. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . ^^. No. Π. priest holding in his hand a lightedtorch, an egg, and sulphur, after whichthe (sacred) scribe read from a papyruscertain prayers, in presence of the as-sembled pastophori, or members of the 86 ASSEMBLIES FREQUENT IN EGYPT. Book II. established from re
. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . ^^. No. Π. priest holding in his hand a lightedtorch, an egg, and sulphur, after whichthe (sacred) scribe read from a papyruscertain prayers, in presence of the as-sembled pastophori, or members of the 86 ASSEMBLIES FREQUENT IN EGYPT. Book II. established from remote antiquity, while in Greece they areonly recently known. 59. The Egyptians do not hold a single solemn assembly, but Sacred College; which agrees well withthe ceremony described on the monu-ments. Some of the sacred boats or arkscontained the emblems of life andstability, which, when the veil wasdrawn aside, Λvere partiallj seen; andothers contained the sacred beetle ofthe sun, overshadowed by the wings oftwo figures of the goddess Thmei, or Truth, which call to mind the cheru-bim (kerubim) of the Jews. The shrinesof some deities differed from those ofothers, though most of them had a ramshead at the prow and stern of the boat;and that of Pthah - Sokar - Osiris wasmarked by its singular form, the centrehaving the head of the
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