. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . are sometimes called the two Horuses, and theirkingdoms the two halves of the two Huruses. Examples of these phrases have been collected byEd. Meyer, in Set-Typhon, pp. 31-40, where their meaning is not sufficiently clearly explained. 3 Griffith, The Antiquities of Tell-el-Yaltûdiyeh, in the Seventh Memoir of the Egypt ExplorationFund, pi. xxv. 11. 6-8. We may here noLe the most ancient known reference to the tempest whosetumult hid from men the disappearance or apotheosis of kings who had ascended alive into the story of Itomulu
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . are sometimes called the two Horuses, and theirkingdoms the two halves of the two Huruses. Examples of these phrases have been collected byEd. Meyer, in Set-Typhon, pp. 31-40, where their meaning is not sufficiently clearly explained. 3 Griffith, The Antiquities of Tell-el-Yaltûdiyeh, in the Seventh Memoir of the Egypt ExplorationFund, pi. xxv. 11. 6-8. We may here noLe the most ancient known reference to the tempest whosetumult hid from men the disappearance or apotheosis of kings who had ascended alive into the story of Itomulus. 4 See chap. ii. p. 112, et seq., on embalmment by Anubis. THE 0SIB1AN EMBALMMENT. 179 to vegetate in darkness, without pleasure and almost without consciousness ofexistence. Thot, Isis, and Horus applied themselves in the case of Osiris toameliorating the discomfort and constraint entailed by the more primitiveembalmment. They did not dispense with the manipulations institutedby Anubis, but endued them with new power by means of magic. They. THE 0S1RIAN MUMMY PREPARED AND LAID UPON THE FUNERARY COUCH BY THE JACKAL inscribed the principal bandages with protective figures and formulas ; theydecorated the body with various amulets of specific efficacy for its differentparts ; they drew numerous scenes of earthly existence and of the life beyondthe tomb upon the boards of the coffin and upon the walls of the sepulchral 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from Kosellini, Monumenti Civili, pi. cxxxiv. 2. While Anubis isstretching out his bauds to lay out the mummy on its couch, the soul is hovering above its breast,and holding to its nostrils the sceptre, and the wind-filled sail which is the emblem of breath and ofthe new life. 180 THE LEGENDABY HISTORY OF EGYPT. When the body had been made imperishable, they sought torestore one by one all the faculties of which their previous operations haddeprived it. The mummy was set up at the entrance to the vault; thestatue repre
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