Anubis Speaks!: A Guide to the Afterlife by the Egyptian God of the Dead by Vicky Alvear Shecter

Author:Vicky Alvear Shecter [Shecter, Vicky Alvear]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Spirituality, History
ISBN: 9781590789957
Amazon: 1590789954
Goodreads: 16192213
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Published: 2013-10-02T04:00:00+00:00

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When they left the land of the west, the father marveled at what he had experienced and learned. The boy would later grow to be a powerful magician.

Ra Goes for a Swim

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As Ra leaves the boat and enters the water, a serpent with five heads slithers up from the depths to surround him. But don’t worry. It’s not a bad-guy serpent. This giant snake is here to protect Ra. When Ra emerges from his snake-encircled cocoon, he will be closer to his rebirth as Khepri. He will be young and vital and fierce!

Ra’s Khepri form is often represented as a scarab beetle. Having Ra symbolically emerge as a giant bug, by the way, is a good thing. The scarab beetle was one of the most revered and sacred symbols in Egyptian religion. My people’s respect for the critter came out of their observations of its interesting behavior.

The beetle pushes a ball of dung (fancy word for poop) across the desert with its little legs. It’s hard work, too. Impressed by the bug, the early Egyptians imagined that the sun was like that dung-ball, and that Ra was pushing it across the sky. Then they noticed that the scarab beetle laid its eggs inside the ball of poop. And from that ball of waste burst new baby beetles. This explosion of life from dead matter became a powerful metaphor for rebirth.

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