"Haggard, H Rider- Moon of Israel" - читать интересную книгу автора (Haggard H. Rider)

itself to your knowledge of those dim days.

With gratitude for your help and kindness and the sincerest homage
to your accumulated lore concerning the most mysterious of all the
perished peoples of the earth,
Believe me to remain
Your true admirer,
H. Rider Haggard.




MOON OF ISRAEL



CHAPTER I

SCRIBE ANA COMES TO TANIS

This is the story of me, Ana the scribe, son of Meri, and of certain
of the days that I have spent upon the earth. These things I have
written down now that I am very old in the reign of Rameses, the third
of that name, when Egypt is once more strong and as she was in the
ancient time. I have written them before death takes me, that they may
be buried with me in death, for as my spirit shall arise in the hour
of resurrection, so also these my words may arise in their hour and
tell to those who shall come after me upon the earth of what I knew
upon the earth. Let it be as Those in heaven shall decree. At least I
write and what I write is true.

I tell of his divine Majesty whom I loved and love as my own soul,
Seti Meneptah the second, whose day of birth was my day of birth, the
Hawk who has flown to heaven before me; of Userti the Proud, his
queen, she who afterwards married his divine Majesty, Saptah, whom I
saw laid in her tomb at Thebes. I tell of Merapi, who was named Moon
of Israel, and of her people, the Hebrews, who dwelt for long in Egypt
and departed thence, having paid us back in loss and shame for all the
good and ill we gave them. I tell of the war between the gods of Egypt
and the god of Israel, and of much that befell therein.

Also I, the King's Companion, the great scribe, the beloved of the
Pharaohs who have lived beneath the sun with me, tell of other men and
matters. Behold! is it not written in this roll? Read, ye who shall
find in the days unborn, if your gods have given you skill. Read, O
children of the future, and learn the secrets of that past which to
you is so far away and yet in truth so near.