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Her-Bak: The Living Face of Ancient Egypt

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The coming of age in ancient Egypt of a brilliant young man that covers details of everyday life, organization of the social structure and the theo-political belief structure seems pretty historically accurate.The name Her-Bak echoes for me Per Bak with this nature based religion where
the idea of order are much like self-organized criticality.
Somehow the author lacks the ability necessary to "hook" the reader's interest and involve him emotionally with the main
character: the result is too impersonal for me.
It is an educational book and might be better broken up into wisdom myths or tales.

The Sage pointed to the statue of the god and told Chick Pea, "This is a statue of you, of Horus." Chick Pea replied, "But I am Chick Pea." The Sage replied, "If you wish." This isn't verbatim but if you appreciate that statement.. get this book.

This is an excellent and readable novel that tells you more about the essence of the ancient Egyptian religion than all of the scholarly non-fiction put together. Note that the supposed follow-up to this book (Egyptian Initiate) is in contrast an almost unreadable more academic work.