The Story of Egypt Quotes

“Her killing spree was only halted when the sun saw the human suffering and relented, devising a plan in which beer was mixed with red ochre and poured out upon the sands. The goddess, assuming it was yet more human blood, gulped it down and was soon too drunk to move, forgetting where she was, and even what she was supposed to be doing, as she fell soundly asleep.”
― Joann Fletcher, The Story of Egypt: The Epic History of the World's Greatest Civilisation