Lecture V. Animal Worship. 117
Still more hopeless are the words put into the mouth of the
wife of the high priest of Memphis at the close of the first century
before our era—
“O my brother, my spouse, and my friend,
High priest of Memphis!
Cease not to drink and to eat,
To fill thyself with wine, and to make sweet love;
Enjoy each festive day and follow thy desire,
Let not care enter thy heart
All the years that on earth thou remainest.
The underworld is a land of thick darkness,
A sorrowful place for the dead.
They sleep, after their guise, never to awaken
And behold their comrades.
Their father and their mother they know not,
No yearning for their wives and their children do they feel.”^87[127](^87) Brugsch's translation (Die Aegyptologie, i. p. 163).