No, seriously, be meta-clean

Your purification* is the purification of Horus, your purification is the purification of Seth, your purification is the purification of Thoth, your purification is the purification of Dwn-‘nwy, your purification is the purification of your double, your purification is the purification of your purification, and this purification of yours also is among your brethren the gods.

– The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, trans. R. O. Faulkner, Utterance 36 (partial)

* translator notes that “censing” is also acceptable as a translation as the associated offering is a pellet of incense

Ahaha

Apparently I totally failed to manage to get my attempt to queue next week’s quote of the week to post next week, which is why it posted before the quote of the week announce.

Calendar fail: the story of my life.

Snrk. Okay then.

Trying a new thing

So, in the hopes of getting myself active and doing research and posting some more, since I’m in theory trying to work on a new book, I’m going to be trying to do a weekly quotation from some of my books. Going to start with some of the classics for my line of study. Some of these will be important, some of these will be quirky, some of these will just be ‘here, have a shiny object’, I suspect.

So here is a thing:

The origin of the created world in a process of diversification, of the separation of elements that were previously united, dominates Egyptian ideas of creation. Earth and sky, which were originally united, are separated by Shu; light comes forth from darkness; land emerges from the primeval water; the creator god “divided (wpj) the nature of the one from that of the other”, thus endowing every being with its unmistakable individuality.

– Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many, Erik Hornung, pages 171-2, translated by John Baines. The internal quotation is attributed to the Cairo hymn to Amun 4,3 in a footnote.

I Have Not Expected Overtime or Been Nasty to People Working Service Gigs

I have not done falsehood against men, I have not impoverished my associates, I have done no wrong in the Place Of Truth, I have not learnt about that which is not, I have done no evil, I have not daily made labor in excess of what was due to be done for me, my name has not reached the offices of those who control slaves, I have not deprived the orphan of his property, I have not done what the gods detest, I have not calumniated a servant to his master, I have not caused pain, I have not made hungry, I have not made to weep, I have not killed, I have not commanded to kill, ….

From the introduction to Spell 125, the Declaration of Innocence, from the version presented in Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, translated by Raymond O. Faulkner with an introduction by James P. Allen, published by Barnes & Noble.