XXX. 1. Osiris and Isis have, then, changed from

good daimones into gods. While as for the dimmed and shattered power of Typhon, though it is at the last
^ A contracted form of the former — from V^Fc or V^«F, witk idea of Bwif tneaa." (?) Serapts—urha'thu—mveitiutL
' iiS06^iow — unknown to the lexicons. I snggeat that it may be connected with 4l«f, from y/^T»B of &ySir»— hence ''•weet*
' Presumably ''words of deep meaning" — another fcft*»i»t*i^| use of this Proteus-like term.
* Budge (op. eii,, ii. 200} says : '*The Egyptian form ol the word is Amentet, and the name means ' hidden place.'"
* How very Greek ! (y. IxL 4.
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gasp and in its final death-throes, they still appease and soothe it with certain feasts of offerings.
2. Yet, again, every now and then at certain festivals they humiliate it dreadfully and treat it most despite- fully,—- even to rolling red-skinned men in the mud, and driving an ass over a precipice (as the Eoptos folk), because T^phon was bom with his skin red and ass-like. While the Busiris folk and Lycopolitans do not use trumpets at all, as they sound like an ass [braying].
3. And generally they think that the ass is not clean, but a daimonic animal, on account of its resemblance to that [god] ; and making round-cakes for feasts of offer- ings on both the month of Fa^ni and that of Phaophi,^ they stamp on them an '' ass tied." *
4. And on the Feast of Offerings of the Sun, they pass the word to the worshippers not to wear on the body things made of gold nor to give food to an ass.*
5. The Fythagorics also seem to consider Typhon a daimonic power ; for they say that Typhon was produced on the six-and-fiftieth even measure; and again that the [power ^] of the equilateral triangle is that of Hades and Dionysus and Ares ; that of the square is that of Bhea and Aphrodite and Demeter and Hestia (that is, Hera) ; that of the dodecagon, that of Zeus ; and that of the fifty-six angled [regular polygon], that of Typhon — as Eudoxus relates.^
^ Copt. Padni and Paopi — oorr. roughly with June and October, s &r«y U99f^4rw. Of. Matt xxl 8 : Spw UUfJwtiv ; cf. also 1. 3, where it is a hippopotamuB.
* That is, preeamably, not to weigh down their minds with the iuperflnity of riches, nor to feed up ike stupid and lustfal energies of Uieir souls.
« A "power" in Pythagorean technology is the side of a square (or, perhaps, of any equilateral polygon) in geometry ; and in arithmetic the square root, or that whidi being multiplied into itself produces the square.
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