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Plutarch's Morals, Vol. IV (includes 'Of Isis and Osiris')

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This volume holds Plutarch's essay on Isis and Osiris, the best Greek account of the Egyptian myth of a murdered god, scattered across the land and put back together by his wife.

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TranslatorIsis and Osiris: William Baxter ('Philalethes') per the OCR byline; volume corrected and revised by William W. Goodwin
LanguageEnglish
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Why we can share it: Internet Archive metadata: possible-copyright-status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT, copyright-region US. Published 1878.

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GodThothMillions of mummified ibis birds were buried in catacombs as offerings to Thoth, the ibis-headed Egyptian god of writing and the moon. Stories give him hidden writings too, including a Book of Thoth locked in nested boxes at the bottom of the Nile; reading it brought disaster on the man who took it. What did it say?

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