CAIRO STELA 666 STÈLE OF REVEALING

CAIRO STELA 666 STÈLE OF REVEALING. Thame, Oxfordshire: Amen Press, 2008. Limited Edition

Thame: Amen Press, 2008. Limited Edition Out of Series 2/3 indicated on loosely inserted slip. [There were 3 additional copies to the Limited Edition of 93 copies, so a total of 96 copies]. Black Cloth folder with gilt title on the front cover. 6¼" x 8⅝". Contents: (a). Stapled Booklet with cardstock covers, the front cover with title and full colour copy of the image of the Priest Ankh-f-nkhonsu as he appears on the Stele. 5¾" x 8⅛". 24pp. unnumbered. Includes frontis. of a monotone photo of a youthful Magus, Aleister Crowley. Contents of the Booklet: The Missing Translator [Delormant] and Influence on the Book of Law. Table of Comparison of Names of Gods. The Paraphased Translation, A poetic interpretation by Aleister Crowley of the Recto and Verso of the Cairo Stela 666. An Interlinear Text showing (i). Colour Reproductions of the Hieroglyphs. (ii). The 1997 DuQuesne Transliteration and (iii). Translation together with (iiii). the Translation by Messrs. Alan Gardiner, Litt. D. and Battiscombe Gunn from The Equinox Vol. I No 7, March 1912. Notes. (b). Ten Loose Plates 5⅞" x 8¼". As follows: The Interpreter a photo of Leila Waddell. The Master Therion by Leon Kennedy. Stele of Ankh-af-na-khonsu Obverse (with blank verso). Stele of Ankh-af-na-khonsu Reverse (with blank verso). May Morn painting by Aleister Crowley with description on verso. The Silent Watcher (photograph). The Regimen of the Seven painting by J. F. C. Fuller. The Student (portrait photo of Crowley). Stele of Ankh-af-na-khonsu Obverse with Crowley’s poetic interpretation of the hieroglyphs on verso. Stele of Ankh-af-na-khonsu Reverse with Crowley’s poetic interpretation of the hieroglyphs on verso.

[The unassuming author and translator of this work was James Terence DuQuesne 1942 – 2014, an English Egyptologist whose main work is on the religious beliefs of the ancient Egyptians, notably on the subject of the jackal deities. He often traveled to Egypt and was given access to the basement of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo that enabled him to study in greater depth various stelae of devotions, dedicated for the most part to jackal gods. Although he was critical of much of British Egyptology – and always felt more at home within European, particularly German Egyptology – his contributions to ancient Egyptian religion is immense. Of note is his

Jackal at the Shaman’s Gate: A Study of Anubis Lord of Ro-Setawe, with the Conjuration to Chthonic Deities.]

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