"The parents were satisfied!" said the priest.
"Tell me," said the pharaoh, after thinking, "how can ye sages render homage to beasts which, moreover, when there are no witnesses, ye beat with sticks?"
The high priest looked around again, and seeing no one near by, he answered,
"Of course Thou canst not suspect, sovereign, that worshippers of one god believe in the divinity of beasts. What is done is done for the people."
In the temple of Hator the pharaoh passed quickly through the school of medicine, and listened without great interest to predictions given by astrologers concerning him. When the astrologer high priest showed him a tablet on which was engraved a map of heaven, he asked,
"How often do these predictions come true which ye read in the stars?"
"They come true sometimes."
"But if ye predict from trees, stones, or running water, do those predictions come true also?"
The high priest was troubled.
"Holiness, do not consider us untruthful. We predict the future for people because it concerns them, and we tell them, indeed, what they can understand of astronomy."