The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-28

no other quick and ready way of separat-
ing the flesh from the bones is so likely.
Some form of cooking would be needful
to so prepare the bones. The presump-
ton, then, is that if they did not actually
eat the flesh at that time. they at least
kept up the cooking of it, while the bones
were being cleaned for burial.
Even as late as the Roman times a
tradition was current that Osiris taught
the Egyptians agriculture and abolished
cannibalism.
What, then, are we to conclude from
this strang mixture of burial customs
discovered as prevailing in Egypt about
the age of the Pyramid builders? We find
the customs almost equally divided be-
tween perfect burial and more or less cut
up burial. Trims shows a fusion of two
entirely different beliefs and customs. In
externals they had become unified, prob
ably from long pressure of responsibility
and a desire to do what was right and
proper in general estimation, but the
more personal and religious treatment
of the treatment of the body continued
to mark out the difference of the origi-
nal customs and belief.
when Egypt is scientifically examined
we shall learn it's past. Meanwhile, here
is a fruit of the surprises that await US
when we can write down the Pyramid
builders as half pervaded by customs of
cannibalism, past or present, in that
brilliant age.'
Professor Petrie believe that this Gus
tom of cannibalism just discovered as
practised by this enlightened people was
brought into the country by the Libyan
invaders, who entered Egypt prior TO
500 3. c. He further thinks that if the
Egyptians of the Immediately succeed
ing ages did not continue the practice OF
actually eating flesh they at least con-
tinued the custom of cooking it, as their
ancestors had done.
HUMAN SACRIFICES.
It is well known that every nation Of
antiquity considered sacrifice as one of
the most important elements of divine
worship. The more the divine favor was
sought for some special purpose the cost
lier and more precious became the gift,
SO that in time, in many nations, human
beings were offered as sacrifices, and the
dearer the human being to the offerer the
more the self abnegation must become
patent, and the more the god must smile
upon the donor. The custom of human
sacrifice among other ancient peoples is
well known. The Amorites, the Moab
ties and other neighbors of the ancient
Hebrews, and also the Cartha ginians
dedicated their own children to the great
Moloch, or Great King, for fire offering.
Even among the Greeks anr Romans, in
the more remote periods of their history,
human sacrifices as a means to appease
the Deity were by no means rare, and
this fell into disuse only after more gen
eral culture had removed the conception
upon which the rite was based. The
German tribes, even after the conversion
to Christianity, continued to offer up
their prisoners of war, and the custom
was practiced to an enormous extent by
the ancient Mexicans.
But the fact that the Egyptians, who
have always been looked upon as giving
their dead the most gorgeous and elao-
crate burials the world has ever known
should at one time in their early history
have stripped the body of its flesh and
eaten portions of it is the first step in
throwing an entirely new light upon the
beliefs of the ancient kings of that mys-
FERROUS land. Continuing the study of the
subject Professor Heinrich Brughsc, the
great German archaeologist, says that
he now believes the early Egyptians to
have been savages of the worst kind, and
he brings forth conclusiev evidence show
ing that they regularly used the flesh of
men as food after the style of our pres
ent day cannibals.
FOOD FOR KINGS.
One striking proof of this he finds in
the translation of recently found Egyp-
ton inscription, which represents one OF
Egypts ancient kings-King Onnos-
transported TO the realm of the immortal.
A studp of this sublime realm shows it
to be nothing more or less than a heav-
emily Egypt, patterned more or less after
the terrestrial Egypt, patterned alto
gether after the terrestrial Egypt. Both
men and gods constitute King Onnos' low
ing companions, with whom he keeps up
a lively intercourse. The life of the king
is shown as honored after the earthly
model, and his dwelling house, as well
as the furniture, down even to the chairs
and tables, corresponds with the tastes of
the Egyptians in those prehistoric days.
Eevn the meals of King Onnos are con-
Quoted in the home fashion. The in
scription says: HE consumes men and
loaves of the gods. for he is Lord of the
Tributes and inspects the books thereon
Professor Brugsch says that, according
to the inscription, the men which served
as food for his majesty were captured
by certain officials whom he appointed.
The victims were then examined, bound,
their threats cut and their bodies cleaned.
After this they were hewed to pieces and
roasted in pans or boiled in the oven.
The meals of the king took place three
times a day and consisted of the juicy
parts of the poor captives. Here is the
chief portion of the inscription:
He whose duty it is to take hold Of
the hair must capture those destined for
the king Another whose head has honor
examines them and drags them to the
slaughtering place. The master of chains
binds them He who whets all the knives
cuts their threats and cleans the bodies.
The butcher cuts them in pieces for the
king and roasts their parts in the pan so
that Onnos might consume their charm
and enjoy their good qualities. The no.
500 TO ANY MAN.