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a lamp was &quot; kept burning in the apartment.&quot; Habitually 

 there were public praises of the dead ; and to tempt back 

 to Egypt a valued subject, a king promises that &quot; the poor 

 shall make their moan at the door of thy tomb. Prayers 

 shall be addressed to thee.&quot; Such sacrifices, praises, and 

 prayers, continued from festival to festival, and, eventually, 

 from generation to generation, thus grew into established 

 worships. &quot; The monuments of the time of the building 

 of the pyramids mention priests and prophets which were 

 devoted to the service of Kheops, Chabryes, and other 

 rulers, and who offered them sacrifices&quot; priests who had 

 successors down even to the 2Gth dynasty. Such priest 

 hoods were established for worship not of the royal dead 

 only, but for worship of other dead. To ensure sacrifices 

 to their statues, great landowners made &quot;contracts with 

 the priests of their town,&quot; prescribing the kinds of food and 

 drink to be offered. So far was this system carried that 

 Hapi Tefa, the governor of a district, to maintain services to 

 himself &quot; for all time . . . provides salaries for the priests.&quot; 

 As implied in some of the foregoing extracts, there arose an 

 idol-worship by differentiation from worship of the dead. 

 The ka, expected eventually to return and re-animate the 

 mummy, could enter also a statue of wood or stone repre 

 senting the deceased. Hence some marvellous elaborations. 

 In the Egyptian tomb, sometimes called the &quot; house of the 

 double,&quot; there was a walled-up space having but a small 

 opening, which contained images of the dead, more or less 

 numerous ; so that if re-animation of the mummy was pre 

 vented by destruction of it, any one of these might be 

 utilized in its place. 



The proofs thus furnished that their idolatry was deve 

 loped from their ancestor- worship, are accompanied by proofs 

 that their animal-worship was similarly developed. The god 

 Ainmon Ea is represented as saying to Thothmes III 



&quot; I have caused them to behold thy majesty, even as it were the star 

 Seschet (the evening star) ... I have caused them to behold thy 

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