[Moon of Israel by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookMoon of Israel CHAPTER XI 14/23
Did I tell you that six days gone a fine new statue of the god was consecrated there and on the following morning was found lying on its side, or rather with its head resting on the breast of Mut ?" "If so, Merapi is blameless, because she has gone away from this city." "Of course she has gone away, for has not Seti gone also? But I think she left something behind her.
However that may be, even our new divine lord is afraid.
He dreams ill, Ana," he added, dropping his voice, "so ill that he has called in Ki, the Kherheb,[*] to interpret his visions." [*] "Kherheb" was the title of the chief official magician in ancient Egypt. "And what said Ki ?" "Ki could say nothing or, rather, that the only answer vouchsafed to him and his company, when they made inquiry of their Kas, was that this god's reign would be very short and that it and his life would end together." "Which perhaps did not please the god Amenmeses, Bakenkhonsu ?" "Which did not please the god at all.
He threatened Ki.
It is a foolish thing to threaten a great magician, Ana, as the Kherheb Ki, himself indeed told him, looking him in the eyes.
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