VII. How They Indicate the Soul
VII. How They Indicate the Soul
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VII. How They Indicate the Soul

VII. HOW THEY INDICATE THE SOUL.

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Moreover, the HAWK is put for the soul, from the signification of its name; for among ' the Egyptians the hawk is called BAIETH: and this name in decomposition signifies soul and heart; for the word BAI is the soul, and

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[paragraph continues] ETH the heart; and the heart, according to the Egyptians, is the shrine of the soul; so that in its composition the name signifies 'soul enshrined in heart.' Whence also the hawk, from its correspondence with the soul, never drinks water, but blood, by which, also, the soul is sustained.

Footnotes
  1. 15:1

    I. The departing soul.

    II. The hawk found sitting upon the mummy cases.

    III. The external mummy case.

    II. The hawk found sitting upon the mummy cases.

    III. The external mummy case.

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