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Title: The Pantheon, or, Fabulous history of the heathen gods, goddesses, heroes, &c. : explained in a manner entirely new ... adorned with figures from ancient paintings, medals, and gems ... with a dissertation on the theology and mythology of the heathens ...
Year: 1792 (1790s)
Authors: Boyse, Samuel, 1708-1749 Cooke, William, d. 1780
Subjects: Mythology, Classical
Publisher: Dublin : Printed for J. Jones ...
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
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at Butus.But Typhon hunting by moonlight, found it there,and tore it into many pieces, which he fcatteredabroad. Ifis then traverfed the lakes and watryplaces in a boat made of the papyrus, feeking themangled limbs of Ofiris: where fhe found one,there fhe buried it. Hence the many tom.bs afcribedto Ofiris. Thus Plutarch. But Diodorus fays, that ■fhe joined the fragments, embalmed and buried themat Memphis; prevailing on the Egyptian priefts topromote his deification, in confideration of a thirdpart of the kingdom given to them. Ifis afterwards, with the alfiftance of her fonOrus, vanquiflied Typhon, reigned happily overEgypt to her death, and was alfo buried at Mem-phis. At Bufiris, a moft fuperb temple was raifedto her. She was fucceeded by her fon Orus, whocompleted the reign of the gads and demi-gods inEgypt. To do the greater honour to thefe their favou-rites, the Egyptians made them to reprefent the obje<^s(4) Diodor. Sic. 1, I.is) Plato dc Leg, dialog. :P<ure,l76 OSIRIS.
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