The Open court . rument in some kinds of lithography, andit was recommended and practised in a measure by Kuskin andRosetti. But the analysis of the full powers of the brush in edu- ANUmS, SKTH, AND (JIIRI^ 73 Seth appears on the monuments as the instructor of kings inthe art of warfare, and also, in the company with Hor, as a pro-tector of the dead in their peregrinations in the life beyond. In Tanis and other cities of Lower Egypt Seth was calledthe Beloved of Ra, the Son of Nut (the goddess of the sky;)and the Mighty One in the Sunbark. Far from being identifiedwith the serpent Apep, he was
The Open court . rument in some kinds of lithography, andit was recommended and practised in a measure by Kuskin andRosetti. But the analysis of the full powers of the brush in edu- ANUmS, SKTH, AND (JIIRI^ 73 Seth appears on the monuments as the instructor of kings inthe art of warfare, and also, in the company with Hor, as a pro-tector of the dead in their peregrinations in the life beyond. In Tanis and other cities of Lower Egypt Seth was calledthe Beloved of Ra, the Son of Nut (the goddess of the sky;)and the Mighty One in the Sunbark. Far from being identifiedwith the serpent Apep, he was believed to be her enemy and slayer. Since the Osiris myth is supposed to be too well known inEgypt to need any recapitulation and is only alluded to in theMonuments, we possess only a second-hand account of it in Plu-tarchs book on Isis and Osiris,^ and, so far as can be judged fromthe evidence within reach at the present time, there is no way oftelling whether or not the myth was different in its ancient
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