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7 Natheles, ther ben somme men of Byblos that seyn Osiris of Egypte lyeth enterred amonges hem, and the doel and the cerimonyes ben alle made in mynde of Osiris in stede of Adoon.Byblos was known to the Egyptians from the time of the Old Kingdom, and her goddess impressed them deeply. She was identified with Hathor at least as early as the Middle Kingdom, and her story contributed to the shaping of the Isis-Osiris myth. When the coffin of Osiris was thrown into the Nile by Typhon, it drifted out to sea, and so to Byblos, where Isis sought and found it (Plutarch, Zsis and Osiris, c. 13 sgg.; cf. Frazer, ii. 9 sqg., 12, 127; Baudissin, pp. 193 sqq. ). And I schalle seye you the cause whi this semeth hem trewe. Eech yeer an heed cometh from Egypte to Byblos, heaa that passeth the see betwene in seven iorneyes, and the windes dryven it, be governaunce of the Goddes, and it torneth not asyde in no wyse but cometh all only to Byblos. And this is hoolyche merveylle. whoty It befalleth everyche yere, and befel that tyme that I was in Byblos, and I saughe the heed, that is of Byblos.The pun signifies that the head was of papyrus, made, no doubt, of a sort of papier m4ché, as in a mummy-case. In the commentary of Cyril on Isaiah 18 (Migne 70, 441) we learn, instead, of an earthen pot that contained a letter from the women of Alexandria to those of Byblos, saying that Aphrodite had found Adonis. There may be something in the tale of its drift, for the Nile current sets over to the Phoenician shore, and it is Nile mud that silts up Phoenician harbours (cf. H. Guthe, Paldstina, p. 27).