ver. Maitumu and the Fayum
accepted him as their suzerain, but Khninsu and its king, Pefzaabastit,
faithful to their allegiance,* offered strenuous resistance.

* Pefzaabastit, King of Heracleopolis, seems to be identical
with the Pharaoh Pefzabastit of the Berlin sarcophagus.

He then crossed over to the right bank, and received the homage of
Heliopolis and Phebtepahe; he put the inhabitants of Uabu to ransom,
established a close blockade of Khninsu, and persuaded Namroti, King of
Khmunu, to take an oath of allegiance. At length, those petty kings and
princes of the Said and the Delta who still remained unconquered called
upon Ethiopia, the only power capable of holding its ground against him,
for help. The "vile Kaushu" (Cush) probably rose to be an independent
state about the time when Sheshonq and the Bubastite kings came into
power.

[Illustration: 255.jpg VIEW OF A PART OF THE RUINS OF NAPATA]

Reproduced by Faucher-Gudin, from a lithograph published in
Cailliaud.

Peopled by Theban settlers, and governed by the civil and religious code
of Thebes, the provinces which lay between the cataract of Hannek and
the confluence of the two Mies soon became a second Thebaid, more barren
and less wealthy than the first, but no less tied to the traditions
of the past. Napata, its capital, lay in the plain at the foot of a
sandstone cliff, which rose perpendicularly to a height of nearly two
hundred feet, its summit, when viewed from the southwest, presenting an
accidental resemblance to a human profile.* This was the _Du-uabu_, or
Sacred Mount, in the heart of which the god was supposed to have his
dwelling; the ruins of several temples can still be seen near the
western extremity of the hill, the finest of them being dedicated to a
local Amon-Ra.

* The natives believe this profile to have been cut by human
hands--an error which has been shared by more than one
modern traveller.

[Illustration: 256.jpg GEBEL-BARKAL, THE SACRED MOUNTAIN OF NAPATA]

Reproduced by Faucher-Gudin, from a lithograph in Cailliaud.

This Amon was a replica of the Theban Amon on a smaller scale, and was
associated with the same companions as his prototype, Maut, his consort,
and Khonsu, his son. He owed his origin to the same religious concepts,
and was the central figure of a similar myth, the only difference being
that he was represented in composite shape, with a ram's head; perhaps
a survival fro