As a connecting link with that chapter the reader will note that one of the marked things about the Egyptian wall-paintings, pictures on the mummy-case wrappings, papyrus inscriptions, and architectural conceptions, is that they are but enlarged hieroglyphics, while the hieroglyphics are but reduced fac-similes of these.

So when a few characters are once understood, the highly colored Egyptian wall-paintings of the same things are understood.

The hieroglyphic of Osiris is enlarged when they desire to represent him in state.

The hieroglyphic of the soul as a human-headed hawk may be in a line of writing no taller than the capitals of this book.

Immediately above may be a big painting of the soul, the same hawk placed with the proper care with reference to its composition on the wall, a pure decoration.
The transition from reduction to enlargement and back again is as rapid in Egypt as in the photoplay.