Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . !^ ^<</lt. 433 Osiris was worshiped under the form of an ox, and was the god of the siin, and the source of life andfertility, and all fruitfulness. He taught man theuse of tools in agriculture, and was greatly beloved inreturn. His envious brother Typhon (the nighty asOsiris was the day)^ conspired to kill and destroyhim, and
Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . !^ ^<</lt. 433 Osiris was worshiped under the form of an ox, and was the god of the siin, and the source of life andfertility, and all fruitfulness. He taught man theuse of tools in agriculture, and was greatly beloved inreturn. His envious brother Typhon (the nighty asOsiris was the day)^ conspired to kill and destroyhim, and would have succeeded but for Isis who con-tended for Osiris, and gathered the fragments of theslain body. Osiris, after making the people of the Nile valleyrich and happy, visited the rest of the world with hisblessings, chiefly agriculture, and the arts, music andeloquence. Anubis is the dog-headed divinity, who was wiseand good, and assisted Isis in the contention betweenOsiris and Typhon. The story of this contest is theprobable foundation on which that of Moses and theark of reeds was made. HoEus was a son of Osiris and Isis, and was also agod of the sun, and equal to the Greek Apollo. Heis often represented as a child seated on a lotus flow-er, wath his finger on his
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