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After each of these long absences, for which you can give no satisfactory explanation, the expression has become, to my eyes, stronger and more significant than before. It forces me to the hypothesis, almost to the conclusion, that you have been spending this time somewhere in the under-world, in some sort of secret debauch."
=Burial=: the Greeks believed that so long as the corpse remained unburied the spirit would roam about restlessly in the dreary under-world or common abode of departed souls. =Augury=: omen or sign. =Libations=: wine or liquor poured out on the ground or on a victim in honor of the gods. =Sesame=: an Eastern plant from whose seeds an oil is obtained, which is used for food and other purposes.
Three great realms composed the Egyptian cosmos; the heavens, where the sun, moon, and stars paced their daily round, the abode of the invisible king, typified by the sun and worshiped as Ammon Ra, the earth and the under-world, the abode of the dead.
Her bosom swelled; her presence radiated some subtle power, much as her hair radiated light. In a moment it was gone and she was smiling and jesting. "Will you come, Strangers, where Tommy was not afraid to go, down to the Under-world? Or will you stay here in the sun?
Shall we once more breathe the upper air, as Virgil would put it? This hole is as bad as a corner in his under-world." "And I laughed at you for slipping, Master Wheatman! I shall never dare to look you in the face again." "Don't you believe it, madam," said I airily, leading the way to the steps. "I've heard Copper Nob say the same thing scores of times." "Who's Copper Nob?"
Would they wed and bear children there, who should rule as Pharaohs in the Under-world? Would Osiris redeem her mortal flesh, and Amen the Father, receive her; or would she rush down into everlasting blackness where sleep is all in all?
The earthly life is there repeated with all its occupations and enjoyments, but free from fear and from decay. The doctrine of the dead accompanying the sun-god to the under-world, and living under his protection, is very old in Egypt; we saw it in an early form in connection with the god Ra.
This was the aim of the Orphic poets. Orpheus, the mythical singer of Thrace, who charmed men and beasts with his songs on earth, had descended into Hades to fetch back his wife, who had been taken from him, and had beheld the secrets of the under-world.
Let me die if so it must be, but go not thou up to thy death. It is no Goddess whom thou wilt see, but an evil spirit loosed from the under-world, and that shall be thy doom. Oh, if I please thee not, take thou another wife and I will make her welcome, only go not up to thy death!"
Storm and wreck and calm; intercourse with savages who look with wonder on the white sails that have come up from the under-world; the wash of waters upon coral-reefs; the shadow of green palms upon lonely isles; strange sea-weeds floating on the deep green wave, and flying-fish hunted by voracious foes; long days and nights spent under glowing skies, without a glimpse of land; the breathless eagerness with which some new shore is sighted with such incidents as these we English are necessarily familiar, possessing as we do a vast and various literature of the sea.
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