Exasperated, I went to the Palace of Tears, hid, and heard her speak, “It is now three years since you spoke one word to me. Is it from insensibility or contempt?” I was so enraged that this creature was doted upon and adored that I appeared suddenly and, addressing the tomb in my turn, cried, “O tomb! Why dost thou not swallow up this pair of monsters?” The queen rose like a fury. “Cruel man! Thou art the cause of my grief. It is thy barbarous hand which brought him into this lamentable condition, and thou art so hard-hearted as to come and insult me. “Yes, “ I said, in a rage, “it was I, and I ought to have treated thee in the same manner.” I drew out my scimitar, but she pronounced words I did not understand and added, “Under my enchantments, I command thee to become half marble and half man.” Immediately, I became such as you see me now, a dead man among the living and a living man among the dead. She brought me into this hall and, by another enchantment, destroyed my capital, reducing it to the pond and desert field. The fishes of four colors in the pond are the people of four different religions who inhabited the place. Her revenge was not satisfied, so she comes every day and gives me a hundred blows with an ox goad, and when she is done, she covers me with this robe of brocade that you see.

Sculptor – Katsuhiko Chaen