The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies

CHAPTER I.

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Egyptian Divinities--Osiris--Apis and Serapis--Parentage of Osiris--His Death and Sepulture--Isis--Attributes--Emblematic representation--Rites of Isis forbidden at Rome--Condemned by Juvenal--Apis--Manner of transmigration--Festivals in Honor of Apis--Discovery of a Successor--Oracles obtained from this Divinity--Germanicus--Harpocrates--Quotation 209