“Nobody has the nerve to argue with a plant that judges gods.”
A Lapis immortal of The Ogdoad
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The wng-plant god of the Pyramid Texts, addressed as son of Ra: the spell says he supports the sky, governs the earth, and will judge the gods. A plant, doing all that. The priests refuse to weed the wng-plants by the temple wall. Nobody has the nerve to argue with a plant that judges gods.
It grows by the temple wall, green and unremarkable, while the gods of the Ennead hold their councils a hundred paces away and try not to look at it.
The text says he will judge the gods. It does not say when. The plant is in no hurry.
“A wng-plant is growing by the Hall's outer wall, where no seed was planted and no gardener tends it. The priests won't weed it. You don't weed the plant that the Pyramid Texts say will judge the gods — not when it's growing outside the courtroom.”
The plant that will judge the gods is growing outside the courtroom.
Four bonded frog-and-serpent pairs who are the conditions before creation — water, infinity, darkness, hiddenness — retired and buried at Djeme, still raising the Nile.
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