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| This became a 5-star novella on Amazon Kindle. |
A Mythic Novella.
The story first appeared as
a tale within a novel in the archaeological adventure thriller ‘The Smiting
Texts’, but is now released as "Hunting Hathor" 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
"Great reading" - 5-star. Amazon Kindle US
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?
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“Does the good bowman not unstring his bow at night
to relax it?” she said to the young hunter
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