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Posted on Jun 25, 2023Feb 27, 2025

Icon Rematriated

A century upon display; a hundred years they’ve called her home.

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Posted on Jun 9, 2023

The Return Of The King; Of The Queen

Merged ‘n ‘mergent Pharaoh Of The Sun!

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Posted on Feb 26, 2023Feb 26, 2023

A Brief Three-Line Poem Touching On The Possible Co-Regency Of The Potentially Now Delusional & Therefore Increasingly Unfit Akh-En-Aten & The Probably Unsettlingly Powerful Nafereti-Iti, With Her Given The Public Persona Of A Male Co-King & Future Sole King Due To Lingering Societal PTSD Over The Earlier Hat-Shep-Sut Incident

A man to take the crown.

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Posted on Dec 18, 2022Nov 10, 2024

Nafereti-Iti: Book Two

The girl-child, become woman, leaves her childhood for the palace life.

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Posted on Nov 18, 2022Nov 18, 2022

Hymn To The River

From beyond the Island Of The Elephant – realm of Khnum, Satet, Anqet – you flow from your
secret cavern-source to those bouldered, bord’ring shores!

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Posted on Jun 29, 2021Nov 10, 2024

Nafereti-Iti: Book One

The final days of Nefertiti’s childhood.

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Posted on Mar 8, 2021Jun 29, 2021

Hymn To The City Of The Sceptre

Your wealth extends to awe all foreign lands! Your pious worship deeply pleases all our divine hosts, who bless our lives with Ma’at!

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Posted on Feb 22, 2021Feb 26, 2021

Thus Was The Girl-Child

‘Midst the dawn’s chill, she watched the night-time passing westward as she felt the tide of heat fall on her bare skin.

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William Altoft

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