. A guide to the third and fourth Egyptian rooms : predynastic antiquites, mummied birds and animals, portrait statues, figures of gods, tools, implements and weapons, scarabs, amulets, jewellery, and other objects connected with the funeral rites of the ancient Egyptians . Sa. Sesheta. In Wall-Cases 127-130 is exhibited a large and im-portant series of bronze and porcelain figures of the godOsiris, and of the members of his divine company. Ac-cording to the doctrine of Ileliopolis, Osiris, Isis, Set,Nephthys, and Horus-Anubis were the offspring of Seband Nut, the earth-god and sky-goddess res
. A guide to the third and fourth Egyptian rooms : predynastic antiquites, mummied birds and animals, portrait statues, figures of gods, tools, implements and weapons, scarabs, amulets, jewellery, and other objects connected with the funeral rites of the ancient Egyptians . Sa. Sesheta. In Wall-Cases 127-130 is exhibited a large and im-portant series of bronze and porcelain figures of the godOsiris, and of the members of his divine company. Ac-cording to the doctrine of Ileliopolis, Osiris, Isis, Set,Nephthys, and Horus-Anubis were the offspring of Seband Nut, the earth-god and sky-goddess respectively. Inthe earliest times, Osiris was a god of water, probably ofthe Nile, and Isis was the goddess of the land, which was OSIRIS AND THE TET. I4I fructified by the Nile. At a later period tradition assertedthat Osiris and Isis were the king and queen of a countryin the south, that Osiris was murdered by his brother Set,who also hacked the body to pieces ; that Isis collectedthe members of the body and buried them ; that Thoth,by means of his words of power, raisedup Osiris to life in the next world, wherehe became the king and judge of thedead, and the giver of immortality andeverlasting life to man. The Egyptians,in the burial of their dead, imitated allthe
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