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Updated: June 25, 2025
"Because then, although we had much to fear, there was no woman in the story. Now the woman has entered it and I think that our real troubles are about to begin. Oh! to-morrow I go to seek counsel of the holy Tanofir." "And I come with you," I answered, "for I think it will be needed."
Then she slipped away to attire herself, leaving me wondering, because my mother was shrewd and never spoke at random. There was the holy Tanofir, too, with his talk about the temple of Isis, and he also did not speak at random. Oh! now I felt as I had done when the shadow of the palm-tree fell on me yonder in the palace garden.
Thus, now I must marry yonder Karema if she will marry me for fear lest I should prove the holy Tanofir to be what he called me a liar." I laughed and then asked Bes if he had taken note of what the seeress said of our flight south and our return thence with a great army of black men armed with bows.
Perhaps it was not really he whom we had seen, but what we Egyptians called his /Ka/ or Double which can pass to and fro at will. Only do /Kas/ eat? Of this matter I knew only that offerings of food and drink are made to them in tombs. So leaving the holy Tanofir to guard himself, I turned my mind to our own business, which was to surprise the army of the Great King.
From all of which I gathered that he was wooing the lady who had called herself the Cup of Tanofir, and wondered how the business went, though as he said no more I did not ask him. Indeed I had little time to talk with Bes about such light matters, since things moved apace in Memphis.
Also she saw the holy Tanofir brooding in the darkness of the Cave of the Bulls, and read in his mind that he was thinking of us, though what he thought she could not read. Again she saw Eastern messengers delivering letters to Pharaoh and knew from his face that he was disturbed and that Egypt was threatened with calamities. And so forth.
I said to her what I had said to the holy Tanofir, that doubtless she was making ready for the feast since I could not find her at the Crowning. "Or saying good-bye to the goddess," answered my mother nodding, "since there are some who find it even harder to fall from heaven to earth than to climb from earth to heaven, and after all you are but a man, my son."
You must have wooed her well during these days which have been so full for both of us." "I did not woo her over much, Master; indeed, the time was lacking. I wooed the holy Tanofir, which was more important." "The holy Tanofir, Bes?" I exclaimed. "Yes, Master. You see this beautiful Cup of his is after all his beautiful Cup. Her mind is the shadow of his mind and from her he pours out his wisdom.
Yes, I know him well, though I have seldom been very near to him because his eyes frighten me, as they frightened Cambyses the Persian when Tanofir cursed him and foretold his doom after he had stabbed the holy Apis, saying that by a wound from that same sword in his own body he should die himself, which thing came to pass. As they have frightened many another man also."
Then I remembered that they were vouched for by the holy Tanofir, my own great-uncle whom I trusted above any man on earth, and took heart again. How had he come into our tent, I wondered, and how, blind as he was, would he get back into Amada with Karema, if he took her? Well, who could account for the goings or the comings of the holy Tanofir, who was more of a spirit than a man?
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