CHAPTER V. 



THE KULEK AS IEIEST. 



602. IN Chapters XIV and XV of Part I, we saw that 

 according to the primitive Theory of Things, this life and 

 this world stand in close relations with the other life and the 

 other world. As implied at the end of the last chapter, one 

 of the many results is that throughout early stages of social 

 evolution, the secular and the sacred are but little dis 

 tinguished. 



Speaking of religion and politics, Hue remarks that &quot;in 

 the Eastern regions of Asia they were formerly one and the 

 same thing, if we may judge from tradition. . . . The name 

 of heaven was given to the Empire, the sovereign called 

 himself God.&quot; How intimately blended were conceived to 

 be the affairs of the material and spiritual worlds by the 

 ancient Ethiopians, is well shown in Maspero s translation 

 of a tablet describing the choice of a king by them. 



&quot;Then said each of them [the assembled host] unto his mate : * It is 

 true ! since the time heaven was, since the royal crown was, . . . Ra 

 decreed to give it unto his son whom he loves, so that the king be an 

 image of Ha amongst the living ; and has not Ra put himself in this 

 litnd, that this land may be in peace 1 Then said each of them unto 

 his mate : But Ea has he not gone away to heaven, and is not his 

 seat empty without a king . . . ? So this whole host mourned, 

 saying : There is a Lord standing amongst us without our knowing 

 him ! &quot; [The host eventually agrees to go to Amen-Ra, &quot; who is the 

 god of Kush,&quot; and ask him to give them their &quot; Lord to vivify &quot; them. 

 Amen-Ra selects one of the Royal Brothers. The new king makes his 

 obeisance to Amen-Ra, &quot; and smelt the earth very much, very much, 

 paying : * Come to me, Amen-Ra, Lord of the seats of both worlds. &quot;] 



