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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

Broken images of a lost technology?

Take for example some of the peculiar equipment and accessories
designated for the pharaoh’s use as he journeyed to his eternal resting
place among the stars:

The gods who are in the sky are brought to you, the gods who are on earth
assemble for you, they place their hands under you, they make a ladder for you
that you may ascend on it into the sky, the doors of the sky are thrown open to
you, the doors of the starry firmament are thrown open for you.
5
The ascending pharaoh was identified with, and frequently referred to, as
‘an Osiris’. Osiris himself, as we have seen, was frequently linked to and
associated with the constellation of Orion. Osiris-Orion was said to have
been the first to have climbed the great ladder the gods had made. And
several utterances left no doubt that this ladder had not extended
upwards from earth to heaven but downwards from heaven to earth. It
was described as a rope-ladder and the belief was that it had hung from
6
an ‘iron plate’ suspended in the sky.
7
Were we dealing here, I wondered, simply with the bizarre imaginings
of half-savage priests? Or might there be some other explanation for
allusions such as these?
In Utterance 261, ‘The King is a flame, moving before the wind to the
end of the sky and to the end of the earth ... the King travels the air and
traverses the earth ... there is brought to him a way of ascent to the sky
...’
8
Switching to dialogue, Utterance 310 proclaimed,
‘O you whose vision is in his face and whose vision is in the back of his
head, bring this to me!’
‘What ferry-boat shall be brought to you?’
‘Bring me: “It-flies-and-alights”.’
9
Utterance 332, supposedly spoken by the King himself, confided, ‘I am
this one who has escaped from the coiled serpent, I have ascended in a
blast of fire having turned myself about. The two skies go to me.
10
And in Utterance 669 it was asked, ‘Wherewith can the King be made to
fly-up?’
The reply was given: ‘There shall be brought to you the Hnw-bark
[italicized word untranslatable] and the ... [text missing] of the hn-bird
[italicized word untranslatable]. You shall fly up therewith ... You shall fly

5 Ibid., p. 227, Utt. 572.
6 Ibid., p. 297, Utt. 688: ‘Atum has done what he said he would do for this King; he ties
the rope-ladder for him.’
7 The Gods of the Egyptians, volume II, p. 241.
The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, p. 70, Utt. 261.
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9 Ibid., p. 97.
10 Ibid., p. 107.

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