{"product_id":"hours-a-theology-of-day-and-night-the-egyptian-passage-a-theology-of-day-and-night-vol-i-9798996344307","title":"Hours: A Theology of Day and Night - The Egyptian Passage: A Theology of Day and Night - Vol. I","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kristi Hall\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Grist Theology\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Grist Theology\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Theology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHours\u003c\/i\u003e is a theology of the daily passage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA day is not a unit of measurement. It is a complete cosmological cycle, structured by death and return, inhabited and mapped by the traditions that looked at it most carefully. Every night, something descends and is reconstituted. Every morning, something emerges that is not what entered the dark. This happens whether the practitioner participates consciously or not - but how it is met changes what is carried through.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVolume I of \u003ci\u003eHours\u003c\/i\u003e establishes the foundational claim and follows it into the Egyptian frame: the twelve Hours of the Duat, the territory the night actually crosses, the figures who do the work of the passage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book moves from cosmology into practice. The first eight chapters establish what a day actually is - across the Egyptian, Greek, Celtic, and modern frames, with the threshold rites of dusk and dawn, the living hours, and the practice of conscious passage. The four chapters that follow open the Egyptian frame more fully, locating the practitioner inside the image: the Night Barque \u003ci\u003eMesektet\u003c\/i\u003e, its crew, its defenders, and the practitioner's position within the passage. The final twelve chapters move through the Hours of the Duat themselves, hour by hour, from the western mountain at dusk to the eastern horizon at dawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach chapter pairs theological precision with a meditation for the hour - making \u003ci\u003eHours\u003c\/i\u003e both a reference and a working text. The book is meant to be read in order; the deeper material does not land without the foundation the earlier chapters lay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHours\u003c\/i\u003e is being written as a four-volume work. Volumes II, III, and IV - \u003ci\u003eNyx's Household\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Otherworld\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHelios\u003c\/i\u003e - are forthcoming, taking up the Greek night-deities, the Celtic festival cycle and otherworld, and the solar arc of the living hours, each in the same depth. Each volume stands on its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor practitioners who treat the divine as real and the cosmological structure as actually operating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA day is a passage. You are already inside one. The only question is whether you cross it awake.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grist Theology","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47890525946007,"sku":"9798996344307","price":2313.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798996344307.webp?v=1781180384","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/hours-a-theology-of-day-and-night-the-egyptian-passage-a-theology-of-day-and-night-vol-i-9798996344307","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}