CHAP. XVI. OFFERINGS TO THE DEAD. 



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ViONEriE p. Interior of a mummy pit, or scpulcliral chamljcr, at Tlicbci ; with a 

 Fellah woman searching for papyri and ornaments. 



CHAP. XVI. 



Funeral Rites. — Offerings to the Dead. — Tomhs. — Funeral 

 Processions. — Trials of the Dead. — Sacred Lake. — 

 Burial. — Embalming. — Sarcophagi. — Papyri, S^c. 



OFFERINGS TO THE DEAD. 



The offerings made to the dead were similar to 

 the ordinary oblations in honour of the Gods. It 

 was not to the deceased as a man translated to the 

 order of the Gods that these ceremonies were 

 performed ; but to that particular portion of the 

 divine essence which constituted the soul of each 

 individual, and returned to the Deity after death. 

 Every one, therefore, whose virtuous life entitled 



