But Croesus, I was begotten and nursed by Egyptian parents, nourished on Egyptian food, and though I have accepted much that is Greek, am still, in my innermost being, an Egyptian.

What has been sung to us in our childhood, and praised as sacred in our youth, lingers on in the heart until the day which sees us embalmed as mummies.

I am an old man and have but a short span yet to run, before I reach the landmark which separates us from that farther country.

For the sake of life's few remaining days, shall I willingly mar Death's thousands of years?
No, my friend, in this point at least I have remained an Egyptian, in believing, like the rest of my countrymen, that the happiness of a future life in the kingdom of Osiris, depends on the preservation of my body, the habitation of the soul.
[Each human soul was considered as a part of the world-soul Osiris, was united to him after the death of the body, and thenceforth took the name of Osiris.

The Egyptian Cosmos consisted of the three great realms, the Heavens, the Earth and the Depths.