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Selections from the Husia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient Egypt
University of Sankore Press
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Maulana Karenga, the founder of the African-American winter holiday called Kwanzaa, has put together a very good collection of Kemetic texts in the Husia, (a word Karenga coined from Hu and Sia, the two guardians of Ra) an anthology of ancient Egyptian wisdom texts, hymns and other spiritual works. As part of Karenga's project to create one central source for African spirituality texts, this book is a wonderful addition to any Kemetic or African or spiritual/religious library. A disappointment is that he appears not to have done his own translations from the hieroglyphs but to have relied on other authors' translations - perhaps in a future version Karenga will take his own turn at translating the ancient texts, as his current paraphrases are insightful and uplifting.
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