Amentet Neferet - Religion and Traditions of Ancient Egypt ha compartido su foto. 8 h · THE MYTH OF OSIRIS: THE REIGN OF OSIRIS ON EARTH - part V: the Conquests of Osiris While He (Osiris) was in Ethiopia, their account continues, the Satyr people were brought to Him, who, they say, have hair upon their loins. For Osiris was laughter-loving and fond of music and the dance; consequently He took with Him a multitude of musicians, among whom were nine maidens who could sing and were trained in the other arts, these maidens being those who among the Greeks are called the Muses; and their leader, as the account goes, was Apollo-Haroeris, Who was for that reason also given the name Musegetes (Leader of the Muses). As for the Satyrs, they were taken along in the campaign because they were proficient in dancing and singing and every kind of relaxation and pastime. For Osiris was not warlike, nor did He have to organize pitched battles or engagements, since every people received Him as a God because of His benefactions. In Ethiopia He instructed the inhabitants in agriculture and founded some notable cities, and then left behind Him men to govern the country and collect the tribute. While Osiris and His army were thus employed, the Nile, they say, was at the time of the rising of Sothis-Sirius, which is the season when the river is usually at flood (it was the Akhet-season, that is the Season of the Inundation), breaking out of its banks inundated a large section of Egypt and covered especially that part where Prometheus was governor; and since practically everything in this district was destroyed, Prometheus was so grieved that he was on the point of quitting life wilfully. Because its water sweeps down so swiftly and with such violence the river was given the name Aëtus; but Herakles (Herakles is identified with Herishef/Arsaphes, with Khonsu, with Shu and Khonsu-Shu), being ever intent upon great enterprises and eager for the reputation of a manly spirit, speedily stopped the flood at its breach and turned the river back into its former course. (...) The river in the earliest period bore the name Oceane, which in Greek is Okeanos; then because of this flood, they say, it was called Aëtus, and still later it was known as Aegyptos after a former King of the land. (…) Its last name (Nile) and that which the river now bears it received from the former King Nileus. Now when Osiris arrived at the borders of Ethiopia, He curbed the river by dykes on both banks, so that at flood-time it might not form stagnant pools over the land to its detriment, but that the flood-water might be let upon the countryside, in a gentle flow as it might be needed, through gates which He had built. After this He continued His march through Arabia along the shore of the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean as far as India and the limits of the inhabited world. [Diodorus Siculus, I, 17-20] [detail of the Great God Osiris, wearing the White Crown and the Menat-necklace; to the right, the Heqa and the Uas Scepters, and the Nekhakha-Flail; to the left, the hand of Horus. From the north wall of the II Hypostyle Hall of the Great Temple of King Sethi I at Abydos]
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