Our first stop once back in Cairo, was the Serepeum of Saqqara, the ancient Egyptian burial place for sacred bulls of the Apis cult at Memphis. It was believed that the bulls were incarnations of the god Ptah, which would become immortal after death as Osiris -Apis,
Our journey into the underbelly of the desert was once again an emotional journey. As. with most ancient sites, the connection often brings up tears. Tears of long ago, unexplained emotions, that arise and then the flood gates open.
This journey amid the sarcophagi and along the corridors of the Serapeum, was not without those tears.
For me it came up as if from nowhere, tears streaming down, as if my very cells have remembered something, but my conscious mind could not comprehend. As I walked along the corridor, and observed what was once the location for a sarcophagus, my unconscious mind could fill the gap, and then the next minute my senses would tell me there should be another chamber here, but there was a wall. And as I walked deeper into the caverns, my senses were telling me again, “there should be a chamber here” and once again a wall was blocking something.
And so, as I was observing these granite boxes, my inner voice was telling me a different story about their purpose.
Each step was reminding me of a story from long ago, when this corridor, and these chambers with their respective “tombs”, were not in fact a burial ground, these echoes of the past were not of death, but of resurrection.
As I was walking down the corridor the tears continued to roll down my face, and I knew that a different story wanted to be told.
The main chamber revealed an even larger sarcophagus, one that was as tall as most of us, intricately carved with glyphs and doorways. Carvings which sought to remind us the story of why it existed, stories lost to the sands of time.
On my return along the corridor, I asked one of my group members if she also sensed the energies of the place. And asked if she picked up any more of the story, and so, she reminded me that once, we both used these chambers, and we both remembered the last time we left our human remains behind. And we knew that these resurrection chambers were not going to be used anymore. We both knew that in the very distant past we have used each and every one of the chambers, but in our current incarnation that story was only present in the cells.
