Show dotus a muckraker Muc kraher such as believe the tales of the r egyptians credible are free to accept them ifor history for my own owa part I 1 propose to myself throughout my whole work faithfully to record the traditions of the several nations nation si the egyptians maintain that ceres and bacchus preside la in the realms below they were also the first to broach the opinion that the soul of wan man Is immortal and that when the body dies it venters enters into the form ot of six an animal which Is born bora at the moment thence passing on from ono one animal into another until it has circled through the forms of all the creatures creature which tenant the earth the water and the air after aich it enters again a human buman frame aad Is born anew the whole period ot of tb the transmigration U they her t say three thousand yar there are ro areek writers some of an earlier earile some ome of a later date who have bo borrowed this doctrine toom from the i ans ns and put it forward as their own 1 I 1 could mention their heir names baffles but I 1 abstain from doing so herodotus |