This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...to a foreign country called Perset, Sjiwi. There he finds the gods of Egypt, and he brings them with him as far as Khati, very likely the same locality which is mentioned 1. 22; it causes a great joy in the whole land of Egypt. Afterwards the king orders them to be brought to Egypt, in order to obtain ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...to a foreign country called Perset, Sjiwi. There he finds the gods of Egypt, and he brings them with him as far as Khati, very likely the same locality which is mentioned 1. 22; it causes a great joy in the whole land of Egypt. Afterwards the king orders them to be brought to Egypt, in order to obtain a duration like that of Tum, and to elevate his reign to an everlasting length." On that occasion it is said: he navigated through their sands on the great Eastern canal of Egypt;1 as far as Bo nif. Lower Egypt, in all its extent, was in joy, because of the decree... and what the king had done to the gods; no such thing had been done since the fathers.... Then the king issues another order, to the temples of the country, to provide these gods with priests and servants, "and they brought them (the gods) before the gods of Pithom Succoth, that they may remain in their abodes for ever." (1. 13.) In spite of the obscurity of the text, it is possible to make out the general sense. The king orders that a canal should be made as far as the lake of the scorpion. This work must have been of high importance, since it was celebrated as a great benefit in the whole country. It was undertaken in connection with a journey performed by the king to a country called Perset, where he found the gods of Egypt. It is very likely that we must understand this land as meaning Persia, to which evidently statues of Egyptian gods had been carried, as we see at the beginning of the bilingual inscription of I had at first translated this sentence: he made a lake of their sands, tvhich became the great Eastern canal of Egypt; but considering that we have repeatedly the word, av, (1. 24) with the meaning of a ship, it seems natural to give to the verb' the...
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