Book 3. Breath of Apophis

By Olga Kryuchkova

Ancient Egypt. XIV century BC. Pharaoh Amenhotep III rules Egypt (Ta-Kemet). Fearing a conspiracy, he decides to move the capital of the kingdom from Memphis (Inebu-Hedj) to Avaris (Hut-Waret). He entrusts the construction of the royal palace in Avaris to his eldest son and heir Thutmose. The young prince finds the ruins of the legendary Behdet, in which the solar-like Ra once ruled. More precisely, he finds the ruins of the Basalt Palace, which was the Abode of the Gods in ancient times.
Thutmose comprehends ancient secrets with the help of the ‘The Book of Gateways’ and he sees the distant past. The priests proclaim him to be the living incarnation of Horus, the God of Light. Thutmose is at the pinnacle of glory. The priests give him the Golden Armor of Horus and the Ark of Might. This is the weapon of the divine Ra, with the help of which Osiris was avenged many centuries ago and the insidious Set was destroyed. The heir to the throne cannot even imagine how much these sacred artifacts can drastically change his life and influence the course of further events.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Olga Kryuchkova
• Release date: Aug 7, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215202685

Olga Kryuchkova

Olga Kryuchkova began her creative career in 2006. During this time, the author had more than 100 publications and reprints (historical novels, historical adventures, esotericism, art therapy, fantasy). A number of novels were co-written with Elena Kryuchkova.

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Book 3

Breath of Apophis

Apophis was the ancient Egyptian deity who embodied chaos and was thus the opponent of light. He appears in art as a giant serpent.

Chapter 6

1380 BC

Years passed. Erpator Thutmose and Nitopris had already produced two sons and a daughter. The younger brother of the erpator Ehnotep did not lag behind them either: he married the young beauty Nefertiti, the daughter of a very influential priest Aye. Despite the tender and sincere feelings for his wife, after some time Ehnotep also took Kiya as a concubine. She was, in fact, his paternal sister. Kiya's mother was Amenhotep's concubine. Ehnotep later married Kiya.

Nefertiti was barely fifteen when she already carried her second child. Kiya was slightly older than Ehnotep's first wife and she was also pregnant. Ehnotep, having lost the usual attention of his wives because of their pregnancies, got bored and began to think about a new concubine. He did not understand his older brother at all, who for almost six years had invariably shared a bed with only Nitopris and did not even think about other women.

Aye, the priest of the temple of Osiris, increasingly strengthened his position and influence in the court of the pharaoh. Amenhotep often invited him to meetings of the Sacred Councils, and the priest highly appreciated the trust of Solar Horus. As a smart and perspicacious person, Aye was well aware that the thoughts and goals of the majority of influential Egyptian priests do not always serve the state interests. And if urgent action is not taken, the power of the pharaoh in the country may soon become purely formal.

Being the high priest of the rich temple of Osiris, the second largest in Inebu-Hedj after the temple of Atum (from where Raneb reigned supreme, spreading his influence over all of Egypt), Aye himself owned vast land areas. Part of the income he received, as expected, handed over to the royal treasury. He spent some part of his income on the needs of the temple, but he spent the rest of the financial resources (moreover, quite considerable financial resources) exclusively on members of his family. For besides Nefertiti, he had two more daughters, and he hoped to arrange their destinies as successfully as the fate of his eldest daughter.

The current state of affairs in the highest circles of power in the country of the priest was pretty worried. He was especially outraged by the behavior of Raneb, who had almost unlimited power in Ta-Kemet. Raneb, at the cost of intimidation or bribery, won over many segers and dignitaries to his side, and they began to fully share his very dangerous political views. As the High Priest of Inebu-Hedj, Raneb personally controlled all the temples of Ta-Kemet. He eliminated objectionable clergymen and appointed people from among his supporters to their places, without regard for anyone's opinion. And not so long ago, he single-handedly took possession of an ancient scroll, which until now had been kept for almost one and a half thousand years in the Million Years Temple in Abydos.

This scroll was written back in the time of Pharaoh Hat-Horus, one of the direct descendants of the divine Horus, who defeated Set. The text of an ancient papyrus said that Horus created an army of ‘Iron Men’, at the head of which he put some Shemsu-Horus, endowing them with special knowledge of the gods. Since then, Shemsu-Horus have become