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Updated: May 28, 2025
"I have heard something of this," said Ramses, "but I shall not believe it till Thou show me mummies of monsters which, as Thou sayst, are in thy temple." "With permission, holiness, I will finish what I have begun," said Samentu. "When I saw that immense body in the cave at Sinai fear seized me, and for two years or more I entered no cave of any kind.
In the evening came Samentu dressed in the garb of a pilgrim, and when he had greeted his holiness with honor, he whispered, "It seems to me that I was followed the whole way by some man who has stopped not far from this tent, O holiness. Perhaps he was sent by the high priests." At the pharaoh's command Tutmosis ran out, and found, in fact, a strange officer. "Who art thou?" asked he.
He had the impression of being in some depth and the feeling that the edifice would crush him. Of taking bearings amid those hundreds of corridors, halls, and chambers, he had no thought any longer. He did not even wish to explain to himself by what miracle those stone walls opened, or why pavements sank before him. "Samentu will do nothing," said he in spirit.
But above all was the need to crush Assyria, which was growing each year more dangerous. It was imperative to stop priestly greed and excesses. Let priests be sages, let them have a sufficiency, but let them serve the state instead of using it for their own profit as at present. "In the month Hator," thought Samentu, "I shall be ruler of Egypt!
For with death present as a fact a whole life-time is shortened into one painful minute even though that life were the longest of all and the richest in experience. "Why was he alive? For what purpose?" He was sobered by the voice of one of the armed men, "There is no one here, and cannot be." They halted. Samentu felt that he loved those men, and his heart thumped within him.
Samentu was acquainted as no other man in Egypt with subterranean places, with going astray, and with darkness. He had passed also through many alarms in his life. But that which he experienced then was something perfectly new and so terrible that the priest feared to give its own name to it. At last, with great effort, he collected his thoughts, and said,
"Holiness, the priest Samentu wishes to pay thee homage." "Well, let him come." "He implores thee, lord, to receive him in a tent in the military camp; he asserts that the walls of the palace are fond of listening." Before sunset, the pharaoh went with Tutmosis to his faithful troops and found among them the royal tent, at which Asiatics were on guard by command of Tutmosis.
He understood that that priest was a great traitor, but he estimated the magnitude of the service which the man might render. "Well," said the pharaoh, "I will think of this Samentu. But now let us suppose for the moment that it is possible to make such a canal; what profit shall I have from it?" Hiram raised his left hand, and counted on his fingers.
"I knew it before, but this time I have made a new discovery: the treasure chamber may sink, people may be lost, and jewels be destroyed which are of the greatest value." The pharaoh frowned. "Therefore," continued Samentu, "be pleased, holiness, to have ready some tens of reliable men.
In spite of fear and repulsion I returned a number of times to that cave and examined the creature most carefully." "Then it was alive?" "No, it was dead. Dead a very long time, but preserved like our mummies. The great dryness of the air preserved it, and perhaps some. salt of the earth unknown to me. "That was my last discovery," continued Samentu.
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