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151 went into the temple of Ptah." It was a tale of how a magician brought a dead crocodile back to life. Then the royal son Bau-ef-Ra told of a miracle in the days of Khufu's earlier forefather, when a magician parted the waters of a lake, so that a jewel could be retrieved from its bottom; "and then the magician spake and used his magic speech and he brought the water of all the lake again to its place." Somewhat cynical, the third son Hor-De-Def arose and spoke, saying: "We have heard about the magicians of the past and their doings, the truth of which we cannot verify. Now I know of things done in our time." The Pharaoh Khufu asked what they were; and Hor-De-Def answered that he knew of a man named Dedi who knew how to replace a decapitated head, to tame a lion, and who also knew "the Pdut numbers of the chambers of Thoth." Hearing this, Khufu became extremely curious, for he had been seeking to find out the "secret of the Chambers of Thoth" in the Great Pyramid (already blocked and hidden in Khufu's time!). So he ordered that the sage Dedi be found and fetched from his abode, an island off the tip of the Sinai peninsula. When Dedi was brought before the Pharaoh, Khufu first tested his magical powers, such as bringing back to life a goose, a bird, and an ox, whose heads were cut off. Then Khufu asked: "Is it true what is said, that thou knowest the Pdut numbers for the Iput of Thoth?" And Dedi answered: "I know not the numbers, O king, Lee Te but I know the place the Pdut are in." Egyptologists are by and large agreed that Iput conveyed the meaning "secret chambers of the primeval sanctuary" and Pdut meant "designs, plans with numbers." Answering Khufu, the magician (his age was given as one hun- dred and ten years) said: "I know not the information in the designs, O king, but I know where the plans-with-numbers were hidden by Thoth." In answer to further questioning he said: "There is a box of whetstone in the sacred chamber called the Chart Room in Heliop- atte rs rT olis; they are in that box." Excited, Khufu ordered Dedi to go and find the box for him. But Dedi answered that it was neither he nor Khufu who could obtain the box; it was destined to be found by a future descendant of Khufu. This, he said, was decreed by Ra. Yielding to the god's will, Khufu, as we have seen, ended up only building near the Sphinx a temple dedicated to the Mistress of the Pyramid. The circle of evidence is thus complete. Sumerian and Egyptian texts confirm each other and our conclusions: The same neutral When Earth Was Divided