. The Mythology of all races .. . of hisfather Osiris. According to some sources,Isis also took care of Anubis,her sisters child [by Osiris, who begat him through confusing Fig. 120. Osiris in the Basket andIsis and Nephthys], and by in the Boat, and Isis rearing him she gained a faithful companion, this legendbeing a reversion of the older variant that Anubis orNephthys [or both] took care of the infant Horus in theunderworld. ^^ When Horus attained manhood, putting on his girdle (i. sign of manhood) in the jungle ^^ and resolving to behis fathers avenger ^°° [being exhorted by his fath
. The Mythology of all races .. . of hisfather Osiris. According to some sources,Isis also took care of Anubis,her sisters child [by Osiris, who begat him through confusing Fig. 120. Osiris in the Basket andIsis and Nephthys], and by in the Boat, and Isis rearing him she gained a faithful companion, this legendbeing a reversion of the older variant that Anubis orNephthys [or both] took care of the infant Horus in theunderworld. ^^ When Horus attained manhood, putting on his girdle (i. sign of manhood) in the jungle ^^ and resolving to behis fathers avenger ^°° [being exhorted by his fathersspirit], he ascended the Nile with a host [of smiths (cf. p. loi)]and conquered his heritage. [He fought in the form of thewinged disk of Edfu, or for the struggle he and Seth changedthemselves into men or hippopotami.^°^] At the great battle[which lasted three days, or even longer] Seth hurt or put outan eye of Horus, but he lost his virility and finally was con-quered. According to most later texts, he [together with his. ii8 EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY followers In the form of wild animals ^°2] -was annihilated bybeing burned or cut in pieces, or he was flayed [alive].^°^ Othersexplain the repetition of the combat as due to the fact that,being merely wounded and chained [or caught in a net (, 109)], he broke loose again. [Isis set him free; or at least,according to another version which will be set forth below,she protected him against the death-blow; Horus decapitatedhis mother for this act — an explanation of the headless woman(p. 99) as Isis. Later her human body and cows head in somepictures were interpreted as the result of the healing of thatwound by the god Thout, who also cured the eye of Horuswhen it was injured by Seth (pp. 33, 90).] The confusion withthe dragon Apop in the ocean or the lower world (p. 106) madethe renewal of the struggle easily intelligible; thus it could beunderstood, as we have already seen, of tempests and clouds,of the stormy sea and th
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