The Open court . iLri>iJ ANMlilS i;SHKRING THE DKAD INIO IIIE PRESENCE OF OSIRIS.(After a colored of a pictin .? in tli. /.VW- ,>/ f/„- /V,„/. hy Pleyte.; The early Christians of Egypt identified Anubis vvitli Cto the preservation and resurrection ot tin 1 account of his relationSee page 66. tt>i<,n Court. The Open Court A MONTPILY MAGAZINE Devoted to the Science of Religion, the Religion of Science, andthe Extension of the Religious Parliament Idea. VOL. XV. (NO. 2.) FEBRUARY, 1901. Copyright ight by The Open Court Publishing Co., 1900. NO. 537 ANUBIS, SETH, AND CHRIST
The Open court . iLri>iJ ANMlilS i;SHKRING THE DKAD INIO IIIE PRESENCE OF OSIRIS.(After a colored of a pictin .? in tli. /.VW- ,>/ f/„- /V,„/. hy Pleyte.; The early Christians of Egypt identified Anubis vvitli Cto the preservation and resurrection ot tin 1 account of his relationSee page 66. tt>i<,n Court. The Open Court A MONTPILY MAGAZINE Devoted to the Science of Religion, the Religion of Science, andthe Extension of the Religious Parliament Idea. VOL. XV. (NO. 2.) FEBRUARY, 1901. Copyright ight by The Open Court Publishing Co., 1900. NO. 537 ANUBIS, SETH, AND CHRIST. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SPOTTCRUCIFIX. BY THE EDITOR. THE famous wall-scribbling with the donkey-headed deity at-tached to a cross which was discovered in one of the servants*. Anubis Weighing the Heart in the Hall of the Papyrus of Ani. (After Budges colored facsimile.)^ rooms of the imperial household in Rome was discussed in T/ieOpen Court for November 1899. We recapitulated the current 1 Anubis adjusts the tongue of the balance, the construction of which is quite noteworthy. Afeather, the emblem of truth and symbol of the goddess Maat, serves him for a weight. .-Vnis soul, 66 THE OPEN COURT. opinions concerning it, among which two are most prominent, viz.,first, the view of most Christian archaeologists that it is the work ofa pagan slave done in ridicule of a Christian fellow slave, hence thenditiXG Spottcrucijix by which it is commonly known, and secondly theview of Mr. King who believes it to be the expression of Gnosticpiety, not drawn to ridicule any ones religion, but to express theauthors own sentiments. He claims that the head is not the headof a donkey, but of a jackal, and that it represents the jackal-headedAnubis, attached to aopencourt_15537caru
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