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So also was the Phrygian Attis called Saviour, and the Syrian Tammuz or Adonis likewise both of whom, as we have seen, were nailed or tied to a tree, and afterwards rose again from their biers, or coffins. In Peru and among the American Indians, North and South of the Equator, similar legends are, or were, to be found. See for a considerable list Doane's Bible Myths, ch. xx. Hist.
And an infinite number of times it befell that, two priests going with one cross for some one, three or four biers, borne by bearers, ranged themselves behind the latter, and whereas the priests thought to have but one dead man to bury, they had six or eight, and whiles more.
But the men had stopped only to cover their mouths and faces with cloths to ward off the stifling stench which at the edge of the "Putrid Pits" was simply unendurable; then they raised the biers with coffins and moved on. Only one coffin stopped before the temple. Vinicius sprang toward it, and after him Petronius, Niger, and two British slaves with the litter.
"Madame Veto had pledged her word, Madame Veto had pledged her word To put all Paris to the sword, To put all Paris to the sword, But we all missed our biers Thanks to our canoneers. Dance, dance the Carmagnole, Hurrah for the sound, Hurrah for the sound, Dance, dance the Carmagnole, Hurrah for the sound of the cannon!" She watched the dancers, involuntarily fascinated.
A most unexpected sight met my eye. In a long room, upon elevated biers, lay people dead: they were so disposed that the faces could be seen; and there they rested in a solemn repose. Officers in uniform, citizens in plain dress, matrons and maids in the habits that they wore when living, or in the white robes of the grave. About most of them were lighted candles.
Hymns of praise sounded out of the church, and near it, under the hill against which it was built, torches were blazing and threw their ruddy light on a row of biers, on which under green palm-branches lay the heroes who had fallen in the battle against the Blemmyes. Now the hymn ceased, the gates of the house of God opened and Agapitus led his followers towards the dead.
Hymns of praise sounded out of the church, and near it, under the hill against which it was built, torches were blazing and threw their ruddy light on a row of biers, on which under green palm-branches lay the heroes who had fallen in the battle against the Blemmyes. Now the hymn ceased, the gates of the house of God opened and Agapitus led his followers towards the dead.
Four men were selected, and among them Vinicius; the others he took to put the corpses on the biers. Vinicius was at rest; he was certain now at least of finding Lygia.
Reverently collecting them he washed away the gore and laid them on their biers, sending them to Athens. In an affecting scene Adrastus recognises and names the bodies. At this moment Evadne enters, wife of the godless Capaneus who was smitten by the thunderbolt; she is demented and wishes to find the body to die upon it.
Deep silence again brooded in the aisles; hushed was the organ; mute the melodious choir. The only light penetrating the convent church proceeded from the moon, whose rays, shining through the painted windows, fell upon the graves of the old abbots in the presbytery, and on the two biers within the adjoining chapel, whose stark burthens they quickened into fearful semblance of life.
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