As guardians and interpreters of these images, Ra-hotep and his colleagues enjoyed a privileged and a very comfortable position, particularly as the sun image had always been of primary importance. Anything that threatened that position worried him. He resented that more wealth was going to the temples of Amun-Ra these days than was coming to the temples of Ra alone — and he feared even more of his privileges might be whittled away in the future by Hatshepsut. “That a woman should choose to wear a beard and dress like a man is against nature,” he said. “And when you start defying natural law, you start a process that can only lead to chaos.”
Amenemheb’s uncle was a priest of Ra, and it was he who brought the young captain to Ra-hotep to request permission for the meeting. Nothing was said
