Sticks and stones piled up

   Steely flint sparks dry kindling

      Twigs neatly stacked lean-to supports

         Billowy smoke ascending curlicue puffs

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         Quadrilateral mass steep masonry slope

      Giant steps converge at apex

   Corners facing four winds diverted

Shadows bisecting light-years away shafts

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Osiris son of earth god

   Geb spouse sky goddess Nut

      Horus posthumously begotten regal offspring

         Crook signifying divine underworld authority

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         Guarded by enigmatic foreboding Sphinx

      Considered to be Horus’ aspect

   Harmonious proportions almost smiling face

Re choking parched throat sunstroke

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Greedy Ka ravenous thirst unquenched

   Chapped lips tingly clogged nostrils

      Shades of ochre burnt umber

         Exhaling gritty lapis lazuli specks

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         So tightly cut impossible to

      Pass a hair between them

   Clay mortar thin as papyrus

Brightly embellished relief pious hieroglyphs

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Nobles buried in rectangular mastabas

   Embalmed mummy anima gauze bound

      Eerie omens invective curses dispelled

         Exquisite tombs tunnel vision skullduggery

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         Metaphysical maxims derived from nature

      Sublime oracular truths deeply ingrained

   Prosaic obsessions mystical otherworldly invocations

Transcending ring of fire horizons