CHAP. XVI. JUDGMENT OF THE DEAD. 447 



soul to return to earth under the form of a pig, or 

 some other unclean anhnal.* Placed in a boat, it is 

 removed, under the charge of two monkeys, from 

 the precincts of Amenti, all communication with 

 which is figuratively cut off by a man who hews 

 away the eartli with an axe after its passage ; and 

 the commencement of a new term of life is in- 

 dicated by those monkeys, the emblems of Thotli. 

 But if, wlien the sum of his deeds are recorded 

 by Thoth, his virtues so far predominate as to 

 entitle him to admission to the mansions of the 

 blessed, Horus, taking in his hand the tablet of 

 Thoth, introduces him to the presence of Osiris ; 

 who, in his palace, attended by Isis and Nepthys, 

 sits on his throne in the midst of the waters, from 

 which rises the lotus, bearing upon its expanded 

 flower the four Genii of Amenti. t 



Other representations + of this subject differ in 

 some of the details ; and in the judgment scene of 

 the royal scribe, whose funeral procession has been 

 described §, the deceased advances alone in an 

 attitude of prayer to receive judgment. On one 

 side of the scales stands Thoth, holding a tablet 

 in his hand ; on the other the Goddess of Justice ; 

 and Horus, in lieu of Anubis, performs the office 

 of director of the balance, on the top of which 

 sits a Cynocephalus, the emblem of Thotli. Osiris, 

 seated as usual on his throne ||, liolding his crook 



* Vide Plate 87. f Vide Plate 88. 



J Vide supra, Yo]. I. (2d Series) p. 3\5. § Supra, p. 410. 



II Conf. Lucian's description of " Minos on a high throne, with the 

 punishments, avenging spirits, and furies standing near him." Necro- 

 raantia. 



