A post submitted by CGI member Morgan.

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http://www.smoking-mirrors.com/2022/03/a-cosmic-mystery-to-be-solved-by-him.html

I try to be mindful of the early writings of... now forgotten cultures, in those times when life was very different than now. I aspire to learn the lesson BEFORE I need to learn the lesson. Life has taught me... harshly and gently. I have learned far more in vicarious fashion than directly... thank God for that. One story I have never forgotten was The Dream of the Golden Screw-Turner. This took place in Ancient Egypt. You are perhaps familiar with the dreams of Joseph... back in The Day? This happened to a man named Ramset; not as well known as Joseph, but he cut quite a figure in his time.

He was a minor royal in the court of Userkaf, at the beginning of The Fifth Dynasty, and much was made of the fact that he was born with a golden screw in his navel, instead of the navel that most of us wind up with. It wouldn't be like the screws we have now. Let's just say it was out of the ordinary for anything else to be there unless it was some kind of a cosmetic stud. It seemed a matter of great portent at the time.

They were a superstitious lot back then, so soothsayers, astrologers, real navel-gazers, and magicians were called in to confer and to comment on the matter. No one knew much of anything; nothing like that had ever happened before, so... the matter was put to rest for some years, given that no one had anything useful to say about it in the time of Userkaf.