Max Overton > Quotes

“This which you see before you is merely the Khat, 'that which decays', the physical body that contained the Khaibit or shadow body which has now dissolved, and the Ka, or 'double'.”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Akhenaten

“special statue of the deceased. This statue will house the Ka, but my job, and that of those under me, is to prepare the physical body to house the Ba, the soul of PenMa'at.”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Akhenaten

“Remember the dead do not eat actual solid food, any more than the gods do. They eat the spirit of the food. The priests say a picture of food, or words describing food are as tasty and pleasing as the real thing, to a dead person.”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Akhenaten

“The Ankh represents the connection all life has to that which has gone before, the umbilicus. It is the sign of life infused into humans from the divine spark and thence from human to human. The Ankh refers to that which is protected, renewed and vitalized; it is the descent of the eternal principle, the Atum, into the physical plane.”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Akhenaten

“day from Gubla when she first noticed it missing.”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Horemheb

“chinked”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Descendant

“poppy in wine.”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Horemheb

“I still cannot take those words to them, my lady. It would mean my life.”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Horemheb

“God's servant, like the god himself, wore new clothes every day.”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Akhenaten

“in”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Akhenaten

“Some of the students wanted to report our findings”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Descendant

“We all die," Abrim said. "How we die is more important than when." "And how we live before we die," Salom added. "That is why I serve--to give meaning to my life.”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Horemheb

“an oxen”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Akhenaten

“taking a roundabout route in an effort to disorient the Amorite.”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Horemheb

“her”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Descendant

“In the way of all men, once the danger was past, they forgot the hardships and looked forward to the good things in life once more.”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Horemheb

“Monopsychism, then. Some writers do say Jung really meant that--that the collective unconscious is the sum total of human experience and somehow you've found a way to tap into that knowledge.”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Descendant

“He is a man. He is governed by power and riches and by his testicles.”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Akhenaten

“The Shen is a circle, representing endless time, eternity, bound to a horizontal bar, the earthly plane once more. It protects life by isolating and enclosing it, defining that which it surrounds, defending it against hostile forces.”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Akhenaten

“Yours is the idea, yours the duty.”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Smenkhkare

“The Sa comes into being when the horizontal plane of reality is fastened by the cosmic cord, the divine principle, to form a protective coil. The universal force that binds all things together forms a center, a mooring post, a place of stability binding heaven and earth.”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Akhenaten

“She found the proper phrases to greet each person, affording them dignity and respect without relinquishing an iota of the respect due to her.”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Akhenaten

“The grasshoppers are all right.”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Descendant

“hard race from the north who ruled Kemet with iron,”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Descendant

“Chemosh”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Horemheb

“He is the son of an anointed and consecrated king, begotten on a lawful wife while he was still king.”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Horemheb

“men bowed, being unable to force the issue. As Sethirkhopeshef”
― Max Overton, The Heirs