Note 485 — Chapter VIII · THE SWORD IN ANCIENT EGYPT AND IN MODERN AFRICA.
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Yet it is remarkable, observes Brugsch (i. 212), that from the earliest ages the curse of the Typhonic gods clings to gold. So Plutarch (Isis and Osiris) tells us that the worshippers were directed not to wear the noble metal; and this still is a general rule in El-Islam.