Three thousand years before Dante wrote The Inferno, the ancient Egyptians believed in an Underworld of terrifying monsters. From the west where the sun sets, to the east where it rises again, stretched an underground passage of twelve caverns. Through these must pass the soul of Hor, a priest of the god Montu, on his journey towards the eternal paradise of the Field of Reeds. The scene of Hor's judgement before the god Osiris, the dazzling transformations of the four forms of the sun god Re -- all are imaginatively recreated in modern poetic prose from the hieroglyphic sources originally found in the tomb of the pharaoh, Rameses VI.
ISBN: 1-84045-022-3
"Hor by Peter Preston is a re-creation of the Book of Am Duat, Book of Caverns and Book of Gates. It is very authoritative."
Margaret Mary Villani |
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