ptian temple and its dependencies--were built by way of a
hiding-place for a performing puppet, of which the wires were worked by a
priest.

[21] That is, the spirits of the North, represented by On (Heliopolis), and
of the South (Khonu).--A.B.E.

[22] At Tanis there seems to have been a close succession of obelisks and
statues along the main avenue leading to the Temple, without the usual
corresponding pylons. These were ranged in pairs; _i.e._, a pair
of obelisks, a pair of statues; a pair of obelisks, a pair of shrines;
and then a third pair of obelisks. See _Tanis_, Part I., by
W.M.F. Petrie, published by the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1884.--A.B.E.

[23] This fact is recorded in the hieroglyphic inscription upon the
obelisks.--A.B.E.

[24] This celebrated tablet, preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale,
Paris, has been frequently translated, and is the subject of a
valuable treatise by the late Vicomte de Rouge. It was considered
authentic till Dr. Erman, in an admirable paper contributed to the
_Zeitschrift,_ 1883, showed it to have been a forgery concocted
by the priests of Khonsu during the period of the Persian rule in
Egypt, or in early Ptolemaic times. (See Maspero's _Hist. Ancienne
des Peuples de l'Orient_, chap, vi., pp. 287, 288. Fourth
Edition.)--A.B.E.

[25] The Land of Incense, called also in the inscriptions "The Land of
Punt," was the country from which the Egyptians imported spices,
precious woods, gums, etc. It is supposed to represent the southern
coasts of the Red Sea, on either side the Bab el Mandeb. Queen
Hatshepsut's famous expedition is represented in a series of coloured
bas-relief sculptures on the walls of her great temple at Deir el
Bahari, reproduced in Dr. Duemichen's work, _The Fleet of an Egyptian
Queen_, and in Mariette's _Deir el Bahari_. For a full account
of this temple, its decoration, and the expedition of Hatshepsut, see
the _Deir el Bahari_ publications of the Egypt Exploration Fund.

CHAPTER III.

_TOMBS_.

The Egyptians regarded man as composed of various different entities, each
having its separate life and functions. First, there was the body; then the
_Ka_ or double, which was a less solid duplicate of the corporeal form--a
coloured but ethereal projection of the individual, reproducing him feature
for feature. The double of a child was as a child; the doubl