Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 5, 2025
In these encircling hills the King's body was buried; the hills were his chosen resting-place. "Here Akhnaton elected to be buried, where hyenas prowled and jackals wandered, and where the desolate cry of the night-owls echoed over the rocks. In winter the wind sweeps up the valley and howls round the rocks; in summer the sun makes it a veritable furnace, unendurable to man.
He was no longer merely to turn this woman out of his thoughts, to thrust her behind him, a thing of Satan. He was to help her. He was to help her until such a time as she could help herself. He was to bring her mind to the consciousness of the truth. He was to reveal to her, by his prayers, what Akhnaton taught his people that God is happiness, God is beauty, God is Love.
In the three weeks which had passed since their visit to Assuan there had been no return of the vision, so she had insisted upon Michael telling her all that he could about Akhnaton. She felt anxious to understand something about the king whose personality interested and influenced him so greatly. Michael had by no means banished the vision from his thoughts.
Meg's eyes shone with understanding, while his words called up the figure and the bright rays of Akhnaton. "Freddy said that I am to act as a curb on your unpractical tendencies, Mike. I felt very deceitful. He doesn't know how much I've aided and abetted them." "He never imagined that he'd a practical mystic for a sister, did he?" "Never," Meg said.
"Good heavens!" Mike said, while Meg caught hold of Freddy's arm. She was afraid lest their loud cry might shatter the vision before their eyes. Would it vanish with the coming of the light as the figure of Akhnaton had vanished two mornings before?
If it had only come before Freddy was killed, how she would have gloried in it, how delightful it would have been to tell him that even a scientific body of excavators had come to the conclusion that a treasure had been laid up by the religious fanatic for that was Freddy's summing-up of Akhnaton that the seer's vision had again proved true! But now she had no one to rejoice with.
He said he saw the messenger of God always in the midst of a great light, like the light of the sun, that he resembled no mortal he had ever seen, or any king he had ever been shown in his dreams." Meg drew in her breath nervously. "Had he ever heard of Akhnaton, Mike?" "No, never. He is quite unread, totally unlearned and ignorant of all except the teachings of the Koran."
If it was really the spirit of Akhnaton, how could he?" "Dear Meg, there are more things in divine philosophy than are dreamed of by you or me. In what language did Our Saviour speak to St. Francis, who was an Italian, and to St. Catherine?" "That is true," Margaret said, in a changed tone. "Will you tell me all about this Pharaoh?"
The natives would eventually plunder and steal everything, and if the excavation had all been in the hands of the Egyptian Government, heaven knows where the treasures would be to-day! As it is, Cairo has the finest Egyptian museum of antiquities in the world." "Akhnaton was buried in this valley?" "Yes, in later days in his mother's tomb. His first burial-place was at Tel-el-Amarna." "How odd!
The description of the interior of this tomb is taken from various reliable accounts of the interior of the tomb of Thiy. As Queen Thiy was the mother of Akhnaton, her tomb must have been discovered before the events described in this story, otherwise they could not have known that Akhnaton's mummy had been found in his mother's tomb.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking