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 men, and reigned over the land, Osiris, new-*born—the Morning Sun which, having conquered night and darkness, ascends the sky and rules from heaven; the Sun of to-day, which, if another, is yet the same as that which sank down yesterday into the bosom of the night.

Isis suckling Horus.—From a statuette in the British Museum.