. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . THE GODDESS ADOPTS THEKING BY SUCKLING 264 THE POLITICAL CONSTITUTION OF palace,1 or, less ceremoniously, by the indeterminate pronoun Thegreater number of these terms is always accompanied by a wish addressedto the sovereign for his life, health, and strength, the initial signsof which are written after all his He accepts all this graciously, andeven on his own initiative, swears by his own life, or by the favourof Râ,4 but he forbids his subjects to imitate him :5 for them it isa sin, punishable in this world and i
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . THE GODDESS ADOPTS THEKING BY SUCKLING 264 THE POLITICAL CONSTITUTION OF palace,1 or, less ceremoniously, by the indeterminate pronoun Thegreater number of these terms is always accompanied by a wish addressedto the sovereign for his life, health, and strength, the initial signsof which are written after all his He accepts all this graciously, andeven on his own initiative, swears by his own life, or by the favourof Râ,4 but he forbids his subjects to imitate him :5 for them it isa sin, punishable in this world and in the next,6 to adjure theperson of the sovereign, except in the case in which amagistrate requires from them a judicial He isapproached, moreover, as a god is approached, with down-cast eyes, and head or back bent ; they sniff theearth before him,8 they veil their faces with bothhands to shut out the splendour of his appearance ;they chant a devout form of adoration before submitting to him apetition. No one is free from this obligation : his ministers them-selves, and the great ones of his kingdom, cannot deliberate wit
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