* In one of the Pyramid texts, Sahu-Orion, the wild hunter, captures the gods, slaughters and disembowels them, cooks their joints, their haunches, their legs, in his burning cauldrons, and feeds on their souls as well as on their bodies. A god was not limited to a single body and a single soul; we know from several texts that Ra had _seven souls and fourteen doubles_. ** Mr. Lepage-Renouf supposes that the soul may have been considered as being a butterfly at times, as in Greece. M. Lefebure thinks that it must sometimes have been incarnate as a wasp--I should rather say a bee or a praying mantis. *** The simple sparrow-hawk is chiefly used to denote the soul of a god; the human-headed sparrow-hawk, the heron, or the crane is used indifferently for human or divine souls. It is from Horapollo that we learn this symbolic significance of the sparrow-hawk and the pronunciation of the name of the soul as _bai_. [Illustration: 147.jp THE BLACK SHADOW COMING OUT INTO THE SUNLIGHT. 4] 4 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from Naville's _Das Thebanische Todtenbuch, vol. i. pl. civ._ Finally, it might be a kind of light shadow, like a reflection from the surface of calm water, or from a polished mirror, the living and coloured projection of the human figure, a double--_ka_--reproducing in minutest detail the complete image of the object or the person to whom it belonged.[*] * The nature of the double has long been misapprehended by Egyptologists, who had even made its name into a kind of pronominal form. That nature was publicly and almost simultaneously announced in 1878, first by Maspero, and directly afterwards by Lepage-Renouf. [Illustration: 148.jpg THE AUGUST SOULS OF OSIRIS AnD HORUS IN ADORATION BEFORE THE SOLAR DISK. 1] 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Dumichen, of a scene on the cornice of the front room of Osiris on the terrace of the great temple of Denderah. The soul on the left belongs to Horus, that on the right to Osiris, lord of Amentit. Each bears upon its head the group of tall feathers which is characteristic of figures of Anhuri (cf. p. 103).