A while back I posted a list of my dreams, and promised to fill in the reasons behind them. Well here’s the first one: I want to visit Egypt.
If you have taken the time to read my About Me Page, then you would know that I have a History degree. I’ve always been fascinated with Ancient Egypt, since I can remember. When I was in high-school I attempted to teach myself how to read hieroglyph, and I still plan on learning someday.
Why Egypt? Well I think it’s rather simple really. A lot of people trace civilization back to the Egyptians. After all they did give us a lot that we use today viz the romans and the Greeks. They were self contained and self educated. They also had a simple rule in the society…keeping maat. Maat is basically translated into keeping things in order. I like order.
For the Egyptians war was not maat, war was to be avoided by all means necessary. But that didn’t mean they were not above defending their way of life against intruders. Unlike the Romans and Greeks who were quick to jump into battle (although they explained away as the other people forced them to go to war with them and then take over their peoples *insert a sarcastic face here*) the Egyptians were slow to raise arms. war meant a disruption in their main focus of life. Religion. For Egyptians there was nothing else but religion, there was no separation between the government and religion. Religion was the government.
The idea of a total religion based society that evolved into something grand and intricate and verbalized here on the physical plane through such monuments as the pyramids, is a enthralling thing for me. The Egyptians had a unique way of looking at the world and you can’t really find that view point in any other ancient society.
For me Egypt is my Mecca.
Bianco Jade