{"id":83226,"date":"2020-02-28T21:51:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T04:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=83226"},"modified":"2020-03-02T23:40:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T06:40:59","slug":"yes-wonderful-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2020\/02\/yes-wonderful-things.html","title":{"rendered":"“Yes, wonderful things.”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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This group is standing in the \u201cbasket\u201d of a hot air balloon that is floating serenely above the pharaonic mortuary temples of Luxor, Egypt. In the center of the photograph is Steve Densley, the executive vice president of the Interpreter Foundation. It is widely rumored that, about ten minutes after the photograph was taken, the ancient mustachioed individual in the photo\u2019s lower left was, as it were, \u201cvoted off the island\u201d and thrown overboard in order to lighten the load.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u201cHow Iran Became a New Epicenter of the Coronavirus Outbreak\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cIranian clerics keep shrines open, even as virus spreads\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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If you go to this link, you can see the various tours to Egypt that Cruise Lady: Latter-day Adventures<\/a> will be sending over during the next few months:<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.cruiselady.com\/tour-destination\/egypt\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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If you look at the bottom of the page, you can watch videotaped testimonials about touring Egypt from Hany Tawfik, Brad Wilcox, and, alas, me. \u00a0Hany Tawfik and I will be among those accompanying the Interpreter Foundation \u201cUltimate Egypt\u201d Tour<\/a> this coming November. \u00a0(Steve Densley, the Interpreter Foundation\u2019s executive vice president who appears in the photo above, will also be coming.)<\/p>\n

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In the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun (KV62) in the Valley of the Kings, opposite Luxor [aka Thebes], Egypt, on the western side of the Nile River.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201c[A]s my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold \u2014 everywhere the glint of gold. For the moment \u2014 an eternity it must have seemed to the others standing by \u2014 I was struck dumb with amazement, and when Lord Carnarvon, unable to stand the suspense any longer, inquired anxiously, \u2018Can you see anything?\u2019 it was all I could do to get out the words, \u2018Yes, wonderful things.\u2019\u201d \u00a0(Howard Carter,\u00a0<\/span>The Tomb of Tutankhamen<\/em> [1923])<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The grave of \u201cHoward Carter, Discoverer of the Tomb of Tutankhamun, 1922,\u201d which is located in Putney Vale Cemetery, London \u00a0\u00a0(Wikimedia Commons public domain photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The epitaph on Howard Carter\u2019s tombstone reads \u201cMay your spirit live, may you spend millions of years, you who love Thebes, sitting with your face to the north wind, your eyes beholding happiness.\u201d \u00a0This is\u00a0a quotation from the so-called \u201cWishing Cup of Tutankhamun.\u201d<\/sup>\u00a0 At the foot of the grave are inscribed the words\u00a0\u201cO night, spread thy wings over me as the imperishable stars,\u201d taken from a\u00a0\u00a0hymn to the sky goddess Nut that is inscribed inside many sarcophagi of the Egyptian New Kingdom.<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n

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