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I saw him driving the chariot, and to me he resembled the Sun God, and he observed me, and looked at me, and his glance pierced deep into my heart like a spear; and when, at the festival of the king's birthday, he spoke to me, it was just as if Hathor had thrown round me a web of sweet, sounding sunbeams. And it was the same with Mena; he himself has told me so since I have been his wife.
The sun was sinking when Mena, who that day had leave of absence from the king, came in great excitement up to the table where the princes were sitting and craved the king's permission to make an important communication. Rameses signed consent; the charioteer went close up to him, and they held a short but eager conversation in a low voice.
His injunction to Mena to hold the wine cup steadily seemed by no means superfluous, for his looks constantly wandered from the king's goblet to his fair wife, from whose lips he as yet had heard no word of welcome, whose hand he had not yet been so happy as to touch. All the guests were in the most joyful excitement.
His lions sprang forward, and carried confusion into the hosts that were crowding down upon him, for many of their horses became unmanageable at the roar of the furious brutes, overthrew the chariots, and so hemmed the advance of the troops in the rear. Rameses sent arrow after arrow, while Mena covered him with the shield from the shots of the enemy.
Paaker could see straight into his face, and it was not without difficulty that he suppressed a scornful laugh. Rameses did not observe the Regent's dismay, for he had signed to Mena to come closer to him. "Before I sleep," said the king, "I will bring matters to an end with you too.
She took me from the steward, I became indispensable to her; she treats me like a man, she values my intelligence and listens to my advice, therefore I will make her great, and with her, and through her, I will wax mighty. If Ani mounts the throne, we wilt guide him you, and I, and she! Rameses must fall, and with him Mena, the boy who degraded my body and poisoned my soul!"
She took me from the steward, I became indispensable to her; she treats me like a man, she values my intelligence and listens to my advice, therefore I will make her great, and with her, and through her, I will wax mighty. If Ani mounts the throne, we wilt guide him you, and I, and she! Rameses must fall, and with him Mena, the boy who degraded my body and poisoned my soul!"
He went up to the window and looked out, but he did not see the pioneer, who watched every motion of the king, and who, as soon as he perceived that his involuntary sigh of anguish had been heard, stretched himself close under the balustrade. Mena had not risen from his knees when the king once more turned to him. "Pardon me," he said again.
As we shall see in the next chapter, he is probably one of the originals of the legendary "Mena," who was regarded from the time of the XVIIIth Dynasty onwards as the founder of the kingdom, and was first made known to Europe by Herodotus, under the name of "Menés." Narmer is therefore the last of the ancient kings of Hierakonpolis, the last of Manetho's "Spirits."
Mena had to make up to his wife for the loss of mother and brother, and Nefert to restore to her husband much that he had been robbed of by her relatives, and they felt that they had met again not merely for pleasure but to be to each other a support and a consolation. Rameses quitted the scene of the fire full of gratitude to the Gods who had shown such grace to him and his.
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