[The Art Of The Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay]@TWC D-Link bookThe Art Of The Moving Picture CHAPTER XIX 12/15
She makes sacrifice with him there.
The God of the Dead is indeed a strange deity, a seated semi-animated mummy, with all the appurtenances of royalty, and with the four sons of Horus on a lotus before him, and his two wives, Isis and Nephthys, standing behind his throne with their hands on his shoulders. The justified soul now boards the boat in which the sun rides as it journeys through the night.
He rises a glorious boatman in the morning, working an oar to speed the craft through the high ocean of the noon sky. Henceforth he makes the eternal round with the sun.
Therefore in Ancient Egypt the roll was called, not the Book of the Dead, but _The Chapters on Coming Forth by Day_. This book on motion pictures does not profess to be an expert treatise on Egyptology as well.
The learned folk are welcome to amend the modernisms that have crept into it.
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