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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.44.74–I.49.44.75
Ancient Greek
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Καὶ ἐκ τούτου εἶπεν Ὧρος· “Ὦ τεκοῦσα, πῶς οὖν τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ ἀπόρροιαν ἔχειν εὐτύχησεν ἡ γῆ;” Καὶ εἶπεν Ἶσις· “Παραιτοῦμαι γένεσιν ἱστορεῖν· οὐ γὰρ θεμιτὸν σῆς σπορᾶς καταλέγειν ἀρχήν, ὦ μεγαλοσθενὲς Ὧρε, ὡς μήποτε ὕστερον εἰς ἀνθρώπους ἀθανάτων ἔλθῃ γένεσις θεῶν·
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πλὴν ὅτι γε ὁ μόναρχος θεός, ὁ τῶν συμπάντων κοσμοποιητὴς καὶ τεχνίτης, [τὶ] τὸν μέγιστόν σου πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐχαρίσατο πατέρα Ὄσιριν καὶ τὴν μεγίστην θεὰν Ἶσιν, ἵνα τῶν πάντων δεομένῳ κόσμῳ βοηθοὶ γένωνται. Οὗτοι βίου τὸν βίον ἐπλήρωσαν· οὗτοι τὸ τῆς ἀλληλοφονίας ἔπαυσαν ἄγριον· τεμένη προγόνοις θεοῖς αὐτοὶ καὶ θυσίας καθιέρωσαν· νόμους οὗτοι καὶ τροφὰς θνητοῖς καὶ σκέπην ἐχαρίσαντο·
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 131144.74 · Horus asks about the divine outflow
After this Horus said, “Mother, how, then, did earth have the good fortune to receive the god’s outflow?” Isis replied: “I decline to recount the birth. For it is not lawful to relate the origin of your begetting, mighty Horus, lest the birth of immortal gods should later become known among human beings.1585
44.75 · Osiris and Isis come to help the world
I will say only that the sole-ruling god, the maker and craftsman of the universe, [something] bestowed for a little while your most great father Osiris and the greatest goddess Isis, so that they might help a world in need of everything. They filled life with the means of living; they ended the savagery of mutual slaughter. They consecrated precincts and sacrifices to the ancestral gods; they bestowed laws, nourishment, and shelter upon mortals.1586
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