custom-breakers

Updated: May 15, 2025

"It is an old custom, and a sacred," said Rei, "but women, the custom-makers, are often custom-breakers. And of all women, Meriamun least loves to be obedient, even to the dead. And yet she has obeyed, and it came about thus. Her brother Meneptah who now is Pharaoh the Prince of Kush while her divine father lived, had many half-sisters, but Meriamun was the fairest of them all.

Henry Rider Haggard - The World's Desire