. Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection;. wer. Thisagrees with the old legend, whichsets the throne of Osiris close toor above the fountain of waterwhich flows from heaven, and isthe source of the Nile upon the other end of the Hallof Judgment is the Balance inwhich the heart of the deceasedis to be weighed. It consists ofa stout upright pillar, set in astand, from one side of which,near the top, projects a peg, madein the form of the ostrich feathertypifying truth. From thispeg, suspended by a cord, hangsthe beam of the Balance, with thetwo pans, each of which is sus-pended by two or
. Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection;. wer. Thisagrees with the old legend, whichsets the throne of Osiris close toor above the fountain of waterwhich flows from heaven, and isthe source of the Nile upon the other end of the Hallof Judgment is the Balance inwhich the heart of the deceasedis to be weighed. It consists ofa stout upright pillar, set in astand, from one side of which,near the top, projects a peg, madein the form of the ostrich feathertypifying truth. From thispeg, suspended by a cord, hangsthe beam of the Balance, with thetwo pans, each of which is sus-pended by two or more right pan usually holds the feather of Maat fj, or the goddessMaat 5, and the left the heart which is to be weighed. On thetop of the pillar of the Balance is sometimes placedthe head of the goddess Maat, or the head of Anubis,or the head of the ibis, which was sacred to Thoth,or a figure of the dog-headed ape, which also wassacred to Thoth and was even called by this godsname. The actual weighing of the heart was usually. Skin of the pied buU of the Papyrus of Anhai. 328 Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection performed by the jackal-headed god Anubis, the son ofSet and Nephthys, who in dynastic times held in respectof the judgment of the dead the placewhich his father Set held in the afreattrial of Osiris before the gods whowere assembled in the Hall of theGreat Prince in Heliopolis. Set onthat occasion was the accuser andcalumniator of Osiris, and he broughtcharge after charge against the godwith malicious pertinacity, until atlength Thoth silenced him and madeclear the innocence of Osiris, Thereis no proof that Anubis followed hisfathers example when he was presentat the weig-hinCT of the heart of adeceased person, but the care whichhe displayed in scrutinizing the posi-tion of the pointer of the Balance,and his obvious anxiety lest the heartshould gain any advantage to which itwas not legally entitled, make it quiteclear that the deceased could expe
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