^80 TIT HO RE A. 
CHAP, to Isis\ The Tilhoreans held a vernal and an 
autumnal solemhitij in honour of this Goddess : 
and so purely Egyptian were the sacrifices then 
offered, that the custom of swathing the victims 
in folds of linen" (after the same manner in which 
the Ibis, and the bodies and parts of bodies of 
other animals, were deposited, in terra-cottayes- 
sels, in the subterraneous cavities beneath the 
Pyramids ofSaccara) was considered as a neces- 
sary operation. From the account given by 
Pausanias of the ceremonies that were practised 
during the celebration of these Egyptian solemnities 
at TiTHouEA,we may collect sufficient informa- 
tion for the illustration of that strange custom in 
Egypt; a subject hitherto involved in the 
utmost obscurity'. Here we find that certain 
birds called Meleagrid.es*, together with other 
animals, were sacrificed to Isis^, wrapped up 
IN LINEN BANDAGES, AFTER THE EGYPTIAN 
(1) Pausanias, lib. x. c. 32. p. 880. 
(2) KahtXl^cit Ti Ssr a(pas ra. hpiTec Xi'vou TiXa.f/,u(riv ri (iufftmu. Ibid. 
(3) See Vol. V. of these Travels, Chap. V. p. 22i). Octavo Edition. 
(" Repository o/embulmed birds.") 
(4) The birds so called were Guinea- fowls, whose feathers and eggs 
are of a different colour; but the Meleagrides were the sisters of 
Meleager, supposed to have been thus nietainorphosed, 
(5) Vid. Pausan. ibid. p. 880. 
