The blood covenant : a primitive rite and its bearing on scripture / by H. Clay Trumbull.

  • Henry Clay Trumbull
Date:
1887
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The blood covenant : a primitive rite and its bearing on scripture / by H. Clay Trumbull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    93/368 page 81
    friendship furnished the ancient Egyptians with their highest conception of a union with the divine nature through an interflowing of the divine blood—as the divine life—is found in the amulet of this covenant; corresponding with the token of the covenant of blood- friendship, which, as fastened to the arm, or about the neck, is deemed so sacred and so precious in the primitive East to-day. The hieroglyphic word, tat, tet, or tot, ( —i ) translated arm, is also translated bracelet, or armlet, C;^ ! o) ^ as if in suggestion of the truth, already referred to,^ that the blood-fur- nishing arm was represented by the token of the arm- encircling, or of the neck-encircling, bond, in the covenant of blood. Moreover, a red talisman, or red amulet, stained with the blood of Isis, and containing a record of the covenant, was placed at the neck of the mummy as an assurance of safety to his soul.^ When this book [this amulet-record] has ' See Pierret's Vocabulaire Hiirogfyphtque, p. 721 f.; also, Birch's Diet, of Hierog. in Egypt's Place, V., 519. ' See page 65 f., supra. *See Todtenbiich, chap. CLVL; Egypt's Place, V., 315 ; Trans, of Soc. of Bib. Arch., VIII., 2, 211. This amulet is also called tet; a word of the same phonetic force as tet, the arm, or the bracelet, but of different letters. This word ('J T ^) seems to have the root-idea of word; as if it were ap- plied to the text of the blood-covenant. The amulet as constructed for the mummy, was stained with the
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3