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Isis’ journey to Byblos (1)

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04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry


 		Keywords
Horus
Typhon
Period
2nd century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Christian-Greek philosophers and scholars

Text
Aristides, Apology 12:
But when forsooth Osiris was killed by his brother Typhon, Isis fled with her son Horus to Byblos in Syria and was there for a certain time until that her son was grown; and he contended with his uncle Typhon and killed him, and thereupon Isis returned and went about with her son Horus … And again they say of Typhon, his brother, that he is a god, a fratricide, and slain by his brother’s son and wife, since he was unable to help himself. And how can one who does not help himself be a god?

Source (list of abbreviations)
Aristides, Apology 12

Bibliography

Griffiths 1960, 113Griffiths, J. Gwyn. The Conflict of Horus and Seth. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 1960.

Amar Annus


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