Category: Egypt

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… Hardly any sleep at all.

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But enough to know

that there is something else.

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The scholars are fond of telling us that

there is no Irish creation myth.

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But the folk record comes pretty close

with, ‘the earth-shapers’…

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And, in any case, if the sidhe

are ‘being’, ‘threshold’, and ‘realm’

then, the construction of their mounds

would be a creation, would it not?

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Likewise, the Egyptians,

so we are told, have no creation myth.

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But they have a mound of creation

which is revealed, in ‘the beginning’,

when the waters subside.

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The Egyptian culture

it should be remembered

emerged from the waters fully formed.

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Perfect

in every respect.

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Before the inevitable rot set in…

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