Identifier: antiquitiesofori00reddrich (find matches)
Title: Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Redding, M. W. (Moses Wolcott) Guide to Mount Moriah, Author of
Subjects: Bible Middle East -- Antiquities
Publisher: New York, Temple Publishing Union
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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eries, called also theInstitutes of Isis. During these ceremonies, whichcontinued for a longer or shorter term of days, ac-cording to the dignity of the candidate, or his propos-ed station in the priesthood, he was made acquaintedwith the writings of Thot, the god of eloquence,the inventor of writing, of philosophy, and he recei\ eda collar embroidered with emblems of his pnigressand acquirements, and became after due examinationentitled to appear as a Yictor before the people in asolemn procession, called the Triumphal March ofthe Initiated. This occasion was often made a most magnificentaffair, in which many orders of men and women tookpart in great numbers, and particularly the priests oftihe great gods who wore disguises in imitation of thestatues of their several divinities, which were sym-bolical of their peculiar attributes. The most precious treasures of the sanctuary weredisplayed, and sacrifices prepared to Isis, her statuebeing vailed in a black gauze, c/er a drapery of i I
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