The pull between divine possessiveness and human responsibility
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In 1323 BC, in the morning light of Thebes, the sixteen-year-old son Horus met his god at the Karnak Temple.
Cam emerged from the golden light, and his fingertips touched the holy mole on his forehead, leaving a burning mark: "You are my only bond in this life."
At that time, he thought it was a gift, but later he realized it was a cage of fate.
He is the heir who has high hopes, and he has to shoulder the scepter and responsibility for Egypt; and he is the aloof sun god who paranoidly wants to lock the light of the world into the sanctuary.
The breakup on the eve of the wedding, the confrontation during the rebellion, the three years of exile in Nubia, the intertwining of blood and tears punished by God... Love and hate were entangled in a knot on the banks of the Nile, and divinity and humanity were torn apart repeatedly, until he sacrificed blood to regain his divine personality, but he was separated from heaven and man forever.
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During his eighty-year reign, he was a pharaoh who worked hard to rule. He never married, and whispered to the sun every night. He was a silent light. Listening to his voice, he grew from a boy to a white head, and watched his temples stained with frost.
"The human tenure is over."
In the morning when he was eighty years old, at the moment when his soul left his body, he saw Cam standing in the clouds, just as he had first seen him.
"Come be my eternity."
It turns out that all the exile and waiting, all the sacrifices and protection are just for this agreement that spans life and death.
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He is Horus in the world, who wants to guard thousands of miles of rivers and mountains; he is Keim in the sky, who wants to gather the light of this world into his own sun.
"The Nile River floods at regular intervals, but my love for you is the crazy growth that overflows the dam in the flood season, and the obsession of digging through the rock formations in the dry season."
God's possessiveness is a gilded cage, and man's sense of responsibility is a thorny shackle. They struggled in it for half their lives before they understood that love is not about breaking free, but about being willing to cage each other and start a family.
Purpose: Responsibility is more important than love