Here's a peak at two new characters in Part Two of my tale of the mystic war on women:

Actress Elodie Yung portraying the goddess Hathor in the movie "Gods of Egypt"

---

Statue of the goddess Hathor

Anubis, the jackal-headed Egyptian god of death

In Part Two, this allegory of the war on women continues as the poet undertakes a journey through the underworld. He is exposed to the horrors awaiting males who have committed myriad forms of gender violence and oppression of girls and women. In prosaic verse, readers are introduced to:

• Hathor. Long before the ancient Greeks conceived of Aphrodite as a goddess of sexual passion, the Egyptians endowed Hathor with such attributes. Accordingly, she was regarded as instrumental in bringing lovers together. But she was more. She was also revered as a mother goddess, and she had associations with music and dance. Hathor was often depicted as a beautiful, slender woman wearing a headdress made of a pair of cow's horns -- with a solar disc between them. Hatshepsut, the 18th Dynasty female monarch (a rare phenomenon in the world of antiquity), added a small shrine dedicated to Hathor at a temple at Deir el-Bahri.
• Anubis. Since the Egyptians, like the early Christians, believed in the resurrection of the soul, and spent much of their lives preparing for it, Anubis assumed a role of paramount importance in the Egyptian pantheon. Anubis can be thought of as the original Grim Reaper. Whereas Hathor was essentially a goddess of life, Anubis was a divinity of death who presided over tombs and the afterlife. He also was a key arbiter of the fate of a deceased's soul.   

"A myth is whatever concept of truth or reality a whole people has arrived at over years of observation. It cannot be manufactured by a handful of people. It must be the collective creation of -- and acceptance by -- hordes of anonymous people." -- Toni Morrison, novelist & Nobel laureate

The clock is ticking on manhood in the Americas.

Review free sample*

*Access free initial pages at the Amazon Kindle bookstore