Pehernefer

Much is known about this scribe, a story teller without equal. His titles include

 One of the "Great ten of Upper Egypt" (Egyptian: Wer-medj-shemaw)

He who's under the head of the king (Egyptian: Heri-tep-nesw) (But this is incorrect it should be ‘queen’ - you can’t expect archaeologists to get it ALL right).

Overseer of the treasuries (Egyptian: Imi-ra per-hedj)

Overseer of all royal works (Egyptian: Imi-ra kat-nebet net-nesw)

Overseer of the royal granaries (Egyptian: Imj-ra schenut-nebut inet-nesu)

You can be sure the list goes on (and on) - titles were flung about on the wind. Nothing is known about Pehernefer's family (that’s because he didn’t have one - except for the Lammasu tribe who took him in after he was abandoned in the Western desert (that’s how he got that title - I told you titles were blown in).

So what does all this have to do with ‘endings and beginnings’? Not much really simply because the Bhubezi Women are STILL trying to find the keys so that nothing ends - or begins in fact.

Pehernefer had this gift thing, given to him by Hatshepsut - who you should all know by now is a Bhubezi  Woman - that enabled him to triple-read any scroll given to him. 

He could see the current writing, the history of the writing and its place in the future. Right now, sitting at 4pm with an old scroll found (forward time) at the Alexandrian Library, he could hear  the same words Lammasu heard -   the Red Giraffe and Traveller were at his elbow, pulling him back to sanity.

“GET A GRIP”!

“We have the key”!

Further happenings at The Gate of All Nations with Lamassu.

Remember this part of the story?

“”Lamassu, for those sufficiently interested was actually the name of Hypatia’s guardian (of COURSE she existed before the Alexandrian library).  He protected her like a lion from her beginnings and THAT is where the iconography of his speed and strength occurs.  There were a succession of dapper, lion-like men with the strength of bulls who protected the Bhubezi Women, but that’s part of another story”.

Anyway:

When we left him last he was surreptitiously pulling a piece of Erichs map out his Saville row suit pocket, and one glyph in the corner was glowing.  Worse, if he had to leave in a hurry, the two Finders were still missing.

The Moor minions were also looking hugely suspicious and all this attention was causing his Man-Face to slip to his older self - the one who tackled the Barbarians who mistreated Hypatia.

How much more…

and suddenly

The Red Giraffe and Traveller   were at his elbow, pulling him back to sanity.

“GET A GRIP”!

“We have the key”!

The Chronicles of Lyrehc - Pages 40 - 43 - dealing with Erichs map and the Phaistos Disk.

Creatures Between

Book made for An Encyclopedia of Everything.

I remember when growing up, newspaper clippings my grandmother kept of strange skeletons, weird animals and other assorted previously undocumented oddities.  This book was a treasure to her, lending veracity to her view that there was a world existing parallel with ours.  

BUT, its interconnected with ours, she used to tell me, that’s why these creatures sometimes appear - they’ve come from there, squeezed out by pressure between the two spaces.  She was convinced that storms did this.

I sort of thought the cuttings were a hang-over from the Victorian Curiosity Cabinets.

 As it turns out, she wasn’t so wrong. The parallel place just didn’t have a name then.  But now we know, its called Between.

The Keys, pages 38 and 39.

The Keys The Bridge (as sought by The Red Giraffe and The Traveller) - Pg's 36,37 The Chronicles of Lyrehc

Singer To Sleep/Cinderella's Antithesis - Time Keeper

Pages 34 and 35.  The last imagine is an altered drawing I found while clearing out at work.  I have no idea who the original artist was. But having sat there forever in dust, waiting to be found, the charcoal drawing did the trick as a Cinderella.