My evening

[kiya]

"Dude. Dude. Dude dude dude."

I was thinking about temples and foundations, as I often do.

"What?" teinedreugan asked me.

"There's a thing," I explained, "where you sit and stare at it and you don't get anywhere and then suddenly you know what to do and you can do research and...." I kissed him.

"Bye!" said whispercricket, as I packed up my computer and prepared to scurry up to the office.

"whispercricket understands!"

"I wasn't even really paying attention," she comments.

I am pulling books off the shelves, flipping through the indexes, muttering 'stretching the cord', which I looked up on a few websites, but I want things in books, for citations. I toss Seth: God of Confusion onto the bed in its notebook, and add Ancient Egyptian Construction and Architecture, and go through several books and put them back.

Then I pause, and take one of those books down off the shelf again. "86, 86...."

I was actually looking for page 87, but close enough.

I read. "At Edfu, inscriptions in the temple tell us that it was oriented from Orion in the south to the Great Bear in the north."

I put the book down.

My mind is exploding.

Pedj-shes.

Comments

[ardaniel]

I am going to H-Mart, having located a few out here. They assuredly do not sell the merket-staff, unfortunately.

[kiya]

THOSE CLEVER ANCIENTS HIDING THEIR MYSTERIES IN BIG WHACKING STAR PATTERNS.

If you are around this evening before I go away I will explain the manner in which my MIND is BLOWN in ALL CAPS.

[luellon.livejournal.com]

I'm curious about this especially since Sopdet and Orion are forms of Aset and Wesir.

The ancients were very clever. :-)

[kiya]

The Great Bear is Set's.