. Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection;. rned to Thebes he hung six of these opposite thepylon of the temple of Amen, and the seventh he sent toNapata, in Nubia, to be hung on the wall of the city toterrify rebels. The records of the wars of the Thothmeskings, Seti I, Rameses II, Mer-en-Ptah, and manyother kings make it quite clear that they sacrificedprisoners in large numbers to the gods. The annals ofthe Nubian kings Heru-sa-atef and Nastasen recorda number of expeditions against tribes in various partsof the Egyptian Sudan, and these kings boast thatwherever they conquered they made a mass
. Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection;. rned to Thebes he hung six of these opposite thepylon of the temple of Amen, and the seventh he sent toNapata, in Nubia, to be hung on the wall of the city toterrify rebels. The records of the wars of the Thothmeskings, Seti I, Rameses II, Mer-en-Ptah, and manyother kings make it quite clear that they sacrificedprisoners in large numbers to the gods. The annals ofthe Nubian kings Heru-sa-atef and Nastasen recorda number of expeditions against tribes in various partsof the Egyptian Sudan, and these kings boast thatwherever they conquered they made a massacre, anddepopulated the country. Both Nubians and Egyptiansmade raids for the sake of loot, , for living slaves and 1 Pellegrini, Archivio Storico, , anno XX, Palermo, 1896;Naville, Les plus Anciens Monuments {Recueil, torn. XXI); Schafer,Ein Bruchstuck altdgyptischer Annalen, Berlin, 1902. Osiris and Human Sacrifice 199 cattle, and when they had collected these, they filled inthe wells, reaped the crops, burnt the houses, with. King Narmer smashing the head of a prisoner of war. 1st the cast in the British Museum. everything in them, and then marched back to theirhomes, leaving the wild animals in possession of districtswhich until their arrival had been populous, and oftenwell cultivated. 200 Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection The Egyptians, however, did not always confinethemselves to the sacrifice of prisoners on the battle-field, and proof exists that they were in the habit ofputting Nubians and Blacks to death only can be the meaning of the festival which ismentioned on the Palermo Stele under the name of smashing of the Antiu.^ The Antiu were the dwellersin the Eastern Desert and Sinai, with whom the earlykings of Egypt waged war continually. It seems thatone of them must have won some decisive battle, whichwas held to be of such importance that an annual festivalwas established to commemorate it. It goes withoutsaying that at
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