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The Monuments of Rameses The: Okau

And permission to speak having been accorded to the chiefs of Okau, they said: "Thy power has no bounds; it is like the power of Mandu and of Ammon, whose depositary thou art, here below: if thou wert to give orders to the night, the light would instantly appear. We come then, in all haste, to implore thy Majesty to do something in behalf of these gold mines, since thou art he who dost shine, at present, on the throne of the world. Thou wilt not reject our prayers, thou who hast but to say to the mountain spring to leap forth, in order to behold the abyss of the waters of the heavens fly open at the sound of thy voice; for thou art the sun made flesh, all of whose orders are obeyed, all of whose words are made good, oh thou, our lord and our master!...."