Showing posts with label Egyptian Book of the Dead. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Egyptian Book of the Dead. Show all posts

Friday, July 31, 2009

Stone and Shadow, John Bonanno photograph, 2008

Anubis gives strength to my legs and I lift myself up,
Sekhet clears the way to heaven,

My wishes are known in the house of the Ka of Ptah,

I know my own heart, having mastered its passions,

My hands and arms are returned transformed and deft,

I can move with speed my feet and legs that I may go.

I do what is pleasing to my Ka.

My soul is free of the rotting corpse recently bequeathed to Anubis.

The Gates of Amenta burst open, I depart in Peace.

-a paraphrase by John Bonanno from the Egyptian Book of the Dead

This passage is about getting out of Hell, a valuable piece of knowledge.