Egyptian rituals around death and resurrection were meant to provide an eternal life for the righteous that merited it. But what happened if that eternal rest was disturbed by tomb-robbers or the natural deterioration of one's tomb? This week we keep up our Christmas ghost story tradition by exploring and reading an ancient Egyptian tale (19th/20th dynasty) in which the disrepair of his tomb causes the Akh (𓅜| - ꜣḫ - "effective spirit") of Neibusemekh to visit the chief priest of Amun-Re, Khonsemhab.
This episode is also in memory of Antoine Faivre (1934-2021), a pioneer in the field of Western Esotericism. DMS, ꜥnḫ wḏꜢ snb!
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Recommended Readings:
Teeter - Religion and Ritual in Ancient Egypt - 978-0521613002
Simpson - The Literature of Ancient Egypt - 978-0300099201
Miriam Lichtheim - Ancient Egyptian Literature (3 vols)
Beckerath - Zur Geschichte von Chonsemhab und dem Geist - doi.org/10.1524/zaes.1992.119...
Another ghost story can be found at G. Posener, “Une nouvelle histoire de revenant (Recherches littéraires VII)”, RdÉ 12 (1960), p. 75-82.
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