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Morning Star
by H. Rider Haggard

DEDICATION
My dear Budge,--
Only a friendship extending over many years emboldened me, an
amateur, to propose to dedicate a Romance of Old Egypt to you, one of
the world's masters of the language and lore of the great people who in
these latter days arise from their holy tombs to instruct us in the secrets
of history and faith.
With doubt I submitted to you this story, asking whether you wished to
accept pages that could not, I feared, be free from error, and with
surprise in due course I read, among other kind things, your advice to
me to "leave it exactly as it is." So I take you at your word, although I
can scarcely think that in paths so remote and difficult I have not

sometimes gone astray.
Whatever may be the shortcomings, therefore, that your kindness has
concealed from me, since this tale was so fortunate as to please and
interest you, its first critic, I offer it to you as an earnest of my respect
for your learning and your labours.
Very sincerely yours, H. Rider Haggard. Ditchingham.
To Doctor Wallis Budge, Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities,
British Museum.

AUTHOR'S NOTE
It may be thought that even in a story of Old Egypt to represent a "Ka"
or "Double" as remaining in active occupation of a throne, while the
owner of the said "Double" goes upon a long journey and achieves
sundry adventures, is, in fact, to take a liberty with Doubles. Yet I
believe that this is scarcely the case. The /Ka/ or Double which
Wiedermann aptly calls the "Personality within the Person" appears,
according to Egyptian theory, to have had an existence of its own. It
did not die when the body died, for it was immortal and awaited the
resurrection of that body, with which, henceforth, it would be reunited
and dwell eternally. To quote Wiedermann again, "The /Ka/ could live
without the body, but the body could not live without the /Ka/ . . . . . it
was material in just the same was as the body itself." Also, it would
seem that in certain ways it was superior to and more powerful than the
body, since the Egyptian monarchs are often represented as making
offerings to their own /Kas/ as though these were gods. Again, in the
story of "Setna and the Magic Book," translated