1
Aristides turns to Mitsrayim and attacks Egyptian animal, plant, and cult worship more harshly than the other systems.
2
He recounts the stories of Isis, Osiris, Horus, and Typhon: murder, flight, mourning, vengeance, and the recovery of a slain body.
3
Again he asks how beings unable to prevent death in their own household can be the final source of life.
4
He then lists animals and natural things venerated in different Egyptian localities: sheep, cattle, pigs, fish, crocodiles, birds, cats, dogs, snakes, lions, plants, and others.
5
His argument returns to mortality and dependency.
6
Animals eat and are eaten, decay, die, and may be destroyed by their own species or by humans.
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Plants rot, burn, and become refuse.
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Aristides therefore sees the Egyptian cultic field as another example of worship turned from Creator to the works of creation.