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The Red Pyramid

They picked shapes—obelisks, pyramids—that were charged with symbolic magic.†
Chpt 19

In case you've never seen it: the Needle is an obelisk, not a needle, and it doesn't have anything to do with Cleopatra.†
Chpt 1 *

My dad stared at the top of the obelisk.†
Chpt 1

Look at the Washington Monument—the world's largest Egyptian obelisk.†
Chpt 6

An obelisk.†
Chpt 8

As soon as we turned north, the obelisk loomed above us.†
Chpt 10

We stopped at the obelisk's base.†
Chpt 10

Meanwhile Sadie stood in front of the obelisk with her arms raised, shouting: "Open, you stupid piece of rock!"†
Chpt 10

Carter kept running, dragging me along, but I could see quite clearly what was happening back at the obelisk.†
Chpt 11

Big stone pharaohs stood guard on either side of the entrance, and a single obelisk stood on the left-hand side.†
Chpt 16

Carter nudged me as we passed the obelisk.†
Chpt 16

The other Luxor obelisk is in Paris.†
Chpt 16

Use the obelisk.†
Chpt 16

The obelisk at the entrance, fool!†
Chpt 16

We can't even use an obelisk, much less destroy Set!†
Chpt 16

If you can't operate the obelisk, you'll die.†
Chpt 16

We ran out of the temple and headed for the obelisk.†
Chpt 17

Just as we reached the obelisk, I heard the slish-ing sound of a magic portal.†
Chpt 17

"But I don't know what I'm doing!" she protested, searching the obelisk's base as if she hoped to find a secret switch.†
Chpt 17

You said the other obelisk is in Paris, right?†
Chpt 17

With Sadie occupied at the obelisk, I was on my own.†
Chpt 17

The obelisk glowed with purple light, humming with power.†
Chpt 17

I stretched out my fingers toward the obelisk.†
Chpt 17

With my last bit of strength, I lurched toward the obelisk, every nerve in my body screaming with pain.†
Chpt 17

The Egyptian obelisk rose up lonely and dark in the middle of the square.†
Chpt 18

I activated the obelisk at Luxor.†
Chpt 18

"The biggest obelisk ever constructed," she said.†
Chpt 19

An obelisk represents a sunbeam frozen in stone—a life-giving ray from the original king of the gods, Ra.†
Chpt 19

That's why any obelisk can be used for opening gates to the Duat, or releasing great beings of power—†
Chpt 19

I wasn't actually trapped in the obelisk.†
Chpt 19

My prison was a magically created abyss deep in the Duat, and the obelisk was the door your parents used to release me.†
Chpt 19

So an obelisk can definitely be used to imprison gods.†
Chpt 19

We sat listening to the magic hum of the obelisk.†
Chpt 19

It doesn't seem to like the obelisk," I noticed.†
Chpt 21

The thing you were fighting when our parents released you from the obelisk.†
Chpt 26

The obelisk rumbled, glowing faintly.†
Chpt 35

The only thing standing was the obelisk, and as I watched, it began to crack open, all four sides peeling away like some ghastly flower unfolding.†
Chpt 35

My dad lifted his face and scowled at the obelisk.†
Chpt 39

If we want to defeat the enemy, we must start with the obelisk.†
Chpt 39

When he touched the base of the obelisk, the circle began to glow.†
Chpt 39

You encouraged her to open that obelisk.†
Chpt 39

We thought the obelisk would release all the gods, but that was only the beginning.†
Chpt 39

The pyramid had been ripped from its source of power, the desert, and in front us loomed the default gateway for North America, the tall white obelisk that was the most powerful focal point of Ma'at on the continent: the Washington Monument.†
Chpt 40

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(1) (obelisk)
a stone pillar with a pyramidal top erected as a monument to remember a person or event
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

More rarely, obelisk references a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote. The character looks a little like a dagger or cross. (See Wikipedia - Obelisk (typography) for pictures.)