. The Mythology of all races .. . Fig. 21. The Dead Wit-nesses THE Birth ofthe Sun from the Ce-lestial Tree 36 EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY. thought of the celestial or cosmic tree or trees, which is foundamong so many nations, also underlies the idea of the tree of life, whose fruit keeps the gods andthe chosen souls of the dead in eter-nal youth and in wisdom in Egyptas elsewhere. The tree of fate, whoseleaves or fruits symbolize events or Fig. 22. The Sun-Boat and the the lives of men, represents the sameTwo Celestial Trees 111 n 1 thought: the past as well as the future is written in the stars. Osir
. The Mythology of all races .. . Fig. 21. The Dead Wit-nesses THE Birth ofthe Sun from the Ce-lestial Tree 36 EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY. thought of the celestial or cosmic tree or trees, which is foundamong so many nations, also underlies the idea of the tree of life, whose fruit keeps the gods andthe chosen souls of the dead in eter-nal youth and in wisdom in Egyptas elsewhere. The tree of fate, whoseleaves or fruits symbolize events or Fig. 22. The Sun-Boat and the the lives of men, represents the sameTwo Celestial Trees 111 n 1 thought: the past as well as the future is written in the stars. Osiris, as the god of heaven, isfrequently identified with the heavenly tree or with some im-portant part of it, or is brought into connexion with its fruitor blossom. Egyptian theology tries to determine the terres-trial analogy of this tree. As the world-tree it is thus com-pared to the widest branching tree of Egypt, the sycamore;more rarely it is likened to the date-palm or tamarisk, etc.;sometimes it is the willow, which grows so near the waterthat it may easily be associated with the celestial tree spring-ing from the abys
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