iPmOt.  £gyfi^  *,  Opne.,  1,  c  « )  laia

received,  aa  is  well  known,  the  names  of*  Lady,"
"  Mistreas,"  "  Mother,"  Nnne,"  Ac.,  common  to
many  othe#  Egyptian  deiiiee.  Her  favourite  naoie,
however,  is  "  JByrioitytiia,*'or  *'  She  that  has  ten  thoo-
aand  names."  Crenzer  linds  an  analogy  between  the
EgyptiMt  Osiris  and  lets,  arid  the  Hindu  /m  and  bam
or  ui ;  and  this  anafegy  diaj^tya  itsdf  not  only  in
their  reqwctite  attribatea  and  offieesi  but  also  in  the
meaning  of  their  names ;  tber  ere  the  <•  Lpid^  and
"-Ijsdy,"  two  litlea  of  almost  ait  great  pc^nhir  diviiiite
ties  among  the  pann  nations  both  of  ancient  and  moo-
em  timee.  The  difTerent  fonna  of  the  Egyptian  yrar,
and  the  successive  efiorta  made  to  correct  the  calen-
dar, oeoM  not  fall  to  produce  considerable' variations
in  the  legend  of  Isis  and  Osiris,  which  bad  itself  been
founded  originally  on  a  normal  period.  In  this  way,
perbapa,  we  may  explua  the  double  death  of  Oshie,
and  regard  it  aa  typifying  those  Tsriations  that  were
the  necesiary  reauk  of  the  vague  atate  of  the  year.
The  prinoipal  festivals  of  Egypt,  moreover,  establidied,
hko  those  of  most  other  nations,  after  the  natural
esoehs  of  Uw  year,  found  at  onoe  in  the  popular  my-
thology their  commentary  and  Ottir  sanction.  Tbs
most  Bo)emn  one  of  lhese,  called  the  feathal  (the  laai-
CRtatioiia)  of  In*,  or  the  ditpfearance  (death)  of
Onrit,  commenced  on  the  I7th  of  the  moaib  Atbyn
or  Ui0  I3th  of  November,  according  to  Plutarch  :  H
was  8  festivd  of  mourning  and  tears.  {Pbu.,de  Is.
