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"A confederate thou must have," she complained; "and whom dost thou trust more than Ta-user?" "It is not a matter of trust," he explained, "but of thine immunity should the Hathors frown upon my plan." "It matters not," she protested. "Whom wilt thou trust and imperil instead of Ta-user?" "Thou dost hurry me in my plan-making," he remonstrated mildly. "Mayhap I shall choose Hotep."
Why and how this title "house of Horus" should be so general is not obvious. The variety of fate here predicted is like the vagueness of the fate of Bata's wife, by "a sharp death." It points to the Hathors predicting as seers, rather than to their having the control of the future. It bears the stamp of the oracle of Delphi, rather than that of a divine decree.
For her immediate welfare I am not greatly troubled. But, alas! I would be with her thou knowest, O my Hotep, the hunger and heartache of such separation. "If the Pharaoh honor not the signet herein inclosed, tell my father of my plight, let me know the decision of the king, and then I shall trust to the Hathors for liberty. "Of this contingency, I would not speak at length.
The action here of the seven Hathors we have noticed in the remarks on the previous tale of the Doomed Prince. The episode of the sea is very strange; and if we need find some rationalising account of it, we might suppose it to be a mythical form of a raid of pirates, who, not catching the woman, carried off something of hers, which proved an object of contention in Egypt.
Well, when little Tahuti or little Sen-senb was born in Thebes fifteen hundred years before Christ, there were fairy godmothers too, who presided over the great event; and there were others called the Hathors, who foretold all that was going to happen to the little boy or girl as the years went on. The baby was kept a baby much longer in those days than our little ones are kept.
"The eyes of thy guests are upon thee." He laughed. "The prince's doings become the fashion. Let me be seen and there shall be no woman's hand unpossessed in this chamber." "Thou shalt set no fashion by me. Neither shalt thou rend the Hathors between thy wishes and mine. Furthermore, if thou dost forget thy princely dignity, thy power will not prevent me if I would remind thee of thy lapse."
The ninth did supply thee. Blessed be the number." Kenkenes smiled. "But there are seven Hathors, and five days in the epact and the Radiant Three. To me it seemeth there are many good numbers." Hotep plucked his sleeve. "Come, I will show thee the best of all One, the One." Kenkenes arose. "Let me robe myself befittingly, then." "Not too effectively," the scribe cried after him.
My father would very willingly have left me at liberty, but my uncle, a caster of horoscopes in the temple of Ptah, who was all in all in my mother's estimation, and his friends with him, found many other evil signs about my body, read misfortune for me in the stars, declared that the Hathors had destined me to nothing but evil, and set upon her so persistently that at last I was destined to the cloister we lived here at Memphis.
You are young enough to make a wife happy, and your mature wisdom will guard my child from misfortune. Bent-Anat shall know that her father, and king, encourages your suit; but pray too to the Hathors, that they may influence Bent-Anat's heart in your favor, for to her decision we must both submit." The Regent had changed color several times while reading this letter.
But Siptah protested that the Hathors had revealed at sunrise the happiness in store for him, and that the choice of each single blossom proved his assertion.
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