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Updated: June 3, 2025
The most immediate place of safety seemed to be the Inner Sanctuary of Nagaya, . . it was untouched by the flames, and its Titanic pillars of brass and bronze suggested, in their very massiveness, a nearly impregnable harbor of refuge. The King had fled thither, and now stood, like a statue of undaunted gloomy amazement, beside Lysia, who on her part appeared literally frozen with terror.
"The Virgin Priestess of the Sun and the Divine Nagaya hath need of thee to-night, Sah-luma!" he said, with a sort of suppressed derision underlying his words, and taking from his breast a ring that glittered like a star, he held it out in the palm of one hand "And also" he added "of thy friend the stranger, to whom she desires to accord a welcome. Behold her signet!"
Then, with slow and solemn step, the Priest Zel advanced to the front of the Shrine, and spreading out his hands in the manner of one pronouncing a benediction, said loudly and with emphasis: "Nagaya the Divine doth hear the prayers of his people! "Nagaya the Supreme doth accept the offered Sacrifice!
Lysia the captor was made captive at last! ..bound, helpless, imprisoned, and hopelessly doomed, ..Nagaya had claimed his own!
Waving their palm-boughs to and fro, they paced along past the King and down the centre aisle of the Temple, then turning, they came back again to the lowest step of the Shrine and there they all prostrated themselves, while the children who stood near the incense-burners flung fresh perfumes on the glowing embers and chanted the following recitative: "O Nagaya, great, everlasting and terrible!
In the name of the Sun and Nagaya, ... Peace!" The voice died away in a muffled echo, and the slow, solemn boom of a brazen-tongued bell struck midnight.
"The Priest of the Temple of Nagaya," went on Sah-luma "are the greatest scientists in the world, with the exception of the lately formed Circle of Mystics, who it must he confessed exceed them in certain new lines of discovery.
"'Tis not to be divulged," he replied curtly "The virgin is no longer counted among the living ... she is as one already departed the name she bore hath been erased from the city registers, and she wears instead the prouder title of 'Bride of the Sun and Nagaya. Restrain thy curiosity until night hath fallen, it may be that thou, who hast a wide acquaintance among fair maidens, wilt recognize her countenance."
Then in a firm voice the Priest Zel proclaimed: "Behold the elected Bride of the Sun and the Divine Nagaya! "She bears away from the city the burden of your sins, O ye people, and by her death the gods are satisfied! "Rejoice greatly, for ye are absolved, and by the Silver Veil and the Eye of Raphon we pronounce upon all here present the blessing of pardon and peace!"
Groans and sobs, . . wild entreaties to Nagaya and the Sun-God.. curses from the soldiery, who intent on saving themselves were brutally trying to force a passage to the door regardless of the wailing women, whose frantic appeals for rescue and assistance were heart-rending to hear, . . all these sounds increased the horror of the situation, and Theos, blind, giddy, and confused, listened to the uproar around him with something of the affrighted compassion that a stranger in Hell might be supposed to feel when hearkening to the ceaseless plaints of the self-tortured wicked.
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