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1 have preserved for thee food from the north and south; 
I have supplied for thee the victims of those who insult thy 
face.”* 
The next verses — those from 1G to 29 — relate to various 
offei’ings made to the God, of corn, wild fowl, geese, fruit, 
beer, and incense, and then the mystical part of the Litany is 
resumed, and Horus pleads : — 
“ Hail, Osiris ! I am thy son Horus : 
I have come, I have given thee thy spirit, 
I have given thee thy power, 
I have given thee thy force, 
I have given thee thy triumph, 
I have given thee thy desolating power, 
I have given thee thy victory, 
I have given to thee thy eyes ; and thy plumes upon thy head. 
I have given to thee Isis and Neplithys to place them there ; 
I have filled for thee the eve of Horus with oil, 
I have brought to thee the eye of Horus, [dazzle or blind] 
their face with it.”f 
The allusion to the eyes and plume is to the restoration 
by Horus of the creating power of his father Osiris, the 
power being symbolized by the pupils of the eyes, and the 
heavenly dignity by the great Atef, or plumed crown peculiar to 
Osiris. Thus Horus, “ the beloved son ” of Osiris, avenged and 
glorified his heavenly and yet human father. 
This reference to the ointment, or oil of the eye, of Horus, 
receives further explanation in the discourse of Horus, a 
new text, which has been published by M. Naville,]; verse 39 of 
which runs thus, “ I have anointed thee with holy oil,” and in 
another text — I will quote the French translation — “ J’ai oint 
ta tete de l’huile du front d ; Horus, si on by detruit (sur le 
front d’Horus), il est detruit comme dieu (sa divinite est 
detruite) .” Evidently, therefore, the divine power of Horus 
was in some way connected with the sacred oil of unction ; and 
though the title “ Anointed One ” does not appear to have been 
applied to the god, yet the circumstance is another of those 
singular parallels which abound throughout the whole of this 
myth with the Hebrew and Christian phraseology. 
Before passing to the next division of my subject, I ought in 
common honour and Christian verity to remind you that both 
the inscriptions on the walls of the temple of Edfu and the 
present copies of the Litanies of Horus which we possess, are all 
* The Good Being. 
f Phrase quoted in Eenouf’s Egyptian Grammar , page 16. 
X Le Discours (F Horus a Osiris in Zeitschrift fur Aeg. Sprac/i a, Juli, 1875. 
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