Egyptian priests
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the priests · priests of Hephaestus · priests of Hephaestus at Memphis · the Egyptian priests · the Egyptians
in the texts
The Histories
The Egyptian priesthood, Herodotus's principal informants on Egyptian antiquity and religion, and the officiants whose own strict purity rules and sacrificial duties he describes.
This is the story which I heard from the priests of Hephaestus ' temple at Memphis;
Besides this story of the rearing of the children, I also heard other things at Memphis in conversation with the priests of Hephaestus;
the priests cannot endure even to see them, considering beans an unclean kind of legume.
Orations
Egyptian priestly class described as sharing the Magi's wisdom in matters divine.
the Egyptians, the priests, who had the same science as the Magi, caring for the gods and knowing all things, where and how they stand;