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Updated: June 13, 2025
Then by their feeble light we passed through the outer hall till we came to the curtains that veil the sanctuary of the Holy Place, and here I quenched the tapers; for no fire must enter there, save that which burns upon the altar of the dead. But through the curtains came rays of light. "'Open! said Meriamun, and I opened, and hand in hand we passed in.
Awake, awake, Meneptah; with this bow which I give thee shalt thou smite the Nine-bow barbarians." Then Meriamun laid the bow of the Wanderer, even the black bow of Eurytus, on the bed beside Pharaoh, and passed thence to her own chamber, and the deceitful dream too passed away. Early in the morning, a waiting-woman came to the Queen saying that Pharaoh would speak with her.
Now the chariots of Meriamun were pursuing, and they splashed through the blood of men in the pass, and rolled over the bodies of men in the plain beyond the pass. They came to the camps and found them peopled with dead, and lit with the lamps of the blazing ships of the Aquaiusha.
If the Fates permitted: but all the adventure was of the Fates, who had shown him to Meriamun in a dream. He turned it long in his mind and found little light. It seemed that as he had drifted through darkness across a blood-red sea to the shores of Khem, so he should wade through blood to that shore of Fate which the Gods appointed.
Then the women brought the reeds and the wood, and piled them around the Shrine to twice the height of a man. They brought ladders also, and piled the fuel upon the roof of the Shrine till all was covered. And they poured pitch over the fuel, and then at the word of Meriamun they cast torches on the pitch and drew back screaming.
"Tell me whence I come," it said again. "From the evil that is in me," answered Meriamun. "Tell me whither I go." "Where I go there thou goest, for I have warmed thee in my breast and thou art twined about my heart." Then the Snake lifted up its human head and laughed horribly. "Well art thou instructed," it said. "So I love thee as thou lovest me," and it bent itself and kissed her on the lips.
Remembering that dream of Meriamun of which Rei the Priest had told him, and which she knew not that he had learned, the dream that showed her the vision of one whom she must love, and remembering the word of the dead Hataska, he grew afraid. For he saw well by the token of the spear point that he was the man of her dream, and that she knew it.
But he drove on, as so it must be, and came to the Palace at sundown. That night he sat at the feast by the side of Meriamun the Queen. And when the feast was done she bade him follow her into her chamber where she sat when she would be alone.
Whose beauty was it then that now he saw? By the Immortal Gods, it was the beauty of Meriamun; it was the glory of the Pharaoh's Queen! He stared upon her lovely sleeping face, while terror shook his soul. How could this be? What then had he done? Then light broke upon him.
But Meriamun passed into the chamber, and standing at the foot of the golden bed, lifted up her hands and by her art called visions down on Pharaoh, false dreams through the Ivory Gate. So Pharaoh dreamed, and thus his vision went:
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