El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-01
which. according to Rouses version, be.

which, according to Rouses version, be.
gins:
That man hath perfect blessedness
Who walketh not astray
In counsel Of ungodly men,
Nor stands In sinners way,
Nor stitch in the scorner's chair:
But placeth his delight
Upon Gods law and meditates
On that law day and night"
The Book of the Dead reads:
81 am not a plunderer; not a slug
gard; nor the cause of others tears.
I am not unchaste; nor hot in speech.
1 am not fraudulent l do not take
away the cakes of child, or profane
the gods of my locality
Immortality of the Egyptians.
There is. no doubt that the Egyptians
believed in the immortality of the soul.
They thought man would live again,
and gave the soul the name of Ba, rep
resenting it in the form of a human
headed hawk. They had their own
ideas Of heaven and one of their pic
as follows:
I'm 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 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
will live with God forever"
According to one opinion, the Egyp-
tian heaven was situated above the
sky. It was separated from the earth
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 GASES, and a third idea was that
the sky was in the form of cow,
and another in that of a woman, the
legs of the COW and head and feet of
the woman being the cardinal points
AS to creation, that began with the
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
chisied out the universe and was 49,
600 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 ere
ated from the insects which stuck to
his body.
The Origin OF the Golden Calf.
In examining these gods of the an.
cient Egyptians as shown in the relics
which came from the tombs it is easy
to see where the Israeiites got their
idea of the golden calf Their oppress-
ors from within they were fleeing re-
vered 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 considered emblematic of
and JOY You may see her statues
scattered up and down the Nile val
ley. Sometimes she is depicted as
COW, and at others as a woman wear
ing cow horns with the sun hung be-
tween them. There is a carving of
Queen Cleopatra dressed up in that
way.
In 1906 remarkable cow goddess
was excavated from the tomb of Deir-
el-Bahri, not far from Thebes. 1 saw
the place whence it came and talked to
the men who dug 1t from the earth.
The cow is of white limestone about
four feet in height and perhaps six
feet in length. IT has a real tail, a
black face, and its head is crowned
with lotus flowers and lotus stalks
hang down each side of its neck almost
to the ground There is king kneel-
ing 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 modelled their calf IF sold.
The Jewels of the Egyptiaos
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 lie
Israelites that every man should Dor
row of his Egyptian neighbor AMI
every woman of her neighbor jewels
or silver End jewels of gold; AMI.
little farther on. it is stated that they