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than open a door for heresies which I detest, I would prefer to consider that I 
have overstated my own positions, and perhaps have read too much of a later 
Christianity into the Horus myth than the words themselves would have 
strictly warranted. I do not say that I have done so, but my confidence in 
certain deductions is so far shaken that I should not be surprised if it were 
proved that I have thus misinterpreted my texts ; albeit I must with equal 
positiveness assert that nothing in the after papers by Canon Cook, 
M. Lombard, Dr. Rule, and Mr. Savile, has shown this to have been the 
case. Let it be remembered that those assertions made in my paper, 
though new to many of the members of the Institute, and others, are 
not by any means new discoveries ; were they such I would have refrained 
from publishing them. The analogies existed, and had been pointed out 
by Sharpe and Wilkinson, and by my esteemed master Bonomi, years ago. 
In Prance and Germany the peculiarities of the Horus myth were well- 
recognized facts among all scholars, the spread of the new science of 
comparative mythology was giving new interest to Egyptian mythological 
dogmas in the advanced school of English literature, and I therefore felt that 
it was necessary for the whole of the subject to be examined from a Christian 
standpoint, and not to have the myth of Horus used as against the doctrine of 
the New Testament, before the myth itself had been carefully analyzed, 
and this analysis I endeavoured to work out in my paper. At the risk 
of tedious repetition, I must re-assert what has been elsewhere written, 
that these myths are of an antiquity to which all written Semitic litera- 
ture has not the nearest approach ; even many of the oldest Jewish 
traditions are of more recent origin than the hieroglyphics which embody 
many of the Egyptian dogmas. Virtually, the Jew interprets the Old 
Testament by the Talmud, the date of the compilation of which is well 
known, while Christian commentaries upon new Testament history were most 
rife, and also most distinct in the school of Alexandria, the last resting-place 
of the myth of Horus. I have implied that possibly I have overstated my in- 
ferences, let me explain in what manner ; thus, it might be inferred from 
certain passages that peculiar titles and offices were ascribed to Horus, the 
Redeemer only, this is then the assertion which I will myself undertake to 
(qualify. The publication of more recently-translated texts in the volumes 
of the Records of the Past, and some yet unpublished texts, which by the 
courtesy of the editors I am permitted to cite, have proven that very many of 
the essential names and attributes of Horus were attributed to Ra, Turn, and 
the other deities also,* they were alike “self-created,” “born of a Virgin,” “de- 
* The following extract from the first chapter of the Harris Magical Papyrus, 
which by the courtesy of the translator, M. Franpois Chabas, I am permitted 
to quote, affords an illustration of the manner in which the titles of Horus 
were applied to Ra and Turn : — 
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1 Chapter of the excellent songs which dispel the immerged . 1 
A Hymn to the god Shu. 
1 “ The immerged.” All dangerous animals lurking in the water. 
