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I feel that above my head is a spider of immense size, and he is binding me with a web of ship ropes." Beroes turned his dagger point upward. "Mer-Amen-Ramses," said he again, "look ever at the spark, and never at the sides. Here is a sign which I raise in thy presence," whispered he.
"Here stands thy father; here stands Osiris-Mer-Amen-Ramses. I am thy son; I am Horns; I come to purify thee and make thee alive. I put thy bones again in order; I join that which was severed, for I am Horus, the avenger of my father. Thou wilt sit on the throne of Ra who proceeds from Nut, who gives birth to Re every morning, who gives birth to Mer-Amen-Ramses daily, just as Re."
But in fact there was no need of mortification, since Horus had found the remains of Osiris. From that moment on, the late pharaoh, Mer-Amen-Ramses, was called "Osiris" officially; unofficially, he had been called that since his death. The innate joyfulness of the Egyptian people began to gain the victory over mourning, especially among warriors, artisans, and laborers.
"Baralanensis, Baldachiensis, by the mighty princes Genio, Lachidae, the ministers of the infernal kingdom, I summon you, I call you through the strength of Supreme Majesty, by which I am gifted, I adjure, I command!" At that place the pharaoh started up with aversion. "Mer-Amen-Ramses, what seest thou?" asked the Chaldean.
"Mer-Amen-Ramses, high priest of Amon, dost Thou distinguish a spark in that black globe?" "I see a white spark which seems to move like a bee above a flower." "Mer-Amen-Ramses, look at that spark and take not thy eyes from it. Look neither to the right nor the left, look not on anything whatever which may come from the sides." And again he whispered,
So in the month Hator, after thirty-four years of rule, died the Pharaoh Mer-Amen-Ramses XII, the ruler of two worlds, the lord of eternity, the giver of life and every happiness. He died because he felt that his body was growing weak and useless. He died because he was yearning for his eternal home and he wished to confide the cares of earthly rule to hands that were more youthful.
And on the whole earth such rest settled down that the sun, just hiding on the horizon, thrust up his shining head again. The pharaoh recovered. He saw before him a little table, on the table a black globe, at the side of it Beroes the Chaldean. "Mer-Amen-Ramses," asked the priest, "hast Thou found a person whose prayers reach the footstool of Him who existed before the ages?" "I have."
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