Notes

         Up to see Kim off to work. Paul had already left for another twenty-four hours. Breakfast with the Today show on in the background and Owen cooing his talk on his blanket of animal designs and you think old Takis would like that – a baby bonding with the symbolic elements on the blanket. Living animals were symbols on the run. Movement – symbols that moved. Letters are shaken when spoken, this is the old magic, orndorff, at least in these books it is. The shout. The roar of the crowd. Magic. The theatre of the symbol that stirs the heart and soul and mind.

         Up from a nap while Owen is napping. > Now feeding. > Spent time relaxing watching last Monday’s CSI. Mid-afternoon and you are ready for another nap. Out to dinner or take home tonight.

         Scene nine will take the three to another ‘island’ as it were. Check your history lines and we’ll pick another civilization from around eight hundred BCE.

         Is the River Styx going to be wrapped around each island?

         In a sense, we have to keep this simple enough. A separation by river is plausible in most civilizations of those days, either that or actually islands and we can have them in the Styx too. It is not like ‘The Matrix’ in setting. I’ll explain more as it is needed. The setting will be congruent with then and book six, the modern revolution of the Dead. Post this for now. – Amorella. 

         Almost eighteen hundred hours. You have ten pages on Ancient Egypt and have chosen a city to be representative. The Styx is the Eternal Nile Downstream, if you go far enough is the hidden Karnak Temple Complex so there is no way to get home to the Living. That will be a good enough premise. You will meet another shaman. He is the only one to communicate with.

         Time for bed. You have not had a chance to really go over the material but plan to do so tomorrow. I think you will be surprised what you find in what you have downloaded, orndorff. – Amorella.

         Well, I did scan read those pages but nothing significant stood out. If it is something useful, good.

         You read it like you were reading the content of one of your student’s papers.  Below from Wikipedia.

         Ancient Egypt:

         In contrast to elitist Old Kingdom attitudes towards the gods, the Middle Kingdom experienced an increase in expressions of personal piety and what could be called a democratization of the afterlife, in which all people possessed a soul and could be welcomed into the company of the gods after death.[37] Middle Kingdom literature featured sophisticated themes and characters written in a confident, eloquent style,[32] and the relief and portrait sculpture of the period captured subtle, individual details that reached new heights of technical perfection.[38]

             At Karnak:

The Precinct of Mut is very ancient, being dedicated to an Earth and creation deity, but not yet restored. The original temple was destroyed and partially restored by Hatsheput, although another pharaoh built around it in order to change the focus or orientation of the sacred area.

            I was surprised by the above. Time for bed.