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the one to a filthy monster, and made of the other a 
scarecrow.* Under the name of Az-el,f he was the 
supposed son of Isis,, who was herself but an emblem of 
the ark—the mother of mankind—and from the Titans 
he received all that Osiris suffered under the Typhon. 
Both Orus and Osiris were styled Heliadse, and often 
represented me sun, which has led many writers to refer 
what has been said of the personages to the luminary 
itself. Orus was in fact the same as Osiris, but Osiris 
in his second state; and therefore he is represented by 
the Egyptians as a child swathed in bondage, a type of 
the infancy of the world. At other times he shadows 
forth the likeness of Saturn, the father of agriculture, 
holding in his hand the implements of tillage, with a 
ploughshare over his shoulder, and the blossoms of the 
lotos on his head. 
It is easy to trace, even in these confused and dis¬ 
torted remnants of ancient creeds, an identity of idea 
and a coincidence of purpose. Brahma waking from 
sleep upon the bosom of the lotos, and Willing the 
creation by a passing thought; Puzza resting his gigan¬ 
tic frame upon the Lien-uha, or sacred lotos leaf; Orus 
brought back to immortal life when he lay dead in the 
midst of the waters, are all emblems of the Supreme 
Will, which called up the worlds from night, and by 
a thought, changed the silence of chaos into the morning 
song of creation. 
All tradition and allegory go the same way; and 
in the most perverted and sensualized of ancient symbols 
we may still read the sublime thoughts; the overwheim- 
* Bryant, i. 141. + Ibid, vol. i., p. 206. 
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