Queen Hatshepsut s Journey To The Afterlife! The Imperishable Satirical Journey Of Queen Hat.

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1 Mark Hemmingway Leland Agents Name: June 16, 2015 Outline: Queen Hatshepsut s Journey To The Afterlife! The Imperishable Satirical Journey Of Queen Hat. Don t criticize, condemn, or complain - except when you are bullied. Give honest and sincere appreciation. Arouse in the person and eager interest. Remember the persons name. Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. Talk in terms of the person s interest. Make the other person feel important - and do it sincerely. Begin in a friendly way. Dramatize your ideas. Let the other person feel the idea is his or hers. Throw down a challenge. Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise. NOTES ON OUTLINE: 1. Start with weighing of the heart? * Enemy of Hat is The Kingdom of Mitanni. Ruth 3 dresses up as a Mitten women and tries to kill her.!1

2 ** Tuth 3 conquers the near east. Tries to kill her in every scene. *** Early Scenes: A) What God are they paying tribute/honoring/dedicating and B) Dedication to Amun-Ra, sun Godess. ISIS Chapter 1 The Last Day She walks over to the balcony, throws open the curtain, struts out to the balcony, butt naked, with the most voluptuous body in all of Egypt and announces: Good Morning Egypt!! Returning her call, every single male in Thebes replies: Good Morning Pharaoh!! She bows and turns around quickly. As she comes back through the curtains, a false beard is strapped on her chin. SEQUENCE 1: QUEEN HATSHESUP S MORTURARY TEMPLE AT DEIR al-bahri (Monastery of the North). UNDER CONSTRUCTION. Her funerary temple. Celebrates the immortality of Hat. She must preserve the cosmic order for the common good. This is the story of the Queen/Pharaoh Hatshepsut s (hereafter called Hat ) and her journey into the afterlife to save, as she is taught, the very existence of Egypt. She ruled Egypt during the Middle Kingdom, from B.C., a hundred years before one of her worshippers invented the toilet seat. Hatshepsut married her half-brother Thutmose II in 1482 B.C. and ruled along side of him. When Hat s husband died, his son and Hat s stepmother, Thutmose III assumed power, but he was still a child.!2

3 Hat began acting as regent to her stepson, and then usurped him b the second woman pharaoh to rule Egypt. She ruled for 20 years before her stepson sought revenge. Strapped to Hat s side, a silver handled battle axe. She is almost six feet tall, slender, curvaceous, and wears a ridiculous strap on beard to indicate she s a man. Considering her body, toned by rowing, shooting, riding, and hunting, has not a speck of hair on it, the out crop from her chin is most disconcerting. Hatshepsut is tall, elegant with a razor sharp nose and tiny nostrils. Dark olive skin that masks her mastery of gamesmanship. Years of mandatory inbreeding has left her with stunning lavender eyes. As Pharaoh, she must walk like a man, an art she has yet to perfect. She glides up the last of three giant ramparts leading to her grandiose mortuary temple at Deir-el-Bahri, about from the capital city, Thebes. This is her legacy to planet earth and elegant enough to admire from the stars she d mutter when alone. Called, The Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, the 22 year construction site is built into the limestone cliffs on the eastern face of the Theban Mountain as if constructed by the head god Amun himself. The huge amphitheater like setting has vast views of the plain leading to the Nile. Dozens of of construction workers dot the landscape, but the work is largely finished. The north and south lines of the complex is surrounded by myrrh trees, giving off a delicious odor. Lining the three tiered causeway on each side, are approximately eighty grand sphinxes. She is followed by a large entourage of construction big-wigs and her chief architect/lover, Senemut. Senemut is tall, pointed, witty, and brilliant. This entire grandeur is largely his vision. Walking out front, practically high-stepping, is her advisor/talking cat, Bastet. Bastet being the name of Egyptian cat goddess of peace. A!3

4 tribute gift from some Minoan king. Bastet is anything but peaceful. A cigarette dangles from his mouth. The entourage pass by some recently painted reliefs: a drawing of Hat being greeted by the god Osiris, eating with the sun god Amun Re wrestling a hippo, playing chess with a baboon, swiveling a hula-hoop with a giraffe, riding a unicycle, and sitting on the royal toilet reading a papyrus. Oh this is pushing the scarab. Bastet explains stopping in front of a Hat on a Toilet relief. Hatshepsut stops, examines the relief. Oh sorry about that. Plaster and Paint Union 58 is on strike - the usual demands - more beer and softer bread. Senemut adds. This requires an un-usual response: Have the entire union penisslapped fifty times each by our new Nubian prisoners, Bastet declares. Hat nods, pets Bastet, and turns to stare at the Nile, opposite the reliefs. She wears a bracelet and a pendant with lapis lazuli - a scarab set in gold. Similarly, her shoes are made of sheet gold. Hat wears a white crown, symbolizing her control of Upper Egypt, and most oddly, royal ceremonial beard! Hat was an impel transvestite - all foreign dignitaries believe she is a man. She wears the crown of Upper Egypt with the cobra goddess. Her people consider the pharaoh the conduit between those she rules and the gods. What s good for the pharaoh is good for the Egyptians. No rock to big, no pillar to large - no obelisk to grand to be lifted - all in the name of the pharaoh. Hat gazes up, way up, her entourage follows her gaze. A worker carving on the rock face, standing on a narrow piece of wood held up by ropes, hundreds of meters above her. Obelisk? Why is that man frantically waving? inquiries Hat. A whistling sound when.!4

5 A medium size round rock falls on a man, waving a fan at Hat, in the entourage smattering blood and killing him instantly. That man, is your stepson, you know, Tuthomose III. yawns Bastet. He s seen this before. What is he up to, now? Another rock strikes an Egyptian pulling up a pulling a cart full of amphora vases full of sunflower oil. He appears to be trying to kill you by hurling rocks from above. Says Bastet. My little warrior - he really knows how to kill people. The cart rolls now rolls down out of control and over a twenty foot drop. It lands on a woman baking bread, kill and spraying burning embers. Options: 1. boomerang display God of Wisdom She has to take an astronomy test. Like a bad dream, she sleeps past it. She uses a spell What god is she honoring here? Has to be a dedication of a temple. So temple is: Hat is seated at the royal palace reception room in the capital city, Thebes. Underneath her gold sandals, a mosaic tile depicting a pharaoh lead hunting party. She s wearing her false beard - to the outside world - she is a man. Panoramic dorian columns tower along the hallway, an obvious designed to intimate the foreign dignitaries. Hat is receiving tribute from one of Egypt s conquered enemies and on today s schedule, ambassadors from Assyria. At Hat s feet, Bastet is asleep in a bed of finely threaded linen.!5

6 The three Mitten ambassadors are giddy with excitement, certain Hat will love their orgasmic gift. Great Pharaoh of Upper and Lower Egypt, god of this earth, our King Fasmin presents you with his entire harem! He thanks the almighty pharaoh for sparing his life and his city! Two enormous Egyptians pull back the door and in parade a seventy five women dressed in see-through-lavender silk. Hat, political gracious, grimaces. The last thing she desires is a harem full of women. Bastet opens up an eye and peeps at all the girls. He rolls on his belly and gives a long, hacking couch laugh. In waves of five, beautiful Assyrian women erotically dance in front of her, before moving on and the next five appear and do the same. Over and over again. 37x SEQUENCE 1A: Honoring what God and how does Tuth try to kill her? In exchange for sending gold to the king of Babylon. He in exchange would send manufactured goods and PRINCESSES to the pharaoh. Hat. receives a bunch of princesses and is so angry. Tech Nation? SEQUENCE 2: Honoring what God and how does Tuth try to kill her. OFFERING ROOM: She goes to the offering room. It s smells horrible of old, old rotten food. A servant covered in honey to attract flies. Hello little Bastard! a masonry worker says, accidentally smacking Bastet in the head with buckets of plaster.!6

7 That s Bastet! Watch where your going - or I ll make you a eunuch! barks Bastet. He was gift from a Babylonian king. BASTET: A female CAT goddess. Peaceful. offerings to the goddess Bastet. Tomb Paintings depict her doing ridiculous things. Riding a uni-cycle. Flying a jet plane, water skiing, dancing with alligators. SEQUENCE 3 ASTRONOMY TEMPLE: Honoring what God? Ruth tries to kill her??? Astronomer tells HAT that she will be murdered tonight. It s written big in the stars. Earlier, she sees her husband star - it appeared just after her death. When another star appears next to it, Astronomer knows Hat. made it. Used cosmos to determine the flooding of the Nile. And the orgasmic health of the nation. She has a speech to report this! She keeps track of lunar calendar. Papyrus calendar. Most of days are written in black, the ones in RED our unlucky days (T/pg.27) SEQUENCE 4: Honoring what God? PARTY: Raucous party, dancing, drugs. a linen condom w/chord wrapped around waste. SUDDENLY, everything is taken away and HAT. must learn spells. Dynasty: Succession of rulers from related families. All dynasties refer to the other dynasties - That Idiot Dynasty. Anus explains what is at stake: Your soul. She can t remember any spells - even after 30 years. She plays the tambourine! SEQUENCE 5: She dis-robes in stunning egyptian fashion. No one knows I m a woman Outside, all 10,000 workers are watching her. She is surrounded by an endless pool, sycamore figs, date palms, and acacia!7

8 trees. She has a carved perfume vases made from a mottled stone called breccia. SEQUENCE 5B: She has a male harem of her own. Nubian, Syrian, Hittites, Libyans. SEQUENCE 5A: She visits a Papyrus Factory. his punishment? he asked for more wages. Visits a boat building factory. A flood inundation where she bets on the outcome of slaves trying to outrun the flooding nile. A running of the bulls so to speak. lightweight material her scientist design that is so lightweight it floats. She discounts it - boat can t float down the nile don t be silly. Chisel School. Penis Sheath factory (pg. 77. Egyptians. Hair removal ceremony. Sewage released right before the public drinking water supply. Hat. hailed as a hero. She visits a TOOTHACHE HOSPITAL. It breaks her heart. Little kids with tooth aches. She gives them gives of sugar cane! SEQUENCE 5B AND 5C. She visits a cattle ranch. What s the Egyptian angle, besides that everyone dressed in kilts. Maybe it s the kilts. Spoof of blazing saddles. Visits the obelisk sculpting site - obelisk looks like a dildo. She visits A chisel and mallet musical rehearsal. All they sing is. A chisel, a mallet. A chisel and mallet - that is my life. Used to smooth down the limestone rock for pyramids. A scaffolding union meeting. SEQUENCE 5D:!8

9 She visits the fanciest Chef who prepares the fancies feast for a God s that never touch it. If God didn t eat it, he goes nuts. Surely he ll eat this SEQUENCE 6: Thutmose III attempts to kill her. Does he kidnap her and she dies accidentally - snake bites him/or his servant, sends in a hippo! New servant killed by a hippo. Drop Rock her, hits servant. She is killed by accident: 1. The falling rock joke. 2. Priests screw up in a ritual. 3. Dancing hippo, a gift from her arch-enemy - Princess Gossipea of Babylon. Hippo accidentally sits on her! Priest try to hush it up. ACT 2: Scene 1 or SEQUENCE 7: Hat. awakens in thethe DUAT - The Underworld (monsters and lakes of fire). Thought to look like Egypt. Avoid - the stomp by the one-eyed Elephant - very cool. She is scantily clad in Mummy bandages cover her private parts. She is handed the gook of the dead by Anus Bastet can go into both worlds - she keeps reporting on Tuth 3 successes. The BOOK OF THE DEAD contains a map of the DUAT and the many prayers to ward off evil. She s first handed the gigantic book, and then The Pocket Addition Book of the Dead: 200 spells to help the deceased reach the other world safely. She s learned 2. Who is there? Baboon - captain of the Boat of Khepri. Ox-hide canopy. Boat had a man rowing, a sun canopy, and a Steersman. Pg 14/small. Ruler of Sideways Egypt! pg. 116: Journey To The Afterlife. Lakes of Fire & Monsters. To fight them, she uses magic and spells written in the Book of the Dead. Could be a priest and an attendant on the boat.!9

10 OSIRIS God of the underworld (supposed to look like egypt). Presides over Judgement. MUST MEET OSIRIS IN THE BEGINNING AND END AT JUDGEMENT. Enemy of Isis andhorus. Hippo-head. Isis, wife and son Horus. King of the underworld. The mummy? All for nothing, this is about your soul, not the body. Everybody, she has such a great happiness - when they are all killed by AMMIT. She wards Ammit of with a silly magic trick which SHARMA reminds her of. Color of the river is blue and horrible creatures swim in them. FULL OF CRYSTALS AND GEMS, GOLD, OIL, LAVA, SILVER, ICE, BATS, MOLES! FIRST: She runs and grabs the book of the dead and they jump in the funerary boat. Map in The Book of the Dead - ROLLED up papyrus scrolls - now Pocket Edition.. In boat, studies map with Unas. Map =. Get in a boat and begin. River immediately HAS 15 FORKS, MUST LOOK AT MAP AND DECIDE WHICH ONE. Scene 2 or SEQUENCE 8 - Hurdle/Challenge #1: AND EXECUTIONERS. The boat goes through some massive gates. Dark, scary, evil stalagmites. Here resides BES: A deformed and grotesque god, depicted with an obese body, short legs, and Comic face could dispel spirits. He s going to execute her via hippo trampling. She uses a spell to freeze the hippo. Bes is impressed.!10

11 Scene 3 or SEQUENCE 9: Challenge #2. He tries to convince her to stay and farm. Why risk it? But he s plotting to have killed in the annual flood. Magic Spell 06 - for not working in the underworld Studying book - get past here, it rejoins the main the river. They come upon: God Osiris makes her farming and dig ditches. The forgot the SHABTI - figures that do the farm work for you. so they could perform any manual tasks required in the afterlife. ONE SHOULD SURVIVE - HE S LIKE DR. DESTRUCTO They farm and sing with thousands of other land owners. They can t remember the She must farm on the NILE. The farm gets flooded - hundreds die. She wears a hippo necklace and a hippo saves her and the cat and they move on. SEQUENCE 8: They float down a black river, sometimes aqua blue. Learns what to say when confronted with all he Gods who are trying to LURE her. SEQUENCE 9: Hot goddess Isis. Lesbian and want to her have sex. She remembers the chant to get out. SEQUENCE 10 : God of the Arts. She has to sit through horrible plays - what would a millennial hate. Cast a spell to get out. Other s chose this, as they knew their hearts were not pure. This god tires to TEMPT her to stay. SEQUENCE 11: Anubis - Jackel God: Haunted Cemeteries: Takes her there. Shows her all her family members who did not make it. The Pharaohs are the museum workers of their empty tombs. Shows Tutmose III defacing all Hat s statues.!11

12 SEQUENCE 12: Goddess Thoeris - a female Hippopotamus of great importance to women in labour. The Goddess is always yelling - breathe! She makes Hat. 8 months pregnant. She sets down Hat as prepares her to give birth. Cattle farming was big - The Egyptian Cowboy! SNORKELING IN THE NILE? NILE GOD - Turns killer hippo into dancing hippo. SEQUENCE 22: JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF PUNT. Escorted out to array of ships. Journey down the Nile to Northern Somalia. Exotic people. God of Travel (?). Our first Horticulturist. In Duat, has to take a cooking test. SEQUENCE: 28: WEIGHING THE HEART: 42 Gods accuse him of various crimes. PUBLISHER: QUERRY LETTER TO: writer: autobiographical fiction. strong woman with tough physically and emotional HAT S GOAL: To get to the Field of Reeds (average egyptian?) and ride with the sun god across the day and fight demons at night. Goal is to get to the kingdom of!12

13 Hat carries a flail to shoe away flies. Entertainment: Jugglers, Acrobats, Dancers. Game: SENET - a board game. Archery popular. Gods accuse her a various crimes, which she denies. [T/pg. 18]. no one knows I m a woman, even though she sits to pee at a public toilet Offerings: fat guys behind the temple eating all the food the gods don t eat. The Passport T/pg. 18. BELOW THE EARTH THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS IMAGINED THERE EXISTED AN UNDERWORLD WHICH THEY CALLED DUAT. SOME PARTS OF IT WERE FULL OF PERILS LIKE LAKES OF FIRE, POISONOUS SNAKES, AND EXECUTIONERS. SPELLS WERE USED TO COUNTERACT THESE DANGERS. MANY OF THEM WERE WRITTEN ON COFFINS, TOGETHER WITH A MAP OF THE UNDERWORLD. THESE DEVELOPED INTO ORNATE SCROLLS OF PAPYRUS WHICH WE CALL THE BOOK OF THE DEAD, SINCE MANY WERE DISCOVERED ON OR NEAR MUMMIES. THE BOOK WAS A PASSPORT THROUGH ALL THE PERILS LURKING IN DUAT. IF YOU COUD RECITE THE CORRECT SPELLS, YOU COULD PASS THROUGH UNHARMED. THE ULTIMATE DANGER WAS TO FAIL THE TEST SET FOR YOU IN THE HALL OF THE TWO TRUTH, WHERE YOUR HEART WAS WEIGHED AGAINST YOUR PAST DEADS. THE PAPYRUS HELPED AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO PASS THE EXAMINATION AND REACH A LAND THA WAS JUST LIKE EGYPT ITSELF. Name her past Deeds***** (L./pg. 113) Egyptians idea of heaven was a rural paradise PRESIDED OVER THE THE OSIRIS. WHERE HAT. GOES - BUT WITH ONE GOD! They called it the FIELD OF REEDS - a place where the sun shone and!13

14 people worked in the fields, planting, and harvesting their crops. In fact, it was just like Egypt - except the grain grew a foot taller. Part 2. Egyptians believed that in heaven, they would work for the gods in the FIELD OF REEDS. The rich were buried with model sherbet figures, to do the hard work for them. Egyptians believed the pharaoh was the SON of the sun god Ra. Kings also associated with the sky god, Horus - the falcon protector. (L/pg. 95). Symbols and gods painted on the mummy cases AND tombs were to help the dead avoid the dangers of the underworld. SO GODS COME TO HER SIDE. AND she uses magic spells to thwart her ENEMIES. BOOK OF THE DEAD: Spells written to ASSIST THE SOUL ON THE JOURNEY IN THE AFTERLIFE. NUBIAN MILITARY EXPEDITIONS: Scene where she is on a chariot leading a brave charge. Dealt with local uprisings. CHARIOT TEST? GOD ENEMIES ON ISLANDS: The same magic gates are outside each stop/island. Inside the gate, is a magical world of the God of the Island. Hat: I didn t know the god existed? At some island. Response: Well you should have - he was very big during the old kingdom. PLANET EGYPT: Episode 1: Quest For Eternity ** OPENING OF THE MOUTH: awakens the spirit in the afterlife.!14

15 **Obsession with death. Most important person in life was the person responsible for her afterlife. ** COURTIERS. SERVANTS who had to die to serve their departed kings. * Without a mummy, there is no afterlife. Pains taken to hide it. **SEMENUT must be her principle advisor as he is responsible for her afterlife. ** Next world the same as this. clay models of garlic, meat, bread and models of Poppy Heads!!!! They enjoyed heroin! If the nile flooded every year, and the sun rose everyday, than the dead can arise. ** The heart, the home of the conscience must be as light as the MAAT feather, symbol of the goddess of justice. Only those with a pure heart will get past the the great devourer, a female demon with a crocodile head and a body of half lion, half hippo. It consumes the soul of sinners, condemning them to eternal death. for the pure of heart, the afterlife is eating and parties and work to. ** for the egyptians, afterlife was a big business! Figurines, models, materials. 1. MONSTERS: A) Spider Head. Cockroach. All monster have insects heads. Praying mantis. B) FIRE SPITTING SNAKES, SOME WITH WINGS, OTHERS WITH LEGS. HAT OUT-THINKS THE SNAKE BY SHEDDING HER SKIN. VITALS: ( B.C.). A story about a queen who became a king. She began acting as regent, and then became second woman pharaoh. She married her half-brother Thutmose II and ruled along side of him, holding most of the power. When he died, Thutmose III assumed power, but he was still a child. God s wife of Amun. (cata/pg. 226). His aunt and stepson, Hat, assumed power.!15

16 pga/tall: Wears a bracelet with lapis lazuli - a scarab set in gold. Eye paint container in the shape of a hedgehog. Orange tube and applicator for eye paint. A pendant of lapis lazuli bull s head set in gold. She has skills in rowing, shooting, riding, and hunting. Strapped to her side, a silver handled battle axe. Lapis lazuli bull set in gold. She wore the pharaoh s crown and royal ceremonial beard. She wears the crown of Upper Egypt with the cobra goddess. PICTURE: Pg. BOYFRIEND: Senenmut. Hung like a donkey - people make the he-haw sound when passes. at a dinner, his wanker on the floor draws attention of the house pets. TREASURER: Djehuty. Libyans - the Bad Guys. Master designer: Checks all the work of the artists and sculptures. Deir el-bahri - her funerary temple. Said she was chosen by AMUN to be pharaoh, he s pissed. The temple at Deir el-bahri remains Hats most enduring monument. Built of limestone and designed in a series of terraces set against the cliff wall in a bay formed naturally by river and wind action. At Deir, a chapel was constructed for HATHOR, GODDESS of the western cemetery. He disappeared in the 21 year of Thutmose III. She ruled for 20 years. She built a lot in Nubia. Built temples in Hebenu, Hermopolis, and Cusae. At Karnak, she had reliefs depicting her being accepted by the Gods. She build the Eight Pylon, a new southern gateway to the temple precinct. Built a temple her dedicated to Amun-Ra. And of course, giant obelisks (cata/ 233). She had a tomb at The Valley of the Kings, but Thutmose III. he who shall do her homage shall live, he who shall speak evil in blasphemy of her Majesty shall die.!16

17 From Punt, HAT IS FIRST ZOOLOGIST AND HORTICULTURIST - brings back incense tress. pg. 41/tall. The land of Punt - MODERN DAY SOMALIA. The Egyptians thought of the land of Punt as a remote and exotic place. We do not know exactly where it was, but the most frequent route to it seems to have been along the coast of the Red Sea and then inland towards the river Atbara. a tributary of the Nile. In the 15 CENTURY BC, QUEEN HATSHESUP sent 5 boats to Punt. Eventually the boats pulled in at a port on the coast of eastern Sudan. From there the queen s representatives were take some way inland. Here they saw people who lived in houses on stilts to protect the from wild animals.. Incense is the main cargo they brought back. IF SHE VISITS, SHE S ATTACKED BY WILD, WILD ANIMALS. *** Animals attack her on an island - same animals she put in a zoo!! - She has an advisor called Frankincense. A monster who grunts and groans on hugely important matters. Put together by OLD KINGDOM pharaoh from all the mummy organs and used eels to jolt him to life. Pottery Wine Jars: Wine - huge business. Paying tribute to her. A Syrian prince pays tribute by giving her his daughter. AT COURT: SHE IS PRESENTED WITH A SERIES OF GIFTS: 1. A GROUP OF captured enemy baboons. the baboon look despondent.. INCEST: Island of incests. Island of the Fuglies. From when brother had sex with sister. King Tut - product of incest, club foots. Island of club foots!! Ruler of Two Lands: The union of Egypt is shown here by the entwined lotus (symbol of Upper Egypt) and papyrus (Lower Egypt). Double Crown: As a symbol of his power, the pharaoh wore the pschent or double crown. It combined the Whine Crown, worn by the kings of Upper Egypt and the Red Crown of Lower Egypt s kings.!17

18 1. Social media - does anyone know a publisher who would would be willing to look at my writing samples as I write a comedic novel. crowd funding for publishing source. King Norse book funded by crowd sourcing. HOW TOMB WILL MAKE THE KING A GOD. Logline: General plot: Based on Egyptian lore and extensively researched, the novel is a slapstick comedy about Queen Hatshepsut and her journey down the river Styx in the afterlife. She must endure a series of deathly trials by sinister egyptian gods before having her heart weighed in the by the God Annubis If her heart weighs in bad for her deeds on Earth, she and Egypt will be destroyed! Gods test her spirituality: Love, unselfishness, humility, purity, honesty, and gratitude. Start w/the God and then develop the comedic story around her outwitting the God. WHAT IS AT STAKE? THE CONTINUED EXISTENCE OF IS EGYPT RESTS ON HER SHOULDERS IF THE VERDICT OF HER SOUL IS GOOD! THE PHARAOH JOINS THE SUN GOD RA AS HE DROVE THE SUN ACROSS THE SKY. BUT AT NIGHT, RA TRAVELLED INTO THE UNDERWORLD TO FIGHT OFF THE DEMONS. PHARAOH HELPS HIM FIGHT OFF DEMONS IN UNDERWORLD. IF THE CYLCE NOT COMPLETE, THE SUN NOT RISE, THE WORLD WILL END IN THE SOLAR CYCLE, JOINING HIM IN THE UNDERWORLD AT NIGHT AND IN THE DAY. IF FAILS, THE NILE WON T FLOW AND THE SUN WON T RISE.!18

19 Weighing the heart. The final test came in the Hall of the Two Truths. Here, Anubis weighed the dead person s heart to see if it was heavy with sin. If it was lighter than the Feather of Truth, the person lived forever. If not, the heart was thrown to the monster Ammit. Devourer of the Dead!! He devours all his servants and help. Notes 2/28: The Devourer. A crocodile head - The Weighing of Queen Hatshepsut s Heart - A Journey Into the Egyptian Underworld. A Short History of the Egyptian Underworld. THE TOMB IS A RESURRECTION MACHINE. WORDS ON WALLS ARE INSTRUCTION MANUALS TO BECOME. CODED ART WORK.. MYSTICISM AND MAGIC ARE TOOLS TO ACHIEVE THE PURPOSE. FROM MAN TO GOD. OSIRIS RULES IN PARADISE AND THAT S WHERE HAT WILL WIND UP. PHARAOH SOUL GOES AND LIVES AMONG THE IMPERISHABLE ONES THE CIRCUMPOLAR STARS, THAT NEVER RISE OR SET BELOW THE HORIZON. HE WILL LIVE AMONG THESE ARE ETERNAL BEACONS THAT SYMBOLIZES THE IMMORTAL GODS. HE WILL BE TRANSFORMED INTO A CELESTIAL BEING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SAME COSMIC ORDER AS THE GODS. END: She becomes a star - same one she looked at in observatory scene - next to her husband. [because she built Institution of Academia in The Land of Punt!]. A School. PHARAOH IS THE EMISSARY FOR THE people to the gods. Thebes. Home of Karnak which is a dedication to the imperial God Amon.!19

20 ARCH: She changes from a having no empathy to having empathy. LAND OF PUNT: Cata/pg Hat s trade mission to Punt was promoted in Egypt as a major diplomatic coup. She stimulated an interest in exotic goods by importing ivory tusks, panther skins, live elephants, and of course, GOLD. She brought back whole incense trees. WEIGHING OF HEART: SHE BUILT SCHOOLS HERE AND THAT GETS HERE IN. May of traded with Minoans and Mycenaean Greece. GODS! - provide a series of tests to Hat. The following is a list of fifteen most popular ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses. Osiris. Jacket (?). was a wise king who was married to his sister Isis. When he was murdered by their evil brother Seth, she used magic to bring him back to life to conceive a son, Horus who revenged his father s death and killed his uncle. His son became the king of Egypt, while Osiris became the king of the dead and the judge of the underworld. Egyptians thus saw him as triumphant over death; every pharaoh would be Osiris after death whilst he was the embodiment of Horus when alive. Osiris was also the god of vegetation and was often painted with green skin, symbolizing new growth and renewal. Isis (Cow Head) was the ultimate goddess for she was the mother of Horus and both wife and sister of Osiris. When her beloved husband was murdered by their brother Seth, she collected the dismembered parts of Osiris body and put them together with bandages, laying the foundation for the ancient Egyptian practice of mummifying their deceased. By bringing Osiris back to life, Isis also introduced the concept of resurrection that profoundly influenced other religions as well, including Christianity. Isis,!20

21 portrayed as a woman holding an Ankh in her hand and sometimes with a female body and cow s head or cow s horns was also worshiped as goddess of fertility. TEST: Mummify a live hippo! Horus - Falcon Head. One of the most important ancient Egyptian gods was the son of Osiris and Isis. According to the famous myth, he revenged his father s murder and killed his uncle Seth by which he established himself as the new king of Egypt. The early Egyptian pharaohs therefore legitimized their rule by presenting themselves as incarnated Horus. Also worshiped as the god of light and sky, Horus was usually depicted as a falcon-headed male creature wearing a white and red crown. Thoth (Bird Head). Reform a magic trick. The god of wisdom, writing and magic was most often portrayed as an ibis-headed man. Thoth was the scribe of the underworld who recorded the verdict on the deceased in the Hall of Maat, maintained the library of the gods, authored the spells in The Book of the Dead and wrote The Book of Thoth (containing the secrets of the universe). But he also played an important role in many ancient Egyptian myths, acting as an arbiter between the forces of good and evil. Ra or Re. TEST: ASTRONOMY was the sun god and one of the most important ancient Egyptian deities. He was also associated with pyramid building and the resurrection of the pharaohs. Symbolically born every morning with sunrise, Ra symbolically died with every sunset after which he began his journey into the underworld. In the later period, Ra became closely associated with Horus and just like the latter, he was usually portrayed as a falcon-headed man. However, rather than with white and red crown, Ra was depicted wearing a solar disc on his head..!21

22 MUT GODDESS OF WAR. Wife of Amun and mother of Khons, Mut was one of the chief Theban gods. Venerated as the great divine mother, Mut was usually depicted as a woman wearing a white and red crown but she was sometimes also portrayed with the head or body of a vulture and as a cow because in the later period, she merged with Hathor, another great divine mother who was usually depicted as a woman with cow horns and as a cow. OPET FESTIVAL: Flooding festival. Bastet was a feline goddess who was depicted either as a cat or woman with the head of a cat. She was the daughter of the sun god Ra and was closely associated with domesticated cat. Bastet was worshiped for her maternal, protective nature and was often painted surrounded by kittens. But she was also believed to be ferocious when necessary for cats were able to kill snakes - one the most deadly creatures in ancient Egypt. Amun or Amon which translates into The Hidden One was the head of the Theban pantheon of gods and goddesses. Worshiped as the king of gods (similarly as Zeus by ancient Greeks), Amun was usually painted in a human form but he was sometimes also portrayed with the ram s head. Like many other ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses that were eventually assimilated with their local/regional versions, Amun was later merged with Ra into Amun-Ra which remained the chief god throughout the period of ancient Egypt. Hathor was the cow goddess who was associated with dancing and music but she was also known as the Lady of Heaven, Earth and the Underworld. She was very popular among ancient Egyptians and was seen as wise, gentle and affectionate to both the living and dead. She protected women during pregnancy and childbirth, and was also worshiped as goddess as!22

23 fertility. Hathor was most often portrayed as a woman with cow horns featuring uraneus (Wadjet and sun disc). Sekhmet. Plays game of CHESS. was the goddess of war who was depicted as the lion-headed goddess. She was the Powerful One and destroyed the enemies of Ra but she also helped kings against their opponents. Sekhmet was also associated with medicine and both disease and health. Her portrayal as a lioness or lion-headed woman often included the uraneus, a symbol of royalty and divine authority of the Egyptian pharaohs. Anubis was a jackal-headed god, the divine embalmer who was closely associated with mummification and the afterlife; he was the custodian of the dead on their journey into the afterlife. Anubis black skin (a color associated with the dark Nile deposits that made farming in ancient Egypt so successful) was a symbol of rebirth. He also attended the Weighting of the Heart ceremony in the afterlife. Maat was the personification and goddess of truth, morality, justice, order, and harmony. She symbolized the natural equilibrium of the universe; she was the opposite of chaos and therefore the highest attainment of Egypt. The Weighing of the Heart ceremony as depicted in the Book of the Dead took place in the Hall of Maat. She was typically portrayed as a woman with an ostrich feather on her head. Gods are not set in stone! Gods change from one to another. 42 districts. Eye of Horus for protection. MAAT: Truth, justice, and order. Challenge he gives Hat?!23

24 KHEPRI. Sun God (?) symbolized by sacred dung beetle. They imagined the beetle pushing the sun around, like dung. Challenge Ra-Horakhty: Sun God. Has the head of a Beetle. CATA/233 - HAT built sun temples. ROYAL CULT oooh!! SEKHMET: Goddess of War. Lion s Head w/woman s body who uses a bow and arrow. What challenge does she pose to Hat? SCENE: Sekhmet challenges Hat with a series of archery and boomerang tests! SOBEK: Crocodile headed god. Ruler of the Nile. THE DEVOURER? SCENE: Sobek devours a nobleman before Hat s turn. OR he lurks in the shadows in all the scenes. SETH: Evil Hippo God. BASTET: A female CAT goddess. Peaceful. offerings to the goddess Bastet. BES: A deformed and grotesque god, depicted with an obese body, short legs, and Comic face could dispel spirits. Protector of the marriage bed. He has a big hunk waiting for her. Part dwarf and part lion. Protruding tongue. He prevents her from seeing her man SEMMET (?) HATHOR: Goddess of joy, love, and dancing. Often represented by a cow. Predict the future. or a female face with cow ears. HAT. REBUILT HIS TEMPLES. Hathor has the ears of a cow, her sacred animal. 1. GOD OF TOOTHACHES???!24

25 GODS OF THE JUDGEMENT OF THE DEAD: NEED TO HAVE SCENES WITH THESE GODS! ANUBIS: Jackal head. Weighed the heart. Seen as responsible for the mummification and bandaging of the body. Don t fall asleep around her - she ll bandage you. God of the Dead and mummification. God of death and embalming. THOTH: A baboon.the scribe God responsible for recording the verdict of the soul. God of Wisdom. Moon god. God of learning, writing, and calculations. In Tall/24 - his face is that of a bird. HAT REBUILT HIS TEMPLES. HORUS: Guided the deceased though the chambers of the underworld! Protector of the king. Mainly depicted as the falcon-headed man. Power of Isis and protector of family members. HAT. BUILT a temple for Horus in Buhen. KHNUM: Ram God who controlled Nile s annual flood. HATHOR: Cow Head. Horus consort ( ). One of the best loved deities. Associated with music and the seductive side of the woman. Goddess of sky and love SIDEKICK: Cat - knows all the spells and magic tricks. OTHER CHARACTERS: 1. Prince Hanjob.!25

26 ENDING: Reason for Acceptance: 1. She pursed policies of peace and economic growth, instead of warfare. She opened up a new turquoise mine, and sent a trading expedition to Punt, and constructed two obelisks at Karnak. She portrayed herself as a man, with a false beard and other symbols of kingship. 2. Her heart passes the weight test and she is let into heaven. UP THERE IS THE ONE GOD - WE ARE JUST FALLEN ANGELS FROM OTHER GALAXIES. Reason for Rejection: 1. She usurped power from her stepson, Thutmose III becomes a great warrior king after he ATTEMPTS to kill her. THE SAND CLEANERS people who cleaned the shit out of the sand in an egyptian toilet. stone seats were placed above large bowls of sand. WEAPONS: 84/small. Long and short swords. Dagger and battle-axes. Many archers came from Nubia - The Land of the Bow. BOATS/TOOLS - made of copper and wood/cedar. Oar was mounted on the stern. - Egyptian Magic Spells Many Egyptian Magic Spells were contained in the Pyramid Texts, the Coffin texts and the Book of the Dead. The Egyptian Book of the Dead was an ancient survival guidebook which contained magical spells and instructions to ensure safe passage through the dangers of the Underworld. Protective spells were cast and amulets containing magic spells played an important role in the Ancient Egyptian burial rituals. A papyrus score ll containing spells from the Book of the Dead was often buried with wealthy Ancient Egyptians to help them leave their tombs and make their perilous journey through the underworld.!26

27 Egyptian Magic Spells and the Underworld The Book of the Dead contained nearly 200 Egyptian Magic Spells designed to help with the tests and trials that would be met in the Underworld. The dangers of the underworld included a variety of obstacles including fearful beasts, various traps, demons and a long series of tests. The correct magic spells would need to be recited to pass each test to guarantee safe passage through the terrifying trials which led to the Hall of Two Truths where their actions in their mortal lives would be examined - the Egyptian Magic Spells were essential for the Day of Judgement. The Magic Spells from the Book of the Dead The magic spells from the Book of the Dead were contained in different chapters. Some of the magic spells from the Book of the Dead included the following: Magic Spells relating to the burial ritual Magic Spells relating to the safety of the heart and soul of the deceased - including a spell to open the tomb for the soul and to let a man return to see his house on earth Magic Spells relating to safety in the Underworld - for not dying again, for not rotting, for preventing a man's head be cut off, spells of transformation into the forms of a snake, phoenix, hawk, swallow etc. A magic spell for entering the Hall of Truth and Spell 125, the 'Declaration of Innocence' which consists of denials such as "I have not killed, I have not robbed and I have not lied" made to Osiris and the 42 judges of the court Magic Spell Magical Amulets The magic spell 156 from the Book of the Dead relates to the power of the Goddess Isis and was recited over a knot amulet made of red jasper which was placed over the heart on the body of the deceased for protection!27

28 against wickedness, sometimes referred to as the Isis Amulet. The words of spell 156 from the Book of the Dead calls upon Isis: "The blood of Isis, the spells of Isis, the magical words of Isis shall keep this great (or shining) one strong, and shall protect him from whosoever would harm him\do to him such things as he abominateth." Egyptian Magic Spell 125 from the Book of the Dead The Magic Spell 125 is the best known spell of the Book of the Dead and was included in every papyrus buried with deceased Egyptians. Spell 125 deals with the dead soul's judgement by Osiris and the 42 judge deities who were faced in the Hall of the Truth in the Underworld. The soul of the had to recite the "declaration of innocence" which was addressed to Osiris and consisted of the denial of sinful actions in order to assure Osiris that he has lived a good life. The deceased then addressed the 42 judges by name and deny a further 42 transgressions. Only by giving the correct responses would the deceased be tested with the feather of truth and if successful guided to the Afterlife by Osiris. The denials of sinful actions such as " I have not lied, I have not robbed, I have not killed" etc. contained in the magic spell 125 has led to speculation that these were the basis of the Ten Commandments contained in the Bible. Moses was raised in Egypt and would have been familiar with the Egyptian magic spells. Egyptian Magic Spells from the Book of the Dead The following Egyptian Magic Spells are taken from the Book of the Dead: Magic Spell 06 - for not working in the underworld Magic Spells 22 & 23 - spells to give a mouth to the deceased Magic Spell 24 - to bring words of power Magic Spell 26 - to give a heart to the deceased!28

29 Magic Spell 27 - to prevent the heart of a man be taken from him in the underworld Magic Spell 43 - for not letting a man's head be cut off from him in the underworld Magic Spell 44 - for not dying again in the underworld Magic Spell 45 - for not rotting in the underworld Magic Spell 50 - for not entering to the god's execution block Magic Spell 78 - to assume the form of a divine hawk Magic Spell 83 - to assume the form of a phoenix Magic Spell 87 - to assume the form of a horned snake Magic Spell to let a man turn himself back to see his house on earth Hat uses spells to control nature and the gods to escape the perils of the underworld! There are many definitions of Magic. One of the definitions of Magic in The American Heritage Dictionary is: "The practice of using charms, spells, or rituals to attempt to produce supernatural events or to control events in nature." Another definition from another source is: "Magic is the attempt to produce a response in the god and to manipulate him or her for human purposes. Ancients believed that the gods could be manipulated." I have defined magic as the following: "Employing a technique or ritual, to manipulate or control a natural or spiritual phenomena or event, by supernatural means."!29

30 Using this definition, let us look at what we call the "Indian Rain Dance". How does it fit into the term magic? 1) It is a technique or ritual - There is an actual dance carried out with specific movements, etc. 2) It's purpose is to manipulate or control the weather, i.e. cause it to rain. 3) It is supposed to work by supernatural means. Notice that cloud seeding by airplanes does not fit the term magic since the manipulation of nature is not by supernatural means but by science. Using my definition, something is considered magic only if it meets all 3 criteria. Egyptian Magic - bold goes in book. My definition goes well with the Egyptians use of the term Magic. The Egyptians used magic for both practical and religious purposes. They believed magic was a divine creation for the benefit of humanity. It was considered a field of knowledge just like architecture, literature, medicine, etc. It was just another category of knowledge to be used in coping with their environment and religion. In our modern society, the word magic does not convey the force it did in the ancient Egyptian culture. To the Egyptians, magic was a real and potent force. It was a tangible means of communicating, manipulating, and controlling their gods. For example, their life depended on agriculture and thus the weather. Using magic to control the weather was important for their survival. Also, as we will be exploring, magic was essential after death for safe passage through the afterlife. OPENING - SCENE WHERE SHE DESTROYS A CLAY FIGURE: Examples of some important ancient Egyptian magic rituals concern defense against enemies. Wax or clay figures of the enemy were ritual!30

31 destroyed. Also magic was used to keep away spiritual enemies (i.e. god's that were not favorable towards them or wanted to harm them). Also personal spells were used against someone's enemy. For example, there are spells that invoke evil gods to appear in a person's dreams. Also personal use of magic included the use of love potions. It usually consisted of some liquid or food that came with an incantation. To the ancient Egyptians, it would not differ much from a medical prescription. Remember, magic was just another field of knowledge like medicine and was very real to them. The purpose of the magic was to compel the help of divine powers. Usually, the person carrying out the magic was identified by name with a deity to obtain from him the power of that god. Also the person might threaten that god with dire consequences if his demands were not met. Many of the Egyptian gods were invoked using magic, but the most frequent god invoked was Isis, since she was the protector of her son (Horus), with whom the person seeking help would be identified with. Amulets Amulets were also used for magical protection. They were used both by the living and the dead. Many amulets have been found in Egyptian tombs. These amulets are in the shape of gods, goddesses, animals, objects, parts of the body, etc. and were believed to contain special powers. Many amulets were wrapped up with the mummy. Thus, wearing of amulets during life was the means of seeking the gods protection and help. After death a special protection was also needed and we will be discussing this. Use of Magic in Medicine Medicine was practiced both on scientific and magical levels. Prescriptions also relied both on pharmacology and sympathetic magic. There were many spells to help cure snake bites. Also spells were used for childbirth, pregnancy, and conception. Many incantations have been found for birth,!31

32 protection of babies, providing of milk, and defensive against childhood diseases. Later, during the New Kingdom, these spells were copied onto papyrus scrolls and were available to anyone who could pay for them. We know these as the "Egyptian Book of the Dead". The Egyptians called it by its true name which is the "Book of Going Forth by Day". These books were not standardized and many variations occur. Thus, magic was important not only to the ancient Egyptian in this life, but also in the afterlife. REFERENCES: Ancient Egypt, David Silerman, Mummies, Myth and Magic in Ancient Egypt, Christine El Mahdy, 1991 Ancient Egyptian Magic, Bob Brier, 1980.!32