. Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection;. Seti I offering incense to , Abydos, Vol. I, p. Seti I pouring out a libation and offering incense to , Abydos, Vol. I, p. 36. to the great deity Jo-uk once a year, at the beginningof the rainy season ; the intermediary between Jo-ukand man is the demi-god Nyakang, whose mother waspart woman, part crocodile. An animal is slain in each ^ The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, p. 162. S 2 26o Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection village by the priest of the village, and the people cookand eat the flesh, assembling for the purpo
. Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection;. Seti I offering incense to , Abydos, Vol. I, p. Seti I pouring out a libation and offering incense to , Abydos, Vol. I, p. 36. to the great deity Jo-uk once a year, at the beginningof the rainy season ; the intermediary between Jo-ukand man is the demi-god Nyakang, whose mother waspart woman, part crocodile. An animal is slain in each ^ The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, p. 162. S 2 26o Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection village by the priest of the village, and the people cookand eat the flesh, assembling for the purpose at thehouse of Nyakang. The meal is followed by a danceand the drinking of merissa. The sacrifice and thedance are, apparently, the sum of their is a house of Nyakang in each village, outsidewhich all serious business is performed by the cases of illness, sacrifices are made to Nyakang.^The Matabele believe in a vast number of evil spirits,who are always ready to do harm, and chief among theseare the ancestral spirits. They do not pray to them, orask for their help, and they o
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