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Excerpt from The Realms of the Egyptian Dead According to the Belief of the Ancient Egyptians According to the text, this deluge which covered the trees and drove the Sun-god to the mountains came up from beneath, as the Egyptians supposed to be the case with the Nile ood. A similar story was probably at the source of the Platonic dialogue Timaeus, in which Egyptian authori ties are often quoted. There it is used as an argument to deny the ooding of the world and the destruction of its inhabitants - so far, at least, as Egypt is concerned. For, according to Plato, it was by similar oods in other lands that towns perished, and only the herdsmen were saved in Egypt, however, neither then nor at any other time did water ow down from above upon the fields; it came up from below, and hence it was that in Egypt were preserved the memorials of ancient times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.