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"But it was Thou who didst turn the attention of Ramses to the people, and now Thou bearest mourning for him in thy heart, though he did nothing whatever for the people. It was Thou who commiserated, not he. Ye are strange men, in spite of your powerful minds," continued Herhor. "It is the same thing with Menes.
Try to remember the verses I have just composed," and he sang the following to a tune in vogue: Nous sommes menes au trepas We are led to our death Par quantite de scelerats, by a gang of scoundrels c'est ce qui nous desole. that makes us sad. He is always re-elected, and unanimously. Lafayette "Memoires," I., 359, 366.
One class of scholars place the date of the first historic king, Menes, two or three thousand years earlier than the point assigned by the other class!
"I see that office has not benefited thee," replied Menes, shrugging his shoulders. "But though Thou hast lost that alertness which I admired in thee, I will show still another thing. Perhaps when Thou hast returned to wisdom, and I am dead, Thou wilt work at improving and spreading my inventions." They went back to the pylon, and Menes put some fuel under a brass kettle.
The king had come early to have a sort of divinity ascribed to him. His chief name was the Horus name. Menes was the Horus Aha; Cheops was the Horus Mejeru; Pepy II was the Horus Netery-khau. But he was also the son of Ra, the sun-god, endued with life forever. The king was a god, and it could only be that in his future life he shared the life of the gods.
But their boat sped on before the north-wind; they left the city of the dead behind them and passed the enormous dikes built to protect the city of Menes from the violence of the floods; the city of the Pharaohs came in sight, dazzlingly bright with the myriads of flames which had been kindled in honor of the goddess Neith, and when at last the gigantic temple of Ptah appeared, the most ancient building of the most ancient land, the spell broke, their tongues were loosed, and they burst out into loud exclamations of delight.
And, shades of Bunsen! how many thousand years of hard food shall we add to the account for our horses’ Egyptian ancestry? Moses and Miriam sang their dirge on the shore of the Red Sea, in the reign of a mediæval Pharaoh, but their “early progenitors,” as Mr. Darwin would phrase it, might have enjoyed the barley of the ancient King Menes.
Rameses raised himself and looked fixedly at the soldier. Again Menes laughed. "Spare me, my Prince! It is no longer a state secret. It is out and over all Egypt. Why it came not to thine ears I know not. Perchance every one is afraid to gossip to thee save mine unabashed self." "Waster of the air!" Rameses exclaimed. "What meanest thou?"
"Dost say that that black ball is the moon?" inquired the pharaoh of Pentuer. "That is what Menes asserts." "He is a great sage! And will the darkness end soon?" "To a certainty." "And if this moon should tear itself away and fall to the earth?" "That cannot be. Here is the sun!" cried Pentuer, with delight. The assembled regiments raised a shout in honor of Ramses XIII.
"Rezu was his name, and from him came the Egyptian Re or Ra, since in the beginning Kôr was the mother of Egypt and the conquering people of Kôr took their god with them when they burst into the valley of the Nile and subdued its peoples long before the first Pharaoh, Menes, wore Egypt's crown." "Ra was the sun, was he not?" I asked.
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