The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-02
Immortality of the Egyptian.

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 Immortality of the Egyptians
 There Is no doubt that the Egyp- tions believed in the immortality of the soul. They thought man would live again, and gave the soul the name of Ba, representing 1t in the form of a human-headed hawk. They had their own ideas of heaven, and one of their pictures of the future state represents Is as follows:
 In heaven the dead eat bread which never grows stale and drink wine which Is never musty. They wear white ap- parel and sit upon thrones among the gods. who cluster around the tree of life near the lake in the field of peace They wear the crowns which the gods give them, and no evil being or thing has any power to harm them in their new abode. where they live with God forever"
 According to one opinion the Egyp- tian heaven was situated above the sky. It was separated from the earth l by 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 oases. and a third Idea was that the sky was in the form of a COW, anu tHotner III that or woman the | legs of the COW and head and feet of the woman being the cardinal points | AS to creation that began with the l rising of the sun, which was brought | about by god. and men and women came from the tears which dropped from the eyes of that god. This is | somewhat better than the old Chinese tradition of the worlds making. Ac- cording to the latter, the god Pwanku chiseled out the universe. and was 1S,- 900 years on the job. At the end of that time he died and his head turned into mountains, his breath became wind and his voice the thunder. From his flesh came the fields, from his beard the stars and from his skin and hair the trees. All minerals originated 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 ancient Egyptians as shown in the relics which came from the tombs it Is easy to see where the Israelites got their idea of the golden calf. Their oppressors from whom they were fleeing revered certain animals. They looked upon hawks as emblems of the sun, moon and stars. and at their death often turned them to mummies. The cat was sacred to one of their gods. They had also statues of cows, and the COW was con- sidered emblematio of Hathor, the god dess of beauty. love and joy. You may see her statues scattered up ond down the Nile valley. Sometimes she is de- picted as COW. and at others as a woman wearing COW horns with the sun hung between them. There is A carving of Queen Cleopatra dressed up In that way.
 In 1908 remarkable COW goddess was excavated from the tomb of Detr- el Bahri, not far from Thebes. I saw the place whence it came and talked to the men who dug it out of the earth. The COW is of white limestone about four feet in height and perhaps six feet in length. It has red tail a black face, and its head Is crowned with lotus flowers and lotus stalks hang down each side it's neck almost to the ground There is king kneeling under the COW. in the attitude of prayer. That statue was probably wor- shipped at the time the Israelites were working in the valley of the Nile, and 1t may have been from one like her that they molded their calf of gold.
 The Jewels of the Egyptians
 And this brings me to the jewels of which that calf was made If you will look up the Bible records in Exodus you will see that Moses advised the Israelites that every man should borrow of his Egyptian neighbor and every woman of her neighbor jewels of silver and jewels of gold; and, little farther on, 1t is stated that they did so the paragraph concluded as follows:
 And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. so that they lent unto them. And they spoiled the Egyptians"
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