The Open court . alance, the construction of which is quite noteworthy. Afeather, the emblem of truth and symbol of the goddess Maat, serves him for a weight. .-Vnis soul, 66 THE OPEN COURT. opinions concerning it, among which two are most prominent, viz.,first, the view of most Christian archaeologists that it is the work ofa pagan slave done in ridicule of a Christian fellow slave, hence thenditiXG Spottcrucijix by which it is commonly known, and secondly theview of Mr. King who believes it to be the expression of Gnosticpiety, not drawn to ridicule any ones religion, but to express theautho
The Open court . alance, the construction of which is quite noteworthy. Afeather, the emblem of truth and symbol of the goddess Maat, serves him for a weight. .-Vnis soul, 66 THE OPEN COURT. opinions concerning it, among which two are most prominent, viz.,first, the view of most Christian archaeologists that it is the work ofa pagan slave done in ridicule of a Christian fellow slave, hence thenditiXG Spottcrucijix by which it is commonly known, and secondly theview of Mr. King who believes it to be the expression of Gnosticpiety, not drawn to ridicule any ones religion, but to express theauthors own sentiments. He claims that the head is not the headof a donkey, but of a jackal, and that it represents the jackal-headedAnubis, attached to a cross. ANUBIS. We grant that Anubis was a Deity that played a most impor-tant part not only in the religion of ancient Egypt but also in theimagination of the early Christians of Egypt who identified himwith Christ, on account of his relation to the preservation and. The Mummy at the Tumb Protected by Anubis resurrection of the dead. His picture frequently appears in thepapyri (called The Book 0/ the Dead) that accompanied the mum-mies into the tomb, or as the Egyptians called their last abode,pa Celta, i. e., the everlasting house. Anubis is frequently represented as standing by the bier, some-times with one hand on the mummy. He presides over the pro-cess of embalming and then ushers the dead into the presence ofOsiris. He weighs the heart of the deceased in the Judgment Hall;and thus his assistance is, next to that of Osiris and of Horus, in-dispensable for obtaining the boon of resurrection of the body. in the shape of a human-headed hawk, watches the procedure. Underneath the left arm of thebalance stands the genius of Anis Destiny, above whose head appears a figure called tneskhen,and described as a cubit with a human head. It is some representative of mans embryonic ex-istence and the conditions of his birth. Further to the
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