. 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 . [G. W.] The sufferings and death of Osiriswere the gi-eat mystery of the Egyp-tian religion ; and some traces of itare perceptible among other people ofantiquity. His being the divine good-ness, and the abstract idea of good,his manifestation upon earth (l
. 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 . [G. W.] The sufferings and death of Osiriswere the gi-eat mystery of the Egyp-tian religion ; and some traces of itare perceptible among other people ofantiquity. His being the divine good-ness, and the abstract idea of good,his manifestation upon earth (like anIndian God), his death, and resurrec-tion, and his office as judge of the deadin a future state, look like the earlyrevelation of a futuie manifestation ofthe deity converted into a mythologicalfable ; and are not less remarkable thanthat notion of the Egyptians men-tioned by Plutarch (in Vit. Numae),that a woman might conceive by theapproach of some divine spirit. AsOsiris signified good, Typhon (orrather Seth) was evil ; and the re-markable notion of good and evil beingbrothers is abundantly illustrated inthe early sculptures; nor Avas it tilla change was made, apparently byforeigners from Asia, who held thedoctrine of the two principles, thatevil became confounded with sin, whenthe brother of Osiris no longer received. divine honours. See At. Eg. W., +to Till then sin, the greatserpent, or Aphophis the giant,was distinct from Seth, who was adeity, and part of the divine system,which recalls those words of Isaiah (), I form the light, and create dark-ness; I make peace, and create evil ; Ithe Lord do these things; and in Amos(iii. 6), shall there be evil in a city,and the Lord hath not done it? In likemanner the mythology of India admittedthe creator and destroyer as charactersof the divine Being. Seth was evencalled Baal-Seth, and made the God oftheir enemies also, which was from warbeing an evil, as peace in the aboveverse is equivalent to good ; and in
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