Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . re near the Phoe-nician Byblus. Meanwhile Isis roamed in distress throughout thecountry, seeking her lost husband; and she at length succeeded indiscovering his coffin , which she carried to a sequestered spot andconcealed. She then set out to visit her son J lotus, who was beingeducated at Buto. During her absence Typhon, while engaged in aboai-hunt, found the body of the god, cut it into fourteen pieces, andscattered them in every direction. As soon as Isis learned what badhappened, she col
Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . re near the Phoe-nician Byblus. Meanwhile Isis roamed in distress throughout thecountry, seeking her lost husband; and she at length succeeded indiscovering his coffin , which she carried to a sequestered spot andconcealed. She then set out to visit her son J lotus, who was beingeducated at Buto. During her absence Typhon, while engaged in aboai-hunt, found the body of the god, cut it into fourteen pieces, andscattered them in every direction. As soon as Isis learned what badhappened, she collected the fragments, and wherever one had beenfound erected a monument on the spot to its memory; and this ac-counts for the numerous tombs of Osiris mentioned as existing inEgypt and elsewhere. Osiris, however, was not dead, lie had con-tinued bis i id his reign in the lowerregions, and after hisburial he visited his son Horus, whom he armed and trained for battle.•ung god soon began a war against Typhon, and was at lengthvictorious, although he did not succeed in totally destroying his The mythological Trinity or Horus. Isis. RELIGION. 131 Osiris is the principle of light, while Typhon is that of darkness,which Osiris defeats and banishes to the infernal regions. IsisHathormourns over his disappear-ance, follows him towards theWest, where she gives birthto Horus, who annihilatesdarkness and restores hisfather to his lost Ra is termed the soulof Osiris, the meaning is thathe renders visible the hiddenprinciple of light (Osiris).When, on the other hand,Osiris is regarded as emblem-atical of the principle ofmoisture, the most perfectembodiment of which is thegodHapi, or the Nile, Typhonand his seventy-two com-panions represent the days ofdrought. Like the dead bodyof Osiris, the water flows to-wards the North, and the lan-guishing Isis, that is, the
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