It also follows the lives and loves of its primary characters. The story hangs on the invasion and conquest of Egypt by the powerful and warlike Hyksos people, the exile of the Egyptians and their eventual return. This proves to be the best decision of her life, since naturally he manages to make pretty much everything turn out beautifully for her. When Lostris marries the Pharoah she demands that Taita be allowed to go with her as her parting gift from her father, the dark and powerful Lord Intef. And probably some other stuff that has slipped my mind. He is a poet and artist, an architect and inventor, a diplomat and politician, a mathematician and astrologer, a military tactician, a doctor, a seer, a teacher, a financier, a biologist, a cartographer, and a beauty.
Taita is one of those seriously annoying people who is remarkably good at everything, and not ashamed to talk about it. This somewhat blokey epic adventure / romance tells the story of uberslave Taita and of his loved ones: his mistress Lostris who becomes the principal consort of the Pharaoh, and thereafter Regent, ruling on behalf of her infant son her lover Tanus, greatest general of the Egyptian army and Crown Prince Memnon, later Pharaoh Tamose, who is Lostris’ son.
The priests of Hapi may differ from us on this view.”
Despite the god’s ambiguous sexuality, my mistress Lostris always considered her to be female, and so do I. Her favourite guise is that of the hippopotamus. She is able to change her gender or, like many of the other gods of this very Egypt, take on the shape of any animal at will. The two kingdoms of Egypt and all the peoples in them depend utterly upon her and the periodic flooding of the great river which is her alter ego. She is the deification of the Nile, and the goddess of the harvest. Strictly speaking, she is neither god nor goddess, but a strange, bearded, hermaphroditic creature possessed of both a massive penis and an equally cavernous vagina, and bounteous breasts that give milk to all.
“The goddess Hapi is one of my favourites.
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