. Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection;. receptacles for libations, etc. ; on the upperedge a prayer for offerings is usually cut. Often the faceof the slab is sculptured with the figures of offerings,geese, bulls heads, loaves of bread, vegetables, similar tables for offerings are found in the tombs ofmen who were not rich, and whose relatives were not ina position to endow them with offerings in explanation of their existence is this : the Egyptiansbelieved that the prayer cut on the stone slab wouldcause the offerings to appear regularly, and that thefigures of the of
. Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection;. receptacles for libations, etc. ; on the upperedge a prayer for offerings is usually cut. Often the faceof the slab is sculptured with the figures of offerings,geese, bulls heads, loaves of bread, vegetables, similar tables for offerings are found in the tombs ofmen who were not rich, and whose relatives were not ina position to endow them with offerings in explanation of their existence is this : the Egyptiansbelieved that the prayer cut on the stone slab wouldcause the offerings to appear regularly, and that thefigures of the offerings sculptured on the face of the slab J\ 1 ^^. See Tylor, Tomb of Paheri, text, I. 42. Osiris and Sacrifice and Offerings 267 would suggest to the invisible beings who provided thefunerary meals what offerings should be supplied. Theslab, in fact, was regarded as a magical source for the ^^*=^ / y\A\_l/^ feik- 11 If 1.—;:r 0 1 Seti I offering two bandlets to Osiris and receiving life from the , Abydos, Vol. I, p. Seti 1 offering two bandlets to , Ahydos, Vol. I, p. 52. supply of offerings. That this was so is proved by thelittle models of altars which are found in tombs, andwhich are too small to have served the purpose of tablesfor offerings in the ordinary sense of the word. Thecustom of making offerings to ancestral spirits is so 268 Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection common among modern African peoples that only a fewexamples need be quoted. In Anguru-land and on the Tanganyika plateau smallshelters are erected for the spirits of the dead, and adaily allowance of food and drink is placed in names of the dead are never mentioned under anycircumstances whatsoever,^ The Bavuma also makespirit houses, but they put neither meat nor drink inthem. In times of distress an ancestors spirit is calledupon for help, and a goat is presented to it; the animalis dragged up to the house, but is then allowed to ancestor is also ca
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