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Versuri The Blessed Dead
Looked Down Upong With Scorn
We Work the Fields of the Masters
And Share Not the Bounty of the Black Earth
Destitute Servile Cast Out
Affording No Tomb
We Shall Be Buried
Unprepared in the Sand
We Shall Never Be The Blessed Dead
Scorned By Asar
Condemned at the Weighing of the Heart
We are Exiled from the Netherworld
Serpents fall Upon us Dragging us Away
Ammitt Who Teareth the Wicked to Pieces
Pale Shades of the UnBlessed Dead
None Shall Enter Without the Knowledge
Of the Magickal Formulas
Which is Given to Few to Possess
Not for Us to Sekhet Aaru
Our Souls Will be Cut to Pieces with Sharp Knives
Tortured Devoured
Consumed in Everlasting Flames
We Shall Never Be The Blessed Dead
[The phrase, the Blessed Dead, is a reference to
those who obtain the blessed condition in the
afterlife: the beautified condition of eternal
lifein the presence of Osiris in the Sekbet-Aaru,
or Field of Reeds. Those who had lived a moral
life, observed the proper burial rites and
procedures, and possessed all the correct magickal
spells to navigate the treacherous and horrific
Egyptian underworld, who could recite the 42
negative confessions, and whose hearts were found
to be pure at the Weighing of the Heart, were then
allowed to be Osirified - to become a person like
as unto Osiris - and enjoy a pleasant afterlife as
ne of the blessed dead.]
[Proper burial, though, was an expensive
undertaking. It was usually afforded only by
pharaohs, priests, and the wealthy class. What of
those who could not afford the extravagant tombs,
mummification, magickal amulets, and costly
papurys texts on which were written the necessary
spells for successfully navigating the underworld?
Even linen, which was used to wrap the mummies,
was so expensive in ancient Egypt that people had
to save what little scraps of it they could for
years to have enough to have themselves wrapped.
Also of mention would be the cost of professional
mourners, embalmers, and priests for the Opening
of the Mouth ceremony. This was all extremely
expensive. Even a wealthy person in ancient Egypt
would spend a lifetime saving and preparing for
his or her burial and afterlife. I suppose it is
no small coincidence that the religious priests
were directly involved in the embalming industry.]
[But what of the middle and lover classes of
people - the common working man? What then of the
slaves and servant classes? if all these costly
preparations and arcane knowledege were essential
to achieving a state of blessedness in the
afterlife, would a person of limited financial
means be condemned beforehand to burn in torment
in the afterlife, so only the wealthy became the
Blessed Dead? While most of the populate certainly
accepted this fatalistic concept - and by all that
we know of ancient Egypt, embraced life and the
hope of an eternal afterlife - most ancient
Egyptians probably were resigned to do whatever
funereal preparations were within their means It
stands to reason, however, that certainly some
small number of lower income / slave / working
class people (predestined, of course, to certain
financial / spiritual doom, as upward caste
mobility was very limited in ancient times) would
be less than inclined to accept at face value the
idea that, no matter what, by the end of their
lives they would not be able to afford to be
buried as one of the blessed dead. Would they be
resigned to their eternal fate, or live their
lives with subversive viewpoints - perhaps
rebelling against the established religious order,
or perhaps choosing to worship amongst the
pletbora of other gods of the Egyptian pantheon?
(Budge refers to them as, Wretched little gods.)]
[Certainly the existence of the ancient cult
worship of the god, Set, is not without some sort
of seditious causality. Perhaps these, then, are
the countless legions of souls damned to fiery
pits of torment in the underworld: the Hated of Ra
or Enemies of Osiris. This probably would also
liken these wretched and lost souls to be
followers of Set and his Seban fiends, who were
the original enemies of Osiris and precursor role
models on which later religious based their ideas
of Hell and Satan and his infernal legions. I am
reminded of John Milton, who, in Paradise Lost,
wrote of Lucifer, after he had been cast down and
came to realization of his unrepentant autonomy,
It is better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.
And thus, that brings us full circle to the chorus
refrain of The Blessed Dead. complete with
infernal choirs of the underworld defiantly
proclaiming, We Shall Never Be The Blessed Dead.]
Muzica straina descarca Nile versuri melodiei muzica. Versuri piesa descarca cuvinte melodiei melodiei piesa The Blessed Dead.
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