. Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection;. Egyptian Hunters and WarriorsOF THE Archaic Period. 1. Eg}ptian wearing a feather and a loin- cloth with a tail, and armed with abow and arrow. 2. Egyptian wearing two feathers and a loin-cloth, and armed with a bowand mace. 3. Egyptian holding the symbol of his Hawk-god in his right hand, and adouble-headed axe in his left. From a green stone object in theBritish Museum. this time the custom of decapitating the dead had ceasedto exist in Egypt, but the scribes included the formulaagainst it in the Theban Recension because they neverwillingly omitted an
. Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection;. Egyptian Hunters and WarriorsOF THE Archaic Period. 1. Eg}ptian wearing a feather and a loin- cloth with a tail, and armed with abow and arrow. 2. Egyptian wearing two feathers and a loin-cloth, and armed with a bowand mace. 3. Egyptian holding the symbol of his Hawk-god in his right hand, and adouble-headed axe in his left. From a green stone object in theBritish Museum. this time the custom of decapitating the dead had ceasedto exist in Egypt, but the scribes included the formulaagainst it in the Theban Recension because they neverwillingly omitted any ancient text from this greatcollection of religious compositions which was believed Osiris and Cannibalism 171 to be of the least value to the dead.^ There wasalways the chance that owing to some untoward eventthe head of a man might be lost so far as he was con-cerned, and in such vital matters the priests thought itbest to provide against every contingency.^ Now, since it is certain from the evidence of one classof tombs of the Pred
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