. Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection;. ul information. Thus, Diodorus saysthat in former times the kings of Egypt were in thehabit of sacrificing on the tomb of Osiris men who wereof the colour of Typhon.^ Now the tomb of Osiris, parexcellence, was at Busiris, and red was the colour typicalof Typhon, or Set ; therefore Diodorus says, in effect,that the kings of Egypt used to sacrifice red, or fair, mento Osiris in Busiris. Apollodorus also knew of thistradition, and he states that a stranger was offered upeach year, not at Busiris, but by a king called Busiris,until the arrival of Hercules,

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. Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection;. ul information. Thus, Diodorus saysthat in former times the kings of Egypt were in thehabit of sacrificing on the tomb of Osiris men who wereof the colour of Typhon.^ Now the tomb of Osiris, parexcellence, was at Busiris, and red was the colour typicalof Typhon, or Set ; therefore Diodorus says, in effect,that the kings of Egypt used to sacrifice red, or fair, mento Osiris in Busiris. Apollodorus also knew of thistradition, and he states that a stranger was offered upeach year, not at Busiris, but by a king called Busiris,until the arrival of Hercules, who put Busiris to death onthe very altar on which he had been in the habit ofsacrificing strangers.^ The custom of sacrificing strangers ^ Book I, Chaps. 45 and 88. 2 This point has been well discussed by Lefebure in Sphinx,torn. Ill, p. 133. See Fragmenta Hist. Graec, ed. Didot, Frag. 33,pp. 78 and 79. Osiris and Human Sacrifice 211 arose during a famine, owing to low Niles for ninesuccessive years. Phrasious came to Busiris, and told. eiit^rlKillci*! ^WQlSIieoi^ \() ol4 l*i •^^ ^mi^M^v^v MHlaiJ^f^-a •tisT4Si!;i-:^B:i ^EC^cr-jsilHis:^

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