finelythreadedsky:
“I rise like the sun above olive trees, like the moon above date palms. Where there is light, I shall be. Where there is darkness, there is none of me. I rise like the moon above date palms. I am counted as one among stars.”
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– Book of the Dead, Ancient Egyptian Funerary Text, circa 1600 BCE (via lachantefleurie)
Published on August 25, 2019 20:00