How many left ears do you have?
Or how many ears do you have left ?
I have a scene tattooed on my back from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, copied from a 2,300 year-old papyrus in the British museum which I have loved since I was a kid.
It is the scene in which the heart of the deceased is weighed against a feather, and depicts the moment of truth, as jackal-headed Anubis places the heart on the scales, and checks the precision of the balance, to see whether it is a good heart - lighter than a feather - or a bad heart - weighed down by evil.
The monster Ammit waits to devour it if it's a bad heart, & the ibis-headed scribe-god Thoth waits to write down the result in his Book of Truth.
More tattooing to follow in episode 2 - the Eye of Horus.