Zohra Opoku : I Have Arisen...

8 April - 14 May 2022 Chicago

Zohra Opoku, ‘(O you) whose natures are secret, do not turn me back. Those (of you) who are on their bellies, do not let the eye swallow its tears. (O) silent one, open for me what is sealed. Give a good path to me (so that) I may pass.’, 2020-22
Zohra Opoku, ‘Hail to you, lords of truth, free from wrongdoing, who exist forever and forever. I have reached you because I am an akh with my forms. I am powerful through my magic’, 2020
Zohra Opoku, ‘Horus is the one who rescues (and) who impedes. Horus is his father. Horus is (his) mother. Horus is this [brother]. Horus is this friend. Horus came from the seed of his father when he was decaying. He rules Egypt (and) the gods serve him. Nursing milli, 2021
Zohra Opoku, ‘I am Great of Magic, with the knife that came forth from Seth. My feet belong to me forever. I am present in glory and I am mighty through this Eye that raised up my heart after weariness. One transfigured in heaven, mighty on earth, I have flown as a fa, 2020-22
Zohra Opoku, ‘I am made strong, I rejuvenate myself. I am raised higher than those who are in the sunshine, the akhs who came into being with him. I appear in the glory as a divine falcon.’, 2020-22
Zohra Opoku, ‘I have my mouth to speak, my legs to proceed, my arms to make my enemies fall. The two entrances in the earth are opened for me. Geb the prince of the gods, has opened his jaws for me (and) my eyes which were blocked.; he stretches out my legs which were, 2022
Zohra Opoku, ‘I have opened the doors of truth. I have passed the waters of heaven. I have raised up a ladder to heaven among the gods. I am one who is with you. I have spoken as a semen-goose, (and) the gods hear my voice.’, 2022
Zohra Opoku, ‘Re, cry out, let your heart be pleased by your beautiful truth of this day. Enter from the under-sky, go forth from the East, (you) whom the elders and the ancestors worship. Make your paths pleasant for me, broaden your roads for me (so that) I may cros, 2020
Zohra Opoku, ‘To me belongs yesterday which is pregnant with tomorrow. Its births will rise on another occasion of his. (I am) the one whose ba is secret, who made the gods, who gives offerings to the protector of the west (side) of the sky, the steering rudder of the, 2020
Zohra Opoku, ‘I pass by the house of the king. It is the cicada who brings me. O (you) who fly to heaven, who illuminates the son of the White Crown and who guards the White Crown. [I] shall be with you, joining the Great God. Make a path for me (so that) I may pass o, 2020-22

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