* In the _Book of Knowing that which is in Hades_, for the fourth and fifth hours of the night, we have the description of the sandy realm of Sokaris and of the gods _Hiriu Shaitu- senu_, who are on their sand. Elsewhere in the same book we have a cynocephalus _upon its sand_, and the gods of the eighth hour are also mysterious gods who are on their sand. Wherever these personages are represented in the vignettes, the Egyptian artist has carefully drawn the ellipse painted in yellow and sprinkled with red, which is the conventional rendering of sand, and sandy districts. Each nome possessed the mummy and the tomb of its dead god: at Thinis there was the mummy and the tomb of Anhuri, the mummy of Osiris at Mendes, the mummy of Tumu at Heliopolis.[*] In some of the nomes the gods did not change their names in altering the mode of their existence: the deceased Osiris remained Osiris; Nit and Hathor when dead were still Nit and Hathor, at Sais and at Denderah. But Phtah of Memphis became Sokaris by dying; Uapuaitu, the jackal of Siut, was changed into Anubis;[**] and when his disk had disappeared at evening, Anhuri, the sunlit sky of Thinis, was Khontamentit, Lord of the West, until the following day. * The sepulchres of Tumu, Khopri, Ra, Osiris, and in each of them the heap of sand hiding the body, are represented in the tomb of Seti I., as also the four rams in which the souls of the god are incarnate. The tombs of the gods were known even in Roman times. ** To my mind, at least, this is an obvious conclusion from the monuments of Siut, in which the jackal god is called Uapuaitu, as the living god, lord of the city, and Anupu, master of embalming or of the Oasis, lord of Ra-qririt, inasmuch as he is god of the dead. Ra-qririt, _the door of the stone_, was the name which the people of Siut gave to their necropolis and to the infernal domain of their god. That bliss which we dream of enjoying in the world to come was not granted to the gods any more than to men. Their bodies were nothing but inert larvae, "with unmoving heart,"[*] weak and shrivelled limbs, unable to stand upright were it not that the bandages in which they were swathed stiffened them into one rigid block. Their hands and heads alone were free, and were of the green or black shades of putrid flesh. * This is the characteristic epithet for the dead Osiris, Urdu Mt, he whose heart is unmoving, he whose heart no longer beats, and who has therefore ceased to live. [Illustration: 164.jpg PHTAH AS A MUMMY. 2] 2 Drawing by Faucher-Gudin of a bronze statuette of the Saite period, found in the department of Herault, at the end of a gallery in an ancient mine.