. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . st the fields in countless bands during the dry season, suddenly dis-appear at the return of the inundation : born of the mud and putrid water of the preceding year, tomud they return, and as it were dissolve at the touch of the new waters. 1 The tears of Shû and Tafnûît are changed into incense-bearing trees (Birch, Sur un papyrusmagique du Musée Britannique, p. 3). It was more especially on the day of the death of Osiris thattho gods had shed their fertilizing tears. On the effects produced by the sweat and blood of thogods, see Birch, ibid.,
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . st the fields in countless bands during the dry season, suddenly dis-appear at the return of the inundation : born of the mud and putrid water of the preceding year, tomud they return, and as it were dissolve at the touch of the new waters. 1 The tears of Shû and Tafnûît are changed into incense-bearing trees (Birch, Sur un papyrusmagique du Musée Britannique, p. 3). It was more especially on the day of the death of Osiris thattho gods had shed their fertilizing tears. On the effects produced by the sweat and blood of thogods, see Birch, ibid., pp. 3, 6 ; and Maspero, Mémoire sur quelques papyrus du Louvre, p. 93. 2 Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by Gayet. The scene is taken from bas-reliefs in thetemple of Luxor, whero the god Khnûmû is seen completing his modelling of the future KingAmenôthes III. and his double, represented as two children wearing the side-lock and large neck-lace. The first holds his finger to his lips, while the arms of the second swing at his KUNÛMÛ MODELLING MAN UPON A POTTERS 158 THE LEGENDARY BISTORT OF EGYPT. earth, straightway it germinated, and produced something strange andbaleful—a serpent, a scorpion, a plant of deadly nightshade or of , on the other hand, the sun was all goodness, and persons or thingswhich it cast forth into life infallibly partook of its benignity. Winethat maketh man glad, the bee who works for him in the flowers secretingwax and honey,1 the meat and herbs which are his food, the stuffs thatclothe him, all useful things which he makes for himself, not only emanatedfrom the Solar Eye of Horus, but were indeed nothing more than the Eye ofHorus under different aspects, and in his name they were presented The devout generally were of opinion that the first Egyptians,the sons and flock of Bâ, came into the world happy and perfect ;3 bydegrees their descendants had fallen from that native felicity into their prese
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