by Overton, Max
Aziru (Azz-ee-roo) - king of the Amorites
Bakt (Bar-k-tt) - third prophet of Amun, elevated by Ay
Beketaten (Beck-ett-ah-ten) - youngest daughter of Amenhotep III and Tiye
Djedhor (Jedd-hore) - commander of Paramessu's Heru legion
Djeserkheperu (Jess-er-kep-er-roo) - Holy of Manifestations; part of the family name of Smenkhkare
Ephenamen (Eff-en-ah-men) - priest of Amun
Ephras (Eff-rass) - aide of Jebu
Hednackht (Head-nah-k-tt) - commander of Paramessu's Re legion
Hiknefer (Hick-neff-er) - Nubian prince, companion of Tutankhaten
Horemheb (Hore-emm-heb) - general of the eastern borders, later of all armies during reign of Akhenaten
Huy (Hoo-ee) - 1. Viceroy of Nubia, 2. Mayor of Sehotep-Neteru, 3. Overseer of the King's Gardeners
Iteru (Ee-tare-oo) - The Great River, the Nile
Jebu (Jeb-oo) - Amorite general
Jeheshua (Jee-hesh-you-ah) - Khabiru jeweler of Zarw
Kasaya (Cass-eye-ah) - commander of Smenkhkare's Nubian army
Kashta (Cash-tah) - commander of Smenkhkare's Nubian army
Kenhirkhoshef (Ken-her-co-shef) - Overseer of the Great Place (Valley of Tombs)
Kensthoth (Kens-thoth) - high-ranking scribe of Waset, a King's Councilor
Khai (Kay) - Nubian prince, companion of Tutankhaten
Khaemnum (Kay-em-noom) - Psenamy's second in command, guardian of Akhenaten at Akhet-Aten
Khaenmaat (Kay-enn-mart) - commander of Paramessu's Chariots
Khu (Coo) - farm lad of Akhet-Re, a King's Councilor
Khui (Coo-ee) - commander of Paramessu's Set legion
Mahuhy (Ma-who-he) - King's Councilor and businessman of Waset
Meketaten (Meck-ett-ah-ten) - second daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti
Mena (Men-ah) - an alias of Khu
Menkure (Men-coo-ray) - friend and aide of Smenkhkare
Mentopher (Men-toe-fur) - steward of Tjaty Ay
Meny (May-knee) - Leader of Fifty under Paramessu
Meryetaten (Merry-ett-ah-ten) - oldest daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti
Mutaril (Moo-tar-rill) - Hittite ambassador to King Aziru
Nakht (Nar-k-tt) - assistant and adopted son of Ahhotep
Nakhtmin (Nar-k-tt-minn) - son of a Waset landowner, general of Ay's army
Nebhotep (Neb-hoh-tepp) - court physician in Akhet-Aten
Nebkheperure (Neb-kep-er-roo-ray) - Lord of the Manifestations of Re; throne name
of Tutankhamen
Nebmaetre (Neb-my-tray) - The Lord of Truth is Re; throne name of Amenhotep III
Neferkheperre-Waenre (Neff-er-kep-er-ray-wah-en-ray) - Beautiful are the Manifestations of Re--the Only of Re; throne name of Akhenaten
Neferkhepre (Neff-er-kepp-ray) - an alias of Scarab
Neferneferouaten-tasherit (Neff-eh-neff-eh-oo-ah-ten-tash-eh-rit) - fourth daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti
Neferneferoure (Neff-eh-neff-eh-oo-ray ) - fifth daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti
Nefertiti (Neff-eh-tee-tee) - daughter of Aye, wife and queen of Akhenaten
Paatenemheb (Pah-ah-ten-emm-heb) - name that Horemheb took to please Akhenaten
Pa-it (Pah-eet) - farmer of village of Akhet-Re
Paramessu (Pah-ram-ess-ee) - son of Seti, a friend of Horemheb, who becomes a general of the Northern Army
Pa-Siamen (Pah-see-ah-men) - priest of Amun
Penno (Pen-oh) - Lieutenant of garrison at Sehotep-Neteru
Pentere (Pen-teh-ray) - mother of Paramessu
Psenamy (Sen-a-me) - General at Waset, Confidant of Ay
Psuro (Sue-row) - commander of Smenkhkare's Nubian army
Scarab - nickname of Beketaten
Set (Seth) - son of Beketaten and Paramessu
Setepenre (Seth-eh-pen-ray) - sixth daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti
Seti (Seth-ee) - judge and troop commander of Zarw, father of Paramessu
Shabaqo (Shab-are-ko) - commander of Smenkhkare's Nubian army
Shubbiluliuma (Shoo-bill-ool-ee-oo-ma) - king of the Hittites
Smenkhkare (Ss-men-kah-ray) - son of Amenhotep III by his own daughter Sitamen
Sutau (Soot-ow) - treasurer under Smenkhkare
Tiye (Tee) - wife and queen of Amenhotep III, sister of Ay
Tutankhamen (Too-tank-ah-men) - name taken by Tutankhaten when he revives the worship of Amun
Tutankhaten (Too-tank-ah-ten) - son of Amenhotep III by his own daughter Iset
Usermontju (Oo-sir-mont-jew) - Chief of the Medjay (Police) in Waset
Yuya (Yoo-yah) - Khabiru Tjaty of Tuthmosis IV, father of Ay, Tiye and Aanen
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Gods of the Scarab Books
Amun (Ah-moon) - the hidden one; a sun god, lord of the sky and king of gods; became increasingly powerful during the eighteenth dynasty; worship was centered on Waset.
Asar (Ah-sar) (Osiris) - god of the dead; one of the Nine of Iunu
Aten (Ah-ten) - the sun as a disc, distinct from Re; elevated from a minor god in the eighteenth dynasty; became the supreme god during Akhenaten's reign.
Atum (Ah-toom) - Creator god; the unified light; one of the Nine of Iunu
Auset (Ow-seth) (Isis) - goddess of family love and loyalty; one of the Nine of Iunu
Djehuti (Jeh-hoot-ee) (Thoth) - god of the moon and of wisdom; patron deity of scribes and knowledge
Geb (Gebb) - god of the earth and growing things; one of the Nine of Iunu
Hapi (Hah-pee) - god of the Nile River
Heru (Heh-rue)(Heru) - a sky god; the Ascending Light
Het-Her (Hathor) - goddess of love, beauty and fertility
Khepri (Kepp-ree) - an aspect of the sun god epitomized by the actions of the sacred scarab beetle which rolls balls of dung (representing the ball of the sun) containing its eggs; the Dawn Light.
Khnum (Kh-noom) - god of the source of the Nile; the Divine Potter; creator of human children
Min (Minn) - fertility god.
Nebt-Het (Nebb-tt-het) (Nephthys) - goddess of secrets and mysteries; one of the Nine of Iunu
Nekhbet (Neck-beth) - vulture goddess of Upper Egypt
Nut (Noot) - goddess of the sky and direction; one of the Nine of Iunu
Ptah (Tar) - god of craftsmen.
Re (Ray) - one of the sun god; the Midday Light
Satet (Sah-teth) - goddess of the inundation of the Nile
Set (Seth) - god of the desert and destruction; associated with the colour red; one of the Nine of Iunu
Sobek (Sob-eck) - the Crocodile god
Shu (Shoo) - god of air and dryness; one of the Nine of Iunu
Tefnut (Teff-noot) - goddess of moisture; one of the Nine of Iunu
Wadjet (Wadge-eth) - cobra goddess of Lower Egypt
Wepwawet (Wepp-wah-wet) - Opener of Ways; the god of war and funerals
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About the Author
Max Overton has travelled extensively and lived in many places around the world--including Malaysia, India, Germany, England, Jamaica, New Zealand, USA and Australia. Trained in the biological sciences in New Zealand and Australia, he has worked within the scientific field for many years, but now concentrates on writing. While predominantly a writer of historical fiction (Scarab: Books 1-6 of the Amarnan Kings; the Scythian Trilogy; the Demon Series; Ascension), he also writes in other genres (A Cry of Shadows, the Glass Trilogy, Haunted Trail, Sequestered) and draws on true life (Adventures of a Small Game Hunter in Jamaica, We Came From K�nigsberg). Max also maintains an interest in butterflies, photography, the paranormal and other aspects of Fortean Studies.
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Other Books By This Author
A Cry of Shadows
{Paranormal Murder Mystery}
Australian Professor Ian Delaney is single-minded in his determination to prove his theory that one can discover the moment that the life force leaves the body. After succumbing to the temptation to kill a girl under scientifically controlled conditions, he takes an offer of work in St Louis, hoping to leave the undiscovered crime behind him.
In America, Wayne Richardson seeks revenge by killing his ex-girlfriend, believing it will give him the upper hand, a means to seize control following their breakup. Wayne quickly discovers that he enjoys killing and begins to seek out young women who resemble his dead ex-girlfriend.
Ian and Wayne meet, and when Ian recognizes the symptoms of violent delusion he employs Wayne to help him further his research. Despite the police closing in, the two killers manage to evade identification as the death toll rises.
John Barnes, the detective in charge of the case, is frantic, willing to try anything to catch his killer. With time running out, he looks desperately for answers. Will John get them before it's too late?
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Adventures of a Small Game Hunter in Jamaica
{Biography}
An eleven-year-old boy is plucked from boarding school in England and transported to the tropical paradise of Jamaica. A shy and dreamy boy, he has one great love in his life--butterflies. He discovers that Jamaica has a wealth of these wonderful insects and sets about making a collection of as many as he can find. Along the way, he has adventures with many other creatures, from hummingbirds to vultures, from iguanas to black widow spiders, and through it all runs the promise of the legendary Homerus swallowtail, Jamaica's national butterfly.
Other activities intrude, like school, boxing and swimming lessons, but he manages to inveigle his parents into taking him to strange and sometimes dangerous places, all in the name of butterfly collecting. He meets scientists and Rastafarians, teachers, small boys and the ordinary people of this tropical isle, and even discovers butterflies that should not exist in Jamaica.
I was that young boy. I count myself fortunate to have lived in Jamaica in an age very different from our present one. I still have some of the butterflies I collected half a century or more ago, and each one releases a flood of memories every time I open the box and gaze at their tattered and fading wings. These memories have become stories--stories of the Adventures of a Small Game Hunter in Jamaica.
Publisher ebook page: http://www.writers-exchange.com/Adventures-of-a-Small-Game-Hunter.html
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Ascension Series
{Historical: Holocaust}
Book 1: Ascension
A small boy discovers that being a Jew in Germany can be a dangerous thing. Fear prompts Konrad Wengler to put his faith aside and he tries desperately to forget his heritage.
He fights in the Great War and is wounded, becomes a policeman in his tiny Bavarian town, where he falls under the spell of the fledgling Nazi Party. He joins the Party in patriotic fervour and becomes a Lieutenant of Police and Schutzstaffel (SS).
In the course of his duties as policeman, he offends a powerful Nazi official, who starts an SS investigation of this troublesome police Lieutenant. When war breaks out, he joins the Police Battalions and is sent to Poland where he has to witness the atrocities being committed upon his fellow Jews.
The SS investigators have discovered Konrad's origins and follow him into Poland. He is arrested and sent to Mauthausen Concentration Camp. Suddenly, Konrad must face what it means to be a Jew and fight for survival. He has friends on the outside, a wife and a lawyer, but will they be enough to counter the might of the Nazi machine?
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Book 2: Maelstrom
Konrad Wengler has survived his brush with the death camps of Nazi Germany, and has been reinstated as a police officer in his home town despite being a Jew. He throws himself back into his work, seeking to uncover the evidence that will remove a corrupt Nazi party official, but underestimates his enemy. The Gestapo have their own agenda, and despite orders from above to eliminate this troublesome Jewish policeman, they hide him in the Totenkopf (Death's Head) Division of the Waffen-SS.
Now Konrad must fight to survive in the snowy wastes of Russia as the tide of war turns against Germany. He experiences tank battles, ghetto clearances, partisans, and death camps (this time as a guard), as well as the fierce battles where his Division is badly outnumbered and on the defence.
Through it all, he must try to live by his conscience and resist taking part in the atrocities happening all around him. He still thinks of himself as a policeman, but his desire to bring the corrupt official to justice now seems far removed from his present reality. Konrad must first survive if he is to find the necessary evidence.
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Fall of the House of Ramesses
{Historical: Ancient Egypt}
Book 1: Merenptah
Egypt was at the height of its powers in the days of Ramesses the Great and the young king confidently predicted that his House would last for a Thousand Years. Sixty years later he was still on the throne and one by one his heirs had died and the survivors had become old men. When he at last died, he left a stagnant kingdom and his throne to an old man - Merenptah. What followed laid the groundwork for a nation ripped apart by civil war.
The northern tribes rebelled and joined forces with the Sea Peoples, invading from the north; while in the south the king's eldest son, angered at being passed over in favour of the younger son, plotted to rid himself of his father and brother. An ageing king takes to the field to fight for the House of Ramesses.
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Book 2: Seti
Merenptah is dead after only nine years on the throne and his son Seti is king in his place. He rules from the northern city of Men-nefer, while his elder brother Messuwy, convinced the throne is his by right, plots rebellion in the south.
The kingdoms are tipped into bloody civil war, with brother fighting against brother for the throne of a united Egypt. On one side is Messuwy, now crowned as King Amenmesse and his ruthless General Sethi; on the other, young King Seti and his wife Tausret. But other men are weighing up the chances of wresting the throne from both brothers and becoming king in their place. The House of Ramesses crumbles under the onslaught.
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Book 3: Tausret
The House of Ramesses falters as Tausret relinquishes the throne upon the death of her husband, King Seti. Amenmesse'
s young son Siptah will become king until her infant son is old enough to rule. Tausret, as Regent, and the king's uncle, Chancellor Bay, hold tight to the reins of power, and vie for complete control of the kingdoms. Assassination changes the balance of power and Chancellor Bay attempts a coup...
Tausret's troubles mount as she also faces a challenge from Setnakhte, an aging son of the Great Ramesses who believes Seti was the last legitimate king. If Setnakhte gets his way, he will destroy the House of Ramesses and set up his own dynasty of kings.
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Glass Trilogy
{Paranormal Thriller}
GLASS HOUSE, Book 1: The mysteries of Australia may just hold the answers mankind has been searching for millennium to find. When Doctor James Hay, a university scientist who studies the paranormal mysteries in Australia, finds an obelisk of carved volcanic rock on sacred Aboriginal land in northern Queensland, he knows it may hold the answers he has been seeking. And when a respected elder of the Aboriginal people instructs him to take up the gauntlet and follow his heart, James, Spencer, an old friend and an award-winning writer, Samantha Louis, along with her cameraman and two of James' Aboriginal students, start their quest for the truth.