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At sunset Taanach would draw back the black felt lozenges that closed the openings in the wall; then her doves, rubbed with musk like the doves of Tanith, suddenly entered, and their pink feet glided over the glass pavement, amid the grains of barley which she threw to them in handfuls like a sower in a field.
At last she struck one of the brass pateras which hung at the corners of the red mattress, crying: "To the rescue! to the rescue! Back, sacrilegious man! infamous and accursed! Help, Taanach, Kroum, Ewa, Micipsa, Schaoul!" And the scared face of Spendius, appearing in the wall between the clay flagons, cried out these words: "Fly! they are hastening hither!"
Taanach came back to her; and after arranging two candelabra, the lights of which burned in crystal balls filled with water, she tinged the inside of her hands with Lawsonia, spread vermilion upon her cheeks, and antimony along the edge of her eyelids, and lengthened her eyebrows with a mixture of gum, musk, ebony, and crushed legs of flies.
A strange peacefulness possessed her. Her gaze was less wandering, and shone with limpid fire. Meanwhile the python had become ill again; and as Salammbo, on the contrary, appeared to be recovering, old Taanach rejoiced in the conviction that by its decline it was taking away the languor of her mistress.
Shining and round, thou dost graze the mountain-tops like the wheel of a chariot. "O Tanith! thou dost love me? I have looked so much on thee! But no! thou sailest through thine azure, and I I remain on the motionless earth. "Taanach, take your nebal and play softly on the silver string, for my heart is sad!"
Then she was seized with impatience; she urged Taanach to make haste, and the old slave grumbled: "Well! well! Mistress! Besides, you have no one waiting for you!" "Yes!" said Salammbo, "some one is waiting for me." Taanach drew back in surprise, and in order to learn more about it, said: "What orders to you give me, Mistress? for if you are to remain away "
Taanach stole softly along the prows to the foot of the terrace, and from a distance she could distinguish by the light of the moon a gigantic shadow walking obliquely in the cypress avenue to the left of Salammbo, a sign which presaged death. Taanach went up again into the chamber.
The jurisdiction of Rianap extended as far north as the plain of Megiddo, since he is also referred to by Pu-Hadad, the governor of Yurza, now Yerzeh, south-eastward of Taanach. But it was more particularly in the extreme south of Palestine that the duties of this officer lay.
Taanach disappeared, and Schahabarim, raising one arm in the air, began: "Before the gods darkness alone was, and a breathing stirred dull and indistinct as the conscience of a man in a dream. It contracted, creating Desire and Cloud, and from Desire and Cloud there issued primitive Matter. This was a water, muddy, black, icy and deep.
Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Bethshean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
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