I. 22. and a thousand times repeated on the monuments. Horus
all its phases from an inscription at Edfu, interpreted by Naville.]
"The little boats fled with the swiftness of the wind.html">wind, and the trembling
comrades, killed him, threw the body.html">body into a coffin.html">coffin and the coffin into
Isis meanwhile had escaped to land.html">land in one of the small boats, and was now
hair, lamenting her deadhusband and followed by the virgins who had
Osiris, were strangely plaintive and touching, and the girls accompanied
Neither were the youths idle; they busied themselves in making a costly
dances and the sound of castanets. When this was finished they joined
with them, singing and searching.
"Suddenly a low song rose from some invisible lips. It swelled louder
by the currents of the Mediterranean to Gebal in distant Phoenicia. This
companion, called it 'the wind of rumor.'
"When Isis heard the glad news, she threw off her mourning garments and
beautiful followers. Rumor had not lied; the goddess really found the
lake.
[It is natural, that Isis should find the body of her husband in the
it has been handed down to us by Plutarch, is very remarkable. We
Osiris and the Adonis myths to be in the fact, that Egyptians and
latter had planted their colonies. Plutarch's story of the finding
15.]
"They brought both to land with dances; Isis threw herself on the beloved
while the youths wove a wonderful tomb of lotus-flowers and.
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