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Identifier: osirisegyptianre00budg Title: Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection; Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934 Subjects: Osiris (Egyptian deity) Eschatology, Egyptian Publisher: London, P. L. Warner New York, G. P. Putnam's sons Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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Text Appearing Before Image: laughtered the godsand boiled their flesh in his fiery caldrons. Associatedwith Osiris, too, even in a text written under theXVII Ith dynasty, were the Watchers, who brought the god along, and the butchers,^ who were equipped with* deadly claws, ever ready to slay (1. 30). The ideaof their pits of slaughter terrified the minds of theEgyptians in all periods. In another section of thesame Chapter mention is made of a god with the face ofa dog, and the brow of a man who feeds on the slain, who keeps guard at the corner ot the Lake of Fire, .J S I J>^ K,^^ f I I I I •^ Or, Chapter XIX. ® J ^ ^ ^ t J ^ * Papyrus of Nebseni, Sheet 14, 1. 16 ff. II Osiris and Human Sacrifice 203 who devours the bodies of the dead, who tears out hearts, and who is at the same time invisible. Thecommentary on the passage asks who this being is, andthen goes on to suggest various names, among thembeing that of Baba, the first-born son of Osiris. Thetext next speaks of a certain victorious lord, prince of

Text Appearing After Image: Enlarged view of ten decapitated captives with their arms bound to their sides andtheir heads placed between their feet. From the shield of Narmer. Egypt, who supplies the blocks of slaughter, and liveson intestines,^ and keeps watch over the circuit ofAmenti. In answer to the question : Who is this ?we are told that it is the heart of Osiris which devoursevery slaughtered being ^ (1. 46). The terror reflected CJSl ^ I I I 204 Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection in the prayer (1. 117 ff.) to be deHvered from the judgesappointed by Osiris, who superintended the fettering ofthose doomed to slaughter, and stabbed their bodieswith their daggers, and smashed in their skulls in theirslaughter-houses, proves beyond all doubt that the sacri-fices to Osiris were, in primitive times, human beings, andlittle else. In the Papyrus of Ani (Sheet 12) there is apicture of the block of slaughter over which Shesmupresided ; the head was placed between two uprightsset in a solid pedestal, and then lopp

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