. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ulchral 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from Kosellini, Monumenti Civili, pi. cxxxiv. 2. While Anubis isstretching out his bauds to lay out the mummy on its couch, the soul is hovering above its breast,and holding to its nostrils the sceptre, and the wind-filled sail which is the emblem of breath and ofthe new life. 180 THE LEGENDABY HISTORY OF EGYPT. When the body had been made imperishable, they sought torestore one by one all the faculties of which their previous operations haddeprived it. The mummy was set up at the entrance to the vault
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ulchral 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from Kosellini, Monumenti Civili, pi. cxxxiv. 2. While Anubis isstretching out his bauds to lay out the mummy on its couch, the soul is hovering above its breast,and holding to its nostrils the sceptre, and the wind-filled sail which is the emblem of breath and ofthe new life. 180 THE LEGENDABY HISTORY OF EGYPT. When the body had been made imperishable, they sought torestore one by one all the faculties of which their previous operations haddeprived it. The mummy was set up at the entrance to the vault; thestatue representing the living person was placed beside it, and semblance wasmade of opening the mouth, eyes, and ears, of loosing the arms and legs,of restoring breath to the throat and movement to the heart. The incan-tations by which these acts were severally accompanied were so powerful thatthe god spoke and ate, lived and heard, and could use his limbs as freely asthough he had never been steeped in the bath of the He might. THE RECEPTION OF THE MUMMY BY ANUBIS AT THE DOOR OF THE TOMB, AND THE OPENINCS OF THE have returned to his place among men, and various legends prove that he didoccasionally appear to his faithful adherents. But, as his ancestors before him,he preferred to leave their towns and withdraw into his own domain. The ceme-teries of the inhabitants of Busiris and of Mendes were called Sokhît Ialîi, theMeadow of Beeds, and Sokhît Hotpû, the Meadow of They were secludedamid the marshes, in small archipelagoes of sandy islets where the dead bodies,piled together, rested in safety from the This was the first kingdom 1 The incantations accompanying the various operations were described in the Bitual of Em-balmment, of which we possess the conclusion only (Mariette, Papyrus égyptiens du musée de Botdaq,vol. i. pis. ; èria, Catalogue des Manuscrits égyptiens qui sont conservés au Musée Égyptiendu,
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