966 Le Page Renouf, _Hibbert Lectures_, 1879, p. 110; Brugsch, _Religion und Mythologie der alten Aegypter_, p. 614; Ad. Erman, _l.c._; Ed. Meyer, _Geschichte des Altertums_, i. § 56 _sq._ 967 Plutarch, _Isis et Osiris_, 13; Diodorus, i. 14; Tibullus, i. 7, 29 _sqq._ 968 Plutarch, _Isis et Osiris_, 8. 969 So Brugsch, _op. cit._ p. 617. Plutarch, _op. cit._ 39, says four days, beginning with the 17th of the month Athyr. 970 In the Alexandrian year the month Athyr corresponded to November. But as the old Egyptian year was vague, that is, made no use of intercalation, the astronomical date of each festival varied from year to year, till it had passed through the whole cycle of the astronomical year. From the fact, therefore, that, when the calendar became fixed, Athyr fell in November, no inference can be drawn as to the date at which the death of Osiris was originally celebrated. It is thus perfectly possible that it may have been originally a harvest festival, though the Egyptian harvest falls, not in November, but in April; cp. Selden, _De diis Syris_, p. 335 _sq._; Parthey on Plutarch, _Isis et Osiris_, c. 39. 971 Brugsch, _l.c._ For a specimen of these lamentations see Brugsch, _op. cit._ p. 631 _sq._; _Records of the Past_, ii. 119 _sqq._ For the annual ceremonies of finding and burying Osiris, see also Firmicus Maternus, _De errore profanarum religionum_, 2 § 3; Servius on Virgil, _Aen._ iv. 609. 972 Brugsch, _op. cit._ p. 617 _sq._; Erman, _Aegypten und aegyptisches Leben im Altertum_, p. 377 _sq._ 973 Erman, _l.c._; Wilkinson, _Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians_ (London, 1878), iii. 68, 82; Tiele, _History of the Egyptian Religion_, p. 46. 974 Plutarch, _Isis et Osiris_, 35. ὁμολογεῖ δὲ καὶ τὰ τιτανικὰ καὶ νὺξ τελεία τοῖς λεγομένοις Ὀσίριδος διασπασμοῖς καὶ ταῖς ἀναβιώσεσι καὶ παλιγγενεσίαις, ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ τὰ περὶ τὰς ταφάς. 975 Plutarch, _Isis et Osiris_, 39. 976 Tibullus, i. 7, 33 _sqq._ 977 Brugsch, _op. cit._ p. 621. 978 Servius on Virgil, _Georg._ i. 166. 979 Above, p. 267. 980 Plutarch, _Isis et Osiris_, 73, cp. 33; Diodorus, i. 88. 981 Plutarch, _op. cit._ 31; Herodotus, ii. 38. 982 Herrera, quoted by Bastian, _Culturländer des alten Amerika_, ii. 639. 983 Lefébure, _Le mythe Osirien_ (Paris, 1874-75), p. 188.