From any perspective, Messe was not a young man; on the contrary, even in later generations, he could claim to be elderly.
From birth to old age, he had witnessed eighty springs and autumns of the Mortal Realm, and for Messe, this lifetime of memories could probably be divided into two parts.
Before he turned forty. In the year when Messe was just born, a great change occurred in the center of Upper and Lower Egypt, in Heliopolis. The Sun, which had been without a ruler for a thousand years, once again welcomed a new—or perhaps an old—lord. In any case, the master of the Hemenu world, Amon-Ra-Atum, reclaimed that supreme throne, and was clearly more powerful than before.
