Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians, Volume 2

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RANNO? The Nurse of Princes With an Asps Head
65
EILETHYIA Lucina Soven? or Sebn? not connected with
70
NEB? Her Form EHE the Cow Her Character
71
The Four Vases bearing their respective Heads Leaden
73
KHONSO the Third Member of the Theban Triad and
78
153
88
CHAP XIV
90
The Golden Calf Clemenss Account of the Sacred Ani
97
under the Form of Animals Standards of the Army
104
of the most useful not sacred Another Reason from
111
Embalmed Sacred to Buto Gods of Egypt Abstract
112
CERBERUS The Guardian of Amenti
116
A Symbol accompanying him vide infrà Woodcut
119
Birds
120
Insects
126
The Name of Nou or Nau Horus and the Hours
130
Green Monkey of Ethiopia CERCOPITHECUS
132
Doubtful Not in the same Repute throughout Egypt
139
Sonninis Error Two Wolves leading the Priest to
146
Scarcely mentioned by Herodotus Destroyed the Eggs
154
Erroneously supposed to be emblematic of the Moon
160
Placed on the Sistrum
167
21
172
Head and Feet of Lion in Furniture No Lion Mummies
173
Not honoured in the rest of Egypt An Emblem of Typho
178
GOAT In the Mendesian Nome highly respected
191
Sheep Mummies Ram for the Sign of Aries The KEBSH
192
Its Colour and Name Onuphis All Three probably
198
Mummies VULTUR PERCNOPTERUS Not sacred Pro
204
Her City in the Thebaïd Her Office and Form
206
Hieraconpolis and Hieracon Hawk honoured throughout
208
The Wagtail or MOTACILLA mistaken for the Swallow
214
76
216
Pig sacrificed to the Moon and Osiris
220
Probable Origin of the Story The common Ibis
221
77
234
Common in Upper Egypt Their Horns Bury themselves
246
The SOLPUGA Souder Not represented Its Enmity
255
The Prisoners led by the King or the Chiefs of the Army
285
79
289
The Service how performed Prayer for the King
291
Another Representation of the same Boat
297
The Procession headed by a Flute player The Hydria
301
70
304
Improbable Story The Cow or rather Ox probably
310
RITES
316
OMENS Much regarded MYSTERIES
317
The chief Officers at the Initiation
325
Early Offerings Peculiar Oblations to some Gods
337
An improbable Story Said to have been abolished
342
Red Oxen for Sacrifice Redhaired Men said to have
348
Not the same marked Difference in offering to Egyptian
355
The Holocaust The Libation of Wine a preliminary
357
Mode of presenting Incense Libation of Wine Various
363
Offered also singly to the Gods Various Emblems also
372
Men beating themselves before a Mummy another with
376
Several Priests attended not of the Grade of the Pontiffs
387
453
393
Implements of the Occupation of each Person buried
395
The Tombs in early Times smaller Cut in the Rock
401
Funeral of a Shekh
407
HERON ANTEUS PERSEUS BUSIRIS THUERIS CANOPUS
410
Remarks on the Statements of Herodotus and Diodorus
411
One the Emblem of Stability The other resembling
413
Funeral Procession of a Priest of Amun Boat Scene
415
The Mummies of the Poor had no Form beyond that of
420
Small Brick Pyramids at Thebes Palm Branches strewed
421
If no Accuser his Eulogy was pronounced The Body
427
The Fortytwo Crimes and the Fortytwo Assessors Lake
430
Funeral Rites refused to their Kings by the Jews also
436
Persons employed in preparing the Body The Under
437
Doctrine adopted by the Greeks Pythagoras and Phere
443
Prejudice against burning the Body Bandages of Linen
463
The Mysterious Eye placed over the Incision in the Side
469
Different Mummy Cases and Sarcophagi
479

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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.
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