Show a muckraker Muck such as believe the tales of the egyptians credible are free to accept them for history por for my own part I 1 propose to myself throughout my whole work faithfully to record avd traditions of the several nations the egyptians maintain that ceres aad bacchus preside in the realms below they were veto also the first to broach breach the opinion that the soul of man is immortal in and that when the he body dies it enters eaters into the form of an animal which is born at the moment thence passing pass ing on from one animal into another until it li has is circled through the LUO forms of all the creatures nh h tenant the earth the waier and the air after which it enters a liti humah nian frame and is lorn born anew the whole period of the transmigration is they say three bbous ind years thorp there are greek writers some of an earlier some of a later date who have borrowed this doctrine from the ans and put it forward as their own I 1 could mention their names but I 1 abstain from doing so herodotus |