Hathor - Secretly

This painting deals with the theme of human destiny. The artist asks Hathor, the Egyptian Goddess of the Underworld, to revive the young Pharaoh Tutankhamon. The goddess welcomes the prayer and invites the ibis, her sacred bird, to prepare a rope that will serve in the shade to tie the young man's body to herself so that he can no longer return to the underworld. But the young man is unable to give the rope to the waiting Goddess. Soon the shadow will melt and the young man will return into the grave forever. No Divinity can win the force of Destiny.

The inscription in hieroglyphics reminds that the inspiration of the work borns from one verse from the seventeenth Sonnet of Love by P. Neruda.