Bride of the Nile (La sposa del Nilo) (La sposa del Nilo)

THE BRIDE OF THE NILE

Ramses visits his bride Amebi, and tells her that the people are waiting...

...for the Nile to burst its banks, to make the parched land fertile.

Pharaoh receives the representatives of the people and orders general sacrifices to be made to the gods.

The people make offerings to appease the Goddess, Isis.

Ramses and Amebi also make their offering to the Goddess.

The Goddess's terrible reply: A maiden's life must be sacri- ficed in the waters of the Nile.

Ramses, suspecting the worst, takes Amebi to the temple where the Bride of the Nile will be chosen.