William de Rimpel

I feel another Gil Good moment coming on.

I have to keep up with Liz Taylor over there and do another... You're so current.

So cutting edge.

Jesse Buckley, here we go.

Now, when his majesty appeared as king, the temple of the gods and goddesses from Elephantine to the marshes of the Delta had fallen into ruin.

Their shrines had become desolate.

and had grown to mounds overgrown with weeds.

Their sanctuaries were as though they had never been.

Their halls were a footpath.

The land was in confusion.

The gods had forsaken this land.

If an army was sent to Dejahi, which is Palestine, to extend the boundaries of Egypt, no success of theirs came at all.

If one prayed to a god to ask something of him,

he did not come.

If one beseeched any goddess in the same way, she did not come either.

Their hearts were weak in their bodies, and they destroyed what was made.

For a man who built this wonderful city and did all this stuff.

Does that imply that the priesthood has now increased in power?

It's come back with a vengeance?

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