The Quelling of the StormThey set me on board a great ship, on the prow of which were images of certain gods of the Phoenicians, called by the Greeks /Pataeci/, not unlike to that which the Egyptians worshipped by the name of Bes, before which images burned fire. There was a royal cabin in that ship which was given to me, and with it splendid robes and furnishings of gold for my table.
At dawn we cast off from the quay of the white–walled city while thousands of the worshippers of Isis who learned that I was being taken from them, stood upon the quay and wailed, crying that the /Mouth–of–Isis/ was sent away to slavery and that where her "Mouth" went, there the goddess would follow, leaving vengeance to fall upon their heads. For that the head–priestess of Isis should be given into the han
