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DUTIES OF HORUS. 



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with Priapus, can only apply to a character given 

 him at a late period ; an instance * of which occurs 

 at Dendera in sculptures of Roman time. But 

 these are of little authority respecting the real 

 forms of the Egyptian Deities ; several innovations 

 in the forms and attributes of the Gods having 

 been introduced on the monuments of that a3ra, 

 totally unauthorised by the sculptures of an ancient 

 Pharaonic age. 



One of the principal duties of Horus was that of 

 introducing the souls of the dead into the presence 

 of Osiris, after they had passed the ordeal of their 

 final judgment. He also assisted Anubis in weigh- 

 ing and ascertaining their good conduct during 

 life, previous to their admission into the august 

 presence of his father, in the blessed regions of 

 Amenti. The hawk placed on the wooden tablets 

 in the tombs, and sometimes on the mummy case 

 itself, was an emblem of Horus. 



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Wooden hawk of the tombs, an cmbliin of Horus. 



* Vide Burton's Exccrpta, PI. 2G. 

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