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Page 94
The soul winged its way to the western world , where abode the shades of the
blessed , but hopefully only for a season , if Osiris should find it pure . In due time
it should return to the earthly body , and the ka , kept supplied during the interval
...
The soul winged its way to the western world , where abode the shades of the
blessed , but hopefully only for a season , if Osiris should find it pure . In due time
it should return to the earthly body , and the ka , kept supplied during the interval
...
Page 96
Unquestionably this sufficed to keep alive many a service which would otherwise
lapse , for it was well to have friends at the court of Osiris when one came to die
and have the soul weighed against the ostrich feather of truth ! The great and first
...
Unquestionably this sufficed to keep alive many a service which would otherwise
lapse , for it was well to have friends at the court of Osiris when one came to die
and have the soul weighed against the ostrich feather of truth ! The great and first
...
Page 103
... incantations essential to eternal bliss , and caused the harassed mortal to care
for nothing else than to be sure he knew and could remember at need the
passwords and countersigns that Osiris and his train of lesser gods would
demand .
... incantations essential to eternal bliss , and caused the harassed mortal to care
for nothing else than to be sure he knew and could remember at need the
passwords and countersigns that Osiris and his train of lesser gods would
demand .
Page 104
Many , of course , sought burial in the sacred precints of Abydos , where it was
thought the body - or main portion , at least — of Osiris was laid . Even those who
could not be buried there permanently were carried to the shrine of the God for ...
Many , of course , sought burial in the sacred precints of Abydos , where it was
thought the body - or main portion , at least — of Osiris was laid . Even those who
could not be buried there permanently were carried to the shrine of the God for ...
Page 109
If Ammon - Ra , or Horus , or some equivalent sun - god , is supreme in the visible
world , Osiris is as supreme in the invisible . That the sun - god should be the
chief was , of course , perfectly natural and to be expected . In a country where
the ...
If Ammon - Ra , or Horus , or some equivalent sun - god , is supreme in the visible
world , Osiris is as supreme in the invisible . That the sun - god should be the
chief was , of course , perfectly natural and to be expected . In a country where
the ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Egyptian Days |
| Author | Philip Sanford Marden |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1912 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 329 pages |
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