| Show Haro herodotus dotus a muckraker such an a believe the titles tale of the egyptians egyptian credible are free to accept them for hi history for my own pirt part I 1 propose to myself throughout my whole work faithfully to record tho the traditions of the several beveral nations the maintain that cerea cares and aid bacchus preside in the realms below they were also the first to broach the opinion that the out of man ia immortal and that when the body dies it enters into the forra form of an animal which la is born at the moment thence on from one animal into another until it has baa circled through the forms of oil ajl the creat creatures crea turea which tent tenant the earth the water and the air star after which it enters again a human frame and is born anew the bole period of the la Is they say cay three thousand years yeara there them ore are greek waltera some of an earlier cn aller 2 cioma 0 me of a later date who have bato borrowed 0 we d this doctrine from the egyptians and put it forward as their own I 1 could mention their names but I 1 abstain from doing so BO herodotus |