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"Nay, thou wilt not prosper, Kenkenes. Thou servest two masters. But there is one thing still unexplained the favor of Athor." "That is not mine to boast. I have but craved it," Kenkenes replied hesitatingly. "Where doth she live?" Hotep asked, by way of experiment. "In the quarries below." There was no more doubt in the mind of Hotep.
He looked at the statue furtively and murmured: "O Kenkenes, what madness made thee trifle with the gods?" "Have I not said? The goddess herself lured me. Is she not the embodied essence of Beauty? The ritual insults her. Ah, look at the statue, Hotep. How could Athor be wroth with the sculptor who called such a face as that, a likeness of her!" "It startles me," the scribe declared.
Here two great grotto temples were in course of construction, the one dedicated to the gods Amun and Phre, and built at the expense of Rameses himself, the other dedicated to Athor by Lofreai, the queen. On these temples were engraved the records of the victories of Rameses over various nations of Africa and Asia.
"Nay," he exclaimed. "Never!" "Wherefore, I pray thee?" Hotep asked with a deprecating smile. "There is no mating between the lion and the eagle; the stag and the asp! They could not love." "Thou dreamy idealist!" Hotep laughed. "The half of great marriages are moves of strategy, attended more by Set than Athor. Ta-user is mad for the crown, Rameses for undisputed power.
The flight was not long, but she had lost her composure before she started. Outside her doors, she trembled as if unprotected. Soldiers of the royal guard paced along the hall before her chambers. The lamps that burned there were of gold; the drapings were of purple wrought with the royal symbols; the asp supported the censers; the head of Athor surmounted the columns.
It consisted of wires suspended through the sides of an arch, to which a handle, generally highly ornamented with the head of Athor, as in the one in the case, is fixed: the wires terminating with heads of sacred animals, upon which rings were suspended that produced sounds by being shaken backwards and forwards.
The next dawn, even before sunrise, Hotep found Kenkenes once again in the temple before the shrine of Athor. But this time the scribe knelt silently beside his friend. When they emerged into the sunless solemnity of the grove he turned to Kenkenes. "With the licensed forwardness of an old friend, I would ask what thou hast to crave of the lovers' goddess, O thou loveless?"
He is a visionary an idealist, and so firmly rooted are his beliefs that they are to his life as natural as the color of his eyes. He is a beauty-worshiper. Athor possesses him utterly, and her loveliness blinds him to all other things, particularly to his own welfare and safety. "In the beginning he fell in love, and a soul like his in love is most unreasoning, immoderate and terribly faithful.
On the walls of the tombs still remain Pthah, the creator, and Neph, the divine spirit, sitting at the potters wheel, turning clay to form men; and Athor, who receives the setting sun into her arms; and Osiris, the judge of the dead. The granite statues have outlived the gods!
He confronted his idea embodied Athor, the Golden! It was an Israelitish maiden, barely sixteen years old, but in all his life he had never looked upon such beauty. He had gazed with pleased eyes on the slender blush-tinted throats and wrists of the Egyptian beauties, but never had he beheld such whiteness of flesh as this.
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