Thanks for the review. I've put the book on hold. I've visited the statute of Nefertiti twice. Most recently, I found myself entranced and had a hard time pulling myself away despite all the folks wanting my place up front. For one thing, she looks a lot like my mother did, though idealized through both art and memory. But she is one of the works of art that has moved me the most, held me the most entranced, caused shivers to run down my back. The memory itself still causes the shivers: what Wordsworth called a "spot in time."
You might be interested in Jan Assmann's work - also an Egyptologist, and has worked a lot on Atenism, who has a powerful book "The Egyptian Moses", tracking cultural memory, and is even positive about Freud's Moses and Monotheism as excavating a particular strata of cultural memory, even though he would agree that "Moses was an Atenist killed by the Jews" is wrong
I kept reading Atheism instead of Atenism, it was a strange experience.
Thank you for the text and may the sun shine upon you! ☀️
Thanks for putting some flesh on the bones of a period in ancient Egyptian history that has always fascinated us. It certainly illuminated our own explorations of Luxor and the Valleys of the Kings and Nobles: https://open.substack.com/pub/marcoandsabrina/p/wonderful-things-luxor-and-the-valley?r=10ijux&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Thanks for the review. I've put the book on hold. I've visited the statute of Nefertiti twice. Most recently, I found myself entranced and had a hard time pulling myself away despite all the folks wanting my place up front. For one thing, she looks a lot like my mother did, though idealized through both art and memory. But she is one of the works of art that has moved me the most, held me the most entranced, caused shivers to run down my back. The memory itself still causes the shivers: what Wordsworth called a "spot in time."
Beautifully said. I'd like to go see it again sometime.
You might be interested in Jan Assmann's work - also an Egyptologist, and has worked a lot on Atenism, who has a powerful book "The Egyptian Moses", tracking cultural memory, and is even positive about Freud's Moses and Monotheism as excavating a particular strata of cultural memory, even though he would agree that "Moses was an Atenist killed by the Jews" is wrong