"To understand Egypt we have to begin to understand the mythopoetic outlook, a totally different way of perceiving reality, and dispense with our evolutionary bias. Whereas most Westerners are used to the idea of revelations from a single God transmitting one central truth, the ancients ‘admitted side by side certain limited insights, which were held to be simultaneously valid, each in its own proper context.’ There was no single truth, no central dogma, no single coherent theory to explain reality, no one holy book… The universe is alive with multiple forces. The question of their ‘unity’ does not arise. There are many gods and they are immanent in nature."