Mathew Clark: The Obsidian Knife
by Eduardo Grecco
Master Nemer Ibn Ramses taught an interesting story about a book supposedly written by Imhotep that Ramses II had burned. The master mentions that these men did amazing things in Egypt. Besides being the architect who built the first step pyramids in Egypt in Saqqarah he was a great medical doctor and alchemist. He has a specific technique to perform any kind of surgical procedure; word has it that heart transplants were performed.
Some time ago a document written in Coptic was found in the city of Alexandria. It was the copy if an even more ancient papyrus that narrated the surgical procedure performed on a Pharaoh’s guard that was injured by a spear in the heart. He was healed by Imhotep who performed a heart transplant that saved the guard’s life. My friend Mathew Clark once told me that master Nemer (this comes from mouth to mouth tradition) narrated that upon the image of Imhotep, the Greeks based the one of Asclepius, father of medicine.
This thought is extremely interesting by itself, and even more so if we add the idea that the knife with which these procedures were performed was carved in Obsidian.