ABSTRACT
A study of the texts that bear upon the subject has convinced me that lustrations in Ancient Egypt, where undergone by the dead or the living, are closely connected with the Heliopolitan sun-cult. That the sun-worshipping priests of predynastic Heliopolis played a great part in shaping the state religion of historic Egypt, has been indicated some years ago by PROF. KURT SETHE in that remarkable essay of his, Zur altagyptischen Sage vom Sonnenaugen das im Fremde war.1
