Scarab Quotes

“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

“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

“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

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― Max Overton, Scarab: Akhenaten

“an oxen”
― Max Overton, Scarab: Akhenaten

“He is a man. He is governed by power and riches and by his testicles.”
― 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 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

“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

“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

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