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The Philosophical Demotion of the Sacred Feminine Form in Classical Art Atyeb Atum RE
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2. Greek Culture
3. Greek Mythology
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Initially published on 25th July 2010 in American Chronicle, AfroArticles and Buzzle
Excerpt:
In the present sixth article of the series, I republish further excerpts from the same volume of Bulatovich; focused on the Abyssinians, these critical paragraphs by Bulatovich highlight the unclean and incestuous character of the pseudo-Christian Abyssinian society.
They represent some of Bulatovich´s most critical paragraphs because they reveal the abysmal reality of the Abyssinian society, namely all that has been scrupulously hidden by the Abyssinians and their allies, the Freemasonic, colonial regimes of Paris, London and Washington.
It is a lie that the Amhara Tewahedo (Monophysitic) Abyssinians are Christians; in fact, they constitute a desecrated society rejected by all Christian believers, because they practice a generalized fornication which is incompatible with the Christian creed, faith and principles.
With no family, there is no Christian society.
All the Oromos, Ogadenis, Afars, Sidamas and others, who fight for their independence, and all the neighboring countries, Somalia, Eritrea, Sudan and Egypt, which are threatened because of the evil, Satanic eschatological dreams of Greater Ethiopia, must diffuse these great text, which was published by the Russian explorer before 110 years, to the four corners of the universe.
The true barbarous identity of the Amharas is revealed in the chapter on the Abyssinian family that Bulatovich found it necessary to elaborate and submit to the top Russian imperial authorities.
In fact, there is no family in the Amhara society whereby an extensive fornication has been imposed by the pseudo-Christian monks. This filthy and barbaric practice makes of the Amhara society the outcast of the Mankind and the embodiment of the savages.
It is only for the needs of the Anti-Islamic plot of the Anglo-French Freemasonry and the Zionist movement that the Abyssinians are widely but erroneously considered as Christians.
Their fake Jesus is in fact the Antichrist mentioned in John´s Revelation, and their eschatological aspirations about Zion in their dirty and fake Ethiopia apply to a society deprived of marriage and forced into fornication.
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Everything about GREECE is here like
1. Greek Civilization
2. Greek Culture
3. Greek Mythology
and much more about GREECE
The whole Presentation contains songs too and at the end there is a National anthem of GREECE.
Initially published on 25th July 2010 in American Chronicle, AfroArticles and Buzzle
Excerpt:
In the present sixth article of the series, I republish further excerpts from the same volume of Bulatovich; focused on the Abyssinians, these critical paragraphs by Bulatovich highlight the unclean and incestuous character of the pseudo-Christian Abyssinian society.
They represent some of Bulatovich´s most critical paragraphs because they reveal the abysmal reality of the Abyssinian society, namely all that has been scrupulously hidden by the Abyssinians and their allies, the Freemasonic, colonial regimes of Paris, London and Washington.
It is a lie that the Amhara Tewahedo (Monophysitic) Abyssinians are Christians; in fact, they constitute a desecrated society rejected by all Christian believers, because they practice a generalized fornication which is incompatible with the Christian creed, faith and principles.
With no family, there is no Christian society.
All the Oromos, Ogadenis, Afars, Sidamas and others, who fight for their independence, and all the neighboring countries, Somalia, Eritrea, Sudan and Egypt, which are threatened because of the evil, Satanic eschatological dreams of Greater Ethiopia, must diffuse these great text, which was published by the Russian explorer before 110 years, to the four corners of the universe.
The true barbarous identity of the Amharas is revealed in the chapter on the Abyssinian family that Bulatovich found it necessary to elaborate and submit to the top Russian imperial authorities.
In fact, there is no family in the Amhara society whereby an extensive fornication has been imposed by the pseudo-Christian monks. This filthy and barbaric practice makes of the Amhara society the outcast of the Mankind and the embodiment of the savages.
It is only for the needs of the Anti-Islamic plot of the Anglo-French Freemasonry and the Zionist movement that the Abyssinians are widely but erroneously considered as Christians.
Their fake Jesus is in fact the Antichrist mentioned in John´s Revelation, and their eschatological aspirations about Zion in their dirty and fake Ethiopia apply to a society deprived of marriage and forced into fornication.
Contents
Introduction
I. A fictional concept: the origin of the fraud
II. A construct based on posterior textual sources
III. The deceitful presentation
IV. 5th century BCE texts found in 15th c. CE manuscripts do not make 'History'.
V. Abundant evidence of lies and deliberate distortions attested in the manuscript transmission
VI. Darius I the Great, the Behistun inscription, and Ctesias
VII. The historical Assyrian Queen Shammuramat and the fictional Queen Semiramis of the 'Ancient Greek sources'
VIII. The malignant intentions of the Benedictine liars: from the historical Darius I the Great to the fictional Semiramis
IX. The vicious distortions of the Benedictine liars: from Ctesias to Herodotus
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EGYPTIAN TEMPORALITY IN PHAROS, THE EGYPTIAN
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EGYPTIAN TEMPORALITY IN PHAROS,
THE EGYPTIAN
Laura DeLuca
Department of English at Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York
ABSTRACT
Egyptian culture has been transhistorically fetishized in Western literature. This is present in Antony and
Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, and reverberates in the Victorian novel Pharos, the Egyptian by Guy
Boothby. This paper examines the temporal climate of Pharos, the Egyptian, and shows how Boothby
perpetuates the myth that Egypt is so exotic that it operates on a different temporal plane than Western
countries. First, I will unpack Egyptian symbols that index the feeling of stasis via Postcolonial theory. I
will put these symbols in conversation with quotations from Antony and Cleopatra, which reveal the
historical understanding of Egypt as static. Then, I will discuss temporal inconsistencies in Boothby’s text,
which include gaps in time, fainting, entrancement, future-telling, differences in memory recall, and how
characters can be representative of temporality in their domestic spheres. Through this analysis, I
demonstrate that Egypt has been transtemporally communicated as static by British writers.
KEYWORDS
Victorian literature, temporality, Postcolonial theory, imperialism
1. INTRODUCTION
In the novel Pharos, the Egyptian (1899) by Guy Boothby, Egyptian temporality is depicted as
static, which is contrasted by the quick-time of England. The notion of Egypt as a place of stasis
is an important trend in literature to acknowledge, because it functions as a fetishization of
Egyptian culture by the West, which results in literature that depicts Egypt mythically and
inaccurately. This paper seeks to investigate the transhistorical notion of Egypt as stasis, and
unpack how the exoticization of Egyptian culture affects how time in Egypt operates in literature;
in order to do this, I will first demonstrate that Egypt is historically depicted as static, then I will
be exploring how Boothby replicates and contributes to this trend. Through the examination of
key passages from the play Antony and Cleopatra (1606)by William Shakespeare, one can
witness this historical understanding of Egypt as a place of stasis. Additionally, utilizing Edward
Said‟s Orientalism (1978), I argue that Postcolonial theory enforces this historical understanding
through demonstrating the stereotypical Western ideas that „other‟ the East and deem Egypt as an
ancient, technologically-stalled location. In Pharos, the Egyptian, Egypt as a static location is
enforced through both mystical, iconographic Egyptological symbology and an array of temporal
inconsistencies, including the following: fainting, entrancement, clairvoyance, and gaps in time.
Ultimately, I argue that Boothby subscribes to the longstanding idea regarding Egypt as an
eternally ancient, archaic location, and adds to it through the fetishization and mystification of
Egyptian identity, which is an idea that is indirectly supported by Postcolonial theory years later.
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1.1. Establishing the Historical Understanding of Egypt as Stasis: Antony and
Cleopatra (1606)
Through the examination of early Antony and Cleopatra passages and overarching trends, one
can observe the establishment of the historical understanding of Egypt as a place of stasis via
Cleopatra. This idea is first established in Act I Scene I, with the entrance of Cleopatra:
“Flourish. Enter ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, her Ladies, the Train, with Eunuchs fanning her”
(Shakespeare, 1606, I.i.9). This subtly conveys the idea of stasis through the way in which
Cleopatra‟s ladies took the time to elaborately adorn her with gold and jewelry; the whole group
of servants fanning Cleopatra and holding the train of her dress shows a lack of urgency. This
idea is more bluntly discussed in Act I Scene III, when Cleopatra says: “Eternity was in our lips
and eyes…” (Shakespeare, 1606,I.iii.35). Cleopatra saying this to Antony in a scene in which
they discuss the seriousness of their love creates a direct parallel between the Egyptian queen and
eternality, which is implied in stasis. Additionally, Cleopatra‟s strange obsession with
preservation language indicates an obsession with eternality-- she says, “By the discandying of
this pelleted storm” (Shakespeare, 1606, III.xiii.171)and “Thou shalt be whipped with wire and
stewed in brine, Smarting in ling‟ring pickle” (Shakespeare, 1606, II.v.65-66). As noted by
Jennifer Park in “Discandying Cleopatra: Preserving Cleopatra‟s Infinite Variety in
Shakespeare‟s Antony and Cleopatra,” Cleopatra utilizes preservation language that almost
always involves food (Park, 2016).Finally, there is a key Aeneid reference that ties Cleopatra
(and therefore Egypt) to stasis: “Let me sleep out this great gap of time / My Antony is away”
(Shakespeare, 1606, I.v.5); here, Cleopatra wants to drink mandragora to be put to sleep while
Antony is back in Rome handling war strategy. This shows that she wants to temporarily stop her
perception of time while Antony is gone because living without him would be too painful. This is
a reference to Virgil‟s Aeneid, where Dido says: “…for empty time I ask, for peace and reprieve
for my frenzy, till fortune teach my vanquished soul to grieve” (Virgil, n.d.). Contextually,
Aeneas is supposed to go off and be the founder of Rome, but Dido is begging him to stay with
her and therefore halts the plans for his journey to remain in a stasis of sorts together. Lastly, it is
notable that Cleopatra as a historical figure was famous for cosmetic recipes to preserve youth;
these are compiled in Cosmetik, or the Beautifying Part of Physick (1660) byJohann Wecker and
Nicholas Culpepper (Wecker & Culpepper, 1660). Thus, early Antony and Cleopatra passages
and overarching trends can be read as Cleopatra, who is representative of Egypt, as symbolic of
stasis; I argue that these same ideas are in Pharos, the Egyptian.
Cleopatra‟s relationship with death in Antony and Cleopatra portrays both Egypt as static, and
Egyptian death as associated with eternality; these ideas also appear in Pharos, the Egyptian.
When Cleopatra imagines her own death, she pictures it as a slow decomposition: “Be gentle
grave unto me! rather on Nilus' mud / Lay me stark naked, and let the water-flies” (Shakespeare,
1606,V.ii.57-58). This conveys a message regarding Egyptian conceptions of death relating to a
slow return to the Earth. This idea is also apparent when Cleopatra later says: “I am fire and air;
my other elements / I give to baser life?” (Shakespeare, 1606, V.ii.281-282). This reference to
two of the four Aristotelian elements depicts Cleopatra as sublimating into the air in a
supernatural, mystical way. Scholars like Donald Freeman have unpacked this idea in contrast
with the death of Antony, a Roman: “Conversely, we understand Cleopatra at her death as the
transcendent queen of "immortal longings'' because the container of her mortality can no longer
restrain her: unlike Antony, she never melts, but sublimates from her very earthly flesh to
ethereal fire and air” (Freeman, 1999, p.445). Cleopatra‟s death via asps ultimately works to have
her killed by the natural world and, once she dies, she returns to it forever: “... [Cleopatra]
obliterates the solid, containing periphery of her body not by melting, as Antony had sought for
Rome and Romanness, but by sublimation, transmuting the "marble constant" solidity of her
physicality from a solid directly into a gas” (Freeman, 1999, p.456-457). Cleopatra‟s death by asp
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is present as early as 1 A.D., in Plutarch‟s Life of Antony, where she angers an asp by pricking it
with gold; it is therefore clear that Cleopatra‟s slow death via nature was not a myth created by
Shakespeare (Plutarch, 1 A.D.). Finally, Cleopatra‟s anxiety about her future portrayal in history
demonstrates the Egyptian idea of eternality in relation to death: “The quick comedians /
Extemporally will stage us, and present / Our Alexandrian revels. Antony / Shall be brought
drunken forth, and I shall see / Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness / I‟ th‟ posture of a
whore. (Shakespeare, 1606, V.ii.212-217). Here, an eternal afterlife after returning to the Earth
via cultural re-enactments is shown by Cleopatra‟s fear that future actors will make her go down
in history as a lustful woman. It is therefore clear that eternality in relation to death when
referring to Cleopatra is present throughout this text; I ultimately argue that this historical
association with Egypt and temporal stallment reverberates throughout Pharos, the Egyptian.
1.2. Establishing the Historical Understanding of Egypt as Stasis: Orientalism
(1978)
In addition to exploring Antony and Cleopatra, one could examine the Postcolonial theory of the
„Orient‟ in Edward Said‟s Orientalism in order to find how Europeans historically understand and
fetishize the East; this fetishization is present in the creation of the mystical character Pharos in
Pharos, the Egyptian. The foundational assumption of Orientalism is that there is a conceptual
difference between “the Orient” and “the Occident” (Said, 1978). To report on the „Orient‟ had
great journalistic value, because it was seen as an excavation of a mysterious, primitive location:
“The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance,
exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences... the main thing for
the European visitor was a European representation of the Orient and its contemporary fate...”
(Said, 1978, p.1). Said theorizes that Orientalism began in the late eighteenth century and the
signal of this beginning was the influx of literature exploring the „Orient‟: “...without examining
Orientalism as a discourse one cannot possibly understand the enormously systematic discipline
by which European culture was able to manage and even produce the Orient politically,
sociologically, militarily... during the post-Enlightenment period” (Said, 1978, p.3). Said
ultimately argues that... “European culture gained in strength and identity by setting itself off
against the Orient as a sort of surrogate and even underground self” (Said, 1978, p.3). Ultimately,
the „Orient‟ functions as, “...an integral part of European material civilization and culture.
Orientalism expresses and represents that part culturally and even ideologically as a mode of
discourse with supporting institutions, vocabulary, scholarship, imagery, doctrines, even colonial
bureaucracies and colonial styles” (Said, 1978, p.2). Lastly, Said demonstrates that this
differentiation between the „Occident‟ and the „Orient‟ relates to perceived levels of innate
intelligence; with regard to how Europeans are historically viewed, Said references a quote
directly said to him by Sir Alfred Lyall: “The European is a close reasoner; his statements of fact
are devoid of any ambiguity; he is a natural logician... he is by nature sceptical and requires proof
before he can accept the truth of any proposition; his trained intelligence works like a piece of
mechanism” (Said, 1978, p.38). This operates as a much more positive description than how the
„Orient‟ is thought of, as again phrased by Lyall: “The mind of the Oriental, on the other hand,
like his picturesque streets, is eminently wanting in symmetry... They are often incapable of
drawing the most obvious conclusions from any simple premises of which they may admit the
truth” (Said, 1978, p.38). Thus, one can see how Europeans historically view the „Orient‟ as a
primitive, exotic hub of information only accessible to themselves; I argue that this exists in
Pharos, the Egyptian through the mystification of Egyptian identity, which is seen in the
iconographic symbols and magic used throughout the novel.
Although Egypt is implied as being a part of the „Orient,‟ Said makes an array of direct
comments about Egypt that work to depict Egypt as a mystical center of information that only
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Europeans can decipher and manipulate. With regard to the aforementioned reference to Lyall,
Said also refers to his ideas about Egypt: “Endeavor to elicit a plain statement of facts from any
ordinary Egyptian. His explanation will generally be lengthy, and wanting in lucidity. He will
probably contradict himself half-a-dozen times before he has finished his story. He will often
break down under the mildest process of cross-examination” (Said, 1978, p.38). This portrays
Egypt as cerebrally-stalled. Said also references Napoleon‟s desire to take over Egypt as a “new
Alexander,” who was obsessed with the glory associated with Alexander the Great‟s „Orient‟:
“...for Napoleon Egypt was a project that acquired reality in his mind, and later in his
preparations for its conquest, through experiences that belong to the realm of ideas and myths
culled from texts, not empirical reality” (Said, 1978, p.80). Said goes on to state that one of
Napoleon‟s goals was to make Egypt “accessible to European scrutiny” and make Egypt an area
of study for the French with more thorough information than the observations provided in
Description de l‟Egypte (1735) by Abbe Le Mascrier; Said writes, “Most important, everything
said, seen, and studied was to be recorded, and indeed was recorded in that great collective
appropriation of one country by another, the Description de l'Egypte, published in twenty-three
enormous volumes between 1809 and 1828” (Said, 1978, p.83-84). He goes on to write about
Egypt‟s association with conquerors such as Alexander the Great and Caesar: “Egypt was the
focal point of the relationships between Africa and Asia, between Europe and the East, between
memory and actuality. Placed between Africa and Asia, and communicating easily with Europe,
Egypt occupies the center of the ancient continent” (Said, 1978, p.84). This demonstrates Egypt
as a primitive point of fascination and conquering for Europeans. When referencing An Account
of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1890) by Edward William Lane, Said
discusses: “...the first-person pronoun moving through Egyptian customs, rituals, festivals,
infancy, adulthood, and burial rites, is in reality both an Oriental masquerade and an Orientalist
device for capturing and conveying valuable, otherwise inaccessible information” (Said, 1978,
p.160). This reflects a romanticization of Egyptian customs and the treatment of them as a
spectacle. Lastly, Said references Richard Burton‟s Pilgrimage, which says, "Egypt is a treasure
to be won," Burton writes that it "is the most tempting prize which the East holds out to the
ambition of Europe, not excepted even the Golden Horn''; in response, Said says, “...we must
recognize how the voice of the highly idiosyncratic master of Oriental knowledge informs, feeds
into the voice of European ambition for rule over the Orient” (Said, 1978, p.196). This works to
demonstrate the fetishization of Egyptian culture. This historical understanding of Egypt conveys
Egypt as a fetishized, conquerable point of study; I argue that this is demonstrated by Pharos, the
Egyptian and contend that the historical understanding of Egypt as intellectually-stalled and
slow-moving is a catalyst for its depiction as a stasis.
2. ESTABLISHING THE HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDING OF EGYPT AS STASIS
2.1. Iconographic Symbology
Throughout Pharos, the Egyptian, an array of ancient, architectural emblems are repeatedly
employed, which instill the historical understanding of Egypt as a place of stasis. Throughout the
novel, Cleopatra‟s Needle is mentioned nine times; in eight out of nine of these times (all but the
first establishment of the setting), Pharos is being directly referenced (Boothby, 1899).
Nominally, the direct reference to Cleopatra immediately has the association with a mystical
ancient Egypt that exists in an eternal stasis, despite this monument having been moved from
Egypt to London in 1878 (“Cleopatra‟s Needle…” n.d.). According to the official inscription
translation of the hieroglyphics on the obelisk, which was created by Egyptologist Samuel Birch,
above the sphynx is a line that reads, “Great god, lord of both countries; (Ra-men-kheper); giver
of life eternal” (“England's…” n.d.). This monument also says, “Lord of earth; lord of heaven ;
great god; Harmachis; giver of life eternal" and “Of 'the spirits of On beloved-eternal”
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(“England's…” n.d.). It is therefore clear that Cleopatra‟s Needle is both nominally and literally
symbolic of the eternal. Another obsessively employed symbol is the Egyptian pyramid;
Egyptian pyramids, which were built far before the time of even Cleopatra, are so incessantly
referenced in this novel that one would think nineteenth-century Egyptian architecture was only
as advanced as the pyramid. According to scholar Stacy Schiff, about 1300 years separated
Cleopatra‟s existence from the pyramids in Nefertiti, demonstrating how archaic pyramids are,
despite their transtemporal function as an iconographic symbol of Egypt (Schiff, 2010). Pyramids
are mentioned twenty-eight times in this novel, and work to depict Egypt as a place that is ancient
and slow to technological advancement. Additionally, it is noteworthy that sphinxes are
mentioned ten times and kriosphynxes five times; these are archaic, stereotypical symbols of
Egypt that depict Egypt as eternally ancient (Boothby, 1899). Thus, an array of stereotypical
architectural symbols are obsessively employed in order to portray Egypt as a temporally-stalled
location.
In addition to these architectural symbols, there are also an array of other emblems of ancient
Egypt embedded in Pharos, the Egyptian. For example, locations that were crucial to and often
associated with ancient Egypt are constantly mentioned. Boothby references Cairo, a symbol of
ancient Egypt, twenty-one times throughout the novel; Cairo was fundamental to ancient Egypt
because of its convenient location near the Nile delta (“Egyptology…” p.456). Another
stereotypical, Egyptological symbol employed is the Nile, which is referenced fifteen times in the
novel (Boothby, 1899). One particular employment of the image of the Nile parallels to how
Cleopatra muses about it in Antony and Cleopatra: “To have told her in the broad light of day,
with the prosaic mud banks of the Nile on either hand, and the Egyptian sailors washing paint-
work at the farther end of the deck, that in my vision I had been convinced that Pharos and
Ptahmes were one and the same person, would have been too absurd” (Boothby, 1899, p.201).
This quotation makes reference to the mud along the Nile and ties it with the “absurd”-- here, the
“absurd” is the mystical eternality of Pharos‟s life because he was not put to rest properly. This is
reminiscent of the aforementioned Cleopatra quote in which she ties the mud of the Nile to the
“absurd” or mystical, when saying that she wants to decompose into the Earth and get eaten by
flies. Gizeh, the home of the famous Great Pyramid of Gizeh, (which is referred to as the symbol
that “all the world knows” in Pharos, the Egyptian) (Boothby, 1899, p.174), and hieroglyphics are
mentioned six times, which are iconic symbols of ancient Egypt (Boothby, 1899). Furthermore,
Egypt is also described as being “elaborately decorated” (Boothby, 1899, p.161) and the Egyptian
sun is described as “sinking”: “The sun was sinking behind the Arabian hills, in a wealth of gold
and crimson colouring...and the steamer was at a standstill” (Boothby, 1899, p.204). These
depictions of Egypt relate to the aforementioned adornment of Cleopatra in gold and jewels as
well as Egypt as temporally-stalled, which is shown by the slow-moving words “sinking” and
“standstill.” It is also noteworthy that statues are described as being in, “...the most perfect state
of preservation” (Boothby, 1899, p.216), which also demonstrates Egypt as a place of stasis that
values preservation. Additionally, mummies were mentioned fifty-one times throughout this
novel, which highlights Egypt as a place that longs for eternal preservation and longevity, even in
one‟s afterlife. Tombs were mentioned twenty-eight times, which also reinforces this notion
(Boothby, 1899). Additionally, crocodiles are referenced at least thirteen times, which are
symbols of Egypt found throughout Antony and Cleopatra, All for Love by John Dryden, and
The Wonder of Women Or The Tragedy of Sophonisba (1606) by John Marston (Shakespeare,
1606; Marston, 1606; Dryden, 1759). Furthermore, the word “Pharaoh” was employed thirty-one
times, which is symbolic of ancient Egypt‟s government system and again works to depict Egypt
as stuck in archaic times (Boothby, 1899). Even Pharos‟s name, which can be read as a reference
to the Pharos of Alexandria, can be viewed as a nod to ancient Egyptian architecture; Pharos of
Alexandria is a lighthouse deemed one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that was built
during Ptolemy II Philadelphus‟s reign, which lasted from (280-247 BC) (“Chapter 7…” p.11).
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Thus, it is clear that a plethora of emblems of ancient Egypt work to depict Egypt as a
permanently ancient place of eternal stasis.
3. TIME INCONSISTENCIES IN PHAROS, THE EGYPTIAN: NEAR-FAINTING,
FAINTING, AND ENTRANCEMENT
In Pharos, the Egyptian, Cyril Forrester constantly feels faint when in Pharos‟s presence; I argue
that this warping of the perception of time by Pharos that affects Cyril is an extension of the idea
of Egypt as a place of stasis. At his first encounter with Pharos, Cyril describes himself as
“shuddering” and being hit with, “an indescribable feeling of nausea” when making eye contact
with Pharos for the first time (Boothby, 1899, p.27). Although Cyril initially claims to not know
why he begins to feel ill, he immediately associates it with the presence of Pharos: “What
occasioned it I could not tell, nor could I remember having felt anything of the kind before...
Connecting him in some way with the unenviable sensation I had just experienced, I endeavoured
to withdraw them [his eyes] again, but in vain” (Boothby, 1899, p.27). It is also noteworthy that
this is an early example of Cyril‟s lack of self-control around Pharos-- this functions as a
hypnosis of sorts before the official entrancement by Pharos begins. During his second encounter
with Pharos, at the Academy, Cyril immediately feels faint: “The room and its occupants began
to swim before me. I tottered, and at length, being unable any longer to support myself, sat down
on the seat behind me. When I looked up again I could scarcely credit the evidence of my senses”
(Boothby, 1899, p.35). This is demonstrated not to be a coincidence by the way in which, after
Cyril runs into Pharos at Medenham's House, he becomes faint again: “Then a change came, and
once more I experienced the same sensation of revulsion that had overwhelmed me twice before”
(Boothby, 1899, p.42). Here, Cyril says, “I believe I‟m going to faint”; he also says, “I am feeling
a little faint” and that he previously “was not subject to fainting-fits” (Boothby, 1899, p.42-43). It
is therefore clear that the presence of Pharos makes Cyril feel faint; this near-altering of Cyril‟s
state of consciousness affects his perception of time, because consciousness directly impacts
one‟s experience of time.
In addition to merely causing Cyril to feel faint, Pharos makes him lose consciousness. Cyril first
loses consciousness when Pharos goes to his studio, eager to take the mummy from his
possession: “Gradually and easily I sank into the chair behind me, the room swam before my
eyes, an intense craving for sleep overcame me, and little by little, still without any attempt at
resistance, my head fell back and I lost consciousness” (Boothby, 1899, p.61-62). This reveals
Cyril‟s loss of agency over his own body and loss of consciousness just after his disagreement
with Pharos. Pharos also alters Cyril‟s consciousness after he follows him into the Great Pyramid
of Gizeh; even though Pharos is not described as physically seeing Cyril, he must have sensed
him and used his powers from afar: “At any rate, I have a confused recollection of running round
and round that loathsome place, and of at last falling exhausted upon the ground, firmly believing
my last hour had come. Then my senses left me, and I became unconscious” (Boothby, 1899,
p.178). After waking up, Cyril describes himself as being “more dead than alive” (Boothby,
1899, p.179), which shows that Cyril only partially regained consciousness; this was done by
Pharos so that Cyril would succumb to his will and follow him through the Great Pyramid. Soon
after, Pharos explicitly alters Cyril‟s state of consciousness by feeding him an opiate (Boothby,
1899). Pharos therefore demonstrates a sense of entitlement to Cyril‟s consciousness, and does
not fear altering it in front of him. After being taken to the underground vault, Cyril makes an
interesting, perhaps masochistic, remark about desiring to not be fully conscious: “Little by little
a feeling of extreme lassitude was overtaking me; I lost all care for my safety, and my only desire
was to be allowed to continue in the state of exquisite semi-consciousness to which I had now
been reduced” (Boothby, 1899, p.218). This demonstrates the addictive nature of opiates as an
escape, and also serves as foreshadowing for when Cyril again loses consciousness: “More dead
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than alive, I accommodated myself to the shuffling tread of the camel as best I could, and when at
last I heard Pharos say in Arabic, “It is here; the beast lie down,” my last ounce of strength
departed, and I lost consciousness” (Boothby, 1899, p.230-231). The idea of being “more dead
than alive” is again repeated, demonstrating a wavering of consciousness that dwindles to
nothing. Thus, Pharos feels entitled to manipulating Cyril‟s consciousness and therefore his
perception of time.
Cyril is not the only one Pharos has entitlement of consciousness over; once Pharos finally
catches up to Cyril and Valerie after they escape his power, he makes Valerie faint as well: “As
the person, whoever he might be, entered, Valerie uttered a little cry and fell senseless into my
arms. I held her tightly, and then wheeled round to see who the intruder might be” (Boothby,
1899, p.267). Although one could read this as Valerie fainting because of her own emotions,
moments later, Cyril determines that she is dying; it is later revealed by Pharos himself that
Pharos causes this: “As soon as I entered the room in which she was waiting for me, the attraction
culminated in a species of fainting fit” (Boothby, 1899, p.323). The last altering of consciousness
of Valerie occurs after Cyril reveals his knowledge about the truth of his relationship with
Pharos: “Then, swift as a panther, she sprang upon him, only to be hurled back against the wall as
if struck by an invisible hand. Then, obedient as a little child, I closed my eyes and slept”
(Boothby, 1899, p.358). Due to the fact that consciousness directly impacts how one perceives
time, and the loss of consciousness puts a halt to time for one who faints, Pharos is subtly
conveyed as a being of stasis through how he alters people‟s consciousness at his will.
Pharos also utilizes entrancement as a hypnosis, which is inherently another temporal stallment,
to warp the consciousness of Cyril. Hypnotic entrancement is first seen when Pharos comes to
Cyril‟s studio to steal the mummy: “At any rate, from the moment he pounced upon me I found
myself incapable of resistance. It was as if all my will power were being slowly extracted from
me by the contact of those skeleton fingers...” (Boothby, 1899, p.61). Cyril shows awareness of
this occurring by later confronting Pharos with it; this ability to recall hypnosis is vital to the
authenticity of the manuscript that holds the narrative: “You expressed a wish that I should
present it to you, and, when I declined to do so, you hypnotised me, and took it without either my
leave or my license...” (Boothby, 1899, p.102). The next instance in which Pharos discusses
hypnotizing Cyril is after Cyril sneakily follows Pharos into the Great Pyramid: “...our comedy is
at an end, and for the future you are my property, to do with as I please. You will have no will but
my pleasure, no thought but to act as I shall tell you. Rise and follow me” (Boothby, 1899, p.178-
179). Although not a full-on entrancement, this shows how Pharos manipulates Cyril and intends
on having Cyril forever under his own will. A more direct instance of hypnosis occurs soon after
this, when Pharos forces Cyril to take an opiate at the Great Pyramid: “The opiate, or whatever it
was, must have been a powerful one... unknown tongue beside me. After that I sank down on the
sand, and presently became oblivious of everything” (Boothby, 1899, p.180-181). After
descending into the vault of the Great Pyramid, Cyril describes himself as obliging to Pharos‟s
will and “doing as he ordered'' by laying down on an alabaster slab, even though in other
circumstances, he would not have (Boothby, 1899, p.217); Cyril states that, “With this he
departed, and I remained standing where he had put me, watching and waiting for what should
follow... Under the influence of the mysterious preparation to which l had been subjected, such
things as time, fear, and curiosity had been eliminated from my being” which can be read as a
hypnosis that eradicated his rational emotions (Boothby, 1899, p.219). This portrays Cyril as
passively observing his surroundings, and unable to alter them. Cyril also describes being
hypnotized by Pharos when Pharos locates Cyril and Valerie after their escape: “...I was scarcely
capable of even a show of resistance... he meant the accomplishment of some new villainy, but
what form it was destined to take I neither knew nor cared. He had got me so completely under
his influence by this time that he could make me do exactly as he required” (Boothby, 1899,
p.279). The placement of this hypnosis occurring while Pharos is angry and wants Cyril to be
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subservient demonstrates Pharos‟s manipulation of his mystical power. Lastly, soon after this
miniature hypnosis, Pharos sends Cyril into a five-day hypnotic trance: “...no less a period than
five days and six nights Pharos kept me in the same hypnotic condition... I did everything with
that peculiar listless air that one notices in a man while walking in his sleep” (Boothby, 1899,
p.359). Thus, Pharos sends Cyril under an array of instances of hypnotic entrancement when he is
being disobedient.
4. TIME INCONSISTENCIES IN PHAROS, THE EGYPTIAN: CLAIRVOYANCE,
TIME TRAVELING, AND GAPS IN TIME
In addition to the hypnotic entrancement of Cyril, Pharos entrances Valerie and utilizes her as a
mechanism to see both into the past and future; this ultimately warps how Valerie perceives time
and space in order to benefit Pharos. Pharos first entrances Valerie on the ship by having her hold
his hand and describe what she sees; she monotonously describes a desert, then a scene with an
engraved cavern with a dead body on a slab of rock, followed by a final, ominous forecast: ““I
see death,” said the voice. “Death on every hand It continues night and day, and the world is full
of wailing”” (Boothby, 1899, p.144-146). Pharos ends this entrancement session by saying, “It is
well; I am satisfied” and telling Valerie that she will fall asleep and forget the episode ever
occurred (Boothby, 1899, p.146). On page 373, Pharos again asks to take Valerie‟s hand and
says: “Through you it is decreed that I must learn my fate. Courage, courage—there is naught for
thee to fear!” (Boothby, 1899, p.373). This association of Valerie with fate perfectly
demonstrates how Pharos uses her as an oracle of sorts. Pharos again entrances Valerie, and this
time Cyril is transported along with them into the past: “...at any rate, I suddenly found myself
transported from Park Lane away to that mysterious hall below the Temple of Ammon, of which
I retained so vivid a recollection” (Boothby, 1899, p.374). Here, Cyril and Valerie are described
as being in “semi-darkness,” where a man that was previously Cyril‟s guide is talking to Ptahmes,
son of Netruhôtep; he acknowledges Ptahmes‟s selfish use of power and states that Ptahmes is
being punished because of it (Boothby, 1899, p.374). This vague vision contributes to the
mysticism of Egyptian identity in this novel; what is being seen is an ominous discussion of a
restless afterlife for Pharos, which demonstrates the Egyptian value of eternal, sacred
preservation. Then, the vision shifts to a tomb, where men are lifting Ptahmes‟s mummified body
from a vault; Valerie is described as somehow being released from the entrancement and running
away while Pharos is horrified (Boothby, 1899). This again demonstrates the Egyptian value of
eternal preservation. Ultimately, Valerie is treated like an oracle by Pharos that allows him to
gain insight about his lack of a sacred burial, which explains why he is doomed to a torturous,
restless afterlife of sorts. This ultimately reveals an Egyptian obsession with the past and sacred
preservation, which is shown through Pharos‟s ability to stall how Valerie perceives time in order
to go back to the ancient past for as long as her visions allow.
Cyril is also entranced and transported across time and space, even without Valerie being used as
a clairvoyant mechanism. This first happens in the Great Pyramid, where Cyril is hypnotized by a
bright light and gets transported back to the pylon where Pharos and Cyril once stood: “There
was, however, this difference: the temple which I had seen then was nothing more than a mass of
ruins, now it was restored to its pristine grandeur, and exceeded in beauty anything I could have
imagined” (Boothby, 1899, p.220). There were crowds of people celebrating the Pharoah and,
beside him, his favorite servant Ptahmes (Boothby, 1899). The Pharoah is depicted as being
surrounded by gold, dancers dressed in white, and fan-bearers, which is reminiscent of
Cleopatra‟s entrances in Antony and Cleopatra (Boothby, 1899). Due to the fact that temples
inherently relate to spirituality and one‟s afterlife, and that this vision involves being sent so far
back in time that the temple is good as new, Egyptians are again depicted as desiring to remain in
a stasis that allows them to be eternally ancient and yearning to be restored to that period. After
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briefly being sent back to the present-day, Cyril is again transported back in time; in this instance,
he is brought to the same spot during the night, but a procession is occurring instead of a festival:
“Unlike the first, however, this consisted of but four men, or, to be exact, of five, since one was
being carried on a bier. Making no more noise than was necessary, they conveyed their burden up
the same well kept roadway and approached the temple” (Boothby, 1899, p.223). Cyril goes on to
explain that the dead body is that of Ptahmes, and who looks old and poor (Boothby, 1899,
p.223). This vision is yet another instance of time traveling into the past, again revealing the
stereotypical Egyptian obsession with reliving the past. Thus, while Valerie is used as a
mechanism for transportation both into the past and future, Pharos‟s powers regarding
entrancement only seem to be able to transport characters into the past, which is where he seems
to be stuck in due to not receiving a proper burial centuries ago.
Due to the aforementioned hypnotic and clairvoyant entrancements, many stretches in time go
missing for Valerie and Cyril; these demonstrate Pharos operating as an agent of stasis by being
able to pause the narrative. After Pharos entrances Valerie on the ship, she tells Cyril that she had
no idea what happened: “Notwithstanding that fact, I believe I must have fallen asleep in my
cabin, for I cannot remember what I have been doing since dinner” (Boothby, 1899, p.148).
Valerie also recounts having a significant gap in time after trying to escape Pharos: “...nor have I
any recollection of what happened... The next thing I remember was finding myself in Paris.
Months afterwards I learnt that my friends had searched high and low for me in vain, and had at
last come to the conclusion that my melancholy had induced me to make away with myself”
(Boothby, 1899, p.168). On page 296, after entrancement, Valerie again displays confusion about
time: “I must have been very ill, for though I remember standing in the sitting-room at the hotel,
waiting for you to return from the steamship office, I cannot recall anything else.” (Boothby,
1899, p.296). These gaps in time occur after Valerie is disobedient to Pharos or is manipulated by
him for entrancement purposes, which clearly reveals that these pauses in the narrative are
because of him. After taking the opiate in front of the Great Pyramid, Cyril also describes not
having an awareness of time: “How long I remained asleep I have no idea. All I know is, that
with a suddenness that was almost startling, I found myself awake and standing in a crowded
street” (Boothby, 1899, p.181). While still being intoxicated, Cyril proves unable to grasp time: “
To attempt to make you understand the silence that prevailed would be a waste of time, nor can I
tell you how long it lasted” (Boothby, 1899, p.219). After losing consciousness while recovering
from the opiate, Cyril again has a warped sense of time: “How long I remained in this state, I had
no idea at the time; but when I recovered my senses again, I found myself lying in an Arab tent,
upon a rough bed made up upon the sand” (Boothby, 1899, p.231). These gaps in time are
evidently caused by Pharos, because they all occur while Pharos is manipulating Cyril. Finally,
after Cyril‟s five-day hypnotic trance, Cyril thinks he was only entranced for twenty hours: “It
seemed impossible that so terrible a change should have come over a city in so short a time (I
must remind you here that I still believed that only twenty hours had elapsed since I had had my
fatal interview with Pharos” (Boothby, 1899, p.361-362). This incorrect perception of time is yet
another example of a stretch of time that is misperceived by Cyril because of Pharos‟s magical
powers. Thus, after alterations in states of consciousness, Valerie and Cyril suffer from gaps in
their perception of time; these function as an indicator of stasis catalyzed by Pharos.
Not only do Valerie and Cyril have warped perceptions of time caused by Pharos, but readers of
Pharos, the Egyptian do as well because of abrupt shifts in time between chapters. For example,
after Pharos first renders Cyril unconscious in his studio, the next chapter begins: “When I came
to myself again it was already morning” (Boothby, 1899, p.63). This is jarring for the readers to
experience and a skip of several hours. At the end of Chapter IV, Cyril receives an address by
George Legrath of a man who should know where Pharos is; at the start of Chapter V, Cyril has
already arrived in Naples from London (Boothby, 1899). This skips his entire traveling journey
and fast forwards until he is in a close proximity to information about Pharos. This also occurs at
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the end of Chapter VII, when Cyril agrees to go on the journey to Egypt with Pharos; on the last
page of the chapter, he is walking to his hotel at night, and at the start of Chapter VIII, it is 10pm
the next evening and they are about to leave for their voyage (Boothby, 1899). This is an
unexplained pause in the narrative that lasts an entire day. Additionally, in Chapter IX, the ship is
still free in the ocean; at the start of Chapter X, they are already in Port Said (Boothby, 1899). It
is therefore unclear how much time has passed in between these chapters. Another example of
this lies at the end of Chapter X, which leaves off with Cyril being drugged at the Great Pyramid;
at the start of Chapter XI, he is in bed in the hotel at Cairo (Boothby, 1899). This leaves readers
not knowing how he got home or how the rest of the night panned out. At the end of Chapter XI,
Cyril is sketching the vision he saw; at the start of Chapter XII, it is the seventh day of the voyage
and it is finished (Boothby, 1899). This is a huge gap in time that goes unexplained. Additionally,
at the end of Chapter XIII, Cyril is in an Arab tent; at the start of Chapter XIV, he is standing at
the entrance of the Teyn Kirche in Prague (Boothby, 1899). There is no indication of the
traveling that occurred between these pages. Lastly, at the end of Chapter XVI, it is 9pm and
Pharos receives a note regarding how to get back to England; at the start of Chapter XVII, the sun
has risen and Cyril is commenting on the looks of Margrave of Brandenburg (Boothby, 1899).
This is presumably around a twelve-hour pause in narrative that readers never get insight about.
Thus, through the manuscript, readers are forced to experience pauses in the narrative as well.
5. CONCLUSIONS
Ultimately, it is clear that, in Pharos, the Egyptian, Egypt is depicted as a place of stasis in
relation to the imperial quick time of England. Boothby ultimately appropriates this existing idea,
which is best demonstrated in Antony and Cleopatra as a historical phenomenon. This historical
understanding of Egypt as a place of stasis is also later reinforced by Postcolonial theory, which
demonstrates stereotypical Western ideas about the Egyptian identity as archaic and
technologically-stalled; this perspective is clearly visible in Pharos, the Egyptian. In Pharos, the
Egyptian, Egypt is depicted as eternally ancient through the obsessive usage of ancient Egyptian
symbols by Boothby. Boothby also employs several temporal inconsistencies, including fainting,
entrancement, clairvoyance, and gaps in time, which depict Pharos as a mystical being who
creates stasis. Thus, I ultimately argue that Boothby appropriates the historical understanding of
Egypt as eternally ancient, and adds a mystification of Egyptian identity to it by associating
Egyptian culture with magic. I argue that, to apply these findings, scholars must examine how
Egyptian culture is handled by Western writers in texts from other centuries to see how long this
pattern of depicting Egypt as static has been existence; this will allow academics to fully
understand the fetishization of Egyptian culture and the treatment of Egyptian identities as
mythical in order to not perpetuate these harmful myths when writing future texts about Egypt.
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