Winged Pharaoh

This is the story, told in the first person, of a co-ruler of Egypt of the First Dynasty - Sekeeta, a priestess rigorously trained in the temple, joined in ceremonial marriage to her brother Neyah. Sekeeta's happy childhood, her training for command, a brief love affair resulting in the birth of a d [...]
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This is the story, told in the first person, of a co-ruler of Egypt of the First Dynasty - Sekeeta, a priestess rigorously trained in the temple, joined in ceremonial marriage to her brother Neyah. Sekeeta's happy childhood, her training for command, a brief love affair resulting in the birth of a daughter, the repulse of a foreign invasion and a fulfilled old age make up the skeleton of 'the account of a life and way of life so full that one could be tempted to think the author must have lived it'.