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"'He is a kind god, thought he, 'who values the qualities of sages, even when barefoot, and deals out to them justice. What a beautiful estate he has given me! It is true that I showed him honor by writing Amon on the door of that hut in two manners. And how beautifully I reckoned how many hen eggs he would get for seven partridges.
"Then Amon is compassionate only to scribes," answered Kama. "But what does that story signify?" "Guess. But Thou hast just heard what the poor scribe yielded up for the kiss of a woman." "But he would not yield up a throne," interrupted the priestess. "Who knows? if he were implored greatly to do so," whispered Ramses, with passion.
Each of you think of her own: you children of your fathers, you women of your sons, and we wives of our distant husbands, and let us entreat Amon that they may return to us as certainly as the sun, which now leaves us, will rise again to-morrow morning." Nefert knelt down, and with her the women and the children.
Most of them continue to refer to Amon in perfect innocence, and only a few who were better informed began rather later to take the change into account.
Sometimes they extolled Amon with the ram's head, sometimes cow-headed Isis, and often, too, the great and omnipotent God who revealed Himself to Abraham, and of whom my mother spoke more and more frequently as she advanced in years. To compose such hymns in quiet hours, wait for visions revealing God's grandeur and splendor, or beautiful angels and horrible demons, became my favorite occupation.
"Ramses! the fates of the kingdom are weighed, and before another full moon comes Thou wilt be its ruler." "O gods!" cried the terrified prince. "Is my father so sick, then?" He fell on his face in the sand; then an assisting priest inquired if he did not wish to learn something more. "Tell me, Father Amon, whether my plans will be accomplished." After a while a voice spoke in the chapel.
The counsel of Thy lips shall guide my way; I have obeyed whenever Thou hast ruled; I call on Thee and, with my fame, Thy glory Shall fill the world, from farthest east to west." Yea, his cry rang forth even far as Hermonthis, And Amon himself appeared at his call; and gave him His hand and shouted in triumph, saying to the Pharaoh: "Help is at hand, O Rameses.
The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
"Thou speakest of shame, and not of death," said Nemu, "and I learned from thee that one should give nothing up for lost excepting the dead." These words had a powerful effect on the agitated woman. Quickly and vehemently she turned upon the dwarf saying. "You are clever, and faithful too, so listen! but if you were Amon himself there is nothing to be done "
This very morning Hosea will have heard the news from other sources they offered sacrifices not only to Baal and Seth, their own gods, whom so many of you were ready to serve ere the accursed sorcerer, Mesu, seduced you, but also to Father Amon and the sacred nine of our eternal deities.
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