Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians, Volume 2

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Also as a Vulture KHÊMI or Egypt One of the Deities
46
Lord of Triacontaeterides Period of these Festivals
53
Delta
54
Nilus and Silenus
59
With an Asps Head
65
NEB? Her Form EHE the Cow Her Character
71
Hapi and Apis
72
Uncertain Deities TOSES? HOн? Another God
78
Ehe the Origin of Io vide note Io was the Moon
79
RANPO the God of War His former Character answer
84
Emblems of the Animals carried round the Country
94
Implements of the Occupation of each Person buried
95
Diodorus gives several Reasons for it Gods concealed
104
Others made sacred that they might not be eaten Some
111
Embalmed Sacred to Buto Gods of Egypt Abstract
112
An Emblem of Typho
117
A Symbol accompanying him vide infrà Woodcut
119
The Name of Nou or Nau Horus and the Hours
130
Prejudice of the Moslems against the
141
Revered at Heracleopolis Its Hostility to the Crocodile
149
Represented stealing Eggs Bronzes Thessalians respected
153
Its mode of Attack Abyssinian Blacksmiths changed into
159
Now fed in Cairo Prejudice in their Favour
165
MENHAI also a Lionheaded Goddess A Form
170
Lion Type of a King Lion greatly worshipped in Ethiopia
171
EILETHYIA Lucina Soven? or Sebn? not connected with
189
GOAT In the Mendesian Nome highly respected
191
Sheep Mummies Ram for the Sign of Aries The KEBSH
193
BUFFALO AND INDIAN Ox not sacred The DOLPHIN
199
Hawks Feather in the Head of the Sacred Scribes vide
205
Temple at Ombos
207
RAVEN CROW Stories of the Crow or Raven
214
Probable Origin of the Story The common Ibis
221
Not sacred Type of a Child Abounded in Egypt Much
227
Story of Morris Its Number Sixty M de Pauws judi
233
Thermuthis Aspformed Crowns and Asps attached
239
129
277
The Frog a Type of Man in Embryo With a Palm Branch
283
Thanks
284
The Prisoners led by the King or the Chiefs of the Army
285
The Service how performed Prayer for the King
291
Another Representation of the same Boat
297
Votaries went as Mourners
303
70
304
Scruples of Herodotus about mentioning Osiris Probably
309
130
311
OMENS Much regarded MYSTERIES
319
Admitted first only to the Lesser Mysteries And a Year
325
Early Offerings Peculiar Oblations to some Gods
337
The Head placed on every Altar and taken to the Kitchen
347
Red Oxen for Sacrifice Redhaired Men said to have
348
Sacrifices of Birds Some placed on a Stand with Spikes
353
The Thigh The chosen Part Sacrifices offered by Per
356
Other Sacrifices and Five Offerings called Mincha Various
362
Flowers how presented Chaplets and Wreaths on
368
Large Sacrifices Sistra presented by the Pallacides
375
CHAP XVI
381
Several Priests attended not of the Grade of the Pontiffs
387
Husband and Wife in same Tomb The Position of their
396
Tombs of the Kings at Thebes Mourning for the Dead
402
Funeral of a Scribe of Weights and Measures Another
407
Points of Resemblance in ancient and modern Egyptian
408
The Fortytwo Crimes and the Fortytwo Assessors Lake
430
Funeral Rites refused to their Kings by the Jews also
436
Doctrine adopted by the Greeks Pythagoras and Phere
443
The Idea of being born again Nothing annihilated only
449
All good Men after Death might assume the Name
455
Another Reason assigned for their Embalming Erroneous
462
Prejudice against burning the Body Bandages of Linen
463
The Mysterious Eye placed over the Incision in the Side
469
The Hands and Feet how bandaged Sometimes a Com
475
Different Mummy Cases and Sarcophagi
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Page 425 - Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
Page 348 - Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land. And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God : lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us? We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.
Page 388 - And he said, Do it the second time: and they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time; and they did it the third time.
Page 362 - Take thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the LORD. 3 And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering...
Page 357 - Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about. 25 And he took the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder...
Page 388 - And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.
Page 288 - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Page 432 - So watery fowl, that seek their fishy food, With wings expanded o'er the foaming flood, Now sailing smooth the level surface sweep, Now dip their pinions in the briny deep. Thus o'er the world of waters Hermes...
Page 441 - But, when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Page 161 - Roman who bad accidentally killed a cat When a cat died a natural death, all the inmates of the house shaved their eyebrows in token of mourning ; and, having embalmed the body, they buried it with great pomp. Those which died in the...

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