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Farther on in the Ritual* Horns is proclaimed by his father 
Osiris : “Everywhere welcomed is Horus by the gods.” While 
bv the change of persons so frequent in all Eastern poetry, to the 
young deity himself, the speaker cries out, “ Lead on, Horus, son 
of Isis, support thou thy father Osiris.” Agreeably to tins 
invocation, the son of Osiris replies, — 
“ O Osiris, 1 have come to thee : 
I am Horus. I have avenged. 
0 Osiris, I have smitten for thee thine enemies, 
1 have been avenged upon them.” 
In the Litany of the names of Osiris, f Horus is called the 
sustainer of his father under all his names ; and in the section 
entitled “the Gates of Elysium,”^; Horus declares, — 
“ I am Horus, the defender of his father ; I am Horus the 
justified : 
I have come : 
I have aided my father Osiris, 
The good being ; 
I have brought life and health to my father Osiris.” 
In the LXXVIIIth chapter of the Ritual, § the mysterious 
birth of Horus the Avenger is referred to; of course it must 
be understood that it is the soul of an Egyptian who is here 
speaking in his hypostasis as Horus : — 
“ He is among the spirits attached to light, 
Making transformations into the limbs of a god. 
He is one of the said spirits attached to light. 
Turn himself || made his transformations iuto his eyelashes (?). 
Ide transformed the spiritualized ; 
He grew against them when they were with him, 
For he was the only one they let forth. 
He came forth from the horizon with them ; 
They made him the terror of the gods and spirits transformed 
with him, 
The Only One of millions, 
Creating all that is made. 
For first Osiris made the generation of Horus ; 
Osiris figured (moulded) him.^f 
How was he more dignified than those who belong to the 
Cap. cxxviii., £: The Chapter of Adorations to Osiris.” 
i’ Cap. cxlii., “ The Book of preparing the dead, that he may go, walk, and 
come out as the day, in all the transformations he wishes, knowing the name 
of Osiris in all the places where he wishes to be.” 
+ Cap. cxlvii., “ The commencement of the gates of the house of Osiris, 
in the Fields of the Aahlu, said by the deceased.” 
§ The “ Chapter of Turning into a Hawk the God of Time.” 
j I The sun in Hades. 
•J Heb. i 3. Of “ the express image of his Person.” 
