images, sallied from theinclosure which ordinarily shielded their rites from profane eyes,and, at the head of a brilliant flotilla, directed their course to someother city, either by the Nile or by the waterway which theycalled the sacred canal. The ensigns of the gods, the coffers in which their… … Fig. 253.—The battle against the Khet.is, Luxor. (From ChampoUion, pi. 328.) deposited in the naos. Upon the occurrence of a festival, thepriest to whom the duty was delegated by the king entered thenaos and brought out the mysterious emblem which was hiddenfrom all other eyes ; he covered it with…
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