EGYPT DEMONS: An author wrestles the demons on an ancient Egypt obsession

EGYPT DEMONS…
Seeing ancient Egypt in everyday things

It’s more than a case of Egyptomania.
I see the world through a lens of ancient Egypt.
There's a psychological phenomenon called pareidolia - where you see patterns such as faces and images in everyday objects.
People with pareidolia give meaningful characteristics to random things such as cracks in a pavement, clouds in the sky, coals in the fireplace, you name it.
Perhaps it's my close affinity with ancient Egypt, as an author of a considerable library of ancient Egypt-driven fiction, but I am constantly 'seeing' ancient Egypt in the everyday.
A striking example…