Osiris was generally represented as a mummy, wearing a royal cap, containing ostrich feathers. Osiris was regarded as a good being and was in perpetual warfare with Set, the evil being. They stand to each other, said the Egyptians, as light and darkness, as day and night, as the Nile and the deserts, as Egypt and foreign lands. Osiris is represented in the myths as being vanquished by Set. He is cut in pieces and thrown into the water. By and by he revives but does not utterly destroy Set, though he defeats him. This story probably is a picture of the daily life of the sun, contending with the darkness, yet at last yielding to it, and then again after an interval re-appearing at the dawn in renewed splendor. Osiris was also a type of struggling humanity, suffering now, defeated for a time it may be, yet finally triumphant. This was the reason of his worship being so popular. Osiris was the protector of the dead, and he determined their final condition. It was to Osiris that prayers and offerings for the dead were made, and writings on the tombs were addressed to him. Beside these gods, there were Set the evil god, who was represented with the head of a fabulous animal, having a pointed nose and high square ears. Isis, the wife of Osiris, was represented as a woman, bearing on her head her emblem the throne, or the solar disk and cow’s horns. [Illustration: CROCODILE GOD.] Amon (or Amen) the “hidden,” was worshiped at Thebes. Sebek was the crocodile-headed god. His sacred animal was the crocodile of the Nile River. Thoth was the chief moon-god. He was the god of letters and learning. Anubis, the jackel-headed was the god worshiped by the mummy-makers. Thus gods were multiplied. ANIMAL WORSHIP.