The Egyptian Revolt is the gesta of the Heliakos, in which the rebels of the Black Land rose against Rome’s collaborators at the dawn of 20 July 139 AD, when Sirius rose in harmony with the first day of the month of Thoth — a conjunction that occurs once every 1,460 years.
| Type | Gesta (rebellion) |
| Date | 20 July 139 AD |
| Place | Egypt |
| Spanish entry | Egipciana Revolt |
Background
The rebels are the best warriors, mages and priests, “perhaps also good thieves”. The grievance goes back to Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, Mark Antony, Augustus and the last queen’s suicide; since then the temples have suffered without offerings and greedy overseers have taken the grain and gold.
The coin and the threshold
The gesta opens with an initiation rite: a coin under the tongue — the Coin of Aion, with a phoenix on the reverse, minted in the second year of Antoninus Pius’s consulship. Biting it, breaking it and breathing its bitter-almond gas means crossing over and joining the “we”.
The vision then reaches the future: the Nile pouring into a Roman sea, the Mediterranean, and, beyond the ocean, a reader in a silver estuary who bit an imaginary coin and succumbed to cyanide — seen by the rebels eighteen centuries before reading them.
Geography
- Quamar, the Mountains of the Moon, source of the Nile: dazzling white mountains where the silver stars — and the rebels’ weapons — are forged.
- The river is the world’s axis: fertility in its valley and delta, red deserts with jackals at its edges.
- Beyond the Pillars of Hercules, nec plus ultra, only the Atlanteans of whom the priests of Sais spoke to “a certain Plato” (Atlantis).
See also
- Alexandria — the Nile branch of sages and rebels
- Paulus of Alexandria