Stele of the Anchefenchon
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Stele of the Anchefenchon (obverse)
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material | Wood , plaster coating |
Dimensions | H. 51.5 cm; W. 31 cm; |
origin | Upper Egypt , Deir el-Bahari , mortuary temple of Hatshepsut |
time | Late period , 25th Dynasty , 680/70 BC Chr. |
place | Cairo , Egyptian Museum , A 9422 (TR 25/12/24/11, Bulaq 666) |
The stele of the Anchefenchon was found in 1858 in the mortuary temple of Queen ( Pharaoh ) Hatshepsut by Auguste Mariette during an excavation in Deir el-Bahari .
The formerly located next to the coffins of the month priest Anchefenchons and on 680/70 BC. The stele, which dates from the 25th dynasty, dates from the 25th century . It can now be found in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo under exhibition number 9422.
The stele is made of wood and was covered with a kind of plaster. It is 51.5 inches high and 31 inches wide. Anchefenchons as the herald of Month can be seen on the front . Opposite him sits on a throne the falcon-headed Re-Harachte , a form of the god Horus .
As a judge, he lets the dead pass if they want to get to the western realm of the dead. Above it is Behedeti , the sun with falcon wings and groove , the sky goddess, who touches the ground with her feet and hands.
The stele, known as the “Stele of Revelation”, is a central element of the new religious movement Thelema founded by Aleister Crowley .
translation
The hieroglyphs are shown here in reverse order to facilitate the assignment to the translation.
front
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Behedeti , the great God, Lord of Heaven
Bread and beer - cattle and poultry |
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Words spoken by Osiris, Priest of the Month, Lord of Thebes, Opener of the Gates of Heaven by Karnak Ankh-fn-Chonsu,
justified: 'O exalted one, may he be praised, the great in power, the great spirit of high dignity,
who appears on the throne of his greatness and opens the ways of the ba , the oh and the shadow that received the light (sun rays),
who is armed. Prepare me the way to the place where Re , Atum , Chepre and Hathor live. I, the deceased (Osiris), priest of Month, the Lord of Thebes,
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Words spoken by Osiris, Priest of the Month, Lord of Thebes, Ankh-f-
n-Chonsu, justified. (O) my mother's heart (twice), (O) my heart while I stay
on earth, do not rise up to bear witness against me, do not stand against me
in the Tribunal, do not be hostile to me in the presence of the Great God, the Lord of the West,
even if I have connected myself (myself) with the earth on the western side, the great (in) heaven, may I endure on earth,
Words spoken by Osiris, the garment priest of Thebes, Ankh-fn-Chonsu, justified. O unique,
who shines like the moon, may Osiris show himself, Ankh-f-
n-Chonsu, in your company, i.e. the outside world,
(O) Savior of those in the sunlight is open to him
the underworld, indeed, Osiris Ankh-fn-Chonsu shall show himself on
Days to do all that he asked for, on earth among the living. |
Reception by Crowley and Thelema
The stele of the Anchefenchon was named the “Stele of Revelation” in April 1904 by the occultist Aleister Crowley , who was inspired by it for his Liber AL vel Legis . According to this scripture, non-Thelemites call it the “abomination of desolation”, and Thelemites use the title “Stele of Revelation” .
In 1904 Crowley was with his wife Rose Kelly (Soror Quarda) in Cairo, who believed she was developing clairvoyant skills there. When invocations to the sylphs , she fell into a trance and kept shouting "They're expecting you" and saying that Horus , "the one waiting", was angry with Crowley because he refused to invoke him. At Crowley's request that she should show him Horus, she then took him to the Egyptian Museum.
“Some day before March 23, Quarda identified the god she was in contact with with a Stéle in the Boulak Museum, which we had never visited. It is not the usual form of Horus, but Ra-Hoor-Khuit . I was no doubt very struck by the agreement that the exhibit, a rather obscure and insignificant Stéle, had catalog number 666 . But I thought it was an obvious coincidence. "
Crowley performed a ritual for the invocation of Horus under Kelly's guidance . On April 7th, Kelly asked him to go to his hotel room, which he was converting into a temple, at noon over the next three days. There Crowley wrote down the Liber Al vel Legis , which he said he had dictated by Aiwaz .
literature
Archaeological literature
- EA Wallis Budge: Egyptian Magic. German edition, 1st edition, Bohmeier, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-89094-380-2 .
Occult reception
- Aleister Crowley: Confessions. Aleister Crowley's Confessions; an autohagiography. Volume 2 (translation by Marcus M. Jungkurth) Dumme Kersken-Canbaz, Bergen 1993, ISBN 3-89423-013-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Munro : The late Egyptian dead steles (= Egyptological research. (ÄF) Volume 25). 2 volumes, Augustin, Glückstadt / Hamburg / New York 1973, p. 187 death stele
- ↑ Aleister Crowley: Liber AL vel Legis III: 19 (versification of the Liber AL vel Legis )
- ↑ Aleister Crowley: Liber AL vel Legis III: 10.
- ↑ Aleister Crowley: Confessions - The Confessions of Aleister Crowley; an autohagiography - Volume 2. Bergen 1993.