amun's

Updated: May 23, 2025

Out of the recesses of the rocks, some forms arose, and Heraklas, as in a dream, saw his mother, his proud mother she who had burned incense to the sun, she who had once held the sacred sistrum in Amun's temple, she who had taught him to worship Isis, and Osiris, and Horus, and the River Nile his mother throw her arms about Timokles, and kiss his scarred cheek, and sob on the young Christian's neck, "O my son, I have missed thee so!

Mary E. (Mary Ellen) Bamford - Out of the Triangle: a story of the Far East