Sacred Egypt Retreats

Sacred Egypt

Every temple in Egypt was built around a story.

Long before the guidebooks, the land was a living scripture: a sky goddess arched over the earth, a sun god sailing through the night, a mother searching the river for her beloved, a lioness whose rage turned to love. These are the myths the ancient Egyptians carved into stone, and the stories that still stir something in us when we stand in their sacred places.

Here you will find them retold: the great sites of Egypt and the deities who dwelt there, each woven back to the inner journeys of our retreats, the Great Work of alchemy and the Hieros Gamos, the sacred union within. Myth is shared as myth, history as Egyptology, and esoteric teaching as teaching. What you feel as you read is yours alone.

The pyramids of Giza beneath golden sunset clouds
The Mound of First Time: The Story of the Giza PlateauThe mythic story of the Giza Plateau and Great Pyramid: the primeval mound, the Benben stone, Khufu's quest for Thoth's…
Khufu and Khafre pyramids at sunset seen from a Giza terrace
The Prince Who Slept in the Sphinx's ShadowThe story of the Great Sphinx: Thutmose IV's dream, Horemakhet the Horizon god, the guardian of the threshold, and what…
The Red Pyramid rising from the open desert at Dahshur
Ptah, the Benu Bird and the City of the Sun: Memphis and HeliopolisThe creation myths of Memphis and Heliopolis: Ptah who spoke the world into being, the Benu bird, Senusret I's obelisk a…
Stone stairway climbing to the entrance of the Red Pyramid, Dahshur
Imhotep and the Stairway to Heaven: The Story of SaqqaraThe story of Saqqara: Imhotep, the architect who became a god of healing, Djoser's Step Pyramid as a stairway to the sta…
Lamplit papyrus columns inside a rock-cut tomb at Amarna
Amun the Hidden One and the Queen Who Raised the Sky: The Story of KarnakThe story of Karnak: Amun, the hidden god, and Hatshepsut's obelisks reaching for the sky, and what the hidden and the r…
Desert formations silhouetted at twilight with footprints in the sand
The Beautiful Feast of Opet: The Story of Luxor TempleThe story of Luxor Temple and the Beautiful Feast of Opet: Amun's journey from Karnak, the renewal of the royal ka, and…
Desert formations silhouetted at twilight with footprints in the sand
She Who Loves Silence: The Story of the Valley of the KingsThe story of the Valley of the Kings: the cobra goddess Meretseger who loves silence, the peak above the tombs and the n…
Woman meditating by candlelight inside a desert crystal cave
The Golden One's Voyage: Hathor of DenderaThe story of Hathor of Dendera and her yearly voyage to Edfu for the Beautiful Meeting with Horus, a festival of sacred…
Ancient carved relief in the Tomb of Panehsy at Amarna
Raising the Djed: The Story of AbydosThe story of Abydos: the Mysteries of Osiris, the raising of the Djed pillar, Osiris's backbone and the stability of the…
The Great Pyramid of Giza at dusk
The Contendings of Horus and Set: The Story of EdfuThe story of Edfu and the Contendings of Horus and Set: the long trial for Egypt's throne, the wounded eye, Hathor's hea…
Kristina Mills smiling in the White Desert at sunset
Sobek's Net: The Story of Kom OmboThe story of Kom Ombo, the double temple of Sobek and Horus the Elder: the crocodile god who netted Horus's lost hands,…
Desert formations silhouetted at twilight with footprints in the sand
Isis and the Secret Name of Ra: The Story of PhilaeThe story of Isis and the secret name of Ra, the myth of how the great goddess of Philae won her magic, and what it teac…
Amarna tomb relief of the Aten sun disc sending rays over the royal chariot
The Horizon of the Aten: Akhenaten, Nefertiti and the City of LightThe story of Amarna, the city Akhenaten and Nefertiti built for the Aten: a royal couple, a vision of unity, a city that…
Vast golden sand stretching to the horizon in Egypt's Western Desert
The Mountain of Meeting: Mount Sinai and St CatherineThe story of Mount Sinai and St Catherine's Monastery: the burning bush, the ascent in darkness, the sunrise summit, and…
Woman meditating by candlelight inside a desert crystal cave
The Night Voyage: Ra's Journey Through the DuatThe story of Ra's night voyage through the Duat: twelve hours of darkness, the serpent Apep, union with Osiris and rebir…
Desert formations silhouetted at twilight with footprints in the sand
The Sky Who Loved the Earth: The Story of Nut and GebThe story of Nut and Geb, sky and earth: lovers separated by Shu, the five days won from the moon, the birth of Osiris a…
Iconic white chalk rock sculpted by wind under a dramatic sky
The Lioness and the Red Beer: The Story of SekhmetThe myth of Sekhmet, the lioness Eye of Ra, the destruction of humankind and the red beer that turned rage into love, an…
Ancient carved relief in the Tomb of Panehsy at Amarna
The Feather and the Heart: The Story of Ma'atThe story of Ma'at, the feather of truth and the weighing of the heart in the Hall of Two Truths: the ancient Egyptian j…
Minarets of the Sultan Hassan and Al-Rifa'i mosques against a blue Cairo sky
The City of a Thousand Minarets: Sultan Hassan and Al-Rifa'iThe mystical story of Islamic Cairo: Sultan Hassan and Al-Rifa'i mosques, sacred geometry climbing toward heaven, and th…
Pierced brass lanterns glowing at a stall in Khan el-Khalili bazaar
Khan el-Khalili: The Bazaar of the AlchemistsKhan el-Khalili, Cairo's ancient bazaar, retold as a mystical story: brass lanterns, perfume, Kemet's alchemy and permis…
Date palms where the green Nile valley meets the desert in Middle Egypt
The River That Flows North: The Nile as a Sacred JourneyThe Nile as an initiatory path: Hapi's flood, the east and west banks of life and death, and how sailing slowly north mi…
Ancient carved relief in the Tomb of Panehsy at Amarna
The Woman Who Became King: Hatshepsut and the Holy of HoliesHatshepsut, the woman who became pharaoh: her terraced temple at Deir el-Bahri, her divine birth from Amun and the Hiero…
Desert formations silhouetted at twilight with footprints in the sand
Rising With Ra: A Balloon at Dawn Over the Valley of the KingsA hot-air balloon at dawn over the Valley of the Kings: Ra's rebirth from the Duat, the view from above and the golden c…
Green fields and a date palm in the Nile valley of Middle Egypt
Where the River Is Born: Aswan, Khnum and the Sacred SourceAswan's sacred story: Khnum's cavern of the flood on Elephantine, the Nilometer, Isis at Philae, and a return to source…
The four colossal statues of Ramesses II on the facade of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel
The Sun Walks Into the Mountain: Ramesses, Nefertari and Abu SimbelAbu Simbel's sacred story: the twice-yearly sunrise into the sanctuary, Ramesses II and Nefertari's temple of Hathor, an…
Turquoise reef waters and limestone coast at Ras Muhammad National Park near Sharm el-Sheikh
The Land of Turquoise: Sharm el-Sheikh, Gateway to the Holy MountainSharm el-Sheikh as the gateway to Sinai: Hathor, Lady of Turquoise, the purifying Red Sea, and preparation for the holy…
Date palms where the green Nile valley meets the desert in Middle Egypt
The Colours of Joy: A Nubian Village on the Sacred NileA Nubian village south of Aswan: painted houses, the Land of Gold, Nubian pharaohs, and the Hieros Gamos lived as a sacr…

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Photo credits

Photo: Coral reef in Ras Muhammad nature park by ssr, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Abu Simbel, façade of the Great Temple by Arian Zwegers, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons