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Updated: July 17, 2025
At length we came to the foot of a great stair. "Rest awhile here, my lord," Oros said, bowing to Leo with the reverence that he had shown him from the first, "for this stair is steep and long. Now we stand upon the Mountain's topmost lip, and are about to climb that tall looped column which soars above."
Now they say that Apollo and Artemis are children of Dionysos and of Isis, and that Leto became their nurse and preserver; and in the Egyptian tongue Apollo is Oros, Demeter is Isis, and Artemis is Bubastis.
"Oros," said the Mother, "tell thou the tale of the death of that priestess of whom the Khania speaks."
"I want to see her again; I cannot bear to be apart from her. I feel as though she were drawing me to her." "How can I tell you? Ask Oros; he is outside the door." So he went and asked him, but Oros only smiled, and answered that the Hesea had not entered her chamber, so doubtless she must still remain in the Sanctuary. "Then I am going to look for her. Come, Oros, and you too, Horace."
When these were gone, the priests and priestesses, who all this time had been ranged round the walls, far out of hearing of our talk, gathered themselves into their separate companies, and still chanting, departed also, leaving us alone with Oros and the corpse of the Khan, which remained where it had been set down. Now the head-priest Oros beckoned to us to follow him, and we went also.
"I am weary," she said, "and it may be that I leave you for a while to rest beyond the mountains. A year, or a thousand years I cannot say. If so, let Papave, with Oros as her counsellor and husband and their seed, hold my place till I return again.
But Leo, who, notwithstanding the strange circumstances connected with his life, retained the religious principles in which I had educated him, very strongly indeed, refused to move an inch until the nature of this service was made clear to him. Indeed he expressed himself upon the subject with vigour to Oros.
Then we were led through long passages, till finally we emerged into the gallery immediately in front of the great wooden doors of the apse. At our approach these swung open and we entered it, Oros going first, then Leo, then myself, and following us, the procession of attendant priests.
Show us what thou art, thou flitting night-owl, who thinkest to frighten me with that livery of death, which only serves to hide the death within." "Cease, I pray lady, cease," said Oros, stirred for once out of his imperturbable calm. "She is the Minister, none other, and with her goes the Power." "Then it goes not against Atene, Khania of Kaloon," she answered, "or so I think. Power, forsooth!
Mount thee on Leo's horse, which is swift and sure; if it dies the guards will bring thee others." I obeyed her as best I could, and once more bathed my head in a pool, and with the help of Oros tied a rag soaked in the liniment on the bruise, after which I felt sound enough.
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