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and made prisoner, and then delivered him bound to his mother. But Isis, 
full of compassion, and prevailed upon by the prayers and promises of the 
captive, set him again at liberty. Horus, enraged at her ill-timed clemency, 
tore the crown from her head, which Hermes (Anubis) immediately covered 
with the skin and horns of a cow’s head (fig. 12), which ever after con- 
tinued to be the insignia of the goddess. 
Horus now waged for a second time war against Typhon, and forced prea 
and his companions to hide themselves in the desert. He then mounted 
the throne of his father, and was the last god that honored Egypt by ruling 
over it as its king; for all its subsequent kings were mere mortals. 
Osiris became after that the tutelar deity of the Egyptians, and his 
soul was supposed always to inhabit the body of the bull Apzs, and at his 
death to transfer itself to his successor. PU. 8, jig. 20, represents this bull 
attended by two genii with their burning torches, to indicate his resurrection. 
Apis, who was in fact the same as Osiris, or rather the perpetual abode 
of his soul, must always be a perfectly black animal, with a white spot 
resembling a triangle on the forehead, another resembling a crescent 
on his right side, and under his tongue a lump somewhat in the shape of 
a beetle. As soon as a bull thus marked was found by those sent in search 
of it, he was placed in a building facing the east, where for four 
months he was fed with milk. At the expiration of this term the priests 
repaired at new moon with great pomp to his habitation and saluted him, 
Apis. The bull was then placed in a vessel magnificently decorated, and 
conducted down the Nile to Nilopolis, where he was again fed for forty 
days. During all this period women only were permitted to salute him. 
After certain ceremonies at Nilopolis he was conducted to Memphis, where 
his inauguration was concluded, and a temple with two chapels and a court 
for exercise assigned to him. Sacrifices were made to him, and once every 
year about the time when the Nile began to rise a golden cup was thrown 
into the river, and a grand festival was held to celebrate his birth-day, and 
however extraordinary it may appear, oxen were immolated to him. 
Marcellinus says, “ during this festival the crocodiles forget their natural 
ferocity, become gentle, and dono harm to anybody.” There was, however, 
one drawback to his happy lot, he was not permitted to live beyond a 
certain period; and if when he had attained the age of twenty-five years 
he still, survived, the priest drowned him in the sacred cistern, and then 
buried him in the temple of Serapis. On the death of this bull, whether 
it occurred in the course of nature or by violence, the whole land was filled 
with sorrow and lamentations, which lasted until his successor was found. 
2. Turocony or THE Eeyprians. The gods of Egypt were divided into 
three classes or orders, each of different rank from the others, while each 
successive series was supposed to have been an emanation from the one 
immediately above it. 
They acknowledged as the highest deity Amun, afterwards called Zeus or 
Jupiter Ammon, the one great, almighty, and incomprehensible being. He 
was symbolically represented under the figure of a ram (pl. 8, jig. 6) with 
the disk of the sun upon its head, to indicate that he is the god of the sun, 
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