Salammbo’s serpent had several times already refused the four live sparrows which were offered to it at the full moon and at every new moon. Its handsome skin, covered like the firmament4 with golden spots upon a perfectly5 black ground, was now yellow, relaxed, wrinkled, and too large for its body. A cottony mouldiness extended round its head; and in the corners of its eyelids6 might be seen little red specks7 which appeared to move. Salammbo would approach its silver-wire basket from time to time, and would draw aside the purple curtains, the lotus leaves, and the bird’s down; but it was continually rolled up upon itself, more motionless than a withered8 bind-weed; and from looking at it she at last came to feel a kind of spiral within her heart, another serpent, as it were, mounting up to her throat by degrees and strangling her.
She was in despair of having seen the zaimph, and yet she felt a sort of joy, an intimate pride at having done so. A mystery shrank within the splendour of its folds; it was the cloud that enveloped9 the gods, and the secret of the universal existence, and Salammbo, horror-stricken at herself, regretted that she had not raised it.
She was almost always crouching11 at the back of her apartment, holding her bended left leg in her hands, her mouth half open, her chin sunk, her eye fixed12. She recollected13 her father’s face with terror; she wished to go away into the mountains of Phoenicia, on a pilgrimage to the temple of Aphaka, where Tanith descended15 in the form of a star; all kinds of imaginings attracted her and terrified her; moreover, a solitude16 which every day became greater encompassed17 her. She did not even know what Hamilcar was about.
Wearied at last with her thoughts she would rise, and trailing along her little sandals whose soles clacked upon her heels at every step, she would walk at random18 through the large silent room. The amethysts19 and topazes of the ceiling made luminous20 spots quiver here and there, and Salammbo as she walked would turn her head a little to see them. She would go and take the hanging amphoras by the neck; she would cool her bosom22 beneath the broad fans, or perhaps amuse herself by burning cinnamomum in hollow pearls. At sunset Taanach would draw back the black felt lozenges that closed the openings in the wall; then her doves, rubbed with musk23 like the doves of Tanith, suddenly entered, and their pink feet glided24 over the glass pavement, amid the grains of barley25 which she threw to them in handfuls like a sower in a field. But on a sudden she would burst into sobs26 and lie stretched on the large bed of ox-leather straps27 without moving, repeating a word that was ever the same, with open eyes, pale as one dead, insensible, cold; and yet she could hear the cries of the apes in the tufts of the palm trees, with the continuous grinding of the great wheel which brought a flow of pure water through the stories into the porphyry centre-basin.
Sometimes for several days she would refuse to eat. She could see in a dream troubled stars wandering beneath her feet. She would call Schahabarim, and when he came she had nothing to say to him.
She could not live without the relief of his presence. But she rebelled inwardly against this domination; her feeling towards the priest was one at once of terror, jealousy28, hatred29, and a species of love, in gratitude30 for the singular voluptuousness31 which she experienced by his side.
He had recognised the influence of Rabbet, being skilful32 to discern the gods who send diseases; and to cure Salammbo he had her apartment watered with lotions33 of vervain, and maidenhair; she ate mandrakes every morning; she slept with her head on a cushion filled with aromatics34 blended by the pontiffs; he had even employed baaras, a fiery35-coloured root which drives back fatal geniuses into the North; lastly, turning towards the polar star, he murmured thrice the mysterious name of Tanith; but Salammbo still suffered and her anguish36 deepened.
No one in Carthage was so learned as he. In his youth he had studied at the College of the Mogbeds, at Borsippa, near Babylon; had then visited Samothrace, Pessinus, Ephesus, Thessaly, Judaea, and the temples of the Nabathae, which are lost in the sands; and had travelled on foot along the banks of the Nile from the cataracts37 to the sea. Shaking torches with veil-covered face, he had cast a black cock upon a fire of sandarach before the breast of the Sphinx, the Father of Terror. He had descended into the caverns38 of Proserpine; he had seen the five hundred pillars of the labyrinth39 of Lemnos revolve40, and the candelabrum of Tarentum, which bore as many sconces on its shaft41 as there are days in the year, shine in its splendour; at times he received Greeks by night in order to question them. The constitution of the world disquieted42 him no less than the nature of the gods; he had observed the equinoxes with the armils placed in the portico43 of Alexandria, and accompanied the bematists of Evergetes, who measure the sky by calculating the number of their steps, as far as Cyrene; so that there was now growing in his thoughts a religion of his own, with no distinct formula, and on that very account full of infatuation and fervour. He no longer believed that the earth was formed like a fir-cone; he believed it to be round, and eternally falling through immensity with such prodigious44 speed that its fall was not perceived.
From the position of the sun above the moon he inferred the predominance of Baal, of whom the planet itself is but the reflection and figure; moreover, all that he saw in terrestrial things compelled him to recognise the male exterminating46 principle as supreme47. And then he secretly charged Rabbet with the misfortune of his life. Was it not for her that the grand-pontiff had once advanced amid the tumult48 of cymbals49, and with a patera of boiling water taken from him his future virility50? And he followed with a melancholy51 gaze the men who were disappearing with the priestesses in the depths of the turpentine trees.
His days were spent in inspecting the censers, the gold vases, the tongs52, the rakes for the ashes of the altar, and all the robes of the statues down to the bronze bodkin that served to curl the hair of an old Tanith in the third aedicule near the emerald vine. At the same hours he would raise the great hangings of the same swinging doors; would remain with his arms outspread in the same attitude; or prayed prostrate53 on the same flag-stones, while around him a people of priests moved barefooted through the passages filled with an eternal twilight54.
But Salammbo was in the barrenness of his life like a flower in the cleft55 of a sepulchre. Nevertheless he was hard upon her, and spared her neither penances56 nor bitter words. His condition established, as it were, the equality of a common sex between them, and he was less angry with the girl for his inability to possess her than for finding her so beautiful, and above all so pure. Often he saw that she grew weary of following his thought. Then he would turn away sadder than before; he would feel himself more forsaken57, more empty, more alone.
Strange words escaped him sometimes, which passed before Salammbo like broad lightnings illuminating58 the abysses. This would be at night on the terrace when, both alone, they gazed upon the stars, and Carthage spread below under their feet, with the gulf59 and the open sea dimly lost in the colour of the darkness.
He would set forth60 to her the theory of the souls that descend14 upon the earth, following the same route as the sun through the signs of the zodiac. With outstretched arm he showed the gate of human generation in the Ram61, and that of the return to the gods in Capricorn; and Salammbo strove to see them, for she took these conceptions for realities; she accepted pure symbols and even manners of speech as being true in themselves, a distinction not always very clear even to the priest.
“The souls of the dead,” said he, “resolve themselves into the moon, as their bodies do into the earth. Their tears compose its humidity; ’tis a dark abode62 full of mire63, and wreck64, and tempest.”
She asked what would become of her then.
“At first you will languish65 as light as a vapour hovering66 upon the waves; and after more lengthened67 ordeals68 and agonies, you will pass into the forces of the sun, the very source of Intelligence!”
He did not speak, however, of Rabbet. Salammbo imagined that it was through some shame for his vanquished69 goddess, and calling her by a common name which designated the moon, she launched into blessings71 upon the soft and fertile planet. At last he exclaimed:
“No! no! she draws all her fecundity72 from the other! Do you not see her hovering about him like an amorous73 woman running after a man in a field?” And he exalted74 the virtue75 of light unceasingly.
Far from depressing her mystic desires, he sought, on the contrary, to excite them, and he even seemed to take joy in grieving her by the revelation of a pitiless doctrine76. In spite of the pains of her love Salammbo threw herself upon it with transport.
But the more that Schahabarim felt himself in doubt about Tanith, the more he wished to believe in her. At the bottom of his soul he was arrested by remorse77. He needed some proof, some manifestation78 from the gods, and in the hope of obtaining it the priest devised an enterprise which might save at once his country and his belief.
Thenceforward he set himself to deplore79 before Salammbo the sacrilege and the misfortunes which resulted from it even in the regions of the sky. Then he suddenly announced the peril80 of the Suffet, who was assailed81 by three armies under the command of Matho — for on account of the veil Matho was, in the eyes of the Carthaginians, the king, as it were, of the Barbarians82 — and he added that the safety of the Republic and of her father depended upon her alone.
“Upon me!” she exclaimed. “How can I—?”
But the priest, with a smile of disdain83 said:
“You will never consent!”
She entreated84 him. At last Schahabarim said to her:
“You must go to the Barbarians and recover the zaimph!”
She sank down upon the ebony stool, and remained with her arms stretched out between her knees and shivering in all her limbs, like a victim at the altar’s foot awaiting the blow of the club. Her temples were ringing, she could see fiery circles revolving85, and in her stupor86 she had lost the understanding of all things save one, that she was certainly going to die soon.
But if Rabbetna triumphed, if the zaimph were restored and Carthage delivered, what mattered a woman’s life? thought Schahabarim. Moreover, she would perhaps obtain the veil and not perish.
He stayed away for three days; on the evening of the fourth she sent for him.
The better to inflame88 her heart he reported to her all the invectives howled against Hamilcar in open council; he told her that she had erred45, that she owed reparation for her crime, and that Rabbetna commanded the sacrifice.
A great uproar89 came frequently across the Mappalian district to Megara. Schahabarim and Salammbo went out quickly, and gazed from the top of the galley90 staircase.
There were people in the square of Khamon shouting for arms. The Ancients would not provide them, esteeming91 such an effort useless; others who had set out without a general had been massacred. At last they were permitted to depart, and as a sort of homage92 to Moloch, or from a vague need of destruction, they tore up tall cypress93 trees in the woods of the temples, and having kindled94 them at the torches of the Kabiri, were carrying them through the streets singing. These monstrous95 flames advanced swaying gently; they transmitted fires to the glass balls on the crests96 of the temples, to the ornaments97 of the colossuses and the beaks98 of the ships, passed beyond the terraces and formed suns as it were, which rolled through the town. They descended the Acropolis. The gate of Malqua opened.
“Are you ready?” exclaimed Schahabarim, “or have you asked them to tell your father that you abandoned him?” She hid her face in her veils, and the great lights retired101, sinking gradually the while to the edge of the waves.
An indeterminate dread102 restrained her; she was afraid of Moloch and of Matho. This man, with his giant stature103, who was master of the zaimph, ruled Rabbetna as much as did Baal, and seemed to her to be surrounded by the same fulgurations; and then the souls of the gods sometimes visited the bodies of men. Did not Schahabarim in speaking of him say that she was to vanquish70 Moloch? They were mingled104 with each other; she confused them together; both of them were pursuing her.
She wished to learn the future, and approached the serpent, for auguries105 were drawn106 from the attitudes of serpents. But the basket was empty; Salammbo was disturbed.
She found him with his tail rolled round one of the silver balustrades beside the hanging bed, which he was rubbing in order to free himself from his old yellowish skin, while his body stretched forth gleaming and clear like a sword half out of the sheath.
Then on the days following, in proportion as she allowed herself to be convinced, and was more disposed to succour Tanith, the python recovered and grew; he seemed to be reviving.
The certainty that Salammbo was giving expression to the will of the gods then became established in her conscience. One morning she awoke resolved, and she asked what was necessary to make Matho restore the veil.
“To claim it,” said Schahabarim.
“But if he refuses?” she rejoined.
The priest scanned her fixedly107 with a smile such as she had never seen.
“Yes, what is to be done?” repeated Salammbo.
He rolled between his fingers the extremities108 of the bands which fell from his tiara upon his shoulders, standing87 motionless with eyes cast down. At last seeing that she did not understand:
“You will be alone with him.”
“Well?” she said.
“Alone in his tent.”
“What then?”
Schahabarim bit his lips. He sought for some phrase, some circumlocution109.
“If you are to die, that will be later,” he said; “later! fear nothing! and whatever he may undertake to do, do not call out! do not be frightened! You will be humble110, you understand, and submissive to his desire, which is ordained111 of heaven!”
“But the veil?”
“The gods will take thought for it,” replied Schahabarim.
“Suppose you were to accompany me, O father?” she added.
“No!”
He made her kneel down, and keeping his left hand raised and his right extended, he swore in her behalf to bring back the mantle112 of Tanith into Carthage. With terrible imprecations she devoted113 herself to the gods, and each time that Schahabarim pronounced a word she falteringly114 repeated it.
He indicated to her all the purifications and fastings that she was to observe, and how she was to reach Matho. Moreover, a man acquainted with the routes would accompany her.
She felt as if she had been set free. She thought only of the happiness of seeing the zaimph again, and she now blessed Schahabarim for his exhortations115.
It was the period at which the doves of Carthage migrated to Sicily to the mountain of Eryx and the temple of Venus. For several days before their departure they sought out and called to one another so as to collect together; at last one evening they flew away; the wind blew them along, and the big white cloud glided across the sky high above the sea.
The horizon was filled with the colour of blood. They seemed to descend gradually to the waves; then they disappeared as though swallowed up, and falling of themselves into the jaws116 of the sun. Salammbo, who watched them retiring, bent118 her head, and then Taanach, believing that she guessed her sorrow, said gently to her:
“But they will come back, Mistress.”
“Yes! I know.”
“And you will see them again.”
“Perhaps!” she said, sighing.
She had not confided119 her resolve to any one; in order to carry it out with the greater discretion120 she sent Taanach to the suburb of Kinisdo to buy all the things that she required instead of requesting them from the stewards121: vermilion, aromatics, a linen122 girdle, and new garments. The old slave was amazed at these preparations, without daring, however, to ask any questions; and the day, which had been fixed by Schahabarim, arrived when Salammbo was to set out.
About the twelfth hour she perceived, in the depths of the sycamore trees, a blind old man with one hand resting on the shoulder of a child who walked before him, while with the other he carried a kind of cithara of black wood against his hip99. The eunuchs, slaves, and women had been scrupulously123 sent away; no one might know the mystery that was preparing.
Taanach kindled four tripods filled with strobus and cadamomum in the corners of the apartment; then she unfolded large Babylonian hangings, and stretched them on cords all around the room, for Salammbo did not wish to be seen even by the walls. The kinnor-player squatted124 behind the door and the young boy standing upright applied125 a reed flute126 to his lips. In the distance the roar of the streets was growing feebler, violet shadows were lengthening127 before the peristyles of the temples, and on the other side of the gulf the mountain bases, the fields of olive-trees, and the vague yellow lands undulated indefinitely, and were blended together in a bluish haze128; not a sound was to be heard, and an unspeakable depression weighed in the air.
Salammbo crouched129 down upon the onyx step on the edge of the basin; she raised her ample sleeves, fastening them behind her shoulders, and began her ablutions in methodical fashion, according to the sacred rites130.
Next Taanach brought her something liquid and coagulated in an alabaster131 phial; it was the blood of a black dog slaughtered132 by barren women on a winter’s night amid the rubbish of a sepulchre. She rubbed it upon her ears, her heels, and the thumb of her right hand, and even her nail remained somewhat red, as if she had crushed a fruit.
The moon rose; then the cithara and the flute began to play together.
Salammbo unfastened her earrings133, her necklace, her bracelets134, and her long white simar; she unknotted the band in her hair, shaking the latter for a few minutes softly over her shoulders to cool herself by thus scattering135 it. The music went on outside; it consisted of three notes ever the same, hurried and frenzied136; the strings137 grated, the flute blew; Taanach kept time by striking her hands; Salammbo, with a swaying of her whole body, chanted prayers, and her garments fell one after another around her.
The heavy tapestry138 trembled, and the python’s head appeared above the cord that supported it. The serpent descended slowly like a drop of water flowing along a wall, crawled among the scattered139 stuffs, and then, gluing its tail to the ground, rose perfectly erect140; and his eyes, more brilliant than carbuncles, darted141 upon Salammbo.
A horror of cold, or perhaps a feeling of shame, at first made her hesitate. But she recalled Schahabarim’s orders and advanced; the python turned downwards142, and resting the centre of its body upon the nape of her neck, allowed its head and tail to hang like a broken necklace with both ends trailing to the ground. Salammbo rolled it around her sides, under her arms and between her knees; then taking it by the jaw117 she brought the little triangular143 mouth to the edge of her teeth, and half shutting her eyes, threw herself back beneath the rays of the moon. The white light seemed to envelop10 her in a silver mist, the prints of her humid steps shone upon the flag-stones, stars quivered in the depth of the water; it tightened144 upon her its black rings that were spotted145 with scales of gold. Salammbo panted beneath the excessive weight, her loins yielded, she felt herself dying, and with the tip of its tail the serpent gently beat her thigh146; then the music becoming still it fell off again.
Taanach came back to her; and after arranging two candelabra, the lights of which burned in crystal balls filled with water, she tinged147 the inside of her hands with Lawsonia, spread vermilion upon her cheeks, and antimony along the edge of her eyelids, and lengthened her eyebrows148 with a mixture of gum, musk, ebony, and crushed legs of flies.
Salammbo seated on a chair with ivory uprights, gave herself up to the attentions of the slave. But the touchings, the odour of the aromatics, and the fasts that she had undergone, were enervating149 her. She became so pale that Taanach stopped.
“Go on!” said Salammbo, and bearing up against herself, she suddenly revived. Then she was seized with impatience150; she urged Taanach to make haste, and the old slave grumbled151:
“Well! well! Mistress! — Besides, you have no one waiting for you!”
“Yes!” said Salammbo, “some one is waiting for me.”
Taanach drew back in surprise, and in order to learn more about it, said:
“What orders to you give me, Mistress? for if you are to remain away —”
But Salammbo was sobbing152; the slave exclaimed:
“You are suffering! what is the matter? Do not go away! take me! When you were quite little and used to cry, I took you to my heart and made you laugh with the points of my breasts; you have drained them, Mistress!” She struck herself upon her dried-up bosom. “Now I am old! I can do nothing for you! you no longer love me! you hide your griefs from me, you despise the nurse!” And tears of tenderness and vexation flowed down her cheeks in the gashes153 of her tattooing154.
“No!” said Salammbo, “no, I love you! be comforted!”
With a smile like the grimace155 of an old ape, Taanach resumed her task. In accordance with Schahabarim’s recommendations, Salammbo had ordered the slave to make her magnificent; and she was obeying her mistress with barbaric taste full at once of refinement156 and ingenuity157.
Over a first delicate and vinous-coloured tunic158 she passed a second embroidered159 with birds’ feathers. Golden scales clung to her hips100, and from this broad girdle descended her blue flowing silver-starred trousers. Next Taanach put upon her a long robe made of the cloth of the country of Seres, white and streaked160 with green lines. On the edge of her shoulder she fastened a square of purple weighted at the hem21 with grains of sandastrum; and above all these garments she placed a black mantle with a flowing train; then she gazed at her, and proud of her work could not help saying:
“You will not be more beautiful on the day of your bridal!”
“My bridal!” repeated Salammbo; she was musing161 with her elbow resting upon the ivory chair.
But Taanach set up before her a copper162 mirror, which was so broad and high that she could see herself completely in it. Then she rose, and with a light touch of her finger raised a lock of her hair which was falling too low.
Her hair was covered with gold dust, was crisped in front, and hung down behind over her back in long twists ending in pearls. The brightness of the candelabra heightened the paint on her cheeks, the gold on her garments, and the whiteness of her skin; around her waist, and on her arms, hands and toes, she had such a wealth of gems163 that the mirror sent back rays upon her like a sun; — and Salammbo, standing by the side of Taanach, who leaned over to see her, smiled amid this dazzling display.
Then she walked to and fro embarrassed by the time that was still left.
Suddenly the crow of a cock resounded164. She quickly pinned a long yellow veil upon her hair, passed a scarf around her neck, thrust her feet into blue leather boots, and said to Taanach:
“Go and see whether there is not a man with two horses beneath the myrtles.”
Taanach had scarcely re-entered when she was descending165 the galley staircase.
“Mistress!” cried the nurse.
Salammbo turned round with one finger on her mouth as a sign for discretion and immobility.
Taanach stole softly along the prows166 to the foot of the terrace, and from a distance she could distinguish by the light of the moon a gigantic shadow walking obliquely167 in the cypress avenue to the left of Salammbo, a sign which presaged168 death.
Taanach went up again into the chamber169. She threw herself upon the ground tearing her face with her nails; she plucked out her hair, and uttered piercing shrieks170 with all her might.
It occurred to her that they might be heard; then she became silent, sobbing quite softly with her head in the hands and her face on the pavement.
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