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| The female soul with two faces, one a young woman, Hathor, the other Sekhmet, lioness of destruction |
A
Mythic Novella
Author’s
note: This story first appeared as
a tale within a novel in the archaeological adventure thriller ‘The Smiting
Texts’, but is released here in a separate edition for lovers of mythology and
ancient romance.
“This tale
of an ancient hunter's fate to recapture the goddess of devastation in order to
save Egypt is particularly beautiful. Wonderfully clever and original.” THE
TRUTH ABOUT BOOKS
Hathor-Sekhmet was the
goddess with two faces, one, Hathor, the Sweet One, goddess of sexual love,
joy, music and intoxication, the other, Hathor-Sekhmet, the terrible lioness of
annihilation, sent by Ra to destroy humankind for their rebelliousness.
In her marauding stage they called
her The Confused One in the Night.
Were there times when Hathor slipped
from one state to another? One phase, goddess of love, shining in her beauty,
and the next a wild and dreadful lioness of destruction? What would it have
been like to come across Hathor, the young woman, and not know that she hid
another side?
A young bowman is given the impossible task of trying to hunt her down.
