The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-20
IONBS Of G()D-K|NGS
Discovered by a French
SaVant in Egypt.
Osiris, H0RUS AND SET
We're Living Persons Ten
thousand Years Ago.

we're living and moving human beings
rulers Of flesh and blood, In the remote
past, at least 10000 years ago. The evi.
Ceace Of their actual terrestrial existence
mas just been produced by the distinguish
ID French EgyptoIogist, who has created
great scientific sensation by announcinp
MS discovery Of the tombs of Osiris. Ho-
rus and Set, at Abydos.
Clifton H. Levy in the Herald thus -.
lates the discovery OF the tonbs Of the
god-kings: The tomb of Osiris? the tomb
OF Horus? the tomb Of Set? II we are n
believe the words OF one Of the most re-
Aaole OF European scolars. NJ Amelineau
he has discovered the tombs of these
Egyptian deities in the sands of Abvdos
Aoydos is not very far from Thebes m
the River Nile, and historians tells US that
Aoydos was the most sacred suot in
Egypt and that every pious Egyptia
wished 10 be buried there near the shrine
OF Ssiris.
THE OSIRIS LEGEND.
Who was Osiris? His name annAars y,
the list of the sod kings Of Frvnt i'm
mediateIy preceding Set and Horus b,,t
IN Egyptian literature. The chief Of these
IS that Deb. the earth god. married Nut.
the goddess Of heaven. Four children were
born TO them, Osiris an dSet, Isis and
Nephthys- Osiris succeeded his father as
Pharoaoh Of Egypt, marrying his sister
Isis; Set married the other sister, Neph-
thys. after she had borne one son. Anu
bis. TO Osiris
hen Osiris had reigned for few years
Set tried 70 dethrone him. but failed. and
II was after Osiris had been Pharaoh for
tWenty-etght years that Set laid a plot 10
xiii him. He made a beautiful coffin lust
the size Of Osiris, and offered 10 give 1t
TO anyone whom it would fit. When Osiris
got IN 10 try it Set and his friends put
on the lid. nailed il fast and pored hot
lead ali around it They then threw it TO
the Nile, which carried the box and BODY
TO the sea.
Isis Crisis widow, went in search of
her husbands body. and while living in
the marshes Of the delta Of the Nile Horus
was borne Here he grew to manhood.
but Isis was till seeking her husbands
body The gods told her that she should
now go 10 PhOenicia, and there at Byblos.
she found that the chest containing Osiris
body had been washed upon the shore
and enclosed by the trunk Of a huge tree.
This tree had been cut down by the King
If Byblos and now stood as a pillar to his
palace Isis was engaged as nurse for the
kings children, and be restoring one Of
them to life so gained the kings good will
hat he gave her the pillar containing the
long sought corpse when she asked for II.
CHIEF SHRINE AT ABYDOs.
Isis then FASTENED 10 Egypt wit thhe
chest. but leaving it TO find her son Horus.
Set happened to see the coffin. He opened
1t. cut it the body Of Crisis 10 pieces and
threw them all over the land of Egypt.
isis set forth to find these scattered mem
bers. and wherever she found any part
she buried it. 10 be sure that Set would
not interfere again. Wherever one Of
these burials took place a shrine was
Greeted TO Osiris, but his chief shrine was
N Abydos. where il was said his head
fested in a small chest. The soul Of Osiris /
Ess transformed into the bird Benu, the
Phoenix OF Greece. As compensation for |
his sufferings and reward for Iris long
years of devotions, Osiris became the |
King OF the Dead. or the supreme Judge /
IN the 'Tribual of Amenti," where he /
weighed the heart Of the deceased in the |
scales The heart is placed on one side, |
the symbol Of truth on the other.
But the legend is not complete without /
the rest OF the adventures Of Set and /
Horus. After Sets browning barabrity of /
catering his brothers bones. Horus. the /
-on Of Crisis. seeks on the murderer to be
Avenged. A terrible conflict ensues, in
which Set Acknowledges him as the true
Pharaoh
Such is the chief legend handed down
sbout these gods for ten milleuia. The
tsorship Of Osiris was at first confined 10
Abydos, but gradually it spread all over
Egypt
FROM KING TO GOD.
As the reverence for the cooking
spread lis character was developed in the
popular mind. As king he was looked Up
TO FOR teaching the poole how TO till the
soil. as the great lawgiver and teacher Of
science. Later he became not only the
King Of Eternity. but also the divine SYM
boil Of every thing that died an dived again.
TIE aveugins Horus. born after his faith
er's death. was thes ymool Of fnel con
quasi. and later became the sun sod, as
Osiris was made the god of the Nile.
which sustains the life OF Egypt The con
zict between Set and Horus then changed
to the symbolic strife between light and
good and evil
Egyptologists like Brugsch regarded the
lvnasties Of the Egyptian gods as pure
myths. comparing these divinities with
those OF Greece. not hesitating 70 cite
Apollo as the parallel Of Horus. for in
stance Some have doubted the actual
~ even Of Nenes himself. but late re-
searches. especially by Flinders Petrie
and De Morgan. have established the his
a-ic character OF the first human dyn-
,sty.
". Amelineau has, however, eclipsed all
PREVIOUS discoveries by his excavations st
I Uxur (aucient Luxor. where he as
erts that he has found the actual tombs
T Osiris. Set and Horus. The earliest
ate assigned TO Menes is 57o2 s. C, but,
ccording 70 the Egyptian lists OF kings.
1ore than two thousand years passed IN
Ter the divine and semi-divine dynasties I
% that this latest find takes Us back 10
bout ten thousand years ago. NJ Anelin- I
aus researches. If confirmed. proves that
,siris. Isis. Set and Horus walked the
arth breathed. married. ruled. fought
led and were buried.
Fleets OTHER NATIONS HISTORY
This discovery must affect the history
: all nations. more or less. for the same
Of eIevating the liking first to
he position or hero. then n Gemigod and
nally OF full and complete divinity has
one on omonz all the peoples OF the
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