Ramses the Great and the Tree of Life

I walked through the Hypostyle Hall of the Ramesseum, the Mortuary Temple of Ramses the Great 'The Temple of Millions of Years'.

I arrived at the back wall of the Hypostyle hall to see one of my favorite relief’s, the beautiful Goddess Sheshat the inventor of writing holding the palm of years in her hand as she stands at the side of the tree of life, and draws a cartouche for the king in the presence of her husband Thoth the scribe of the gods.

The god Amun Ra is seated and he tells Ramses ‘I make your years on earth last in unending numbers, I make your lifespan more secure than the lifespan of heaven remaining in your own temple. I write your name in the holy Ished tree with my own hand, I have proclaimed you King on my Throne’.