. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . reason ofthis may be that the attributes of variousgods were not very distinctly explainedto foreigner, who were taught nothingbut what was said to relate to Isis andOsiris, in whose mysteries several mythswere combined, and others added whichtended to mystify i-
. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . reason ofthis may be that the attributes of variousgods were not very distinctly explainedto foreigner, who were taught nothingbut what was said to relate to Isis andOsiris, in whose mysteries several mythswere combined, and others added whichtended to mystify i-ather than to explainthem: for it is evident that the Greeks did not understand the nature of theEgyptian gods, and many of the eventsrelated by them in the history of Osirisare at variance with the monuments ofEgypt. Bacchus is certainly the god ofthe Greeks who corresponds to Osiris,and his dying and rising again, his beingput into a chest and thrown into thesea, and the instructions he gave tomankind, are evidently derived fromthe story of Osiris ; and the historieson which the most solemn feasts ofBacchus, the Titania and Nuktelia, arefounded, exactly correspond (as Plu-tarch says, de Is. s. 35) vdth what arerelated of the cutting to pieces of Osiris,of his rising again, and of his new and festoons of ivy, or. 74 CEREMONY Book IT. liave no choral dances. They also use instead of ])hal]i anotherinvention, consisting of images a enbit high, pulled by strings,which the women carry round to the villages. A piper goes infront,** and the women follow, singing hymns in honour of rather of the wild convolvulus, or ofthe periploca sccamone, often appear atligyptian fetes. For ivy is not a plantof the Nile, though Plutarch says itwas there called chenosiris, or plantof Osiris (de Is. s. 37; Diod. i. 171,and the leaves being sometimes re-presented haiiy, are in favour of itsbeing the secanone (fig. 4). It may havebeen chosen from some quality attri-buted to its milky juic
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