Stories akin to these and to others like them
they say are related about Typhon ; how that,
prompted by jealousy and hostility, he wrought
terrible deeds and, by bringing utter confusion upon
all things, filled the whole Earth, and the ocean as
well, with ills, and later paid the penalty therefor.
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But the avenger, the sister and wife of Osiris, after
she had quenched and suppressed the madness and
fury of Typhon, was not indifferent to the contests
and struggles which she had endured, nor to her own
wanderings nor to her manifold deeds of wisdom and
many feats of bravery, nor would she accept oblivion
and silence for them, but she intermingled in the
most holy rites portrayals and suggestions and representations of her experiences at that time, and
sanctified them, both as a lesson in godliness and an
encouragement for men and women who find themselves in the clutch of like calamities. She herself
and Osiris, translated for their virtues from good
demigods into gods,1 as were Heracles and Dionysus
later,2 not incongruously enjoy double honours, both
those of gods and those of demigods, and their powers
extend everywhere, but are greatest in the regions
above the earth and beneath the earth. In fact,
men assert that Pluto is none other than Serapis and
that Persephonê is Isis, even as Archemachus3 of
Euboea has said, and also Heracleides Ponticus4 who
holds the oracle in Canopus to be an oracle of Pluto.