BLUE MAGIC
"When the rim of the moon comes up from the Nile and makes a pathway of silver upon the waters, then must you go to bed," said Siddereticus.
"Did you know," he went on, "that when Horus, the Sun-god, the Beautiful, has passed through the skies in the blazing Boat of the Sun and has come to the end of his journey, then his wife Athor, who is the golden sky of the West, stretches her arms to him and embraces him, and together they sink beneath the waters to the Land of Spirits. Then comes Maut, the Mother-goddess—the deep night sky—to spread her cool veil over all this hot desert-land. Do you see? She is all about us now, big and tender and comforting; the stars are her eyes, watching to see that all is well with her children. She it is who soothes us into sleeping; the little drowsy night-noises are her lullaby; she it is who even now is making your eyelids
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