The obelisks, serving also as memorial monuments on which the names and deeds of great kings were recorded, were sacred to him, and Pliny remarks of them that they represented the rays of the sun.

He was regarded as the god of light, the director of the entire visible creation, over which he reigned, as Osiris over the world of spirits.] "On perceiving it, they fell down to worship.

As they rose from their knees, I took the sceptre, and holding it up on high with much solemnity, exclaimed: 'In five days an artificer has transformed the despised vessel into which ye spat and in which men washed your feet, into this divine image.

Such a vessel was I, but the Deity, which can fashion better and more quickly than a goldsmith, has made me your king.
Bow down then before me and worship.

He who henceforth refuses to obey, or is unmindful of the reverence due to the king, is guilty of death!' "They fell down before me, every one, and I saved my authority, but lost my friends.