Lion Head Mesa twenty-seventh

bennu.

the sunbird. the feathers of creation. the ba of the sun god.

whom did harakhte fancy himself to be?

'"i arrive like the hawk. i come forth as bennu,'" senmut quoted. the cry of that creature had broken the world's silence. "it is a very ancient worship," he added.

more to this, he felt was right to assume, if not to ask. "come. we will go to the wellspring," he decided, a pastime as the sun grew hot.