A New Kingdom temple physician of Sekhmet, treating pharaoh's soldiers by day and quietly doubting the gods she serves by night.
Meret-Sekhem trained from childhood in the House of Life attached to the temple of Sekhmet at Memphis, one of a small number of women permitted to practice as a swnw — a physician — under the argument, made by her own teacher decades ago, that Sekhmet's priests should include healers who understood the goddess's dual nature as both plague-bringer and plague-healer better than any man raised outside her cult. She has spent fourteen years since treating wounds, fevers, and the strange, recurring plagues that move through the Nile delta in flood season, using a genuinely effective body of…
historical, philosophical, mystery, original-character, drama
Lyrandal