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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 slaughtered a young pig gives it to the swineherd who had sold it to him, to take away. The Egyptians celebrate the rest of the festival as the Greeks do, in all but the music and the singing. ..

L. Nearly all the names of the gods came to Greece from Egypt. My researches prove to me that we get them from the barbarian countries, and I think that they come especially from Egypt. Excepting Neptune and the Dioscuri, of whom I have already spoken; excepting Juno, Vesta, Themis, the Graces and the Nereids, the names of all the * Isis and Asiri.