Friday Photo: The Pests of the Pyramids
Traditions exist that these Pyramids were covered by inscriptions and while no traces remain it is quite in – accord with the habits of the Egyptians. Inasmuch as temples, obelisks, and mastabas are covered with inscriptions it is quite natural to infer that the same course should have been pursued with the Pyramids. The Copts have a legend that one inscription read
“I have built the Pyramid in sixty years let him who come after me try to destroy it in six hundred. I have covered it with silk let them try to cover it with mats.”
Myth describes a Lady of the Pyramids, a beautiful naked woman with dazzling teeth enthroned on the western Pyramid alluring wayfarers to her arms and depriving them of reason
“Fair Rhod’ope as story tells
The bright unearthly nymph who dwells
Mid sunless gold and jewels hid
The Lady of the Pyramid.”Moore
Pests of the Pyramids from the Boston Public Library Some rights reserved
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