What if the oldest surviving royal liturgies were not funerary inscriptions, but fragments of a technology for becoming stellar? Carved for Unas, Pepi, and other kings of Egypt's Fifth and Sixth Dynasties, these utterances preserve traces of an older priestly inheritance. Their archaic grammar, obscure vocabulary, and ritual syntax suggest source collections already ancient to the scribes who copied them. This chapter asks how formulas and hymns turn speech into a sequence of transformative operations. The answer follows the passage from Ka through Ba to Akh, towards a galactic horizon governed by Neteru.
