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The Ancient Mysteries
world , and to perish on the left- this signifies the rising ^ t ^ in the south , and its falling into the sea in the north . The account given of the life and adventures of Osiris , and his house , in Sir Gardner "Wilkinson ' s work , is that Osiris , king ; of Egypt , endeavoured to civilize his dominions , and reclaim the inhabitants from barbarism , and taught them the arts of tillage ,
cultivation of fruits , & c . With this object , he strove to confer the same benefits on mankind in general , and travelled through most parts of the world for this purpose . During his absence , through the vigilance of his wife Ms , his enemy Typhon was Unable to encroach on
liis dominions , or to cause a revolution . On the return of Osiris , however , Typhon procured the assistance of Aso , queen of Ethiopia , who happened to be in Egypt at the time , and contrived to organize a body of seventy-two conspirators . He then privately took the measure of Osiris ' s bod y ^ and had a beautiM chest inlaid with ^ ri ornaments made exactly to hold it . Typhon had this chest brought into the baiiquet-room on the occasion of a festival , and while all uresent were exDressinsf their admiration of it , he offered it , as if in
jest , to him whose body it should exactly fit . All placed themselves within it in turn , when Osiris was found to be exactly of the same size with the chest , but before he could release himself from it , at a given signal the seventy-two conspirators forced him hack into it , nailed down the cover , soldered it with melted lead , and threw it into the river . It was borne by the current out to sea by the Tanaitic mouth of the Nile , which , from the circumstance of being the means
of bearing a benefactor away from Egypt , is still abhorred by the Egyptians . This happened on the seventeenth day of the month Athyr , when the sun was in Scorpio , in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of Osiris , according to others in the twenty-eighth year of his age .
Pan and the Satyrs who lived in and about Chemmis were the first who knew of the calamity , and they , by suddenly spreading the report and thereby causing alarm and consternation , originated the word " panic . " Isis , on receiving the intelligence , cut off one lock of her hair and mourned , from which circumstance the place in which she then was , was called " Koptos , " or the city of mourning . At this time Isis , having heard that her sister Nephthys , who Avas wedded to Typhon , had deceived Osiris , and that a child had been lear
Dorn to her , she sought tor the child wliom ner sister , ttirougn of her husband , had exposed as soon as he was born , and with great pains , with the help of dogs , found and reared him , giving him the name of Anubi . 8 . At last she heard some news of the chest in which Osiris was confined . The waves had carried it to the coast of Byblos , when it lodged in a tamarisk bush , which by degrees growing larger and
larger enveloped it so that it could not be seen . The lang ot the ¦ country , happening to cut down the tree , made a pillar to support the roof of his palace , of that part of it which enclosed the chest . Isis by some means heard of this , came to Byblos , obtained possession of the pillar , and sailed for Egypt . But wishing on her way home to
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Ancient Mysteries
world , and to perish on the left- this signifies the rising ^ t ^ in the south , and its falling into the sea in the north . The account given of the life and adventures of Osiris , and his house , in Sir Gardner "Wilkinson ' s work , is that Osiris , king ; of Egypt , endeavoured to civilize his dominions , and reclaim the inhabitants from barbarism , and taught them the arts of tillage ,
cultivation of fruits , & c . With this object , he strove to confer the same benefits on mankind in general , and travelled through most parts of the world for this purpose . During his absence , through the vigilance of his wife Ms , his enemy Typhon was Unable to encroach on
liis dominions , or to cause a revolution . On the return of Osiris , however , Typhon procured the assistance of Aso , queen of Ethiopia , who happened to be in Egypt at the time , and contrived to organize a body of seventy-two conspirators . He then privately took the measure of Osiris ' s bod y ^ and had a beautiM chest inlaid with ^ ri ornaments made exactly to hold it . Typhon had this chest brought into the baiiquet-room on the occasion of a festival , and while all uresent were exDressinsf their admiration of it , he offered it , as if in
jest , to him whose body it should exactly fit . All placed themselves within it in turn , when Osiris was found to be exactly of the same size with the chest , but before he could release himself from it , at a given signal the seventy-two conspirators forced him hack into it , nailed down the cover , soldered it with melted lead , and threw it into the river . It was borne by the current out to sea by the Tanaitic mouth of the Nile , which , from the circumstance of being the means
of bearing a benefactor away from Egypt , is still abhorred by the Egyptians . This happened on the seventeenth day of the month Athyr , when the sun was in Scorpio , in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of Osiris , according to others in the twenty-eighth year of his age .
Pan and the Satyrs who lived in and about Chemmis were the first who knew of the calamity , and they , by suddenly spreading the report and thereby causing alarm and consternation , originated the word " panic . " Isis , on receiving the intelligence , cut off one lock of her hair and mourned , from which circumstance the place in which she then was , was called " Koptos , " or the city of mourning . At this time Isis , having heard that her sister Nephthys , who Avas wedded to Typhon , had deceived Osiris , and that a child had been lear
Dorn to her , she sought tor the child wliom ner sister , ttirougn of her husband , had exposed as soon as he was born , and with great pains , with the help of dogs , found and reared him , giving him the name of Anubi . 8 . At last she heard some news of the chest in which Osiris was confined . The waves had carried it to the coast of Byblos , when it lodged in a tamarisk bush , which by degrees growing larger and
larger enveloped it so that it could not be seen . The lang ot the ¦ country , happening to cut down the tree , made a pillar to support the roof of his palace , of that part of it which enclosed the chest . Isis by some means heard of this , came to Byblos , obtained possession of the pillar , and sailed for Egypt . But wishing on her way home to