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husband’s body from the pillar and takes it back to Egypt to undergo
rebirth.
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The Osiris myth also includes certain key numbers. Whether by accident
or by design, these numbers give access to a ‘science’ of precession, as
we shall see in the next chapter.

43 Ibid. Though a mill, as such, is nowhere to be seen, many Ancient Egyptian reliefs
depict two of the principal characters in the Osiris myth (Horus and Seth) jointly
operating a giant drill, again a classic symbol of precession. Hamlet’s Mill, p. 162: ‘This
feature is continuously mislabelled the “uniting of the two countries” whether Horus and
Seth serve the churn or, as is more often the case, the so-called Nile Gods.’

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