the sun:

"Behold he appears in a cloud to separate the sky from the earth, and
later to connect them.

"Hidden unceasingly in all things, he alone lives, in him all things
exist through eternity."

The boat moved gradually upward on the balcony; finally it halted at
the highest point.

Then at the lower end of the arch appeared a priestess, arrayed as the
goddess Tsis, with her son Horus, and with equal slowness she began to
ascend. That was an image of the moon, which follows the sun.

Now the boat from the top of the arch began to go toward the west, and
the chorus below sang again:

"The god incarnate in all things, the spirit of Shu in all gods. He is
the body of a living person, the creator of the tree which bears fruit,
the causer of fertilizing overflows. Without him nothing lives in the
earthly circle." [Authentic hymn.]

The boat vanished at the western termination of the balcony, Isis and
Horus stopped at the summit of the arch. A crowd of priests ran to the
boat, took out the corpse of the pharaoh and placed it on a marble
table, as Osiris to rest after his toils of the day.

Now to the dead man came the dissector, dressed as the god Typhon. On
his head were a horrid mask and a red tangled wig, on his shoulders the
skin of a wild boar, and in his hand an Ethiopian stone knife.

With this knife he began quickly to cut off the soles of the dead
pharaoh's sandals.

"What art Thou doing, O Typhon, to thy sleeping brother?" asked Isis
from the balcony.

"I am scraping the feet of my brother Osiris, so that he may not befoul
heaven with earthly dust," replied the dissector dressed as Typhon.

When he had cut off the soles, the dissector took a bent wire, thrust
it into the nostrils of the deceased and began to extract his brains.
Next he made an opening in his body, and through that opening drew out
quickly the heart, lungs, and viscera.

During this time the assistants of Typhon brought four great urns
adorned with the heads of the gods Hape, Emset, Duamut and Quebhsneuf,
and in each of those urns he placed some internal organ of the deceased
pharaoh.

"But what art Thou doing, O brother Typhon?" inquired Isis a second
time.

"I am purifying my brother Osiris of earthly things, so that he may
become more beautiful," replied the dissector.

At the side of the marble table was a vat of water with soda in
solution. The dissectors, when they had cleaned the body, put it into
the vat where it was