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Chapter 7  
     
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 It was the hour when Rê, the Sun God, goes down into the Under. world.
 
2.
 And the soldier, watching that going-down, thought upon the vengeance wrought by Rê: what he thought upon kept Edfu fierce and wakeful.
  
3.
 The soldier thought to himself: Now Rê was mocked by men who said to themselves, "Rê has reigned over us for hundreds of years; he has become old;
 
4.
 his bones are like silver, his flesh is like gold.
 
5.
 Who is Rê now that he should he a master over us?"
  
6.
 And Rê, hearing men talk like this, said, "These men who make mock of me will flee into the deserts and the mountains when I send forth against them my daughter, even Sekhmet."
 
7.
 The soldier watching towards the east recalled the appearance of Sekhmet.
  
8.
 She had a lion's head upon a woman's body.
 
9.
 At the word of her father she went forth against men and her voice resounded horribly.
 
10.
 She made the rivers run with the blood of men.
 
11.
 The soldier, watching in the night, had a vision of men fleeing before lion-headed Sekhmet as before the army of Pharaoh.
 
12.
 The mountains did not hide them, the deserts did not hold them.
 
13.
 Sekhmet slew and slew, and her voice sounded as a lion's.
 
14.
 Those whom she did not reach to slay were over come by terror because of her resounding voice.
 
15.
 So Sekhmet strode through the land of Egypt.
  

 
 
 

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