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Updated: May 2, 2025
"I am glad they did not stop, for I wanted to see thee, with that frightened longing of a man who hath resolved on confession and meeteth his confessor on a sudden. Now that the moment hath arrived I marvel how I shall make my peace with Athor, whose command I most deliberately broke." She raised her beautiful eyes to his face and waited for him to proceed.
"Thou wilt not betray me, Hotep; I shall not publish myself, and the other the only other who possesses my secret the Israelite, who was my model, is fidelity's self. I would trust her with my soul." "An Israelite! Thy nation's most active foe at this hour!" "She is no enemy to me, Hotep." Slowly the scribe's eyes traveled from the face of Athor to the face of Kenkenes.
The specimens in this case, which have lost their lustre under centuries of rust, include one with a lotus handle, ornamented with the Egyptian goddess of beauty, Athor; one with a tress of hair as a design for the handle: and others ornamented with the head of the much reverenced hawk.
But Athor in the niche on the hillside was not more white and stony than its living model in the valley. There was no retreat. The fan-bearer stood between her and the Nile, his servant between her and the quarries. She felt the sickening numbness that stupefies one who realizes a terrible strait, from which there is neither succor nor escape.
This is what has made me sing." He unslung his wallet and took out of it a statuette of creamy chalk. "Thus far has the Athor of the hills progressed." He put it into her hands for examination. The face was complete, the minute features as perfect as life, the plaits of long hair and all the figure exquisitely copied and shaped. The pedestal was yet in rough block. Rachel inspected it, wondering.
He left the block of stone undisturbed, for the transgression was not yet apparent on the face of Athor. The scrolls, which had been concealed under the carpeting, were too numerous for his wallet to contain, but he carried the surplus openly in his hand. It was sunset before he had made an end.
On the occasion of his initial departure from the accepted rules, he had never dreamed it possible to disregard ritualistic commandments so absolutely. He even ignored the passive and meditative repose, immemorial on the carven countenances of Egypt. The face of Athor, as she put forth her arms to receive the sun, must show love, submission, eagerness and great appeal.
"Kenkenes, have I prayed in vain for the light to fall on thee?" she asked sadly. He smiled and moved closer, looking down into her face as he had done when he studied it as Athor. "Nay, hast thou done that, and hast thou not been heard? Thou dost but fix me in mine unbelief. Did any god exist he would have heard thy supplications. Come, let us make an end of this.
In most instances the names of the gods are Egyptian; thus, Ptah meant 'the opener'; Amen, 'the concealed'; Ra, 'the sun or day'; Athor, 'the house of Horus'; but some few, especially of later times, were introduced from Semitic sources, as Bal or Baal, Astaruta or Astarte, Khen or Kiun, Respu or Reseph.
It was not long until the sculptor was drifting down toward Memphis under a starry sky the shadowy temples of Thebes hidden by the sudden closing-in of the river-hills about her. Set the war-god. Athor the Egyptian Venus; the feminine love-deity. At sunrise the morning after his return from On, Kenkenes appeared at the Nile, attended by a burden-bearing slave.
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