. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . zone, Dizionariodi Mitologia Egizia, pi. v.). It is described in chap. ex. of the Book of the Dead (Navilles edition, vol. i. pis. ;cf. Lepsics, Todtenbuch, pi. xli.), where there is also a kind of picture map giving the main groups ofthe celestial archipelago, together with the names of the islands andof the channels which separate them. i Book of the Dead, chap. cix. (Navilles edition, vol. i. pl. cxx. 1. 7 ; cf. LErsius, Todtenbuch, chap. 109, 1. 4). Lauth (Aus JEgyptens Vorzeit, pp. 56-61) connects the name of Egyptia
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . zone, Dizionariodi Mitologia Egizia, pi. v.). It is described in chap. ex. of the Book of the Dead (Navilles edition, vol. i. pis. ;cf. Lepsics, Todtenbuch, pi. xli.), where there is also a kind of picture map giving the main groups ofthe celestial archipelago, together with the names of the islands andof the channels which separate them. i Book of the Dead, chap. cix. (Navilles edition, vol. i. pl. cxx. 1. 7 ; cf. LErsius, Todtenbuch, chap. 109, 1. 4). Lauth (Aus JEgyptens Vorzeit, pp. 56-61) connects the name of Egyptianfortresses, Anbû, Teîxoî, given to the walls of Ialu, with that of the island of Elbô in the marshes ofBûto, which current tradition of the Saite period made the refuge of the blind Anysis throughout thewhole duration of the Ethiopian dominion, and whose site was afterwards entirely unknown until the<lay that the Pharaoh Amyitœus flew thither to escape from the Persian generals (Herodotus, ii. 140). 182 THE LEGENDARY HISTORY OF like that of the Pharaohs stood in the midst of delightful gardens ;1 and there,among his own people, Osiris led a tranquil existence, enjoying in successionall the pleasures of earthly life without any of its pains. The goodness which had gained him the title of Onnophris2 while hesojourned here below, inspired him with the desire and suggested the means ofopening the gates of his paradise to the souls of his former subjects. Souls didnot enter into it unexamined, nor without trial. Each of them had first to prove that during its earthly life it hadbelonged to a friend, or, as the Egyptiantexts have it, to a vassal of Osiris—amakluï khir Osiri—one of those who hadserved Horus in his exile and had ralliedto his banner from the very beginning ofthe Typhonian wars. These were thosefollowers of Horus—Shosûû Horn—sooften referred to in the literature of his-toric Horus, their master, havingloaded them with favours during
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