{"collection":"egy","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/egy/leg/leg65.htm","path":"egy/leg/leg65.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/egy/leg/leg65.htm","text":"[\u00a7 XLIII. The height of the Nile in flood at Elephantine is twenty-eight cubits, at Mendes and Xo\u00efs low Nile is seven cubits, and at Memphis middle Nile is fourteen cubits; these figures are to be compared with the twenty-eight days of the Moon's revolution, the seven-day phase of the Moon, and the fourteen days' Moon, or full moon. Apis was begotten by a ray of light from the Moon, and on the fourteenth day of the month Phamenoth 1 Osiris entered the Moon. Osiris is the power of the Moon, Isis the productive faculty in it.]","title":"Legends of the Gods, The Egyptian Texts: The History of Isis and Osiris: Section XLIII","type":"page"}