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Updated: June 23, 2025
Clowns and party-colored harlequins; orang-outangs; bear-headed, bull-headed, and dog-headed individuals; faces that would have been human, but for their enormous noses; one terrific creature, with a visage right in the centre of his breast; and all other imaginable kinds of monstrosity and exaggeration.
This dog-headed ape is a wonderfully intelligent creature, and its weird cleverness is astonishing. XII. Now, the story of Isis and Osiris, its most insignificant and superfluous parts being omitted, runs thus: These parts he joined together and made from them five complete days, and he added them to the three hundred and sixty days of which the year formerly consisted.
Thoth appears in the papyri and on the monuments as an ibis-headed man, and his companion is usually a dog-headed ape called "Asten." In the Hall of the Great Judgment he is seen holding in one hand a reed with which he is writing on a palette the result of the weighing of the heart of the dead man in the Balance.
The soul, whether it was conducted to Amenti or driven into the infernal regions that is, towards the West by the dog-headed monkeys, who appear to have been a sort of dæmons charged with the carrying out of sentences, the soul was, nevertheless, not freed from all connection with the body; its relative immortality depended in some sort upon the integrity of the latter; the alteration, the deprivation of one of the limbs was supposed to be felt by the soul, the form of whose impalpable spectre would have been mutilated and could not have traversed, wanting a leg or an arm, the cycle of migrations or metempsychoses.
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