olis Magna.
The repulsion with which the slayer of Osiris was regarded did not
everywhere dissociate these two cults: certain small districts persisted
in this double worship down to the latest times of paganism. It was,
after all, a mark of fidelity to the oldest traditions of the race, but
the bulk of the Egyptians, who had forgotten these, invented reasons
taken from the history of the divine dynasties to explain the fact. The
judgment of Thot or of Sibu had not put an end to the machinations of
Sit: as soon as Horus had left the earth, Sit resumed them, and pursued
them, with varying fortune, under the divine kings of the second Ennead.
Now, in the year 363 of Harmakhis, the Typhonians reopened the campaign.
Beaten at first near Edfu, they retreated precipitately northwards,
stopping to give battle wherever their partisans predominated,--at
Zatmifc in the Theban nome,[*] at Khaitnutrit to the north-east of
Denderah, and at Hibonu in the principality of the Gazelle.

* Zatmit appears to have been situate at some distance from
Bayadiyeh, on the spot where the map published by the
Egyptian Commission marks the ruins of a modern village.
There was a necropolis of considerable extent there, which
furnishes the Luxor dealers with antiquities, many of which
belong to the first Theban empire.

[Illustration: 287.jpg THE SOUL GOING FORTH INTO ITS GARDEN BY DAY. 2]

2 Copied by Faucher-Gudin from the survey-drawings of the
tomb of Anni by Boussac, member of the _Mission francaise_
in Egypt (1891). The inscription over the arbour gives the
list of the various trees in the garden of Anni during his
lifetime.

Several bloody combats, which took place between Oxyrrhynchos and
Heracleopolis Magna, were the means of driving them finally out of the
Nile Valley; they rallied for the last time in the eastern provinces
of the Delta, were beaten at Zalu, and giving up all hope of success on
land, they embarked at the head of the Gulf of Suez, in order to return
to the Nubian Desert, their habitual refuge in times of distress.
The sea was the special element of Typhon, and upon it they believed
themselves secure. Horus, however, followed them, overtook them near
Shas-hirit, routed them, and on his return to Edfu, celebrated his
victory by a solemn festival. By degrees, as he made himself master
of those localities which owed allegiance to Sit, he took energetic
measures to est