. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . erainty, and prevented the human soul from returning to the world of-the living. Traces of thisbelief are found everywhere, in modern as in ancient times, and E. B. Tylor has collected numerousexamples of the same in Primitive Culture, 2nd edit., vol. ii. pp. 47, 51, 52. 5 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a facsimile by Devèria (E. de Kougé, Études sur le RituelFunéraire, pl. iv. No. 4). Ignorant souls fished for by the cynocephali are here represented as fish ;but the soul of Nofirûbnû, instructed in the protective formulas, preserves its human for
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . erainty, and prevented the human soul from returning to the world of-the living. Traces of thisbelief are found everywhere, in modern as in ancient times, and E. B. Tylor has collected numerousexamples of the same in Primitive Culture, 2nd edit., vol. ii. pp. 47, 51, 52. 5 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a facsimile by Devèria (E. de Kougé, Études sur le RituelFunéraire, pl. iv. No. 4). Ignorant souls fished for by the cynocephali are here represented as fish ;but the soul of Nofirûbnû, instructed in the protective formulas, preserves its human form. 6 Chaps xxxi. and xxxii. of the Boole of the Dead (Navilles edition, vol. i. pis. xliv., xlv.)protect the deceased against crocodiles; chaps, (Navilles edition, vol. i. pis. )enable him to repel all manner of reptiles, both small and great. The vignette of chap, lxiii. B (Navilles edition, vol. i. pi. lxxiv.) shows us the deceasedcalmly crossing a river of boiling water which rises above his ankle. In chap, lxiii. A. THE J0URNEYINGS OF THE SOUL. 185 monkeys cast their Ignorant souls, or those ill prepared for the struggle,had no easy work before them when they imprudently entered upon it. Thosewho were not overcome by hunger and thirst at the outset were bitten by a
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