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when tlio <^reat enemy of Osiris (both in his own and in liis other 

 form of Horns) was Set, the Jackal Sphinx ? We must look upon 

 Anubis in Upper and Seth in Lower Egypt as the common rep- 

 resentatives, during the early part of the First Em[)ire, previous 

 to the formation of the Osiris Pantheon, of the aboriginal Death 

 Jackal God of North East Africa. 



The presence of Anepu in our story as one of the cliief actors, 

 as taking away the life of his brother, then giving it back, then 

 introducing him as the sacred bull to the worship of the nation, 

 finally as governing the nation and becoming Pharaoh — stamps 

 the myth with an aspect of the highest antiquit}'. 



The great name in the storj^, however, is Batau, the younger 

 brother. If we can place Batau in the First Empire, before the 

 appearance of Solar and Osirian Worship, in the Illd or IVth 

 dj'uasties, then Anubis worship, as Anepu the elder brother, 

 " enough older to be his father," is carried back to an aboriginal, 

 probably anto-Mcnian position. 



I find then this name in the Ninth Cartouche of the Tablet of 

 Kings uncovered in the Corridor of the 

 Palace of Seti I. (XIX Dy.) at Abydos 

 (100 miles below Thebes) — corresponding 

 to the ruir/}6-^ first king of the second 

 dynasty, of Manetho's lists. The cartouche 

 seen in fig. &., is explained by the word 

 BaTAU, (fig. a. with the determinative a 

 branch meaning something wooden), found 

 in Chapter 36 of the Ritual beginning: — 



" Oh, bringer of the boat to this dreadful 

 shore ! . . . . Anchor. Tell me my name. 



Ansicer. Lord of the earth in a box is 

 thy name. Rudder. Tell me m^' name. 



Ansiver. Trampler on Ilapi is thy name. 



Rope. Tell me mj^ name. 



Aniiwer. The hair which Anepu brings for his work of 

 embalming the dead, is thy name," &c. 



Birch translates the word Batau in tliis place, holes for ropes. 

 De Rouge thinks it is the name of a piece of the sacred boat 

 (all the details of which are successivel3' named in this curious 

 chapter of the Ritual) of the shape of the last letter in the 

 cartouche, fig. h. 

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