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The Ancient Mysteries
ox , covered with fine black linen , which was considered as the living image of Osiris . The rites lasted four days , and represented the Ml of the Nile within its channel , the ceasing of the Etesian winds , the long nights and short days , and the barrenness of the land . Thus they commemorated the -loss of Osiris . But on the nineteenth
day of the month Pachon , the stolistse and priests marched in procession towards the sea , and performing the ceremony above related with the sacred chest or ark , and joyfully crying that Osiris was found again , threw fresh mould into water , and mixing with it incense and aromatic spices , made an image in the form of a crescent , which they decorated and adorned to signify that the gods whom they thus commemorated are the power of earth and
water . On the recovery of Osiris ' s body by Isis , and the bringing her son Horus to maturity ( whose strength by exhalations and clouds was continually increasing ) , Typhon , though not destroy Eor Isis , the goddess pf earth , would not allow the enemy of wet to
be quite extinguished , but set him at liberty , knowing that her productions could not be brought to perfection without heat . Briefly , then , to sum up , in a compendious form : — Osiris , we have already said , represents the rising of the Nile . Isis , the part of Egypt irrigated . Ilorus ^ the vapour and exhalations of the earth .
Bwto further represents the marshes of Lower Egypt , where the vapours are nourished . Nephthys , the edge of the desert which is occasionally overflowed at unusually high inundations . Anubis , the son of Osiris and Nephthys , the product of that usually barren soil when it is overflowed .
Typhon , the sea , the swallower of the Nile . The seventy-two conspirators , the power of draught , whose aid was invoked by Typhon , overcoming the moisture which occasions the rise of the Nile . The chest , the banks of the Nile . The Tanditic mouth , the barren land about that part , which is hated , because , though watered by the Nile , it is unproductive .
The iioenty-eight years of Osiris ' s life or reign , the twenty-eight cubits to which ' the Nilo rises at Elephanta , its greatest height . The seventeenth day of Alhyr , the period of the withdrawing of the Nile within its banks . Aso , Queen of Ethiopia , the south winds which kept the clouds in the north .
The thirteen parts of Osiriss body , the main streams and channels through which the Nile passing into the country is buried in the earth . The one which was not recovered signifying the generative power of the Nile , which remained in the stream , or , as Plutarch says , " was said to have been thrown into the river , because water was the first matter on which the productive power of the Deity operated . "
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The Ancient Mysteries
ox , covered with fine black linen , which was considered as the living image of Osiris . The rites lasted four days , and represented the Ml of the Nile within its channel , the ceasing of the Etesian winds , the long nights and short days , and the barrenness of the land . Thus they commemorated the -loss of Osiris . But on the nineteenth
day of the month Pachon , the stolistse and priests marched in procession towards the sea , and performing the ceremony above related with the sacred chest or ark , and joyfully crying that Osiris was found again , threw fresh mould into water , and mixing with it incense and aromatic spices , made an image in the form of a crescent , which they decorated and adorned to signify that the gods whom they thus commemorated are the power of earth and
water . On the recovery of Osiris ' s body by Isis , and the bringing her son Horus to maturity ( whose strength by exhalations and clouds was continually increasing ) , Typhon , though not destroy Eor Isis , the goddess pf earth , would not allow the enemy of wet to
be quite extinguished , but set him at liberty , knowing that her productions could not be brought to perfection without heat . Briefly , then , to sum up , in a compendious form : — Osiris , we have already said , represents the rising of the Nile . Isis , the part of Egypt irrigated . Ilorus ^ the vapour and exhalations of the earth .
Bwto further represents the marshes of Lower Egypt , where the vapours are nourished . Nephthys , the edge of the desert which is occasionally overflowed at unusually high inundations . Anubis , the son of Osiris and Nephthys , the product of that usually barren soil when it is overflowed .
Typhon , the sea , the swallower of the Nile . The seventy-two conspirators , the power of draught , whose aid was invoked by Typhon , overcoming the moisture which occasions the rise of the Nile . The chest , the banks of the Nile . The Tanditic mouth , the barren land about that part , which is hated , because , though watered by the Nile , it is unproductive .
The iioenty-eight years of Osiris ' s life or reign , the twenty-eight cubits to which ' the Nilo rises at Elephanta , its greatest height . The seventeenth day of Alhyr , the period of the withdrawing of the Nile within its banks . Aso , Queen of Ethiopia , the south winds which kept the clouds in the north .
The thirteen parts of Osiriss body , the main streams and channels through which the Nile passing into the country is buried in the earth . The one which was not recovered signifying the generative power of the Nile , which remained in the stream , or , as Plutarch says , " was said to have been thrown into the river , because water was the first matter on which the productive power of the Deity operated . "