The Nile : notes for travellers in Egypt . ssess a knowledge of the history of themurder of Osiris by Set, and of the wanderings and troublesof his disconsolate wife Isis. The following extracts fromPlutarchs work on the subject will supply certain informa-tion not given in the Egyptian texts. Osiris, being now become king of Egypt, applied him-self towards civilizing his countrymen by turning them fromtheir former indigent and barbarous courseof life; he moreover taught them how tocultivate and improve the fruits of theearth; he gave them a body of laws toregulate their conduct by, and instru
The Nile : notes for travellers in Egypt . ssess a knowledge of the history of themurder of Osiris by Set, and of the wanderings and troublesof his disconsolate wife Isis. The following extracts fromPlutarchs work on the subject will supply certain informa-tion not given in the Egyptian texts. Osiris, being now become king of Egypt, applied him-self towards civilizing his countrymen by turning them fromtheir former indigent and barbarous courseof life; he moreover taught them how tocultivate and improve the fruits of theearth; he gave them a body of laws toregulate their conduct by, and instructedthem in that reverence and worship whichthey were to pay to the gods; with thesame good disposition he afterwards tra-velled over the rest of the world, inducingthe people everywhere to submit to hisdiscipline ; not indeed compelling themby force of arms, but persuading them toyield to the strength of his reasons, whichwere conveyed to them in the most agree-able manner, in hymns and songs accom-panied with instruments of music ; from. OSIRIS. 108 NOTES FOR TRAVELLERS IN EGYPT. which last circumstance the Greeks conclude him to havebeen the same person with their Dionysus or the absence of Osiris from his kingdom, Typhonhad no opportunity of making any innovations in theState, Isis being extremely vigilant in the government,and always upon her guard. After his return, however,having first persuaded seventy-two other persons to joinwith him in the conspiracy, together with a certain queenof Ethiopia named Aso, who chanced to be in Egypt atthat time, he contrived a proper stratagem to execute hisbase designs. For having privily taken the measure ofOsiriss body, he caused a chest to be made exactly of thesame size with it, as beautiful as might be, and set off withall the ornaments of art. This chest he brought into hisbanqueting room; whereafter it had been much admiredby all who were present, Typhon, as it were in jest,promised to give it to any one of them wh
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