docked at the Memphis port, and the King departed. The pharaoh's son, Prince Mycer, who was also Ka's age, "stayed" on board to continue the tour and do some game and fowlbird hunting  with Ka, along the marshes near the Nile. Along the Nile River, papyrus reeds and bulrush grew abundantly, which sheltered an abundance of wildlife and game fowl.
Prince Mycer was an avid hunter. On the fifth day of the excursion, the Royal Prince and Ka, with a few of the Prince's royal body guards lowered a rowboat off the side of the barge with ropes, climbed down the rope ladder, then proceeded to row toward the bulrush and papyrus reeds along the Nile. The hunting practicices of the time were to use bow and arrow or a specially carved wooden boomerang-type device, which was thrown at the game fowl as they sprang up from the reeds. If one hit the bird just right, it would stun the bird long enough to capture it in a net. Prince Mycer was an expert in both methods, that day he bagged 12 birds, while Ka only managed 2 birds to his catch. Prince Mycer kindly pointed out to Ka that it takes alot of experince to perfect the hunt.
Later that day the "away boat" returned to the royal barge with the bagged game fowl, which were soon prepared by the royal cooks aboard, for the evening banquet. At the feast table that night, Prince Mycer and Ka were the center of attention as they told of their hunting adventure in the bulrush. They told of how they were charged by a large hippopotamus and how the Prince seeing the danger, scared it off by landing a direct blow with his hunting boomerang to the hippo's head. The Prince and Ka, with some of the royal guards by then had circled the confused hippopotamus with the rowboat a few times, until finally the great beast gave a loud roar, and then submerged itself in the water, only to reappear across river.
All aboard the royal barge that warm, star-bright night, laughed, sang, drinking their "memphis crush" and wine, as they sailed down river with the flow of the Nile, all was in harmony with "maat" that evening. On the 10th day, the royal barge pulled into the Memphis harbor, and all aboard disembarked.

                                             Ka and Miw's New House

Upon their disembarkation from the royal barge, Ka and Miw were escorted to their new house outside of Memphis, it was truly a beautiful house, the pharaoh had spared no expense. It had been freshly replastered with a white coating, which was the fashion of the time. The house consisted of a front entry and main living room area, which was supplied with  new Egyptian furniture of the time. The house had master sleeping quarters for Ka and Miw, and four guest sleeping rooms, one of which would be used by their young  and beautiful maidservant Myrt, who now was the property of Ka. Myrt always dressed in Egyptian fashion, with her jet black braided hair, she wore black eye liner and blue kohl around her sensual eyes. She always wore a short white linen tunic dress, tight around her slender waist, exposing her body's curves, beautiful legs and full firm breasts.
In the back of the house was the kitchen area with a brick oven, just outside of the house by the courtyard and garden area, to be used for banquets and every day cooking. The house's bathroom was also located in the back by the courtyard, because the house's water supply was located nearby in the garden. The garden had a marble-lined holding pond basin 25 by 25 feet  square and several  feet deep. It was supplied water from an ingenious system of irrigation canals that ran from the Nile River. The holding pond basin had an overflow system of thick hollow bamboo pipe that ran from the top of the basin into an irrigation cistern that returned the unused water back to the distant fields, thus recycling the water. The garden area consisted of carved granite benches, a birdbath, and numerous fig and palm trees.
Upon their arrival, Myrt gave Ka and Miw a tour of their new house. After the tour, Myrt led Ka and Miw back to the garden area and had them sit on one of the granite benches that was near the garden's holding basin pond. Myrt then went to the holding basin, and pulled up a bucket attached to the rope. In the bucket was a liter-sized jug of wine, "kept cold" in the water, removing the cork stopper from the jug, Myrt poured Ka, then Miw, then herself each a mugful of the fine wine. Myrt then made a "toast" to Ka and Miw, saying, "May Ra our lord make our new lives together always happy, may Ra always bless us".
Ka and Miw then "knew" that the three of them would be happy here, together in their new life, Ka then kissed his lovely new wife Miw,  and then Myrt on the cheek, the three of then spent the remaining part of the day drinking, laughing and talking about their future.

                                                  "Feast of Ra-Atum "

Being in the service of the great pharaoh was no easy task. Ka would rise each morning at dawn, kiss Miw on the cheek, then bathe, while Myrt prepared a light breakfast for Ka. Then start his trek by foot to the pharaoh's palace, which was about a mile away. The days in Egypt started early, because by noon the heat of the sun engulfed the whole of Egypt. Ka's duties as a court scribe varied, sometimes Ka would read government dispatches to the pharaoh that arrived from Thebes the day before. Other times, the pharaoh would dictate letters to kings in foreign lands. Memphis at this time was Egypt's principle city, its magnificent white wall of tura limestone which surrounded the city was built by the earlier pharaohs, it made Memphis the jewel of Egypt. With the "Great Pyramid" of Khufu as its background monument, there was no city in the world its equal. Memphis was Egypt's jewel crown, and its pharaoh was at its center.
Each year the Feast of Ra-Atum, usually held in July the inundation season, was celebrated and lasted 24 days, all of Egypt practiced this annual feast. Its center ceremony was held in Memphis at the pharaoh's palace, with the "chief priests" participating and also organizing the event. No other celebration except the "Feast of Ptah", Memphis's own celebrated god, was celebrated more.
The pharaoh's chief high priest was Qa'a, a senior high priest and advisor to the king. Qa'a also was considered to be a mystic and highly regarded in pharaoh's court. Qa'a was the person responsible for Ka's education as a scribe. When Ka's father Kha died early in Ka's youth, the elderly Qa'a took it upon himself to raise and educate the boy, because Qa'a saw a higher purpose and a spirituality in the young boy.
The day of the opening ceremony for the Feast of Ra-Atum started at dawn, Ka and Miw rose at the first light of the sun. Myrt, their maidservant already had the bathbasin filled with water and conditioners for both Ka and Miw to take their morning bath in. The bathbasin was at ground level in their bathroom on a raised floor, it was equiped with a drain connected to hollowed out bamboo stalks that emptied outside in the gardens drainage canals. The basin could be plugged with a cork stopper, the basin could be filled with water by a special bamboo pipeing system that led in from the gardens holding basin pond.
After Miw's bath, Myrt helped Miw dress for the upcoming festival, because Miw was going to participate in the procession to the Temple of Ra later in the day. Since her marriage to Ka, Miw was given new duties at the palace and temple. With the blessing of both Pharaoh and Qa'a the high priest, Miw was also given the duty as a "temple chanter", in the temple of the sun god Ra. Miw's main duty, along with other young women, was to chant sacred spells glorifying the sun god Ra. Today, she would march in procession behind the priests as they walked to the Temple of Ra, it was a big honor. Later that day, Ka watched as the procession march past pharaoh's palace, he could not help but notice his lovely Miw, she looked so beautiful and happy as she marched in the procession as a "temple chantress". Truly Miw and Ka were honored to be in the pharaoh's service. Ka as he watched Miw march past the palace "remembered" how in a special letter, he wrote on a decorated papyrus scroll that he gave to his beloved Miw at their marriage ceremony at the Temple of Khufu that day.  I, Ka, wrote this verse to my beloved Miw, which I read aloud at our marriage ceremony, the following is that verse...

                                       Ka's Papyrus Scroll Verse To Miw

                                      " While unhurried days come and go
                                          let us turn to each other in quiet
                                          affection, and I shall be with you
                                          each unhurried day.
                                           
                                          Let us walk together each day
                                          and embrace in each other's arms
                                          in endless nights...

                                          Till death us part
                                           until we are reborn..."

                                                                    By Scribe Ka

                                                     

Pharaoh Khafra's Pyramid...

 In 2575 B.C. pharaoh Khafra's great tomb pyramid was still under construction. Its dimensions and height would not be as great as his father Khufu's "Great Pyramid", which was close to 490 feet hight, but pharaoh Khafra's pyramid would stand on higher ground than the pyramid of his father Khufu, giving the illusion that it was just as high. As compensation for the pyramid's smaller dimensions, Khafra's pyramid would consist of red granite casing stone on its lower levels. To glorify King Khafra, the Great Sphinx, a knoll of rock was transformed by Khafra's workmen into a lion with a human head, would be built near Khafra's pyramid. From dawn to dusk sled crews dragged monoliths of rock weighing a few tons or more to staging areas at the base of the pyramid. There, stonemasons, using copper chisels, chiseled the blocks to conform to the prescribed dimensions, smoothed the sides, and squared the corners. Laborers then reloaded the sleds and slowly began hauling them up the stone ruble ramps that flanked the emerging pyramid.
Toiling below in the pyramid's construction valley were legions of toolmakers, stonemasons, storekeepers, cooks, bakers, brewers, porters, and guards. The king's royal project managers were in charge of construction; at any given time as many as 30,000 workers were involved in the massive project. Many of the professionals, such as the project managers, stonemasons, architects, and scribes, were employed at Giza year-round. All this activity was tallied skillfully by ever-watchful scribes in the great pharaoh's service, "Ka" was one of those scribes...
The majority of the construction workforce, however, were peasants, working as conscrips during the annual Nile inundation, when the Nile swelled its banks engulfing much of the low land in water. This labor they supplied for the pharaoh was an alternative to paying taxes, serving in the military, or performing other mandatory labor for the king and Egypt. In general, all were proud to be serving the god-king; this service, in most Egyptian's eyes, was consistent with the harmony of "maat". Their work was not without compensation; rations of bread, beer, and onions were doled out three times a day, and the men earned additional payment in wheat or barley seed. With luck, laborers at the end of the long work week were rewarded with a feast of grilled fish and fowl, all washed down with beer or wine.

This was the time of Egypt's "great" building era; never before or since has so much "organized" direction within a nation been directed toward the "peacetime" building of such grandeur monuments-stairways to the heavens and gods, ever been constructed. Pharaoh Khafra's favored scribe "Ka " was in the heart of all this activity, as Khafra's pyramid rose to the heavens and Egypt's glory. In Egyptian culture, the pyramids symbolized the mound of the earth that rose from primeval waters during the world's creation. When the sun's rays beamed down on the pyramid, it formed a staircase to eternity, symbolizing the pharaoh's place in one of  Egypt's most important cults, the worship of the sun god Ra...

At the end of each day, Miw and Ka would have their meal in the garden area behind the house, because Miw's duties at the Temple of Ra were completed by midday, Miw then had enough time to trek home and engage in her household duties with the help of Myrt, her maidservant. Miw was able to present Ka with a meal at the end of his workday, when he returned from the palace. The meal consisted usually of roasted duck (abundant along the Nile) and freshly baked bread with honey, served with a cool pint of beer, which Miw or Myrt would buy at the open markets in Memphis. Miw usually would bring home the beer if she was returning from the temple any particular day. The beer was usually in pint-sized or liter-sized ceramic type jars or bottles made of baked clay, neatly packed in sets of four, the bottles in a weaved straw type carton or basket. The clay jars had a cork stopper on each bottle or jar, so as not to spill or spoil the beer. If  you were fortunate enough to have your own water well or holding pond in your garden, as Miw and Ka were, you could submerge the containers of beer or wine in a bucket with a rope and have relative cold beer or wine for the evening meal.
Often each night, just after dark, Ka and Miw, along with Myrt, their young attractive maidservant, would take their evening meal in their beautiful landscaped garden, discussing the events of the day and drinking "cold" beer, while they enjoyed the beauty of the night, the night sky and its stars. The sometimes full moon glistening off the white limestone cased pyramid of Khufu's Great Pyramid on the distant Giza plateau. This coupled with the deep silence of the night, only broken by the wildlife in the bulrush of the great Nile, all this was truly part of the harmony of maat. Later in the evening, Ka and Miw would retire to their own bed chamber, in each other's arms, their bodies wrapped together as one, lost in passion, then sleep...


                                                          Ro's Visit...

Ka's older brother Ro was a royal servant and also well loved in the pharaoh's court. Ro's official title was "King's Dresser". Each morning after the pharaoh's rising and bathing ceremony, which was assisted by the temple priests, Ro would be in charge of dressing the king in his royal ceremonial clothes. Then two priests would take Pharaoh by the hand and lead him to the temple sanctuary, where stood the life sized stone statue of Ra, enclosed in the shrine area. The sanctuary was known as the "sky" and when the king broke the clay seal attached to the massive doors, the shrine revealed the statue of Ra; in effect, pharaoh was opening the doors of the sky "symbolically". The king then recited his prayers, purified the statue of Ra with holy water, then sealed the sanctuary doors again. This ceremony lasted an hour or so, and afterward the king would be led back to the palace and it would be Ro's task to redress the king in his palace attire for the day, for palace state duties. In the afternoon, the king would visit his royal harem, then spend time in the royal gardens with his favorites the remainder of the afternoon, as the sun's heat engulfed Egypt...

Ka and Miw had now been husband and wife for one year now and were going to celebrate their union with a feast in their own garden courtyard. Ro was invited as well as Miw's sister Ti-Ti. Well Ti was also bonded in service to the Pharaoh as a "royal dancer". Ti as Miw called her, was only a year older than Miw. Ti had a slender figure like Miw and long black silken hair like Miw, and a lithe well proportioned body, with firm supple breasts. Each breast nipple was pierced with a gold ring, as well as her ears, this was customary for court dancers in Pharaoh's court. On Memphis's warm summer nights, Ka and Miw often would sit in their beautiful garden with its paved walkways of limestone and abundant fig trees. As mentioned earlier, the garden had a marble lined holding pond that supplied the garden with all its water needs, as well as the household. The water was supplied through an ingenious system of irrigation canals running from the Nile. The ground level holding pond had its own overflow system releasing the excess water back to the nearby fields for irrigation use. This holding pond was located near the house's bathroom, thus Myrt their young maidservant never had to go far to go for bukets of water to fill the washbasin and bathbasin in the bathroom for Ka and Miw's daily baths.
Tonight, in honor of Ro's visit, Miw and Myrt prepared a special feast, which consisted of roast duck, nut bread, and grilled Nile fish. For this special occasion, Myrt had also purchased at the market extra beer and two liters of  "memphis crush" a white wine mixed with lime and lemon juice, which she had submerged in the garden pond during the day to keep it cold for the later evening feast in the garden. That night, Ka and Miw, along with Ro and Ti, had their feast in the garden. Ka and Ro discussed the construction progress of King Khafra's new pyramid, already rising on the distant Giza plateau, and could be seen along the skyline. Miw interrupted them occasionally to get them more beer or "memphis crush" as Ka and Ro  talked. As the evening wore on, they all sang and laughed in the garden, as the open flames from the hanging oil lamps nearby caused dancing shadows in the gardens trees. The chirping harmony of the crickets emerged, as the night turned late. Miw and Ti got a little drunk that night, singing and dancing for Ka and Ro. That happy night of celebration in their beautiful garden was "maat". The mother Nile's water ran quiet and deep and only the occasional rustle of the gardens fig tree leaves and sounds of the distant wild fowl birds along the Nile could be heard, the stars shined bright into the night...


                                               Memphis's Open Markets...

The Memphis open markets were all over the great city and all of Egypt. Small and large vendors alike would sell there wares, and food, such as baked bread, fish, fowl, beer, and cloth of fine linen.
The Egyptian economy was basically a barter- based economy. At the heart of the system was the state-run royal granaries. Because taxes usually were paid in grain or livestock, it was of  utmost importance for the pharaoh's government to have a large, government-run granary and livestock-holding facility, both were located at the outer limits of Memphis. These sites encompased some 50 acres each, and in effect were the State Treasury of Egypt more or less. The granary was always full of grain; this was kept in silo's, row after row of them in the vast complex. The silo's were usuall made from baked clay bricks forming a silo, then the outside of the silo white-washed white to reflect the sun. The royal tax collector and the royal paymaster were the two highest officials at both complexes. These complexes was where citizens brought their grain or livestock to pay pharaoh's taxes.
The pharaoh's state and palace employees also came there to pick up their allotted grain. The granary also acted as a safeguard, in times of famine. The pharaoh "issued" baked clay "tokens" through the treasury to all state employees, such as the members of the military, palace staff, and the laborers for the construction on King Khafra's pyramid for bonuses. Each token issued was good for a set amount of grain or barley, the token was stamped with the pharaoh's "state seal" in the amounts of 1/2 or 1 bushel amounts. If a person acquired extra tokens, for instance, for grain than they could use in their household, the extra tokens could be use as "cash" for goods at the markets anywhere around Memphis or Egypt, as gold or silver coinage did not yet exist in Egypt.

                                                          Ka and Miw...


On Ka's days off when he was not raquired in the pharaoh's service, Ka and Miw would spen their day in Memphis at the open markets. At daybreak, they would be wakened by the songbirds in the fig tree outside their window as their bedroom was in the back of the house by the garden. Ka would always passionately kiss Miw on her mouth, waking her to the new day, this day before they had their breakfast, they bathed together in the bath quarter of the house. Then they dressed, as Myrt prepared them a light meal of fresh bread smeared with honey, from the bread Myrt had baked the day before.
The bread was heated in the oven in the courtyard next to the garden by Myrt, then served to Ka and Miw with a fresh cup of milk, which had been cooled in the garden holding pond. The milk was delivered to their house daily in a large baked clay jar by one of the local delta dairy farmer's servants. The clay jars, equivalent in size to a gallon, each jar had a  cork cap stopper to prevent spillage and spoilage, the jar would be submersed in their garden holding pond to keep the milk cold and prevent spoilage.
After Miw and Ka finished their breakfast, they said goobye to Myrt, then walked hand in hand to Memphis. Miw looked lovely that morning; she was wearing a long white linen dress that hugged her bodie's curves, she wore fine Egyptian sandals, and hooped gold earrings that Ka had given her. Her eye lids were painted blue with kohl accentuating her beauty. Ka wore a white Egyptian-style kilt and sandals, and Egyptian neck collar. Ka had also bought Miw a special ring at the market that day, it was made of gold with a red ruby mounted to the ring. Miw was happy as could be. The two of them spent the better part of that day in Memphis, walking hand in hand. As the day wore on, Ka stopped at one of the street vendors who was selling fragrant wreaths of flowers, Ka bought one for Miw to wear in her beautifully braided Egyptian style black hair. Miw was now complete, the picture of pure Egyptian female beauty. Ka and Miw were truly in love, the world for them that day was truly "maat".
Miw and Ka returned to their house later that day. At the market, they had traded some of their extra grain tokens for two ducks, three Nile perch, and a basket of four liter bottles of beer. They had planned a barbeque for themselves and Ti for later that evening. The barbeque was started at sunset, because then the heat of the day was mellowed. Myrt had just finished baking a batch of fresh bread and nut biscuits for the feast. The bottled beer and "memphis crush" was earlier put in a bucket and submerged in the garden's holding pond to keep it cold, because Ka and Miw loved cold crush and beer.
The barbeque would be conducted by Ka, in their barbeque pit, next to the brick oven in the courtyard. Ti was already helping Miw get things in order in the garden where they set up a table under the fig trees. Ka was already roasting the dressed ducks over the barbeque pit; he had the ducks impaled on a copper rod, with a handle on its end. Every so often Ka would turn the roasting ducks. Myrt prepared her fresh bread, nut biscuits, and fresh onions that she had bought at the market. Ti and Miw lit extra oil lamps for the garden area. The moon was full that night, giving off extra light. Soon Ka, Miw, and Myrt their young maidservant, and Ti were partaking of the feast, talking, laughing, and drinking "memphis crush" and "cold beer",  Egyptian beer was the finest beer known.
The night sky burned bright with stars in Egypt that night, you could hear the occasional roar of the hippopotamus in the papyrus thickets along the Nile. The four souls singing aloud, for they truly loved their king and Egypt, that night all was "maat" in their world. Ti had too much to drink that night, so she spent the night in Myrt's room, both of them layed naked in each other's arms as they slept... Ka and Miw,  also retired to their room. Ka undressed Miw, took her in his arms, and was lost in the passion of the hot Memphis night...

                                                     The Priesthood

At the age of 26 years, Ka was summoned by the chief priest Qa'a to the temple of Ra. In a recent "dream", Qa'a had seen Ka climbing the Great Pyramid of Khafu, with Ra the sun god reaching out his hand from the sky as if to take Ka's hand and pull Ka up to the heavens. The sun priests, which Qa'a served as chief priest, served Ra-Atum of the sun religion cult that originated in Heliopolis. The sun priests firmly proclaimed that Ra-Atum was the first king and pharaoh of Egypt. The sun priests proclaimed that because of the pharaoh's direct link with Horus, the pharaoh possessed the blood of the sun god Ra in his veins, in effect, making him a son of Ra.
The only other god in Memphis of prime importance was Ptah. The priests of Memphis taught the Egyptians that Ptah was the mind of the universe, the one god, self-conceived, and self-existent... a view "later adopted" by the Hebrews and Moses. Except for Ra, the sun priests proclaimed all gods and humans were projections of Ptah's intellect. The falcon god Horus was his heart, and Thoth, the god of wisdom, was his tongue.
Ka showed himself to be wise and spiritual beyond his 26 years. Ka was truly loved by Pharaoh, Qa'a the "chief"  high priest, and loved by all the sun priests in Memphis and the Temple of Ra. Because of Qa'a's "dream" of Ka climbing the "Great Pyramid", with the hand of Ra himself reaching out of the sky for Ka's hand, it was now believed that Ka possessed the character and potential powers of a mystic, like Qa'a himself. Thus Ka was inducted into the priesthood, as a high priest, it was clear to see, that Ka was being prepared to take Qa'a's place when it came time for Qa'a to cross the river of death and be with the gods. Ka was also given the title by Pharaoh himself as "Kings Advisor".
Miw was thrilled and happy for Ka, and now they would see each other more often at the king's palace and temple, because Miw also was one of the temple prayer "chantresses" in the Temple of Ra...

                                                      "A Brief History "


The gods of Egypt were respected for their magical rather than their moral powers. Egyptians were intensely concerned with proper social behavior that constituted the lifelong ideals toward which they aimed. Social and anti-social behavior were more secular than religious problems. The relationship of a human to fellow beings, superiors, and king was regulated by a code that owed more to tradition and lore, and accepted customs rather than to religion. Religion was not a means whereby a person obtained divine advice concerning one's manner of life; rather, it was one of the ways in which society was made conscious of its corporate identity. The daily act of worship was intended to emphasize the "common" and not the individual character of the citizen.
Egyptian religion was also practical in outlook. Whether you were a good person or a bad person, religion supplied you with a gratifying assortment of "magical formulae" guaranteed to get you by hook or crook into heaven. Whatever sort of terrestrial existence you led, if you recited the rubrics correctly you would obtain entry into the Elysian Fields. The worship of the gods was of an impersonal quality, designed to assure the worshippers of their place and participation in the great scheme of things. The ideas of sin and redemption as Christians recognize them today appear to have played no part in Egyptian religion. The gods certainly awarded punishment, but more because their "rites" had been neglected than because the worshipper had committed wicked acts. The moral codes that provided the Egyptians with guidance were in collections of proverbs written by distinguished law givers, great viziers, and the pharaohs.

                                                       A Scribe's Skills...

A brief summary of Ka's and other scribes skills is necessary, for a clear perspective on our story. In ancient Egypt, the mysteries of writing could be deciphered by only a select few. Perhaps one in a hundred Egyptians could read and write, a fact that endowed scribes with prestige and power. Theirs was the most important of occupations. In fact, many scribes performned clerical tasks for high priests and officials. Knowledge of writing was essential for all who aspired to leadership. The training for scribes was rigorous because the written language was complex. Students had to master more than 700 hieroglyphs, some of them representing "objects" or "ideas" and others representing "sounds". Successful graduates enjoyed a life free of manual labor. Their soft hands and clean white linen kilts were signs of their privilaged status in Egyptian culture.


                                                       Court Life...

Two tears had now passed since Ka was appointed a high priest. Ka was respected by all his friends and fellow priests, including government officials of the king and the city officials of Memphis. Qa'a, the chief high priest, was one day summoned by Pharaoh Khafra and ordered to prepare for an "official visit" to Thebes in Upper Egypt. Qa'a would accompany pharaoh, Ka, and two high-ranking magistrates from Memphis. Charges of corruption had been brought against the "vizier" in Upper Egypt at Thebes, the "vizier" one of the highest ranking state officials serving pharaoh. The vizier was responsible for administration, including the economy and legal matters.
The royal barge was prepared for the departure for the following day. Because this was a grave matter, Miw was not allowed to come with Ka, she would stay home. Ti, Miw's sister, would keep Miw company along with Myrt during Ka's absence, which was expected to be about a month or so. Ti as mentioned earlier was Miw's older sister by one year. Ti was a "royal dancer" in the pharaoh's court palace; she often danced for state functions and dignitaries in the palace. Ti often would stay in the "guest room" in Ka and Miw's house, in the mornings, Ti would sing in the courtyard while she practiced her dance moves. Ka could not help but notice her lithe feminine figure, and her well-defined breasts when he saw her dance. Ti was always scented with lotus blossom oils, like Miw, and Ka would become mesmerized by both Ti's and Miw's beauty.
During Ka's trip to Thebes, Miw and Ti often would go to Memphis's open markets in the morning, because they had extra grain "tokens" to spend. Since Ka's new appointment as high priest and advisor to the king, Ka received a generous amount of extra tokens for pay. Miw, Ti, and Myrt bought themselves each a new dress of white linen, a long form fitting dress, in Egyptian fashion of the time, they also bought new sandals because they wanted to look their best, Miw especially, for Ka's return from Thebes.
Weeks had now passed, the day before Ka's expected return, Myrt already was preparing a feast banquet to be held in the garden area courtyard, for the night of Ka's return from Thebes on the royal barge. The morning of Ka's return, before he arrived home, Miw and Ti did each others hair with the help of Myrt, then bathed in  perfumed water, applied lotus blossom oils to their breasts, then put on their new dresses of fine white linen, the dresses hugged their shapely figures and partially exposed their young ripe breasts which wafted the scents of myrrh and lotus blossoms.

Later that night, as they enjoyed their feast banquet under the fig trees in the garden courtyard, Ka told and explained how, after arriving in Thebes, after careful investigation of the vizier's government documents and other records, Qa'a and himself, along with the magistrates had indeed found evidence of wrong doing and corruption. King Khafra then had the vizier and accomplices removed from their posts and duties, imprisoned, and now awaiting trial by the magistrates, who stayed behind in Thebes to get the government back in order.
That night Ka was so happy to be back with Miw, to smell her sweet fragrance, and to look her in the face again. She was his beautiful "little cat" as he sometimes told her. That night they all drank beer and "memphis crush" getting a little drunk, the drinks were served cold, as Myrt had in the morning kept the beer and
"memphis crush" jars submersed in the gardens holding pond during the day. That night, the four souls all sang songs, and Ti and Miw did a special erotic dance for Ka. That night, the stars shined like diamonds in the black sky, they could hear the sounds of the waterfowl in the nearby marshes. That night thay all were in harmony with the earth and Egypt. In the background of the hot Memphis night, one could hear the chirping sounds of crickets, the calls of the wild ducks along the Nile, all was "maat" that night in their world. Finally, Ka and Miw retired to their chambers, Ka slowly undressed Miw, then took her by her slender waist and laid her down on the fine linen sheets of their bed. There the two souls became lost in each other's arms, lost in the Egyptian night...

                                                     Four Months Later...

The mother Nile was the giver of life to all of Egypt; she also cold be the taker of life. Four months had now passed, it was the warm season. Miw and Ti often would go swimming along the Nile near a secluded area with tall papyrus reeds and lotus flowers alond the river's banks. There they would spend their afternoons swimming and bathing. One afternoon Miw and Ti were out for their usual swim. Because the area was secluded, they often undressed and would sun bath in the nude along the river's bank near a patch of blue lotus flowers, which was Miw's favorite color. Miw decided to pick some of the lotus flowers to bring home and swam over to the place where the lotus grew, when she suddenly was pulled under the water, vanishing. Ti, who was on the river's bank, screamed for Miw, pleading for her to surface, Ti was shouting and crying, pleading for Miw to appear, ten minutes passed, no sign of Miw. Ti frantically got dressed, then ran back to Ka and Miw's house to get help. All afternoon Ka, Ti and Myrt, along with some palace guards searched the delta along the Nile for Miw, but to no avail. The next day, some fishermen found Miw's body floating near the blue lotus flowers by the river's edge.
The "ceremony of the dead rite", for Miw was held a few days later at Khufu's mortuary temple, where Ka and Miw had been married. Offciating the ceremony was the "chief high priest" Qa'a. Ka now read aloud from the papyrus scroll, the verse that he had read to Miw at the time of their marriage ceremony. The last verse he repeated, to symbolize the years they had been together, "until we are reborn", then Ka placed the papyrus scroll over Miw's heart and kissed her for the last time. Then the coffin lid was sealed and Qa'a and the priests took Miw to be interred...

                                                            Awakening...

Later that evening, Ka and Ti, as well as Myrt, were as sad as could be, solemn because of Miw's passing. That evening after Miw was interred, the three of them took their evening meal in the garden courtyard. Without Miw, the house felt empty, Ti tried to console Ka as best she could, but Ka was filled with grief, his heart was broken... As the evening wore on the three of them talked about the "good times" they all had with Miw, as they enjoyed their cold "memphis crush" reminiscenting about Miw, the three of them, that night got drunk to help numb the pain of Miw's passing. As the night became late, Ka was getting tired, so Ti took Ka by his hand and then led him to his bedroom chambers. There Ti spent the night with Ka holding him to her breasts as Ka slept. As morning broke, Ka and Ti awoke in each other's arms. Ka then "knew" that Miw was still with him as long as he had Ti, her sister. All he had to do was look in Ti's face, and knew Miw was not far away, but in the Elysian Fields, awaiting rebirth...
Ka and Ti had been together now for a full year, the pharaoh had again graced Ka after Miw's death, by giving Ka, Ti, Miw's sister for his new wife. Ka was now spending more time at the palace and temple, because he was one of the main high priests in the elite circle of the pharaoh. However, Ka always made time to spend with Ti, his new and beautiful young wife.
On late afternoons, Ka would return home and often find Ti and Myrt sun bathing nude in the back courtyard of their house. Myrt would be rubbing hippopotamus oil over Ti's body of dark bronze. Hippopotamus oil was used in Egypt as a skin conditioner and sun lotion protectant. Often Ti would be laying next to Myrt, their young servant girl, next to the courtyard fountain as the water splashed on their bronze oiled naked bodies which glistened in the late afternoon sun, their gold breast nipple rings "sparkling" from the rays of the sun. But Myrt was also their servant as well as Ti's trusted companion, Myrt was an Egyptian woman of stunning beauty. Ka always insisted that both Ti and Myrt dress in fashion when they were wearing cloths, in the Egyptian fashion of the day, which was a white linen wrap dress that draped their bodies, partially exposing their ripe breasts and thigh areas, as Egyptian days were hot. They also wore traditional Egyptian neck collars with gold trim and fine sandals. Their eyes were painted with kohl, black eye liner, and their hair braided in Egyptian fashion. Together, they were strikingly beautiful, and Ka owned them both.
Sometimes, Ti and Myrt would go in town to Memphis every few weeks to have their hair done, usuall at one of the many salons that catered to the upper-class Egyptian women. There, they would both have their hair washed and scented with fragrant oils, then have their hair styled in the Egyptian fashions of the time. Often when they finished at the salon, paying in "grain tokens", they would stop at one of the many outdoor cafe's in Memphis, spending the better part of the day having a light lunch and cold "memphis crush"...

On their way home, Myrt would sometimes buy extra food items or beer for the evening meal when Ka  would be present. If they had extra "grain tokens", Ti and Myrt would buy perfumes and oils for themselves. This day Myrt bought some extra jars of  "memphis crush" which she instructed the vender to deliver to their house later by cart, because Ka and Ti, along with Myrt liked their drink, as the sun set each night, as the three sat in their garden courtyard enjoying their "crush". After some weeks later, after deliberation, one night as Ti and Ka were laying in bed tight in each other's arms, Ti told Ka that she was "with child" Ka was elated, as Ti was, Ti then said, "my love, do you know what our child's name shall be, should she be a girl ?" Ka then said, "Ti, we both already know what her name will be, it will be Miw." Ti then took Ka to her, kissing Ka passionately on his mouth, pressing her body to him, and they both were lost in the night...

Gods of Ancient Egypt...

                                             Gods of Ancient Egypt


Ra/Re: The god Ra was known as the sun god. However, like the majority of cosmic gods, his history is lost in a fog that obscures the exact time and place of the origin of his cult. Ra, the oldest of the great principle gods, was also known as Ra-Atum. The god Atum was incorporated with Ra to form one god during the Fourth Dynasty. The first solid evidence of Ra dates to the reign of Pharaoh Djoser in the Third Dynasty (around 2630 B.C.). Some evidence suggests that Ra originated outside of the limits of earth, as an extraterrestrial being who imparted advanced knowledge to the Egyptians. In the Third Dynasty, Pharaoh Djoser was said to have been visited by Ra himself and was given the sacred Book of Ra. The books pages made of gold, was said to have contained the sum knowledge of the universe, it vanished in the Fourth Dynasty, to date it has never been proven to have existed. Most Egyptologists are skeptic of the book's existence.

Apophis: The god Apophis was known as the serpent god of darkness, whom Ra battles every morning at sunrise, destroying the darkness.

Horus: This God is the falcon god, one of the greatest Egyptian gods. He was given powerful influence by the affirmation of the monarchy in upper Egypt, becoming the dynastic and national god. The city of Hierakonpolis was the center of the movement to conquer and unify predynastic Egypt. The Greeks gave the city the name City of the Falcon. The falcon Horus was early on associated with the cult of the sun, a union that was active in the Pyramid Texts during the Fifth Dynasty, but perhaps as early as the First Dynasty.
 In the Third Dynasty, Horus was known and identified with the solar diety Ra. The two gods together were known as Ra-Harachte, portrayed with the head of a falcon beneath a solar disk. It is still unclear and difficult to understand the mysterious meanderings that carried the falcon god into the circle Osiris. Here Horus is the son of Osiris and Isis, heir and revenger of his father against his uncle, Seth, with whom Horus battled fiercely for the crown and in the end was the undisputed winner.

Osiris: Osiris symbolized the triumph of good over evil, and the promise of immoratality for all Egyptians. According to the ancient myth, Osiris was so powerful and highly esteemed that he inspired jealousy in the heart of his evil brother Seth, who arranged for his murder. At a banquet, Seth presented Osiris with an ornate coffin. When Osiris climbed inside to test the fit, Seth slammed the lid shut locking it, then cast the coffin into the Nile. Osiris's wife, Isis, later found and retrieved the coffin and hid it in the marshes. Upon discovering this, Seth found and dismembered the body and scattered its pieces. Isis and her sister Nephthys patiently recovered the body parts, and with the help of the god Thoth, Isis formed Osiris's broken body into a mummy and brought her husband back to life.
Together again, they conceived a child, Horus, then Osiris descended into the nether world to rule the dead. When Horus came of age, he avenged his father's death by disposing Seth and became the new king of Egypt. During their battle, however, Seth tore out one of Horus's eyes. The god Thoth restored Horus's eye, and it became a popular symbol of protection for both the living and the dead.

Seth: This is the god whom the Egyptians associated with confusion and cosmic and social disorder. The god Seth was often expressed by the hieroglyph depicting a human body and an animal's head, similar to a Chimerical, a member of the fabled desert fauna. Seth was the brother of  the god Osiris.

Thoth: Thoth is the god of writing and of wisdom, master of magical spells, and the patron of scribes. He was often portrayed with the head of an Ibis.

Anubis: Anubis was a god of the dead and protector of tombs. Anubis was depicted in hieroglyph's with the head of a canine, either a dog or jackal, and the body of a man.

Seshat: Seshat was depicted as a woman with her head surmounted by an "unknown" instrurment. Seshat was connected from the beginning with writing and perhaps with astronomical calculations. One theory is that Seshat was Ra's aide, scribe and consort who helped in the early formation of the hieroglyphic system in the early Egyptian civilization, upon Ra's arrival on earth.

Isis: Isis was the wife of Osiris and goddess who personified the virtues of the wife and mother.

Hathor: The goddess Hathor is portrayed as a woman whose head is crowned by a pair of bovine horns through which the solar disk shines. She represents mother and heavenly nourisher as well as goddess of love, joy and rapture.

Selket: Selket belongs to the group of witch goddesses associated with Isis. Selket is usually portrayed in a scorpian form.

Ptah: Ptah was the "creator god", patron of artists and sculptors, and was the local god of Memphis. He grew in importance during the First and Second Dynasties when the Thinite kings ruled from Memphis. The early Pharaohs encouraged the cult of Ptah for political reasons, for his shrine was at the centre of their sphere of influence. The Doctrine of Memphis taught that Ptah created Ra-Atum by means of a profound effort of the mind, fast forward...later Moses a Egyptian, and a Hebrew, expanded on this doctrine. At the end of the Thinite Period, Ptah lost influence by the royal house's formal adoption of the earlier sun religion of Heliopolis. The "sun priests" established the idea that Ra was "supreme"...

Amon: In the Twelfth Dynasty, in the process of reorganizing Egypt and solidifying power and control of the entire country, Amon was made from an obscure god into a national and dynastic divinity. Calling on the powerful theology of the Memphite dynasty of ancient Egypt as an obligatory step, Amon became Amon-Ra. The name Amon means the hidden one, originally the patron of Thebes. He became the national god for the Theban Dynasties.

Uraeus: Uraeus is pictured as the enraged cobra, menacing upright, who was "symbolically" carried on the pharaoh's forehead and by the god Ra, as protection against enemies. The counterpart of Uraeus is Nekhbet, the vulture goddess of ancient Nekhen, near el-Kab. Together, the vulture and cobra became "symbolic" of the unification of Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt. Thus both symbols were worn on royal headdress of the pharaohs.

Aten: Aten was portrayed in the form of the solar disk, whose rays reach out with lifelike hands to accept the offerings and bless the worshipers. This diety was promoted by King Akhenaten in the 18th Dynasty.

Montu: Montu is the god with the head of a falcon sumounted by the solar disk and two plumes fixed to the disk. He originated in the Theban region, of which he was considered the unchallenged god and was worshiped in numerous temples of the region. In the Eleventh Dynasty, it seems as though he might become the new dynastic god of Egypt, but he was replaced and supplanted by Amon, the more popular Theban god.

Min: In the religion of the Egyptians, the god Min held a preeminent post as the god of fertility, thus the erect phallus in his portrayals, a characteristic attribute of the god, was an immediate and evident sign of his sexual potency. He was usually portrayed standing with two tall plumes on his head, his body restrained by a tight- fitting tunic, and his arm brandishing a whip behind his shoulder. The god's pose is part of his oldest iconography, it occurs on monuments of the Second Dynasty, and his image was found at Coptos, the historic center of his cult. 

Mut: In reality, Mut was not a vulture goddess, as the hieroglyph would have one believe and was thought in the past. Recent studies have modified earlier theories, and have hypothesized that the name goddess should rather be connected to the noun mwt, meaning mother. One theory is that Mut was an ancient mother goddess. Also, Mut was the goddess who served as Amon's divine consort.

Khonsu: Khonsu, the moon god and son of Amon and Mut, was usually portrayed as a young boy or man.

Jackal: Besides Anubis and Wepwawet, the black jackal loaned his likeness to many gods, of both the warrior and funerary types.

Nut: Nut was the sky goddess whose body made up the heavens; she swallowed the sun god Ra every night, and then he is reborn from her womb every morning, thus Ra battles and defeats Apophis, the god of darkness.




   In the writing of this story, the pharaoh's scribe Ka, projected the following message to the readers, "I Ka, have ventured to explain to you the reader, about my lands numerous gods that we worshipped. A person cannot understand ancient Egypt without understanding Egypt's Gods and the Nile, as they are interwoven into the tapestry of our daily lives as one." Quote by: Ka,
So let us proceed with our story...

Qa'a Ka's Mentor, Reveals Secret to Ka...

The "Book of Ra" was said to contain all the wisdom of the earth and the heavens beyond. The book was said to have been given to the great Pharaoh Djoser (Third Dynasty) by Ra himself... The book's cover and its pages within were made of sheet thin gold and printed in raised hieroglyphics. The book measured about 12 by 10 inches and it was contained in a strange black metal casing that when closed locked automatically. The only way to open the book's outer casing was by pushing a sequence of  raised hieroglyphic ideograms on the book's unusual metal casing shell. The code sequence was known only to the chief high priest in charge, at the Temple of Ra. The sacred book was always kept locked in the sanctuary base beneath the stone statue of Ra. The book's coded access sequence was known only by the "chief high priest" presently Qa'a. It was said that the golden pages contained within the book, contained the sum of all knowledge in the universe and beyond, to be used for good or evil.
 Ka had at this time now been a high priest for five years and had just turned 32 years of age, when Qa'a his old mentor and "chief high priest" was near to crossing the river of death into the afterlife. On his death bed, Qa'a instructed Ka regarding the sacred "Book of Ra" of the book's contents, then verbally told Ka the correct hieroglyphic sequence to gain access to the inside of  the book, by unlocking the  outer casing shell for the book within. Qa'a's last words to his beloved Ka were that the knowledge of the book's content had the power to destroy mankind and the earth. Thus Qa'a passed to the afterlife, and now Ka found himself the new chief high priest in the Temple of Ra.

                                                "The Blessing Ceremony"

 The blessing ceremony for Ka's appointment as the "new" chief high priest was conducted by Pharaoh Khafra himself,  who was the "supreme" high priest in the Temple of Ra, later that week. After the blessing ceremony, the pharaoh and Ka anointed the stone statue of Ra with "holy water" from the Nile, then Ka placed the sacred "Book od Ra" in a secret space in the base of the statue of Ra, then locked and sealed the sanctuary doors. Ka was now in complete charge at the temple and chief advisor to Pharaoh Khafra, Ka always in the years ahead carried out his duties with solemn earnest dignity, and was well liked by the other priests in the temple and court palace. In time Ka also took on more resposibilities for his beloved Pharaoh Khafra, who now was getting on in years and soon would cross the river of death.
It is said that after King Khafra's death, Ka, having on occasion, opened and read the text of the "Book of Ra", feared the knowledge it contained would fall into the wrong hands in time, and be used for evil and the possible distruction of earth itself. Fearing this, Ka had the secret book sealed in "secret chambers" in King Khafra's pyramid at the time of his beloved pharaoh's death. But before, Ka had transcribed the text of the sacred book on some scrolls for his private viewing.
To date, the book still remains in its "secret place"  somewhere in Pharaoh Khafra's pyramid, and Ka the "once" lowly scribe took the book's secrets with him to his grave, thus preserving the "maat" of the world ...


ISBN: 0-9727036-0-8  Copyright 2003 by Mark E. Temme/Temme Haus Press