tes of his paradise to the souls of his former
subjects. Souls did not enter into it unexamined, nor without trial.
Each of them had first to prove that during its earthly life it had
belonged to a friend, or, as the Egyptian texts have it, to a vassal of
Osiris--_amakhu khir Osiri_--one of those who had served Horus in his
exile and had rallied to his banner from the very beginning of the
Typhonian wars.

[Illustration: 260.jpg THE DECEASED CLIMBING THE SLOPE OF THE MOUNTAIN
OF THE WEST,2]

2 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from Naville Bas AEgyptische
Todtenbuch, vol. i. pl. cxxviii. Ai.

These were those followers of Horus--_Shosuu Horu_--so often referred to
in the literature of historic times.[*]

* Cf, p. 252. The _Followers of Horns_, i.e. those who had
followed Horus during the Typhonian wars, are mentioned in a
Turin fragment of the Canon of the Kings, in which the
author summarizes the chronology of the divine period. Like
the reign of Ra, the time in which the followers of Horus
were supposed to have lived was for the Egyptians of classic
times the ultimate point beyond which history did not reach.

Horus, their master, having loaded them with favours during life,
decided to extend to them after death the same privileges which he had
conferred upon his father. He convoked around the corpse the gods who
had worked with him at the embalmment of Osiris: Anubis and Thot,
Isis and Nephthys, and his four children--Hapi, Qabhsonuf, Amsit, and
Tiumautf--to whom he had entrusted the charge of the heart and viscera.
They all performed their functions exactly as before, repeated the same
ceremonies, and recited the same formulas at the same stages of the
operations, and so effectively that the dead man became a real Osiris
under their hands, having a true voice, and henceforth combining the
name of the god with his own.

[Illustration: 261.jpg THE MUMMY OF SUTIMOSU CLASPING HIS SOUL INTO HIS
ARMS. 1]

1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from Guieysse-Lefebure, _Le
Papyrus de Soutimes_, pl. viii. The outlines of the original
have unfortunately been restored and enfeebled by the
copyist.

He had been Sakhomka or Menkauri; he became the Osiris Sakhomka, or the
Osiris Menkauri, true of voice. Horus and his companions then celebrated
the rites consecrated to the "Opening of the Mouth and the Eyes:"
animated the statue of the deceased, and placed the mummy in the tom