The Edfu Texts
Archaeology at Edfu reveals that this site was built to be a huge and extensive library, written in the form of hieroglyphs, or sacred scripts, carved on the temple walls. Even more interesting is the fact that when the texts began to be translated, it became apparent that this temple stands on the location of an even older temple that dates back to a forgotten time known as the
Zep Tepi , or ‘First Time,’ which happened thousands of years before the first pharaohs.
Seven Sages, the texts reveal, appeared in ancient Egypt, sailing from somewhere called the ‘Homeland of the Primeval Ones’, which was a sacred island in the midst of the western ocean. The island was destroyed in a great cataclysm in which ‘