Identifier: redemptionofegyp00worsuoft (find matches)
Title: The redemption of Egypt
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Worsfold, W. Basil (William Basil), 1858-1939
Subjects: Egypt -- Description and travel
Publisher: London G. Allen
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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on the capitals of the columns by which the roof issupported, has been preserved in a remarkable degree; and thestrange beauty which this shaded interior still possesses, enablesus to form some definite conception of the bewildering lovelinesswith which such colouring must have invested the more magnifi-cent chambers of the ancient temples. Isis and her consort Oshis were the national deities of Egypt. The Egyptians as a people, says Herodotus, do not worshipalike the same deities except Isis and Osiris—the latter they sayis Dionysus—but these they all alike worship. ^ The earliestconceptions of these deities appear to have been very simple.Osiris was the god of the Nile; and it was he who had taughtthe use of the plough. Isis was the goddess of the earth, and toher inspiration was ascribed the cultivation of wheat and barley.Afterwards, when Egypt had been brought into relation withSyria and Persia, the original conceptions were modified by the 1 ii., 42. AsS // ^-- -\>\ A W^
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-i-00 Si: _4>S ASSUAN 285 more spiritual influences of the East, and Osiris was identifiedwith the sun and Isis with the moon. The worship of Isis wasearly introduced into Greece, where she was identified witliDemeter, the beneficent goddess of the earth ; and during theperiod of political and moral disturbance which followed thecivil wars of Marius and Sulla, this worship appeared in Romeamong a crowd of strange superstitions from the East. The

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