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Updated: May 7, 2025
But the moment that we have a lawful and mighty ruler I set aside the wondrous relic." Then Herhor took from his head the miter adorned with the ureus, and gave it to the high priest Mefres. The threatening face of the pharaoh grew calm, and he turned his steps toward the throne. Suddenly the holy Mefres barred the way, and said while bending to the pavement,
Ramses grew pale from rage, and thought: "Shall I need to remove the ureus and thy head at the same time?" But he was silent, knowing that in that greatest of Egyptian temples Herhor was lord, the equal of the gods, and a potentate perhaps greater than the pharaoh.
The following narrative relates to the eleventh century before Christ, when the twentieth dynasty fell, and after the offspring of the sun, the eternally living Ramses XIII, Sem-Amen-Herhor, the high priest of Amon and ever-living offspring of the sun, forced his way to the throne and adorned his head with the ureus.
"My holy grandfather," replied the pharaoh, "was father of the queen, and in the way of favor he received the right to adorn his miter with the ureus. But, so far as is known to me, his sacred vestment is counted among the relics of the temple of Amon." Herhor had recovered. "Deign to remember, holiness," explained he, "that for twenty-four hours Egypt has been deprived of its legal ruler.
The ends of this car were adorned with ostrich plumes and rams' heads, while above a costly baldachin towered an eagle, and there also was the ureus serpent, symbol of the pharaoh's dominion. On this car was placed the sacred mummy, in spite of the wild resistance of court women.
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