Crossword-Solution: HIYA 4 letters, 49 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

And now tell me how came ye hither to this land of the dwellers among the caves—a land of swamps and evil things and dead old shadows of the dead? What came ye for to see? How is it that ye hold your lives so cheap as to place them in the hollow of the hand of _Hiya_, into the hand of ‘_She-who-must-be-obeyed_’? Tell me also how come ye to know the tongue I talk.

Suddenly there was a cry of “Hiya! Hiya!” (“_She! She!_”), and thereupon the entire crowd of spectators instantly precipitated itself upon the ground, and lay still as though it were individually and collectively stricken dead, leaving me standing there like some solitary survivor of a massacre.

Assuredly, if once they learn that there is naught to fear from Hiya, from the terrible One-who-must-be-obeyed, they will slay ye by the pot.

Thrice they were lifted and at each uplifting there rose a deep-throated cry of _Hiya_, which is the Arabic for She, and I suppose was a salutation to Ayesha.

Aye, I will begone, and when you are stretched upon the stone of sacrifice, and your women and children are the slaves of the men of Rezu, then shall you cry, “‘Oh, where is Hiya whom our fathers knew? Oh, will she not return and save us from this hell?’ “Yes, so shall you cry but there shall come no answer, since then she will have departed to her own habitations in the moon and thence appear no more.