May 1 2003 e.v. Issue #5 Grey Lodge Occult Review™ Gems from the Archives Selections from the archived Web-Material C O N T E N T S Mummeries of Resurrection The Cycle of Osiris in Finnegans Wake by Mark L. Troy The Man Who Invented Flying Saucers by John A. Keel SF, Occult Sciences, and Nazi Myths by Manfred Nagl Exegesis excerpts 1974-1982 "The Ten Major Principles of the Gnostic Revelation" by Philip K. Dick I Understand Philip K. Dick by Terence Mckenna Dr. Green and the Goblins of Langley by Jim Schnabel Brother Dave Morehouse D:.I:.A:. Remote Viewer & NDE Experiencer Excerpt from: Psychic Warrior by David Morehouse The Oberg Files by Blue Resonant Human, Ph.D. (Agent BlueBird) EXIT Communication to all Brethren (Information) from Robert De Grimston The Process - Church of the Final Judgement The Gitanjali or `song offerings' by Rabindranath Tagore with an introduction by William B. Yeats Rosa Alchemica by William B. Yeats (Note: PDF) John Dee by Charlotte Fell-Smith (Note: PDF) Serapis A Romance by Georg Ebers (Note: PDF) Home GLORidx Close Window Except where otherwise noted, Grey Lodge Occult Review™ is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Grey Lodge Occult Review™ 2003 e.v. - Issue #5 Mummeries of Resurrection The Cycle of Osiris in Finnegans Wake Mark L. Troy Uppsala 1976 Doctoral dissertation at the University of Uppsala 1976 HTML version prepared by Eric Rosenbloom Kirby Mountain Composition & Graphics 2002 Note: Page numbers from the printed text have been retained in the table of contents to use as approximate guides for the references in the bibliographies, line index, and elsewhere. Also note: Section heads are linked back to the table of contents, illustrations are linked back to the illustrations list, and each footnote is linked back to its link in the text. And please note: The electronic text was obtained by scanning the printed pages, and the subsequent character recognition process introduced several "typos". The text has undergone some correction in the preparation of this HTML version, but many errors remain. Contents Illustrations — 7 Abbreviations and Conventions Adopted — 9 Acknowledgements — 11 Preface — 13 Introduction — 18 The Cycle of Osiris: A Summary — 23 Part I: The Passion of Osiris 1. Osiris — 27 The Coffin of Osiris: treachery and death by water (27); The Erica or Heather (31); Death by Rending (32); Osiris, Mummified and Roused (32); The Pillar of Osiris (34); Trial of Osiris (35); Osiris, First of the Westerners (37); Transcriptions and Etymologies of the Name Osiris (38). 2. Isis — 42 The Quest of Isis (42); Isis and Nephthys, Les Pleureuses (44); Isis Reconstituting Osiris (47); Isis and Horus, Mother and Child (48). 3. Horus — 49 Horus the Avenger of His Father (49); Cycling Horus (49). 4. Set — 51 Hostile Set in a Continuum (51). 5. Thoth — 55 Thoth, toth, and the Power of Creation (55). Part II: Mummeries of Resurrection 1. Interment — 61 The Tomb (61); Funerary Charms (64); Mummification (67); The Four Genii (67); Grain Osiris (68); The Soul or Spirit Released (70). 2. Ritual Revival — 72 The Book of the Dead (72); Opening of the Mouth (74); The Hall of Truth (77). 3. The Path into Day — 80 Coming Forth into Light (80); Images of Ascending (80); The Bark of the Sun (84); The Otherworld (86). Conclusion — 88 Bibliography I — 90 Bibliography II — 93 Line Index — 97 Illustrations Figure I. Osiris, First of the Westerners — Frontispiece From E. A. Wallis Budge, The Book of the Dead. Facsimiles of the of Hunefer, Anhai, Kerasher and Netchemet, London (1899), ch. cxxv, vignette 5. (This vignette is also the model for the line drawing in Budge, BD, p. 36.) Figure II. "Only a fadograph of a yestern scene" (7.15) — 33 From A. Moret, Rois et Dieux D'Egypte. Paris (1911), p. 88 Figure III. The Serpent Sata — 53 From Albert Champdor, Le Livre des Marts, Editions Albin Michel, 22, rue Huygens, 75014 Paris, 1963. Reproduced here with permission of the publishers. (This vignette, from the Papyrus of Nu, is also the model for the line drawing in Budge, BD, p. 277) Figure IV. "The cropse of our seedfather" (55.08) — 69 From Moret, Rois et Dieux D'Egypte, Paris (1911), p. 104. Abbreviations and Conventions Adopted Referring to Finnegans Wake in the text and notes I have used the customary abbreviation FW. Page/line references indicate the line on which quotations begin, and are given as follows: 387.12 (page 387 line 12). The text used is the fourth edition, London (1975). Editions of the other texts of Joyce used are as follows: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York (1964). Ulysses, New York (1964). The Critical Writings of James Joyce, ed. Ellsworth Mason and Richard Ellmann, New York (1964). Letters of James Joyce. I, ed. S. Gilbert, New York (1967). Critical sources which are frequently cited will be acknowledged in the body of the text. The following abbreviations are used: AWN: A Wake Newslitter. ed. Clive Hart and Fritz Senn. Books: James S. Atherton, The Books at the Wake. expanded and corrected edition, Mamaroneck New York (1974). Skeleton Key: Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson, A Skeleton Key To Finnegans Wake. London (1947). Ellmann: Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, New York (1965). Givens: Seon Givens, James Joyce: Two Decades of Criticism, augmented edition, New York (1963). Second Census: Adaline Glasheen, A Second Census of Finnegans Wake, Evanston (1963). Frequently cited Egyptological sources will be acknowledged in the body of the text, while the following abbreviations being used (if two dates are given, the first is of an edition which would have been available at the time Joyce was writing; the second is the edition used in the dissertation). Boylan: Patrick Boylan, Thoth: the Hermes of Egypt. London (1922). DRT: James Henry Breasted, Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt. New York (1912, 1959). EB: Encyclopaedia Britannica, eleventh ed., Cambridge (1910–1911). It is generally acknowledged that Joyce made great use of this edition. Osiris: Sir E.A. Wallis Budge, Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection, London (1891). BD: Budge, The Book of the Dead, London (1899, 1974). This is the three-volume Kegan Paul edition which Joyce is known to have possessed and studied (see below, p 21). Gods: Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians, London (1904). Facsimiles of Papyri: Budge, Facsimiles of Egyptian Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum. London (1910). Dictionary: Budge, An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary. London (1920). Mummy: Budge, The Mummy, second ed., revised and expanded, London (1925). Müller, Myths: W. Max Müller, Egyptian, The Mythology of All Races, XII, Boston (1918). Since Mrs. Glasheen's use of Vol. V in this series, Semitic, in AWN, no.15 (August 1963). 3, it has generally been acknowledged that Joyce made use of The Mythology of All Races. Renouf, Life Work: Sir Peter Le Page Renouf, The Life Work of Sir Peter Le Page Renouf; ed. E. Naville, Paris (1907). Wilkinson: Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, rev. Samuel Birch, London (1878). Wilson: John A. Wilson, Signs & Wonders Upon Pharaoh, Chicago (1964). For full bibliographical information on these and all other works cited in the dissertation, see Bibliography. The Bibliography is divided into two sections. The first includes information on the editions of Joyce's texts used, and those critical books and articles dealing with Joyce's work that are referred to in the dissertation. The second includes Egyptological sources and references to the pages in the dissertation where the works are cited. Acknowledgements I take great pleasure in expressing my appreciation to those who have aided me during the course of this study. I have had the privilege of having Docent Birgit Bramsback as my faculty advisor. Dr. Bramsback's keen observations and criticism have provided a stimulating intellectual challenge during the years I have spent in research. I especially wish to thank Professor Gunnar Sorelius and also Docent S.J. Spanberg, who read the dissertation in manuscript and suggested valuable improvements. I am also grateful to my fellow students, participants in Professor Sorelius' seminars, who have given much helpful advice. I have been fortunate in having Dr. W. Lansburgh to lend his expert advice in typographical matters. Grateful thanks are extended to Mr. Mongi Raddadi, who assisted with the reading of proof. My interest in Joyce dates from the time of my graduate studies at California State University at San Francisco. There I was fortunate enough to have Professor R.E. Gajdusek as one of my instructors. It was because of his inspiring teaching that I was able to gain sufficient knowledge of Joyce to continue my studies after a lapse of a few years. Professor J. Wilson also aided me in my early research, as did Professor M. Gregory, whose wise advice has made it possible for me to dispose of the dead hippopotamus, or to be engaged in the attempt. After I had completed several years' research, and determined the basic form of my thesis, I contacted several Joyceans whose published work I particularly admire. One of these was Adaline Glasheen, of Fairington, Connecticut, with whom I have since corresponded regularly. Mrs. Glasheen has provided many interesting bits of information about FW, and useful advice. Mr. James Atherton of Wigan, Lancashire, has proven to be not only a very perceptive reader of Joyce, but also unselfish and generous. He has read through several drafts of my prepared research and offered much criticism aimed at making my meanings clearer. To the extent that his attempt may have failed, the responsibility is my own.