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The Egyptians had the Solar and Sidereal, or Sothic Year - 374 



The Quarter Day, or Intercalary Day every Four Years, of 

 Egyptian Origin, The Heliacal Rising of Sothis an im- 

 portant Time in Egypt .... 376 



The Twelve Months at the Memnonium. Isis-Sothis. Isis 

 the greatest of Goddesses, in her mysterious Character - 378 



Fete of Isis at Busiris. The Votaries beat themselves. The 

 Carians cut themselves, showing they were not Egyptians. 

 Heifers not allowed to be sacrificed in Egypt, being sa- 

 cred to Isis _---.- 380 



Abhorrence felt for the Greeks. Bulls and Heifers, how 

 buried. Atarbechis the City of Venus. Connection of 

 Isis and Athor ..... 38I 



Forms and Titles of Isis. Nursing the Infant Horus - 384 



Married her Brother Osiris. This Custom in Egypt. Great 

 Temple of Isis at Philae. Coptos. Festivals of Isis - 385 



An Address to Isis. Athor - - _ _ 386 



Her Name. Her Title in a Papyrus. Represented under 

 the Form of a Cow. Comes from the Mountain^ perhaps 

 as the Morning Star, Name of Fathyris a Part of 

 Thebes - - - - - - 387 



Athor answered to Night; not the original Night, or primeval 

 Darkness. Notion of Jablonski on the Two Nights. The 

 Cow Ehe, lo - - - - - 388 



The Month Athor. Death of Osiris. Worshipped at 

 Aboosimbel or Aboshek. Cow of Momemphis - 389 



Aphroditopolis, Chusae, Atarbechis, Tentyris - - 390 



Her Dress. President of the West. The Persea Tree sa- 

 cred to her. Persea and Peach confounded - - 391 



Patroness of Dress. Worship of the Cow, and the Indian 

 Sepoys. No Argument to be drawn from their Respect 

 to its Figure in Egypt. Reason of the Worship of the 

 Cow, or Bull - - . . . 393 



Horus, the Son of Isis and Osiris. Identified with Apollo. 

 Slew the Serpent, corresponding to the Pytho of the 

 Greeks and the Caliya of the Hindoos - - 395 



The Aphophis of Plutarch. The War of the Gods and 

 Giants. The Hawk of Horus. Aroeris, or the Elder 



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