. The redemption of Egypt. -i-00 Si: _4>S ASSUAN 285 more spiritual influences of the East, and Osiris was identifiedwith the sun and Isis with the moon. The worship of Isis wasearly introduced into Greece, where she was identified witliDemeter, the beneficent goddess of the earth ; and during theperiod of political and moral disturbance which followed thecivil wars of Marius and Sulla, this worship appeared in Romeamong a crowd of strange superstitions from the East. The. Capitals at Temple of Isis. brighter and gentler celestial forms of the Persian religion, saysMommsen, did not so rapid
. The redemption of Egypt. -i-00 Si: _4>S ASSUAN 285 more spiritual influences of the East, and Osiris was identifiedwith the sun and Isis with the moon. The worship of Isis wasearly introduced into Greece, where she was identified witliDemeter, the beneficent goddess of the earth ; and during theperiod of political and moral disturbance which followed thecivil wars of Marius and Sulla, this worship appeared in Romeamong a crowd of strange superstitions from the East. The. Capitals at Temple of Isis. brighter and gentler celestial forms of the Persian religion, saysMommsen, did not so rapidly gain a footing in Rome as theAvearisome, mystical swarm of the grotesque divinities of Egypt—Isis the mother of nature, with her whole train, the constantlydying and constantly reviving Osiris, the gloomy Serapis, thetaciturn and grave Harpocrates, the dog-headed Anubis. In theyear when Clodius emancipated the clubs and conventicles (696) 286 THE REDEMPTION OF EGYPT and doubtless in consequence of this very emancipation of thepopulace, that swarm even prepared to make its entry into the oldstronghold of the Roman Jupiter in the Capitol, and it was withdifficulty that the invasion was prevented, and the inevitable templeswere banished at least to the suburbs of Rome. Xo worship wasequally popular among the lower orders of the population in the
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