![]() ![]() ![]() Revealing the spiritually transformative power of writing, the authors take us on a journey of self-discovery through the sacred sites of Egypt, from the Temple of Isis to the Great Pyramid of Giza. We can make new art filled with beauty and light. Through heka we manifest new visions and new relationships to ourselves and to others. To the writer, heka is a magical way to create meaning from experience. Learning heka provided scribes with the power to invoke and create worlds through their words and thoughts. These technicians of the sacred were masters of hieroglyphic thinking, or heka-the proper words, in the proper sequence, with the proper intonation and the proper intent. The scribes of ancient Egypt devoted their lives to the writing of sacred stories. Within each of us is a story, a sacred story that needs to be told, of our heroic efforts and of our losses. ![]() Shares transformative and inspiring pieces written by those who’ve attended the authors’ Egyptian sacred tours.Contains meditations and creative writing exercises exploring sacred themes in the Egyptian Book of the Dead and other hieroglyphic texts of ancient Egypt.Reveals how to create meaning from one’s life experiences and manifest new destinies through spiritual writing.Hieroglyphs were known as “medju netjer” (“words of the gods”) and so it is not surprising that a number of the gods were depicted as scribes or associated with writing.Tools to powerfully write about and manifest your life using the power found in the sacred sites of ancient Egypt Writing was a highly regarded skill and closely associated with the divine. Scribes generally wrote in red or black ink, with red ink being employed for important or magical terms and by tutors when correcting the work of their students (a practice which exists to this day!) Red ink was also used to indicate titles, headings and to mark the beginning of a new section of text.Ī beautiful example of ancient Egyptian writing equipment was recovered from the Tomb of Tutankhamun. Black ink was made from soot mixed with gum, and red ink was created from this same mixture by adding the dust of red oxide. Ink was carried in a flat pallet with two depressions cut into it one for red ink and the other for black ink. The end of the reed was hammered soft to cause it to fray, and then trimmed to create a brush. The pen of a scribe was made from a thin-stemmed reed, usually around nine inches long. Writing palette of Princes Meketaten, NK, MET The scribe was generally depicted carrying the tools of his trade: a wooden palette with brushes and reed pens and a roll of papyrus. This harsh discipline is underlined by the fact that the route of the word “teach” (“seba”) also means “beat.” Scribal equipment Students would study hieroglyphics, hieratic, demotic (from around 400BC), and mathematics (“dena”), as well as writing, as this was required for many high level jobs such as architect, tax collector, and treasurer.ĭiscipline in an ancient Egyptian school was strictly enforced with some tutors resorting to the stick. Most students started their studies in a temple school at the age of five, but their formal scribal education would begin when they were around nine years old. As a result, scribal training could take up to a decade to complete. ![]() The Egyptian’s hieroglyphic language is very complex, comprising of over seven hundred unique signs which could be combined to give layers of meaning. It is, however, likely that the worker’s village was not typical of ancient Egyptian villages of the time, but this evidence certainly challenges suggestions that as little as one percent of the population could write. Jars with re-usable labels would have been pointless if the residents could not read and write, and there were a number of notes written to the wives of the villagers which again would have been of limited use if these women were unable to read. The evidence from Deir el-Medina also suggests that a large number of the inhabitants could read. The fragments also confirm that the students included children from the lower ranks (such as the children of a stonecutter) and at least one woman. Instead, the teachers included a number of draughtsman, a chief workman, and a deputy. The fragments suggest that while the teachers were of course literate, many of them did not hold the specific occupation of scribe. Djedkhonsuefankh, Scribe and Prophet of Montu, Late Period, METĪ large number of ostraca and papyrus dated to the New Kingdom were discovered in a pit close to the worker’s village at Deir el-Medina and many more fragments were scattered around the village itself. ![]()
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