'Make beautiful your resting place in the West,
make splendid your resting place in the City of the Dead
Thanks to your just way of life it is here that your heart and soul can rest' Merikare
Across the river Nile on the western shore of Thebes, there lays a desolate winding valley that
hibernates within a barren and silent city for the dead, where no life can sustain on its parched
desert rocks. In ancient days this was a secret place with only one way into the valley, its dusty
road was only followed by the ritual funeral entourage of ancient times, and if you go into the valley
you can only return by the road that you came. No longer do the formidable Madjay stand guard on
its cliff tops, but you know that they are still there in spirit, eternal as the vow they took to protect
their kings in their final resting places
The sides of the valley twist and turn and contorting into a mountain that forms a natural pyramid
known as the Quorn, and like the pyramids this is a ladder to the stars and eternal life. It encloses
the subterranean tombs and final resting places of the once living Gods of Ancient Weset, the
pharaohs of The New Kingdom.
Try and imagine the tombs with an invisible passage of water that flows within a dark tunnel of fear
and chaos that could ultimately lead you to the light and eternity. A golden barque that has soaked
in the rays of the sun during the hours of the day will now be empowered to travel through the
darkness of the night on this eternal carrier of light, and it waits for you. Your mortal body is dead,
you are incapable of speech, you cannot move, you are travelling across the waters of chaos, you
are helpless, you sense a macabre fear of something enclosing you in the water, suddenly the water
begins to drain away, a demon snake known as Apophis has guzzled the water, and your barque is
becoming trapped in sandbanks, but they are not sandbanks they are the obese fat crushing coils of
this gigantic snake that will trap the barque, while its demon eyes will hypnotize the crew, enabling
the snake to swallow their heads engulfing them in everlasting darkness. Panic and chaos ensues,
help is desperately needed, the companions on the barque struggle to fight off this vile creature,
that has swum in the waters of chaos for eternity, In the battle Heka stands on the prow of the
boat his divine magic was given to the human race by God, and with his magical incantations he will
exorcise the snake, subduing it to his power. Ra then calls for Set, the god of Darkness, war and
Chaos to help them kill the snake whilst Heka has it in his spell, Seth leaps to the prow of the boat
with his spear launching it at this terrifying demon serpent, it rises above the boat emitting a screech
as its poisonous fangs launch towards them, Seth leaps onto the serpent and thrusts his sword into
the back of its head. Screeching it crashes into the waters of chaos launching the boat into a tidal
wave through the caverns. Seth is washed across to the shore where he drags the serpent and
hacks its glutoness body to pieces. In contempt of Ra and the other companions he gloats that only
he could save them from the threat of this Demon, Ra in his anger instructs Hu and Sia to guide the
boat to safer waters, leaving Seth on the shore. Hu takes a deep breath, then releases the divine
breath of life across the water, and the barque once more is thrust into fresher waters, the light and
perception of Hu’s female partner Sia expresses the mind of God, and together the spiritual essence
of these companions on the boat connect the soul with the heart of god once more and enable it to
journey towards the light again leaving behind the terrible darkness and fear of attack.
Only a man with a pure and righteous heart would be offered the everlasting release and joy to be a
part of the eternal cosmic cycle of renewal with the God Ra, the alternative was a macabre and
sinister torment that would await an unrighteous man, before the new kingdom those who were
found guilty were damned to suffer a continuous cycle of everlasting torment in the outer darkness
of an area in the deepest recesses of the underworld, a place of continuous punishment that was
infested with demons who had risen from the ranks of the damned themselves, killing and torturing
each other. They would rip the protective mummy wrappings off each other, screeching and tearing
each others flesh, their skin no longer protected, it rotted and decomposed Their hearts were ripped
out and the ba soul was lost, never knowing the way to fly back to its bodily homeagain. Thirst and
hunger ravished them, but they are denied the gifts of wine or bread, as their funeral gifts never
reach them., they would sneak past the four baboons that guarded the Lake of burning fire only to
find the water was not cool for them, refreshing their thirst as it would for a righteous man, for the
damned it was a place of destruction where burning, bloody water and the horrendous stench of
putrefying burnt flesh rose from its cesspools, for they were the brothers of Set, the God who
murdered his own brother Osiris, and disguised himself as a pig to blind Horus thus causing the
eclipses of the light and sun. Their torment never ceased but each new dawn a ray of hope would
spring forth inside their wretched bodies as a blinding golden barque passed overhead rays of light lit
up the darkness for a second and as the ray of light passed over them, they would scream and beg
for help, but the Righteous Barque of Ra sailed silently over them, completely oblivious to their cries
and torment… Only enter these portals of ancient Egypt to catch a glimpse of your possible destiny
if you believe that you have lived a righteous life, for these tunnels are the passage between what we understand as Heaven and hell.
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