Back to Senenmut, aka the antagonist of my lost storyline. Damn, did I ever love this guy. I even tinkered with adding in alternating chapters between Xavier and Camilla. That way, Camilla could fight evil future aliens while Xavier focused on Set in the past.
Senenmut was cool. Senenmut was badass. Ultimately, Senenmut was too much for this book. I needed to give Isis, Osiris and company more time to develop.
Ultimately, the Senenmut situation helped me realize something. Stories of ancient Egypt often focus on mummies or aliens instead of actual myths. The latest scholarship shows that what we call Greco-Roman myth is actually Greco-Roman-Egyptian. Isis went on the original Odyssey. Images of Isis with wings predate anything called an angel. And it was the Egyptian sun god Ra—not Apoll
