The valley was perfectly still and deserted; on the highest pinnacles of the cliff, which rose perpendicularly to the right, sat a long row of vultures, as motionless as if the mid-day heat had taken all strength out of their wings.
Paaker bowed before them as being the sacred animals of the Great Goddess of Thebes, [She formed a triad with Anion and Chunsu under the name of Muth.
The great "Sanctuary of the kingdom"-- the temple of Karnak--was dedicated to them.] and the two women silently followed his example.
"There," said the Mohar, pointing to two huts close to the left cliff of the valley, built of bricks made of dried Nile-mud, "there, the neatest, next the cave in the rock." Bent-Anat went towards the solitary hovel with a beating heart; Paaker let the ladies go first.

A few steps brought them to an ill-constructed fence of canestalks, palm-branches, briars and straw, roughly thrown together.

A heart-rending cry of pain from within the hut trembled in the air and arrested the steps of the two women.

Nefert staggered and clung to her stronger companion, whose beating heart she seemed to hear.

Both stood a few minutes as if spellbound, then the princess called Paaker, and said: "You go first into the house." Paaker bowed to the ground.
"I will call the man out," he said, "but how dare we step over his threshold.