Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians, Volume 3 |
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according Ælian altar Amen Amen-ra Amenti ancient Anubis Apis Apollo appears Aroeris Aten-ra Athor attributes bird boat body Bubastis Buto called ceremony Ceres character Chnoumis connected crocodile crown dead deceased deity Denderah Diodor disk divine Dynasty Egyptians Eileithyia Elian embalmed emblem emblematic father festival figure frequently funeral goddess gods Greek Har-Hat Harpocrates hawk head heaven Heliopolis Herodotus Hierog hieroglyphic hieroglyphic legends honour Horapollo Horus Ibid incense inscription Isid Isis Khem king libation lion lord Lower Egypt Memphis mentioned monarch monuments moon mummies mysteries Neith Nephthys Nile Nubti occasion occurs offerings Ombos Osiris peculiar PLATE Plut Plutarch priests probably Ptah Rameses represented resemblance Reshpu respect rites Roman sacred animals sacrifice Sarapis Saturn says scarabæus sculptures sepulchral serpent shrine signifying sometimes soul Strabo supposed temple Tentyris Thebaïd Thebes Thoth tombs triad Typho Upper vases vulture wings worship
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Page 312 - 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? 27 We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.
Page 333 - Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Page 333 - And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time.
Page 26 - And Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Page 360 - 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 2 - II, was retained as the idea of the 'Spirit^" of God, which moved upon the face of the waters.
Page 46 - The first generation of men in Egypt, contemplating the beauty of the superior world, and admiring with astonishment the frame and order of the universe, imagined that there were two chief Gods, eternal and primary, the Sun and Moon, the first of whom they called Osiris, the other Isis.
Page 60 - ... side, so that it could not be seen ; and the King of the country, having cut down the tree, had made the part of the trunk wherein the chest was concealed, a pillar to support the roof of his house.
Page 349 - ... was the emblem of Egypt, and was frequently used as a sort of amulet, and deposited in the tombs. Others carried the well-known small images of blue pottery representing the deceased under the form of Osiris, and the bird emblematic of the soul. Following these were seven or more men bearing upon staves, or wooden yokes, cases filled with flowers and bottles for libation; and then seven or eight women, having their heads bound with fillets, beating their breasts, throwing dust upon their heads,...
Page 201 - 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...