The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, Том 3

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J. Murray, 1878
 

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Сторінка 429 - about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Сторінка 449 - and endeavoured to prove, by this marked neglect of their personal comfort and appearance, how entirely their thoughts were absorbed by the melancholy event that had befallen them. But they did not cut themselves in token of grief; and the command given to the Israelites,' Ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead,
Сторінка 429 - the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Сторінка 429 - And he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed. And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in
Сторінка 24 - it mentions an offset in Nimrod, who founded the kingdom of ' Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar,
Сторінка 409 - the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder,' were taken together with ' one unleavened cake, a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer,' placed ' on the fat, and upon the right shoulder,' and burnt on the altar. Herodotus * describes ' the sacrifice of a pig to the moon,' in which ' the end of the tail, the spleen, and the
Сторінка 408 - of Isis that they beat themselves in honour of Osiris. Similar to this was the burnt offering * of the Jews ; when ' the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above
Сторінка 411 - or two young pigeons, one for a sin offering, the other for a burnt offering; or at least the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering, but without any oil or frankincense. If
Сторінка 74 - in a remote and unfrequented place. Typho, however, as he was one night hunting by the light of the moon, accidentally met with it, and, knowing the body enclosed in it, tore it into fourteen pieces, disposing them up and down in different parts of the country. Being acquainted with this event, Isis set out once more
Сторінка 59 - having had intercourse with Saturn by stealth, was discovered by the sun, who thereupon denounced a curse upon her ' that she should not be delivered in any month or year.' Mercury, however, being likewise in love with the same goddess, in recompense for the favours which he had received from her,

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