[17] Tum, symbolised in the setting, Ra, in the risen sun, appear to signify respectively the hidden and the manifested deity—closely corresponding with Osiris—Horus; for there is a unity underlying the apparently endless varieties of Egyptian worships. [18] Words very suggestive as to the distractions and warfare of the preceding centuries, when the land had indeed seemed to have ‘forgotten the past.’ [19] I am inclined to think that this ‘house’ and its secret passages meant his tomb, whither his son would resort to invoke his father’s memory, who, in the ‘boat of Ra,’ would not forget Usertesen. [20] Or ‘I hid among the shrubs.’ There is often considerable uncertainty in rendering the phrases of such ancient narratives as the ‘Story of Saneha.’ [21] The unseen or hidden world. [22] Foreign tribes on north-east frontier. The point is lost for us. [23] At least he says of himself in his Instructions, ‘I never faltered since the day I was born.’ CHAPTER VI. Successors of Amenemhat I.—Two Provinces added to Egypt. The stone for the sarcophagus of King Amenemhat I. was hewn in the valley of Hammamat, and he was laid to rest in his pyramid called _Kha-nefer_, the ‘Beautiful Rising,’ leaving behind him an honoured name and an inheritance of peaceful days. Usertesen I., his son and successor, reigned in profound tranquillity, and turned his attention to the temples of the gods, which were neglected and falling into decay. They were, he said, the only monuments that could truly confer immortality on a king. First of all, he called together an assembly of the chief men of the land in that ancient home of Egyptian wisdom and learning, the City of the Sun, to consult about a temple that should be raised, ‘worthy of the name of Ra.’ Usertesen himself laid the foundation-stone, and gave the directions for the carrying out of the work. The ruins of both temple and city are now buried deep beneath the soil, but of the two stately obelisks of rose-coloured granite, which stood at the gateway of the temple, one is still standing in solitary grandeur amid the quiet fields; the hieroglyphs upon its surface still record that ‘the Ruler of the North and South, Lord of the Two Countries, Son of the Sun, Usertesen—beloved of the Gods of On, living for ever, the good god,’ executed this work. At the ancient sanctuary of Abydos a temple was erected to Osiris, and Memphis was not overlooked. But whilst duly careful for those time-honoured sanctuaries, Usertesen did not neglect the new southern capital, and he carried on the construction of the great temple of Amen, which his father Amenemhat had begun.