IV.

Multitudes assemble to bewail the death of Coh and witness the funeral

rites. His ashes are laid to rest and, with his charred heart,

deposited in a stone urn, the widowed Queen places her talisman, hoping

to thus link her destiny with that of Coh. She builds a monument over

his mortal remains and a statue made to his likeness, and erects a

memorial hall, upon whose exterior walls she inscribes an invocation to

the _manes_ of her consort.

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