On me be the blame, not on her, for I am torn with doubts and fears, for myself and for another.

I would know the future." "Why, O Queen Neter-Tua, why wouldst thou know the future?
If hell yawns beneath thy feet, why wouldst thou peep through its golden doors before the time?
The future is hid from mortals because, could they pierce its veil, it would crush them with its terrors.

If all the woes of life and death lay open the gaze, who would dare to live and who--oh! who could dare to die ?" "Then woes await me, O thou who wast my mother ?" "How can it be otherwise?
Light and darkness make the day, joy and sorrow make the life.

Thou art human, be content." "Divine also, O Ahura, if all tales be true." "Then pay for thy divinity in tears and be satisfied.

Content is the guerdon of the beast, but gods are wafted upwards on the wings of pain.
How can that gold be pure which has not known the fire ?" "Thou tellest me nothing," wailed Tua, "and it is not for myself I ask.
I am fair, I am Amen's daughter, and splendid is my heritage.