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Morph

August 03, 2007 01:13PM

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Eudoxus says that, while many tombs of Osiris are spoken of in Egypt, his body lies in Busiris; for this was the place of his birth; moreover, Taphosiris103 requires no comment, for the name itself means "the tomb of Osiris." I pass over the cutting of wood,104 the rending of linen, and the libations that are offered, for the reason that many of their secret rites are involved therein. In regard not only to these gods, but in regard to the other gods, save only those whose existence had no beginning and shall have no end, the priests say that their bodies, after they have done with their labours, have been placed in the keeping of the priests and are cherished there, dbut that their souls shine as the stars in the firmament, and the soul of Isis is called by the Greeks the Dog-star, but by the Egyptians Sothis,105 and the soul of Horus is called Orion, and the soul of Typhon the Bear.a Also they say that all the other Egyptians pay the agreed assessment for the entombment of the p55animals held in honour,106 but that the inhabitants of the Theban territory only do not contribute because they believe in no mortal god, but only in the god whom they call Kneph, whose existence had no beginning and shall have no end.

22 Many things like these are narrated and pointed out, and if there be some who think that in these are commemorated ethe dire and momentous acts and experiences of kings and despots who, by reason of their pre-eminent virtue or might, laid claim to the glory of being styled gods, and later had to submit to the vagaries of fortune,107 then these persons employ the easiest means of escape from the narrative, and not ineptly do they transfer the disrepute from the gods to men; and in this they have the support of the common traditions. The Egyptians, in fact, have a tradition that Hermes had thin arms and big elbows, that Typhon was red in complexion, Horus white, and Osiris dark,108 as if they had been in their nature but mortal men. Moreover, they give to Osiris the title of general, and the title of pilot to Canopus, from whom they say that the star derives its name; falso that the vessel which the Greeks call Argo, in form like the ship of Osiris, has been set among the constellations in his honour, and its course lies not far from that of Orion and the Dog-star; of these the Egyptians believe that one is sacred to Horus and the other to Isis.

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Subject	Author	Posted
Ancient Egyptian view of 'Orion'....	Morph	August 02, 2007 07:42AM
Re: Ancient Egyptian view of 'Orion'....	Dave L	August 02, 2007 08:28AM
Re: Ancient Egyptian view of 'Orion'....	Greg Reeder	August 02, 2007 11:36AM
Re: Ancient Egyptian view of 'Orion'....	Morph	August 02, 2007 11:54AM
Re: Ancient Egyptian view of 'Orion'....	Greg Reeder	August 02, 2007 12:43PM
Re: Ancient Egyptian view of 'Orion'....	Morph	August 02, 2007 02:46PM
Re: Ancient Egyptian view of 'Orion'....	Greg Reeder	August 02, 2007 03:01PM
Re: Ancient Egyptian view of 'Orion'....	Morph	August 02, 2007 06:06PM
Re: Ancient Egyptian view of 'Orion'....	rich	August 03, 2007 12:01PM
Re: Ancient Egyptian view of 'Orion'....	Morph	August 03, 2007 01:13PM
Re: Ancient Egyptian view of 'Orion'....	Joe_S	August 03, 2007 03:07PM
Re: Ancient Egyptian view of 'Orion'....	Morph	August 03, 2007 05:09PM
Re: Ancient Egyptian view of 'Orion'....	rich	August 03, 2007 08:38PM
Re: Ancient Egyptian view of 'Orion'....	Morph	August 04, 2007 04:57AM
Orion=Bootes.	Morph	August 04, 2007 05:28AM
Re: Ancient Egyptian view of 'Orion'....	Byrd	August 04, 2007 05:05PM
Re: Ancient Egyptian view of 'Orion'....	Greg Reeder	August 04, 2007 05:37PM

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