“Horus, their offspring, the vapors and exhalations reproducing rain.
“Butus, the marshy lands of Lower Egypt, where those vapors were nourished.
“Typho, the sea which swallowed up the Nile water.
“The conspirators, the drought overcoming the moisture, from which the increase of the Nile proceeds.
“The chest in which Osiris’s body was confined, the banks of the river, within which it retired after the inundation.
“The Tanaïtic mouth, the lake and barren lands about it, which were held in abhorrence from their being overflowed by the river without producing any benefit to the country.
“The twenty-eight years of his life, the twenty-eight cubits to which the Nile rises at Elephantina, its greatest height.
“The 17th of Athor, the period when the river retires within its banks.
“The queen of Æthiopia, the southern winds preventing the clouds being carried southward.
“The different members of Osiris’s body, the main channels and canals by which the inundation passed into the interior of the country, where each was said to be afterwards buried. That one which could not be recovered was the generative power of the Nile, which still continued in the stream itself.