The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-10-04

script which is now in the British
Museum. It is known as the BOOK
of the Dead and contains w hundreu
chapters. 1t is written in hieroglyphlcs,
but many Of the passages have been
translated. According to 1t every
man was believed to consist Of seven
different parts, of which the actual
BODY was only one. The others re-
lated to the soul and it's transInlgra-
ton, and 1t was believed that upon
the preservation OF the body depended
the bringing together of these seven
parts in the future. 1t was on TINS
o that We're
and for the same reason that they
were hidden away in tonbS undef
the dessert and in the great pyra1hlus
which their owners believed Woulo
be inaccessible to the men or the 1u-
ture.
This Book of the Dead contains
also some of the Egyptian ideals of
right living reminding one of the
Psalm which,, according to Rouses
version, begins:
That mar hath perfect b~lessedness
Who walketh not astray
In counsel Of ungOd1y men,
Nor stands in sinners way.
NOr stitch in the Sc0rneTs cna1r;
But placeth his delight
Upon Gods law and meditateS
On that law day and night
The Book Of the Dead reads:
4 am not a plunderer; not a mig
gard; nor the cause OF others tears.
an not u%nchaste; nor hot in speech.
| am not fraudulent. l do not take
away the cakes of a child, or profane
the gods Of my locality
immortality OF the Egyptians.
There is no doubt that the Egyp-
tians believed in the immortality OF
the soul. They thought man would
live again, and rave the soul the name
of Ba, representing it in the form OF
a human-headed hawk. They had
their own ideas Of heaven, and one OF
their pictures Of the future state re-
presents it as follows:
ON heaven the dead eat bread
which never grows stale and drink
wine which is never musty. They wear
White apparel and sit upon thrones
among the gods, who cluster around
the tree of life near the lake in the
field of peace. They wear crowns
which the gods give them, and no evil
being or thing has any power to harm
them in their new abode, where they
will live with God forever
According to one opinion, the Egyp-
ton heaven was situated above the
sky. 1t was separated from the earth
by a great iron plate, to which lamps
were fastened. these lamps being the
stars. According to another theory,
the heaven was in the delta, or in one
of the GASES. and a third idea was that
the sky was in the form Of a COW, and
another in that Of a woman the legs
of the COW and the head and feet of
the woman being the cardinal points.
AS to creation, hat began with the
rising of the sun, which was brought
about by a god, and men and women
came from the tears which dropped
from the eyes of that god. This is
somewhat better than the Did Chinese
tradition Of the worlds making. Ac-
c~ording to the latter, the god Pwanku
chiSeled out the universe, and was
$4,000 years on the job. At the end
Of that time he died. and his head
turned into mountains, his breath be
came wind and his voice the thund er.
From his flesh came the fields, from
his beard the stars and from his skin
and hair the trees. All minerals orr
g1nated from his teeth and bones.
The rain is his sweat, and. lastly. man
was created from the insects which
stuck to his body
The Origin of the Golden Calf.
In examining these gods of the an
c1ent Egyptians as shown in the rel
les which came from the tombs. if is
easy to see where the Israelites got
their idea Of the COLDER calf. Their
oppresSors from whom thy We're flee
ing reVered certain animals. They
looked upon hawks as emblems of
the sun, moon and stars, and at their
death often turned them to mummies.
Inc cat was sacred to one of their
gods. They had also statutes or COWS
and the COW was considered emblem
ate OF Hathor, the goddess of beauty.
rove ana JOY. You may see her sta
tutes scattered up and down the Nile
valley. Sometimes she is depicted as
a COW. and at others as a woman wear
ing COW horns With the sun hung ne
tween them. There is a carving of
way. "'
IN 1906 a remarkable COW goddao.
was ~excaVated from the tomb of DER
el-Hahrl, not far from Thebes. .
the place whence it came and ta1Lod
TO the men who duo l.