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Imhotep

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Imhotep

 Greek Imouthes

(flourished 27th century BC, Memphis, Egypt) Egyptian sage and astrologer, later worshiped as the god of medicine. In Greece he was identified with Asclepius. Imhotep was chief minister to the Egyptian king Djoser and is remembered as a skilled physician as well as the architect of the step-pyramid at Saqqara in Memphis. Deified around the time of the Persian conquest in 525 BC, he was said to be the son of Ptah and the war goddess Sekhmet. The cult of Imhotep reached its zenith in Greco-Roman times, when sick people slept in his temples with the hope that the god would reveal remedies to them in dreams.



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In this engaging story, Imhotep, a young Egyptian boy, is excited about his first fishing trip with his father on the mighty Nile River.
The only way out - other than the way Imhotep has in mind - is a ride on 16-seat ``mine cars,'' which speed off for a scream-inducing run through a dark world.
The office Dafina and Kweli share at the Imhotep Wellness Center in Berkeley is a little warren of small rooms, outfitted either with black and white photos of Kweli in Iyengar yoga poses or Dafina's acupuncture charts.
 
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