The town of Iunet, the main city of the 6th sepat of Upper Egypt, lives of and for the Temple of HetHert. The Lady of the Sycamore is our Protector and Life-giver and most of the townspeople devote their energy to provide for her. In this town you will meet people who work directly with the maintenance of the temple buildings, like architects, stone masons, carpenters, painters, brick layers and sculptors.

Many other people provide much of what is used daily in the temple: gold- and coppersmiths and potters for statues and ritual objects of every kind, linen weavers provide cloth for the deities and for the priesthood and gardeners grow fruit and flowers for the offering tables. Papyrus sheets for scrolls are sent here from Lower Egypt, along with wine from Karanis in the Lower Laurels Sepat.

Farmers live at the outskirts of the town too, they provide crops and vegetables, and meat which we all need. Bakers and beer-makers are busy each day, and carpenters and basket-makers provide furniture and baskets big and small, both for the Goddess´ Domain and for our everyday needs. From the river we catch fish, and laundry is spread out to dry on its banks where the children play.

There is much coming and going in this town, as we are only half a day´s sailing from Waset, the capital of Kemet in the New Kingdom period.

All the houses in the town of Iunet are arranged around the Temple Precinct. The streets reach down to the riverbed, where boats, both local and those coming from elsewhere of Kemet, lay to, bringing goods from far away parts of the Two Lands and even from beyond. From the Precinct of HetHert a Processional Route goes all the way to the quay so that the Goddes can have easy access to her Festival Barge. Just where the Goddess is to be carried on board her ship or ashore from it, there is the Way Station where the Barge takes a rest while in Festival Procession.

Just outside town, at the edge of the desert lies the necropolis, where our ancestors live their silent lifes since countless of generations. Many animals have also found their resting place here, like small Children of Horus and Followers of Yinepu. Also some forms of HetHert herself, the Great Mother Cow, have been interred here. If you want to pay your respects, stop by the Amulet Shop, there are wonderful amulets in various shapes to be had, which you can offer to the Ancestors. You can chose between amulet in the form of pets like dogs or cats, and there are those in the shape of HetHert herself, along many of the other deities. It´s quite possible that the shop owner even keeps a selection of djed and tyet amulets, and of course the wedjat eye.

Come for a walk along one of the busy streets of Iunet Town, where daily life goes on inside, outside, and on top of every house we pass. At the marketplace, watch the hunter coming in with his catch of wild fowl and maybe an oryx, listen to housewifes bickering with the vendors for the best price of onions or stop by one of the workshops and buy a neatly handicrafted basket or a pair of sandals, or maybe even drop into the jeweller´s shop and come out adorned with a necklace! And when you are hot and tired after all your walking in the sun, there is sure to be a shaded place not far off where you can have a rest, and get a taste of the local beer.