CHAPTER 8Hapuseneb strode between the pair of great obelisks that flanked the entrance to the Temple of the Sun at Yunu, north of Men-nefer. Hatshepsut had made a particular point of restoring the temples fallen into disrepair and disuse during the time of the Hyksos “who ruled without Ra and did not act by divine command”. The desert-dwellers had had their own gods — but they were primitive and savage compared to the sophisticated hierarchies of Khemet. Hatshepsut believed that a land networked with living temples, each in its special place, was a healthy land, a secure land, a dynamic and powerful land. From the wheat growing out of the grain that was sown, to the preservation of life after death, everything was the gift of the gods — and if the gods were happy everything would be in ord
