BOOKS BY NORMANDI ELLIS

AWAKENING OSIRIS

The Egyptian Book of the Dead is one of the oldest and greatest classics of Western spirituality. Until now, the available translations have treated these writings as historical curiosities with little relevance to our contemporary situation. This new version, made from the hieroglyphs, approaches the Book of the Dead as a profound spiritual text capable of speaking to us today. These writings suggest that the divine realm and the human realm are not altogether separate; they remind us that the natural world, and the substance of our lives, is fashioned from the stuff of the gods. Devoted like an Egyptian scribe to the principle of "effective utterance," Normandi Ellis has produced a prose translation that reads like pure, diaphanous verse.

"Intensely poetic, this is a rapturous work... The text can be seen as an oracle book, as a book of divination."

—American Book Review

"Anyone reading this work cannot help but be moved by it. It comes as close to an appreciation of the themes of the soul's journey portrayed in the Egyptian Book of the Dead as any modern interpretation has, and with a poetry unmatched anywhere in the literature thus far."

—KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt

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DREAMS OF ISIS

Normandi Ellis weaves a tapestry of the personal past and the spiritual eternal in this experiential journey into the esoteric traditions of ancient Egypt.

Drawing from her travels in modern-day Egypt, her lifelong studies, highly trained intuition, and deep spiritual perspective, Ellis breathes life and immediacy into the drama of Egyptian sacred ritual and the secrets of initiation. As she explores the ancient temples and myths, she recounts her own life passages, spiritual longing, and renewal through the restorative powers of the Goddess Isis.

Dreams of Isis is a story of deep transformational process informed by Egyptian tradition, a moving account of a woman's sojourn through the intertwining paths of life experience and ancient history. In the process of her remembering, she breathes new life and meaning into the old business of living—and dying—well.

Praise for Dreams of Isis

"...Ellis provides an eloquent text that explores the geography, myth, and ritual of Egypt. Not only does Ellis know the legends and rituals and articulates them well, she also reveals herself to be a master weaver, effortlessly threading each topic back through to her beloved tapestry of Egypt."

—Parabola

"...Normandi Ellis is a writer, a poet, a scholar, a dreamer...she offers us bread baked in the womb of Isis so it can nurture us."

—Gnosis

"So often another's spiritual journey is just that—another's. Not so with this one, so beautifully written by Normandi Ellis... Her writing is so strong it pierces through the paper and lands squarely on the truths we've faced, or know we must."

—Clarissa Pinkola Estés, author of Women Who Run with the Wolves
and The Gift of Story

"...one woman's journey that looks beneath the surface of daily life and weaves together contemporary autobiography with the wisdom of ancient myth. Filled with the type of insight that can only be earned through the alchemy of personal experience, Dreams of Isis describes the journey that we all must make, each in our own way."

—David Fideler, author of Jesus Christ, Sun of God

"Contained throughout are plenty of wise words for anyone on the path to self-knowledge: "Keep quiet and store your energy...the desires of the heart manifest more potently when we maintain our silence and continue our meditation.' A powerfully lyrical antidote to today's 'Just Do It' culture, Dreams will enchant and transform."

—Napra ReView

FEASTS OF LIGHT

Normandi Ellis brings her rich understanding of Egypt's sacred past to the first book to recover from original sources the history, myths, and pageantry of ancient festivals to Isis, Hathor, Sothis, Ma'at, and other Egyptian goddesses. Full of stories, folk history, vivid recreations of Egyptian goddess mysteries, and contemporary meditations, rituals, and celebrations today's women can use to mark life's seasons and passages, Feasts of Light will delight lovers of ancient Egypt and of the Goddess in her many guises.

From the Author's Prologue

There is no event manifest in heaven or in earth in which some myth is not also manifest and in which some spiritual principle is not activated. If you exist at all, you exist within the realm of the divine.

It is important to make your own connections to the Goddess in your own way. Then she will nourish you. Then she will become alive in you. Then she will take up residence in your heart and in your own world. In building your own relationship to the Goddess through her myths and festivals, you will find your life reflected in hers. Listen to the stories that seem to speak directly to your heart. The important thing to remember is that all the neters (Gods and Goddesses alike) are aspects of the Great Divine Light. They are the brilliant multiform petals of a single lotus.

Praise for Feasts of Light

"At once, Feasts of Light is an informed history of ancient Egypt and an engaging telling of its stories. With the same wonder that all of nature—the bluebonnets, every elm tree leaf, a raindrop—stirred in her as a child, Normandi Ellis unlocks the mysteries of the Egyptian calendar and its festivals and leading characters, bringing them fully to life. She brings forth the spiritual richness and lessons to be learned, and offers prescriptive suggestion to bring these rituals to life, in and for one's own life."

—Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., author of Women Who Run with the Wolves, The Gift of Story, and The Faithful Gardener

"One of the finest writers of our time guides us into the Mysteries of an ancient time. Using words as wands, she evokes the myths and their magic, bringing us festivals that recharge our minds as they renew our hearts. The goddesses of Egypt, wherever and whoever they are, are rejoicing in this potent book."

—Jean Houston, Ph.D., author of the Passion of Isis and Osiris, A Mythic Life, A Passion for the Possible, Life Force, and other books

"Real life in ancient Egypt itself must have been something like this: pulsating with life, profoundly sensual, yet focused on the gods; ecstatic, ceremonial, and yet based upon the rigors of a sacred science and the wisdom of a sophisticated metaphysical philosophy."

—John Anthony West, author of Serpent in the Sky and The Traveler's Key to Ancient Egypt

"Normandi Ellis always seems as native to ancient Egypt as a fish is at home in the sea or a bird is at one with the sky. She offers a feast of those God and Goddess intoxicated festivals which empowered a marvelous civilization, whose powers still reach out to enrich and enchant our world"

—Robert Masters, Ph.D., author of The Goddess Sekhmet and Neurospeak

"Brings the ancient myths and festivals to life so we can participate directly, honor our deepest memories, and transform our present in synchronous rhythm with the eternal cycles of the goddess."

—Nicki Scully, author of The Golden Cauldron and Shamanic Journeys on the Path of Wisdom

"Beautifully written. Retrieves the Goddess Festivals of Light from a wondrous past and invites readers to adopt these in their own hearts. Feasts of Light is the work of a poet."

—Bika Reed, author of Rebel in the Soul and Field of Transformations