letter, that god had given them two sons, each with a moon on his head and a star on the nape of his neck. a servant carried the letter to him, and went in to stop the night at the house of the queen’s sister, without knowing that it was her sister. he lay down to sleep; then she took and opened the letter, erased that which was written in it–‘each with a moon on his head and a star on the nape of his neck ‘–and wrote instead, that it was not a snake nor a lizard–it was nobody knew what, that she had become the mother of. the 