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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt:... old Egyptians believed that the sun wrestled all night with Typhon, the god of darkness. Victorious, it rose again in the morning with all the vigor of youth. So, when they wished to make a picture of the early morning sun they painted a beautiful boy and they called his name Horus, as we have already learned. The sun is the giver of light and day, the giver of life, of warmth, of the clear atmosphere, of color, and of beautiful flowers. Do you ever stop to think that without the sun the earth would be in darkness all the time, that no one could live on it, that there would be no trees, no grass, no flowers, and that our world would be intensely cold? It was a beautiful thought of the Egyptians to regard the sun as a god, the giver of life, and to picture the sun in the morning as a beautiful child. And now we see the sun mount rapidly upward from the belt of earth, now pink, now gold, now of crystal purity. It mounts higher and higher as though with wings. We do not wonder that the Egyptians thought of the sun as having wings, or as sailing in a golden boat through the heavens. By this time the water of the Nile is like beautiful bronze. The sand cliffs glisten in an intense light. The palm-trees make a lovely picture against the golden sky. The great sails of the Nile boats fill with the rising wind. The people of the village are awake. The boys and girls come down to the river to get water. Another day in Egypt has been born. But let us look at the next picture. "What can it mean?" you ask in wonder. The man has a head like a hawk and on his head is a disk. In one hand is a sceptre of power; in the other a cross, which means life. That is the way in which the ancient Egyp tians tried to express the power of the sun at noonday. In the morning t...