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Mis-Guided Tours: Egypt,Mythogeography & Death
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July, after having photo taken with Simon for the Exeter’sChoice exhibition at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Matthewand me, and Simon for a little while, wandered about centralExeter looking for Egypt. I had spent the morning in the Exeter andDevon Institution on Cathedral Close researching written sources. Notes: “modernist shapes on George St – like tombs or mausolea…a necropolis at the heart of the city… (in pencil) Egyptian Quarter = around Carfax, Milk Street is between Guinea Street & Fore St…lots of feathers about… warehouses (remnants of… trade… seedown to Quay… with the Phoenicians… the Egyptians… seeHaldon Belvidere (any Egyptian connection?) …thru’ City Arcade(or John St?) Sigils of the Craft…ghost of Cernunnos For Strengthand Empowerment… as if it has torn itself from the card…”The Sphinx in the NewBuildings passageway looks as ifshehas had botched plastic surgery.Shehas swollen Leslie Ash collagenlips.“Excuse me,” I’m stopped in thestreet, “do you know Exeter?” Notes: “heart shapes, RobertGraves essay, path of Venus, Tarot, obelisk in jewelry shop,crystals, pure geometry in nature, amber? cat… lotus (water lily)roots in murky underworld ? clean flower out of murky depth…
 
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mandala... pentagram/star of David (on Freemasons’ Hall in GandyStreet)… DJ Osiris – on poster… mythos: how it is impossiblewith modern technology to build the pyramids … chemicals…there is something else… not just what you go back to… All Your Base Belong To Us … Sapphire Security. Blue lily. DecorativeDolmen – outside Jackson-Stopps & Staff (bishop’s statue) –  bishop’s staff (crook) …connection with Coptic Church of Egypt,‘deal of the day: EGYPT from GATWICK 23
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July 1 week £264B & B per person based on 2 sharing.’ Ka – the car.”Twin lions are everywhere – in a leaden cistern on the Close, onthe ancient door to the Qua drangle on the Close, the ghosts of thetwo lions that once adorned the Black Lions Inn at 78 South Street,drawn in
Mural Monuments
by W.G.Croump (a handmade book,its illustrations drawn and painted, the one copy in the Devon &Exeter Institution – where only pencils and laptops are permissible,ink not), and above Queen Street at the corner with Café Rouge.
At the White Hart:Imagine you are travellers, visitors tothe city... tourists or businesspeople – funeral directors or something likethat - at a conference – but when youarrive, you find that your tour guideis dead – where will you go? Wherewill your guide take you then?Egypt, perhaps.Follow me.
 
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(Take a step out of the pub intoSouth Street.)And here we are… we’ve alreadyarrived.
I’ve got a note to myself about maybe us starting the mis-guidedtours at the corner of Cathedral Close so we would clash andconfuse with the official Red Coat guides.
Here in South Street: a coin was found – of “Constantine the Great: - on thereverse a male figure standing,apparently with a petasus – that’s awinged hat – the mint mark is of Alexandria, in Egypt. According to theSylva Antiqua Iscana, Numismatica,Quintiam Furgina of eighteen thirty – something by W. T. P. Shortt – on which Irely far too heavily - - the figure isprobably that of “Thoth or MercuriusTrismegistus (Hermes the thrice-powerful), who lived…” according toShortt “in the time of Osirus, and taughtthe Egyptians husbandry…”I’d like to see an exact date for the “timeof Osirus”.
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