Sunday, August 10, 2008

THE FINDING OF THE AMENHOKIT SCROLLS

7,000 YEAR OLD LEAGUE SHEETS FOUND.
What can only be described as an ancient bowling bag with
shoes(two tone sandals) granite ball and league sheet were uncovered in
a quarry south of the site of the ancient city of Memphis. Preserved
under sand for over 7,000 years the ‘league sheets’ chronicles the ideals
of AMENHOKIT, described as the Egyptian God of balls or bowling.
The bag contained the Egyptian symbol of mastery.

A press conference ensued:

How did the master ‘grip’ the ball?

Did they hook the ball?

Did they have sponsors and were their names of their shirts?

Did they wear bowling hairstyles?

Was the bald style of the eunuch to look like their favorite ball?

Were the shoes two toned?

Was the bowler right or left handed?

What was the dimension of the alleys? Were there standards?
(No, It was one of the biggest adjustments the masters had to make. Length of lanes, size of pins, pin cage all varied.)

The pin dimensions were equal in all layouts. The ball was ½”
larger than the space between the pins. The longer lanes were where the
obsidian balls were used.

The balls came from rock quarries. The rarest were made of
obsidian. Pockets or bubbles of gas escaping the granite left fissures
in which lava flowed in and cooling rapidly form the black or smoky
Glass balls.

When the quarries were worked the fissure lines became fault lines opening and exposing the obsidian. Craftsman shaped the glass balls for use on quarry lanes where friction was greatest. These balls had great length on the lanes whereas the granite unpolished balls
over reacted on the rough quarry surface where friction was premium.

The lanes of Memphis, used olive and almond oils to ease the
friction smoothing and speeding the lanes were the favorite of the
rougher granite balls.

Caravans were commissioned to go and search for the heartwood
of the Ebony tree. They traveled as far as Siam. Woodsmen shaped the
pins from the trunk and limbs. The wood was hard and heavy and
finished with gold gilt.

Pharaoh chose the players. All Egyptians were given there
position, as Pharaoh gave lives to them. Scribes, priests, carpenters,
musicians, physicans, astrologers, masons, cooks, poets, warriors all
were guided by their talents into the apprenticeship of pharaohs choice.

Those chosen to be bowlers were initiated into the rites of
imitation, competition and magnetism. They were taught how to learn
and how to teach others to learn.

Each of the crafts, talents and skills were a metaphor for making
their work into love made visible. The masters taught a channeled piece
called innergy. It was imitative, modeling behavior, using ‘image-feel’,
to attain mastery.

Pharaohs system turned those who failed into quarry workers,
builders of pyramids, farmers, eunuchs and donors of body parts. It was a system that gratefully exhorted play, the power of the game, and the importance of relaxing and excelling.

Amenhokit was the God who ran this school. The one who balled. The roller. The striker. The spare one. Who taught the apprentice. Who channeled the lessons. It was he who established the perfect game.

The apprentices worked shaping the pins and the balls. They built the lanes. Then watched with awe as the masters displayed the rhythm, grace, effortlessness, eye and touch achieving the zone of perfection. They became one with the pins.
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