Spiritism And the Cult of the Dead in Antiquity
Spiritism And the Cult of the Dead in Antiquity
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He lived over eighty years, and became so famous for his wisdom that an inscription on the temple of Der el-Medineh at Thebes says of him: "His name shall abide forever, his sayings shall not perish. " In the time of the Greek king Ptolemy Euergetes II he was wor- shipped as a god, and the Egyptian historian Manetho, as quoted by Josephus, 36 says of him: "He seemed to partake of a divine nature, both as to wis- dom and knowledge of the future. " In the case of both these heroes the first clear... evidence of their worship comes from the Greek period, still this was probably only a survival of ancient custom. 37 Even ordinary mortals in course of time came to be identified with Osiris or with Re at death, and therefore were entitled to divine homage at least on the part of their descendants. Children and children's children unto the third and fourth generation felt it incumbent upon them to care for the tombs and to keep up the offerings to the forefathers. The princes of Hermopolis under the Xllth dynasty restored the tombs of ancestors who had lived six hundred years earlier, and recorded their filial piety as follows: "He made it as a monument for his fathers, who are in the necropolis, the lords of the promontory; restoring what was found in ruin and re- newing what was found decayed, the ancestors who were before not having done it.
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He lived over eighty years, and became so famous for his wisdom that an inscription on the temple of Der el-Medineh at Thebes says of him: "His name shall abide forever, his sayings shall not perish. " In the time of the Greek king Ptolemy Euergetes II he was wor- shipped as a god, and the Egyptian historian Manetho, as quoted by Josephus, 36 says of him: "He seemed to partake of a divine nature, both as to wis- dom and knowledge of the future. " In the case of both these heroes the first clear... evidence of their worship comes from the Greek period, still this was probably only a survival of ancient custom. 37 Even ordinary mortals in course of time came to be identified with Osiris or with Re at death, and therefore were entitled to divine homage at least on the part of their descendants. Children and children's children unto the third and fourth generation felt it incumbent upon them to care for the tombs and to keep up the offerings to the forefathers. The princes of Hermopolis under the Xllth dynasty restored the tombs of ancestors who had lived six hundred years earlier, and recorded their filial piety as follows: "He made it as a monument for his fathers, who are in the necropolis, the lords of the promontory; restoring what was found in ruin and re- newing what was found decayed, the ancestors who were before not having done it.
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