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Egyptians
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أَيَشتَكي الفَقرَ غادينا وَرائِحُنا وَنَحنُ نَمشي عَلى أَرضٍ مِنَ الذَهَبِ
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Boy, how can you think it wise to truck with this culture of death?" Even at ten I knew the correct answer to that cataclysmic catechism: "Right you are, Father. Much better to stick with the life-embracing imagery of a cult that worships a bleeding corpse nailed to bits of wood."
... Egypt was not — I must repeat for Readers who still do not know it — a culture of death, for all the mummies and bottled lungs, the jackal-men and cobra-queens. The Egyptians were the inventors of immortality, the
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― The Egyptologist
― The Egyptologist
