once pristine:
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| the stelae, which for the egyptians was a false door on a tomb, symbolically allowing the soul to fly through, the stele had become a monument to the dead in the memory of the living and was not endowed with 'the religious or magic properties that invested the sepulchral art of most other civilizations' —Honour. the magic false door that allowed the soul to fly through became but a tombstone. the magic was gone, the magic went underground | |
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