Tremulously, expecting at any moment to see unnamed It was a small pyramid, mazeless, without traps, just a stone passage Hacked into the doorseal, angular and deep, were the hieroglyphs of the Ur Kingdom: KHUFT HAD ME MADE. It hadĬlearly been built long before the Kingdom got the hang of pyramids. Low, dark, half-concealed in drifted sands, and the blocks were hardlyĮven masonry they were no more than roughly squared boulders. Whenever he begins to feel old, he sleeps in the pyramid that had been constructed for him by the first Pharaoh and then returns refreshed and several years younger:Īt last they came, like a tide, to yet another pyramid. He longed for the necropolis, and the cool silence among his oldįriends, and a quick sleep after which he’d be able to think so much The city of Djel is on one side of the river with the (far larger) Necropolis on the other side.ĭios regularly travels into the necropolis to take advantage of the time-reversing effects of the pyramids in order to attain a form of immortality: This "island" you're referring to is in fact the Necropolis, literally a city of the dead with streets of small tombs and mausoleums surrounding the enormous pyramids.
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