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170 THE MONUMENTS OF UPPEH EGYPT.
Here she is no longer the same Hathor that- we
have known below; she is transformed into Isis,
she becomes the goddess who attaches herself to
Osiris, who accompanies him from chamber to
chamber, and who is present at his resurrection.
Now Osiris, according to the tradition handed
down to us by Plutarch, is the principle of good.
" Osiris," says Plutarch, " takes pleasure in
doing good, and his name, amongst many other
meanings, is said to express activity and be-
neficence." Again, Plutarch shows us Isis aud
Osiris, sometimes governing the kingdom of
good, sometimes presiding over intellect, the
principle of all good. " Isis," says Plutarch,
"possesses an innate love of good principles.''
Moreover, without going so far as the terraces
for an illustration, does not the interior of the
temple impress us with the same idea, when we
notice that among the nine emblems of the
temple the foremost rank has been ascribed to
the sistrum ? " The sistrum," says Plutarch,
" symbolizes that men should always be active
and busy; that they must be constantly stimu-
lated and roused out of the state of languor and
enervation into which they are too prone to fall.
It is said that the sound of this instrument puts
Here she is no longer the same Hathor that- we
have known below; she is transformed into Isis,
she becomes the goddess who attaches herself to
Osiris, who accompanies him from chamber to
chamber, and who is present at his resurrection.
Now Osiris, according to the tradition handed
down to us by Plutarch, is the principle of good.
" Osiris," says Plutarch, " takes pleasure in
doing good, and his name, amongst many other
meanings, is said to express activity and be-
neficence." Again, Plutarch shows us Isis aud
Osiris, sometimes governing the kingdom of
good, sometimes presiding over intellect, the
principle of all good. " Isis," says Plutarch,
"possesses an innate love of good principles.''
Moreover, without going so far as the terraces
for an illustration, does not the interior of the
temple impress us with the same idea, when we
notice that among the nine emblems of the
temple the foremost rank has been ascribed to
the sistrum ? " The sistrum," says Plutarch,
" symbolizes that men should always be active
and busy; that they must be constantly stimu-
lated and roused out of the state of languor and
enervation into which they are too prone to fall.
It is said that the sound of this instrument puts