“He comes into being every single morning, on purpose.”
A Sunfire immortal of The Ennead
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The scarab at dawn, rolling the sun across the sky the way his beetle-brothers roll their balls of dung. Creation's least dignified metaphor and its most accurate: he who comes into being, every single morning, on purpose.
He came into being again this morning. He will do it again tomorrow. It is the only appointment he keeps, and he has never missed it.
Becoming is his whole nature. There is no version of Khepri that has finished.
“Khepri rolled the sun a finger's width off its course at dawn — the priests measured the shadow and went white — and Shu bent the whole sky to match it, arms trembling, rather than let the light go crooked. The dawn was crooked. The sky bent to straighten it. Neither of them has explained himself.”
The dawn was crooked. The sky bent to straighten it.
The divine royal family: creation’s first household and its longest-running lawsuit — the murder of Osiris, litigated forever, with Isis outwitting everyone.
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