Manners and Customs of the Egyptians
Manners and Customs of the Egyptians
[Extracts from Herodotus.] XXXV. The Egyptians live beneath a sky peculiar to themselves; their country is watered by a river different…
Manners and Customs of the Egyptians: Greeks
XLVIII. At the evening repast, on the day previous to the festival of Bacchus, (Asiri,) every man, in front of his own door, having…
Manners and Customs of the Egyptians: Pelasgi
APPENDIX. other gods have always existed among the Egyptians. I here repeat what they themselves declared to me. The divinities of whom…
Manners and Customs of the Egyptians: Dodona
LII. Primitively, the Pelasgi, when praying, made offerings of all kinds to their gods, as I was told at Dodona, but they gave neither name…
Manners and Customs of the Egyptians: Bubastis
LIX. The Egyptians do not restrict themselves every year to one solemn festival only; those great assemblages are frequent. The first of…
Manners and Customs of the Egyptians: Sais
LXII. When the latter are assembled to make sacrifices in the city of Sais, during a certain night, they all light, in in the open air…
Manners and Customs of the Egyptians: Appendix
APPENDIX. proceed in the following manner; by means of syringes they inject cedar oil into the abdomen of the dead without opening it or…
Manners and Customs of the Egyptians: Egyptian
LXXXVIII. The third style of embalming, for the accommodation of the poor, is this: the embalmers make an injection of horse-radish into…
Manners and Customs of the Egyptians: Egypt
The last part of this curious inscription in which the nomarch, referring to a famine that took place during the years of his…
Manners and Customs of the Egyptians: Chnumhotep
Forced by causes unknown, by a famine, perhaps, they have, like the sons of Jacob, abandoned their country; they present themselves…
Manners and Customs of the Egyptians: Rameses
THE details collected by Herodotus with regard to the civil and private life of the Egyptians are of nine centuries later date than the…