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NOTES EGYPT. 237
cient Egyptian service must, therefore, have been divided into
two ceremonies.
71. Herodotus, II, 37.
72. Cf. Maspero, Rev. critique, 1905, II, p. 361 ff.
73. Apul., Metam., XI, 7 ff. This festival seems to have
persisted at Catana in the worship of Saint Agatha; cf. Ana-
lecta Bollandiana, XXV, 1906, p. 509.
74. Similar masquerades are found in a number of pagan
cults (Mon. myst. Mithra, I, p. 315), and from very early
times they were seen in Egypt ; see von Bissing, loc. tit., n. 58,
p. 228.
75. The pausarii are mentioned in the inscriptions ;
sau, Inscr. scl, 4353, 4445.
cf. Des
76. Schafer, Die Mysterien des Osiris in Abydos untcr Se-
sostris III, Leipsic, 1904; cf. Capart, Rev. hist, relig., LI, 1905,
p. 229, and Wiedemann, Melanges Nicole, pp. 574 ff. Junker,
"Die Stundemvachen in den Osirismysterien" (Dcnkschrift
Akad. Wlcn, LIV) 1910.
77. In the Abydos mysteries, the god Thoth set out in a boat
to seek the body of Osiris. Elsewhere it was Isis who sailed
out in quest of it. We do not know whether this scene was
played at Rome but it ; certainly was played at Gallipoli where
make-believe fishermen handled the nets in a make-believe
Nile; cf. P. Foucart, Reck, sur les myst. d Elcusis (Mem.
Acad. Inscr., XXXV), p. 37.
78. Cheremon in Porphyry, Epist. ad Aneb., 31 :
Kal ra Kpvrrra rf^ J
lai6o^ EKaivel nal TO ev AtfMw cnroppqTov deit-ei.
Cf. lamblichus, DC mystcr., VI, 5-7. On the "mysteries" of
Isis in Egypt, cf. Foucart, loc. cit., p. 19 f. ; De Jong, DC
Apulcio Isiacoruin inystcrioruni icste, Leyden, 1900, pp. 79 f.,
and Das antikc Mysterienzucscn, Leyden, 1909.
79. Cf. supra. De Jong, op. cit., pp. 40 ff. ; Gruppe, Griecli.
Mythol, p. 1574.
80. La Cite antique, I, ch. II, end.
81. Cf. Erman, op. cit., pp. 96-97.
82. Sufficient proof is contained in the bas-reliefs cited above
(n. 20), where apotheosized death assumes the shape of Sera-