Setne Khamwas and Si-Osire

[2] Setne (loosely based on the historical Prince Khaemweset) is the fourth son of Ramesses II and acquires a reputation as more of a scholar than a politician.

In Setne II, he and his wife have a child named Si-Osire who sports amazing abilities and mystical talents.

The two visit the Duat, the land of the dead; several lines of the story are lost, presumably detailing their journey and the initial areas toured.

The gate's pivot rested atop one unfortunate soul's right eye, who pled for mercy and loudly cursed his fate.

Ramses calls his son, the wise Setne Khamwas, but he too is puzzled and asks for a delay of ten days, to think of some solution; he returns home and falls into despair.

Khamwas' son, the young Si-Osire, learns the cause of this distress and reassures his father: he himself can guess the contents of the sealed letter without opening it.

So Setne joyfully takes his son to the Pharaoh, and the next day Si-Osire guesses in the same miraculous way the contents of the Nubian's sealed letter.

A story in the Palestinian Talmud relates how a rich tax collector named Bar Ma'yan and a poor Torah scholar die the same day; a friend is troubled at the rich man's lavish funeral compared to his poor friend dying obscurity.