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Omm Sety observed that, although modern village women could have free birth control, they did not want it. “If they miss one year without having a child, they go running around all over the place – even to the doctor! And if that doesn’t work, they will try all sorts of other things.” These included approaching a temple image of Isis at Abydos (“the Good Lady”), Hathor at Dendera, a statue of Senwosret III south of Abydos, a statue of Taweret in the Cairo museum and the pyramids at Giza.

Omm Sety’s Living Egypt: Surviving folkways from Pharaonic Time, 2008