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The Stele of the Temple of Khons: Khonsou-Pa-ar-secher
His Holiness was then still at Thebes, celebrating, in the twenty-sixth year of his reign, the panegyric of Ammon. He thereupon went to the temple of the Theban god Khons-Neferhotep, and thus appealed to him: "O my beneficent Lord! I come to thee on behalf of the daughter of the King of Bouchten. If thou wouldst command Khonsou, the giver of counsel who subdues rebels, to go to the country of Bouchten, endowng him with some of thy divine power, I will cause that god to be borne thither to save the daughter of the king my father-in-law."
Khons-Neferhotep, the patron of Thebes, acquiesced in His Majesty's wishes, and, four times over, imparted a portion of his divine virtue to the god Khonsou-Pa-ar-secher, who, enclosed in a brilliant naos, and placed upon a grand bari, proceeded upon a broad car toward the country of Bouchten, escorted by many horsemen riding on the right and on the left of him.
When, at the end of a year and five months, the god Khonsou-Pa-ar-secher arrived in the country of Bouchten, the king, accompanied by his chieftains and his soldiers, came forth to meet him, and, prostrating himself before the sacred bari, cried aloud with his forehead in the dust: "Hail to thee, who comest to us by order of the King Rameses!" When the god had reached the place where the Princess Benten-rest was, the spirit that beset her humiliated itself before Khonsou-Pa-ar-secher, and said to him: "Welcome to thee, mighty god, conqueror of those who rebel! The strong city of Bouchten is thy domain; its inhabitants bow APPENDIX. down before thee, and for myself, I am thy slave; I shall be no hindrance to the purpose of thy journey, but shall return to the place whence I came. Only command the King of Bouchten to make a sacrifice in my honor."
Then Khonsou-Pa-ar-secher of Thebes said graciously to his prophet: "Let the King of Bouchten make a sacrifice honorable to this spirit."
While the god Khonsou and the spirit were thus conversing, the King of Bouchten, filled with a holy fear, was trembling in the midst of his soldiers. He celebrated a great festival in honor of Khonsou and of the spirit, made rich offerings to them, and his daughter Benten-rest was in stantly cured, and the spirit withdrew whither he saw fit. Then the King of Bouchten was seized with extreme delight, as also were all his subjects. Then he said: "This god ought to remain in the country of Bouchten. I will not let him go back to Egypt." Thus Khonsou-Pa-ar-secher was kept three years and nine months in Bouchten; but at the end of that time, behold the King of Bouchten, lying in his bed, saw this god leaving his naos in the form of a golden sparrow-hawk, and extending his wings to fly toward Egypt. And the king, when he awoke, was seized with an inward sickness. He then said to the priest of Khonsou-Pa-ar-secher : "Let him leave us quickly and return to Egypt: cause his car to be made ready !"
When the King of Bouchten caused this god to depart for Egypt, he gave him numerous and costly presents, and soldiers and horses in great quantity. And when the god Khonsou-Pa-ar-secher had reached the temple of Khons- Neferhotep, he offered him the presents which the King of Bouchten had given him in the form of all sorts of good things, and kept nothing for himself. Khonsou-Pa-ar-secher of Thebes thus returned to his temple in peace in the year 33, on the nineteenth day of the month of Mechir, of the King Rameses XII., reigning eternally like the sun.
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