important writings
The courts often consider the existence of important writings in determining if a religion is legally valid.
legal standards
“5. b. Important Writings: Most religions embrace seminal, elemental, fundamental, or sacred writings. These writing often include creeds, tenets, precepts, parables, commandments, prayers, scriptures, catechisms, chants, rites, or mantras.” —United States of America v David Meyers
“a literature of its own,” —IRS definition of a church
writings
Kemetic or ancient Egyptian religion
The ancient Egyptian religion is deeply embedded in Western culture, as well as African, European, Asian, Chinese, and Indian culture. The religion is deeply embedded into the English language itself.
Ancient Egyptian religious writings are the oldest known writing in the entire world. The oldest discovered written character is the ankh, which appears on cliff paintings and cliff carvings that are more than 12,000 years old. With the same meaning as the word ankh still has today.
The Book of the Coming Forth Into the Day (better known as the Egyptian Book of the Dead) provides the most complete description of the afterlife and the path to the afterlife of any religion in the entire world.
Many alphabets are derived from ancient Egyptian writing, including the Roman alphabet, Greek alphabet, Germanic runes, and Arabic alphabet.
The oldest known fiction writing was the story of Cinderella, originally a story about an ancient Egyptian princess.
The Great Library at Alexandria was a temple of Pr Ntr Kmt, headed by a High Priestess of Aset (Isis) or High Priest of Ptah.
Ntr Sentra poem
Mau Bast! Mau Bast!
A Basti, per em setat,
erta-na chu em asui
neter sentra semu hena net'emmit,
hetep ab em asui tau heqt.
Translation:
Hail Bast! Hail Bast!
Hail Bast, coming forth from the secret place,
may there be given to me splendor in the place
of incense (cannabis smoke), herbs, and love-joys,
peace of heart in the place of bread and beer.
scribes
The following passages are from the Middle Kingdom compilation Satire of the Trades, also called The Instruction of Dua-Kheti, written by Tjaru (also called Duau Khety) for his son Pepy sometime between 1950-1900 B.C.E. in early Dynasty 12. This work extolled the virtues of being a scribe and put down other occupations, especially manual labor, with biting satire. The book was used throughout the New Kingdom to train scribes, who copied the pages to learn to write.
“I have seen many beatings …
Set your heart on books!
I watched those recruited for labor —
There’s nothing better than books!
It’s like a boat on the water.
Read the end of the Kemit Book,
You’ll find this saying there:
‘A scribe at whatever post in town,
He will not suffer in it;
As he fills another’s need,
he will not lack rewards’.”“They gave themselves the scroll as lector-priest,
The writing-board as loving son.
Instructions are their tombs,
The reed pen is their child,
The stone surface their wife.
People great and small
Are given them as children,
For the scribe, he is their leader.”
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