... took for the occasion the epithet of Mihit, the northern one. Some of the dead fromthis city are buried on the other side of the Nile, near the modern village of Mesheikh, at the foot of the Arabian ... regarded as oneof the gates of the other world.At the time of the New Year festivals, spirits flocked thither from all parts of the valley; they there awaited the coming of the dying sun, in ... Memphis: he then made a lake around it to the north and west, fed by the river; the city hebounded on the east by the Nile." The history of Memphis, such as it can be gathered from the monuments,differs...