Lion Head Mesa i am not a woman, i'm a god

beautiful! <333

"certainly, divine one."

senmut was a priest but all peasant boys began as scribes at the temple. and so he held his back straight and head high to listen and to speak.

"the Great God Amun was lonely, and so he took his own shadow to lover. from this union sprang Shu and Tefnut."

these things would be rote for the young princess, who could recite the incantation of the first life almost without thinking!

"Amun watered the earth with His tears and we came forth. Shu and Tefnut came together and from them was born Geb and Nut. as you know, divine one, Amun grew angry with Geb and placed him far away from Nut. but she grew with child all the same, giving birth to Osiris, Set, Nepthys, and Horus."

"Nepthys protects the souls of Her people. She is a goddess of the air and the dead. bring her red feathers and snakeskins from the serpents out upon the red sand. bring her objects of blood and black stone. it was She who became wife to Set, and it was She who sought to seduce Osiris. when Her husband discovered a lotus which Nepthys had dropped in the chamber of Osiris, Set became enraged. it was then that he went to find his brother and drowned him in the holy waters."

"in the end, however, it was only with the protection and help of Nepthys that Iset was able to find Osiris' pieces and bring him together once more."