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Devin Sharp, a gentle-natured boy, has trouble sleeping. Recurring visions of strangers moving among shadows in his bedroom keep waking him at night. He swears that what he sees and hears is real. To no avail. No one believes him. An older sibling taunts him. "Silly dreams," she says. But are they? Coming of age as a gay teen in the seventies, Devin's sleep issues are just one more secret safely locked up in his closet. But not for long. Freshman year in college brings a measure of freedom and a chance to explore well beyond the boundaries of stifling social molds. Experimenting with a powerful drug, Devin's quirky visions resurface. This time, however, something is different. A rabbit hole materializes out of nowhere. Thrust into it by a mysterious force, Devin is hurled into another world centuries before his own. There, awaiting, a host of strangers appear to know him...

The Pharaoh and the Gods is the fifth book in the six-book series The Beginning of Civilization: Mythologies Told True.Djoser continues his rise to power. Gods take on lives of their own. Isis and Osiris reign supreme in Egypt. The echo of the old Olympian gods segues into local variations throughout Canaan, Phoenicia, and the original city of Urfa. Living legends take on the mantels of 'Living Gods.' Local needs and attitudes shape a pantheon of gods from peaceful and loving to sadistic and bloodthirsty.Against this backdrop, Horus continues his search for the nature of death while Set continues his jealous, relentless attacks on Horus.Civilization continues its rambling, haphazard progress toward either enlightenment or not. Sex, violence, misogyny, human sacrifices, and our lesser selves create a world where the weak are sheep for wolves in gods clothing.All the while, Prince Djoser and brooding, conflicted Horus try to create a civilization worthy of existing. Love is hard. Peace, harmony, and Ma'at harder.This six-book series is a fictional reimagining of mankind's protohistory as recorded by our original historians -- Moses, Hesiod, Plato, and ancient Egyptian Priests. The series chronicle the lives of the people who inspired our myths and traditions. The narrative is unbroken as new protagonists and antagonists replace those who die. The books become more complex with ever-growing conflict. The series contains elements of science fiction. For 200,000 years hunters hunted, gatherers gathered, they sometimes mated. Then we got civilized. Scientific, political, and religious thought had to evolve as did sexual mores, perversions, attitudes, and, too, misogyny. New organizational systems were required. And gods took on lives of their own.To understand why we are the way we are, we must understand how we began. This is my offering. Let those wiser than me tell it truer.

In the mouths of all people was the story of how the throne of the greatest civilization on earth came into their land and recovered the dismembered pieces of her lover. Of how she reassembled him and bore him a son. The magnificent story of Isis and Osiris brought hope to the hopeless, joy to the joyless, and united the upper and lower kingdoms with universal common experience. Great was the story of their love. And of her wrath.This is Book 4 in the six-book series The Beginning of Civilization: Mythologies Told True. The series.is a fictional reimagining of mankind's protohistory as recorded by our original historians -- Moses, Hesiod, Plato, and ancient Egyptian Priests. The series chronicle the lives of the people who inspired our myths and traditions. The narrative is unbroken as new protagonists and antagonists replace those who die. The books become more complex with ever-growing conflict. The series contains elements of science fiction. For 200,000 years hunters hunted, gatherers gathered, they sometimes mated. Then something happened -- Civilization began.Scientific, political, and religious thought had to evolve as did sexual mores and attitudes. New organizational systems were required. And gods took on lives of their own. To understand why we are the way we are, we must first understand how we began. This is my offering. Let those wiser tell it truer.