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nuts are broken in his honour on the heads of priests, but are said to be cracked first. The root of the word is probably Bhri “to create.” Beni Hasan. In Egypt: W. of the Nile 180 miles S. of Cairo, celebrated for its painted tombs. These tombs are E. of the river, and the dead were rowed acro it: they are cut deep in the rock, with vertical shafts and long pa ages. A famous wall picture here goes back to the time of the 12th dynasty, and shows the Amu from Seir bringing wives, and children, on a es, with an ibex, and an antelope, as gifts, and one of them plays a ten-stringed harp. They appear to be Semitic nomads (see Amu), allowed by the officials whom they meet to enter the kingdom.; Bertha. Berchta. The Teutonic gode of spring, otherwise Freya, She had swan’s feet (as a swan maiden); and feathers or snow flakes fell from her. [In French mythology she becomes the “Reine Pedauque” or loug-footed mother of Charlemagne.—Ep.] Bertha apparently comes from the Aryan root Bhur “to burn”; for she was the “bright lady.” She is a ociated with Holda, Wera, and other go de es of the new year, beginning in spring.