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HANIT
THE ENCHANTRESS
HANIT
THE ENCHANTRESS
BY
GARRETT CHATFIELD PIER
Author of “Inscriptions of the Nile Monuments,” etc.
“Provided thou art an equipped soul, knowing
the Secret Name of Thoth, thou shalt pass unharmed
though that abyss which hath no air, whose depths
are illimitable.”
New York
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
681 Fifth Avenue
Copyright 1921
By E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
All Rights Reserved
Printed in the United States of America
FOREWORD
My reader. Perhaps you have had thegood fortune to visit Egypt! If suchbe the case, you have undoubtedly stoodamong the giant columns of the Temple to theSun-god Amen in the Northern Apt (Karnak).You have marveled at the ever changing colorswhich light up the walls and columns of theTemple of the Southern Apt (Luxor), so thatat one moment they seem to have been carvedfrom blocks of amber, at another from coral,jasper, amethyst or, as the last bright rays ofthe sinking sun fall full upon them, from colossalbars of red Nubian gold.
You have gazed in awe and reverence at themummy of King Amenhotep, lying in his granitesarcophagus, peacefully asleep he seemed, deepdown in the very heart of the Theban Hills.
In an alcove nearby you may recall the threebodies lying, uncoffined, upon the bare rock ofthe tomb chamber. You were informed that the[vi]bodies had been removed from their own tombsto this secret chamber of a dead Pharaoh, thatthey might be saved from the hands of tomb-robbers.
“The mummies of unknown royal personages,”your Arab guide informed you.
Perhaps the guide permitted you to touch thelong black tresses of one of the three. Hepointed out what he called the mark of an arrow,which caused the death of anot