The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-20
ANEGYPTIAN FUNERAL.

AN EG1FIlAN NERAL.
Let us now suppose Pharaoh to have
died at Thebes and we are invited to attend
the funeral of the Royal Corpsolies in
State at Karnak. The embalming is fin
ished, the bandages are upon the body;
the white vest priesthood have assembled
the nobility, the grandeur and the pop
ulace are congrcgating in the grand hall,
amid these lofty pillars.
The procession moves to the sound of do
lorous music. Now we are amid the
Ram headed Sphinxes, and now human
headed monsters adorn the way, for mile
and half southwark Here we halt in
= the temple of Luxor, while the priests
perform an incarnation; this done the
procession moves again.
Upon bridge of boats we cross the
river and southwark move across the
green plains about four miles. Now thro'
the grand Propylon and long halls, we
g enter into the famous temple Medinot
Habon.
a Here the body is placed upon an alter
81 in front of the great god Ammon Ray,
who presdes as judge of the souls of the
dead. The late king must now undergo
trial. The people are at liberty to ac-
cuse or excuse him.
Before the God is suspended pair of
scales, in which are weighed the actions
of the late monarch. His soul is con-
demned to be transformed into pig or
some other animal which he most resem-
bled, in which form he is sent into purga-
tory to be purified of his beastly qualities.
In front of the scales is the ferryman in
his boat ready to receive the animal to ferry
e, over into purgatory. But as the soul will
ultimately return for his body again we
will proceed with the funeral, after the
weighing ceremony has ceased, the pro-
cession will move northwestward along
the plain, and pass the Vocal Memnon. -
AS the temple at this place has entirely
perished, we know not what ceremonies
were here performed, SO we proceed still
further north and now we arrive at the
temple of Ramases, through whose porti-
co will bear the corpse amid the pillars
adorned with Typon, implying that the
king must run the gauntlet among the
Dearles.
- Within the temple another priestly GER
emony is performed, and now we bear the
body along the dark and winding valley
to its silent tomb, beneath the base of the
Lybiau mountains in the west upon whose
summit the black god of night holds his
court over the repose of the dead.
In all this procession it will be perceiv,
ed that there is a representative and sym
bolic meaning. The sun rises in the north
east, and pursues his way to the south
east; our funernal procession began at
Karnak in the north east, and proceed to
ID Luxor, in the south east; the sun crosses
the meridian to the south west; the body
Of the king was carried across the rive,
to Medinot Habon in the south west where
his soul was weighed.
Mems characters are determined when
they have passed the meridian of life, as
the sun proceeds to the north west SO our
B. procession will proceed to Gournon, oppo-
site 10 the place of beginning, where
next, the sun now declines in darkness
beyond the western desert; so we bea,
the body of the late king westward to its
final repose, beneath the mountains of the
same desert. In all this, the king and his
. burial, are made to represent the journey
Of the sun for day.
,dl2 when the word of the prophet shal
come to pass, then shall the prophet be
known that the Lord hath truly sent
him." Jerimiah: xviii, 8.
Now let us enquire what the prophets
have said about the fate of Egypt, and
whether the past history and present con
ditioR of that land verify the truth Of the