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. Hello, Lord of Spirits listeners.

This is Father Stephen Dia.

Father Andrew, unfortunately, has decided to give you up,

let you down, run around, and desert you in order to go to the Archdiocese convention. So I thought to myself, self, I thought, what could I possibly do to slake the insatiable thirst of our listeners for content?

And so, once again, as has happened a few times in the past when Father Andrew has deserted his post,

I will be reading you some texts from the ancient world.

Two different ones. Two very different genres.

Two different civilizations that come from.

The first of these texts is what is referred to by scholars as the Memphite theology from Egypt.

So this is a text from the Old Kingdom.

Now, it's kind of interesting because the copy, as it were, of the text that we have,

is not really like a copy of the text.

In around 7.10 BC, an order was given by the then, Pharaoh of Egypt, to carve the text into stone,

into a stone monument.

And so the text, as we have it,

and as I'm going to be reading it to you,

comes from this stone.

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