. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . ss, was muchthe same in style as that of the king. This wasa kilt reaching to the ankles, over which wasworn a shirt coming down to the knees, withwide sleeves as far as the elbows. Both kiltand shirt were usual] y of fine white linen. Iucharacter, the Egyptians were very religiousand contemplative, but given to base super-stition ; patriotic, respectful to womau, hos-pitable, generally frugal, but at times luxu-rious
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . ss, was muchthe same in style as that of the king. This wasa kilt reaching to the ankles, over which wasworn a shirt coming down to the knees, withwide sleeves as far as the elbows. Both kiltand shirt were usual] y of fine white linen. Iucharacter, the Egyptians were very religiousand contemplative, but given to base super-stition ; patriotic, respectful to womau, hos-pitable, generally frugal, but at times luxu-rious, very sensual, lying, thievish, treach-erous, and cringing; intensely prejudiced,through pride of race, against strangers, yetkind to them. Their sports embraced gamesof chance, athletic sports, particularly ball-playing, and other analogous sports. Theircharacter is, indeed, much the same as that ofthe modern inhabitants, except that Moham-medanism has taken away the respect forwomen. The ancient Egyptians, are indeed,the only Eastern nation that we know tohave resembled the modern Westerns in thisparticular, but we find the same virtue mark- EGYPT atil n 299 EGYPT U Game of Draughts. edly characteristic of the Nigritians of our day. Religion.—The basis of the religion wasNigritian fetichism—the lowest kind of na-ture-worship. Upon this were ingrafted firstcosmic worship, mixed up with traces of pri-meval revelation as in Babylonia, and thena system of personifications of moral andintellectual abstractions. There were threeorders of gods—the eight great gods, thetwelve lesser, and the group of which Osiris, was worshiped under the form of an ox their pantheistic philosophy, they conceivednot of God as a person, but as an essencediffused throughout nature, and manifestedin infinite variety of form. Animate and in-animate things were parts of one nature, ofwhich the entirety was believed to be God;so that any one might be a manifestation ofthe divine presence, and
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