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 THE

GODS OF THE EGYPTIANS

 LONDON
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AMEN-RA, the King of the Gods, the Lord of Heaven.
 THE
GODS OF THE EGYPTIANS
OR

STUDIES IN
EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

BY

E. A. WALLIS BUDGE, m.a., Litt.d., d.Litt., d.Lit.

KEEPER OF THE EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES

IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM

WITH 98 COLOURED PLATES

AND 131 ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

VOLUME II.

CHICAGO
THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING COMPANY
LONDON: METHUEN & CO.
1904
 —

CONTENTS
CHAP.
I. Amen, and Amen-Ra, and the Triad of Thebes ... PAGE
1

II. Hapi, the God of the Nile 42

III. The Triad of Elephantine 49

IV. Aten, the God and Disk of the Sun 68

V. The Great Company of the Gods of Heliopolis ... 85

VI. Osiris 113

VII. Hymns to Osiris 148

VIII. Hymns to Osiris from the "Book of the Dead" . . 153

IX. Hymn to Osiris, — Hieroglyphic text with interlinear

transliteration and translation 162

X. The Names of Osiris 176

XI. Plutarch's Mythological History of Isis and Osiris . 186

XII. Asar-Hapi or Serapis . 195

XIII. Isis 202

XIV. The Sorrows of Isis 222

XV. Set and Nephthys 241

XVI. Anpu or Anubis 261

XVII. Cippi of Horus . ... 267

XVIII. Foreign Gods 275

XIX. Miscellaneous Gods :

1. Gods of the Cubit 291

2. Gods of the Days of the Months .... 292

3. Gods of the Months 292

4. Gods of the Epagomenal Days 293

5. Gods of the Hours of the Day 294

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vi CONTENTS
Miscellaneous Gods (continued) :

CHAP.
6. Gods of the Hours of the Night .... PAGE
294

7. Gods who watch behind Osiris-Serapis . . . 295

8. Gods of the Winds .

' 295

9. Gods of the Senses 296

10. The Soul-God 299

11. Gods and Goddesses of the Twelve Hours of the

Night 300

12. Gods and Goddesses of the Twelve Hours of the

Day 302

Gods of the Planets 302

13.

14. The Dekans and their Gods ..... 304

15. Star-Gods behind Sothis and Orion .... 310

16. Star-Gods of the Southern and Northern Heavens 312

17. The Zodiac 312
18. Gods in the Tomb of Seti 1 317
19. Gods of the Days of the Month .... 320
20. Gods in the Theban Eecension of the " Book of
Dead " 323

XX. Sacred Animals and Birds, etc 345

Index . 385
 LIST OF COLOURED PLATES
TO FACE PAGE
1. Amen-Ka, king of the gods Frontispiece
The goddess Apit 2
2.

3.

4.
The god Amsu, or Min
Menthu, lord of Thebes
....
.... 24
5. The goddess Mut . . . . 28
6. Ta-urt (Thoueris) 30
7. Khensu in Thebes, Nefer-hetep . 34
8.

9.

10.
Nefer-hetep
The Nile-god Hapi
......
The dual god Khensu standing upon crocodiles 36
38
42
11. Khnemu fashioning a man upon a potter's table 50
12.

13.

14.
The goddess Sati
The goddess Anqet .....
Heru-shefit, lord of Suten-henen
54
56
58
15. The goddess Anit 60
Ba-neb-Tatau, the Eam-god of Mendes
16.

17.

18.
The god Shu
The goddess Tefnut
. ....
....
64
88
90
19. Seb, the Erpa of the gods . 94
20. The god Shu raising up Nut from Seb, and the Boats of the Sun
sailing over the body of Nut 96
21. The Lion-gods of Yesterday and To-day 98
22. Nut, the mother of the gods 102
23. Nut holding a table on which stands Harpocrates 104
24.
25.

26.
Osiris-Unnefer
The Sekhet-hetepu,
.....
Nut pouring out water from the sycamore tree

or Elysian Fields
106
114
120
27. Osiris and Isis in a shrine . 130
on his
28.
29.

30.
Anubis ministering
Ptah-Seker-Ausar ....
to Osiris

Seti I. addressing Osiris Khent-Amenti

bier 132
136
138
31. The goddess Meskhenet 142
The Judgment Scene (five-fold plate)
32.

33.
34.
The goddess Isis
Isis and Ptah-Seker-Ausar
.... 144
202
206
Vlll COLOURED PLATES
TO FACE PAGE
208
Papyrus Swamps suckling Horus
....
.

35. Isis in the

210
Mersekert suckling Horus
.

36.
. 212
37. Isis-Sept
. 214
38. The goddess Kennut
220
The goddess Menqet
.

39. .

. 242
40. The dual-god Horus- Set . .-

" Life " over Seti I 248

Set and Horus pouring out
....
.

41.
254
The goddess Nephthys
.

42.
262
Anubis, god of the dead
.

43.
Anubis 264
44. The deceased making offerings to .
.

286
45. The god Bes .

' . 354
46. Sebek-Ea
357
The god An-Heru
....
.

47.
362.
48. The goddess Urt-Hekau .

The goddess Serqet . 377

49.
 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Amen-Ea, with his attributes .

Heru-sa-atef making offerings to Amen-Ea and his ram

.....
Horus and Hekau presenting Amen-hetep III. to Amen-Ea 4
7

17
Menthu giving life to Ptolemy Alexander . 24
Apet 29
The Beams
family ......
of Aten illumining the

Amen-hetep IV. and his wife adoring Aten

names of Khu-en-Aten and his
.

.
70
73
Amen-hetep IV. seated on his throne beneath the Disk . 74
9, Amen-hetep IV. and his wife and daughter . 77
10 Seb and Nut . 98
11 Shu supporting the boat of the Sun beneath the sky-goddess Nut . 99
12 Nut giving birth to the Sun . 101
13, Nut . 103
14 Seb and Nut . 104
15 -31. The Eesurrection of Osiris 132-138
32 Osiris on his funeral bed . . 152
33,

34,

35,
Serapis .....
Sepulchral stele

Eennut, lady of Aat

; the deceased adoring Osiris, Serapis, &c

.
.

.
.
196
198
215
36. The Seven Stars of the Great Bear . 249
37- -40. Gods from the Metternich Stele 268-273
Qetesh, Min, and Anthat
41.

42.

43.
Anthat
Ashtoreth
....
....
. .

.
276
277
279
44.
45.
46.
Qetesh
Eeshpu ....
Bes playing a harp .
.

.
. 280
282
284
47. Head of Bes . 285
48. Gods of the "Winds 295, 296
49. The gods of the Senses . 297
50. The gods of the Planets . 303
51- 87. The Dekans . 304-308
88. The Boat of Osiris, the oldest company of the g ods, &c. . 311
89. The Star-gods near the North Pole . 313
90. The Signs of the Zodiac . 315
91. Portraits of seventy-four gods from the tomb of Seti I. 318, 319
92. The gods of the fourteen days of the waxing moon . 321
93. The gods of the fourteen days of the waning moon . 321
 THE
GODS OF THE EGYPTIANS
CHAPTER I

AMEN AND AMEN-RA, (T '«J, KING OF THE —

GODS, AND THE TRIAD OF THEBES

AMONG
very
the gods who were known to the Egyptians in
early times were Amen and his consort Ament,
[I o (I /wwvv
5
and their names are found in the Pyramid
Texts, e.g., Unas, line 558, where they are mentioned immediately
after the pair of gods Nau and Nen, ™~* M v\ 8 11 ® ,

and in connexion with the twin Lion-gods Shu and Tefnut, who
are described as the two gods who made their own bodies, and 1

with the goddess Temt, the female counterpart of Tern. It is

evident that even in the remote period of the Vth Dynasty Amen
and Ament were numbered among the primeval gods, if not as
gods in chief certainly as subsidiary forms of some of them, and
from the fact that they are mentioned immediately after the
deities of primeval matter, Nau and Nen, who we may consider
to be the equivalents of the watery abyss from which all things
sprang, and immediately before Temt and Shu and Tefnut, it
would seem that the writers or editors of the Pyramid Texts

II B
2 FORMS OF AMEN
assigned great antiquity to their existence. Of the attributes
ascribed to Amen in the Ancient Empire nothing is known, but,
if we accept the meaning "hidden" which is usually given to his
name, we must conclude that he was the personification of the
hidden and unknown creative power which was associated with
the primeval abyss gods in the creation of the world and all that
is in it. The word or root amen (I :
,
certainly means "what
7 AftAAAA Li

is hidden," " what is not seen," " what cannot be seen," and the
like, and this fact is proved by scores of examples which may be
collected from texts of all periods. In hymns to Amen Ave often

read that he is " hidden to his children," and " hidden to gods and
men," and it has been stated that these expressions only refer to
the "hiding," i.e., "setting" of the sun each evening, and that
they are only to be understood in a physical sense, and to mean
nothing more than the disappearance of the god Amen from the
sight of men Now, not only is the god himself
at the close of day.
said to be " hidden," but his name also is " hidden," and his form,
or similitude, is said to be "unknown;" these statements show that
" hidden" when applied to Amen, the great god, has reference to

something more than the " sun which has disappeared below the
horizon," and that it indicates the god who cannot be seen with
mortal eyes, and who is invisible, as well as inscrutable, to gods as
well as men. In the times approaching the Ptolemaic period the
name Amen appears to have been connected with the root men
" to abide, to be permanent ; '
' and one of the attributes
which were applied to him was that of eternal.
Amen is represented in five forms : — 1. As a man, when he
is seen seated on a throne, and holding in one hand the sceptre,

, and in the other the symbol of " life " in this form he is one
j ;

of the nine deities company of the gods of Amen-

who compose the
Ra, the other eight being Ament, Nu, Nut, Hehui, Hehet, Kekui,
Keket, and Hathor. 2. As a man with the head of a frog, whilst
1

his female counterpart Ament has the head of a uraeus. 3. As a

man with the head of a uraeus, whilst his female counterpart has the
head of a cat. 4. As an ape. 5. As a lion couchant upon a pedestal,
1
See Lanzone, op. cit., pi. 12.
The Goddess APIT
 AMEN OF THEBES 3

Of the early history of the worship of Amen we know nothing, but

as far as the evidence before us goes it appears not to have been
very general, and in fact, it of any importance
the only centre of
was the city of Thebes. Under the Xllth Dynasty we find that
a sanctuary and shrine were built in honour of Amen at Thebes
in the northern quarter of the city which was called Apt, D
f\ Q ,

later r © ; from this Avord, with the addition of the feminine

article T, t le Copts derived their name for the city Tape, T<\ne,
and from it also comes the common name " Thebes." Over Apt
the quarter of the city there presided a goddess also called Apt,

Q whoi
was either the personification of it, or a mere local
goddess to whom accident or design had given the same name as
the quarter ; it is, however, most probable that the goddess was
the spirit or personification of the place. In the reliefs on which
she is represented we see her in the form of a woman holding the
sceptre, and "life," -¥-, in her hands, and wearing upon her
J,
head the disk and horns, \°y '
•>
which rest upon £2, the hiero-
glyphic which has for its phonetic value Apt, and stands for the
name The disk and the horns prove that the
of the goddess.
tutelary goddess of Thebes was a form of Hathor.
Up to the time of the Xllth Dynasty Amen was a god of no
more than local importance, but as soon as the princes of Thebes
had conquered their rival claimants to the sovereignty of Egypt,
and had succeeded in making their city a new capital of the
country their god Amen became a prominent god in Upper
Egypt, and it was probably under that dynasty that the attempt
was made to assign to him the proud position which was after-
wards claimed for him of " king of the gods." His sanctuary at
Karnak was at that time a comparatively small building, which
consisted of a shrine, with a few small chambers grouped about it

and a forecourt with a colonnade on two sides of it, and it remained,

practically, in this form until the rise to power of the kings of the
XVIIIth Dynasty. It is difficult to decide if the sanctuary of
Amen Thebes was a new foundation in that city by the kings
at
of the Xllth Dynasty, or whether the site had been previously
occupied by a temple to the god ; the probability is that the god
4 PRIESTS OF AMEN
possessed a temple in Apt from the earliest times, and that all
that they did was to rebuild Amen's sanctuary. As soon as the
Theban princes became kings of Egypt their priests at once began
to declare that theirgod was not only another form of the great
creative Sun-god who had been worshipped for centuries at Annu,
or Heliopolis, in the North of Egypt, under the names of Ra,
Temu, Khepera, and Heru-khuti, but that all the attributes which
were ascribed to them were contained in him, and that he was
greater than they. And as Thebes had become the capital instead

Horns and Hekan presenting Amen-lietep III., when a babe, and bis double, to Amen-Ea,
lord of the thrones of Egypt, king of the gods.

of Memphis, it followed as a matter of course that all the

Memphis were contained in Amen
attributes of all the great gods of
also.Thus by these means the priests of Amen succeeded in
making their god, both theologically and politically, the greatest
of the gods in the country.
Owing to the unsettled state of Egypt under the XHIth and
XlVth Dynasties, and under the rule of the Hyksos, pretensions of
this kind passed unchallenged, especially as they were supported
by arms, and by the end of the XVIIth Dynasty Amen had
attained to an almost unrivalled position among the gods of the
 HYMN TO AMEN-RA 5

land. And when his royal devotees in this dynasty succeeded in

expelling the Hyksos from the land, and their successors the kings
of the XVIIIth Dynasty carried war and conquest into Palestine
and founded Egyptian cities there, the power and glory of Amen
their god, who had enabled them to carry out this difficult work of
successful invasion, became extraordinarily great. His priests
began by asserting his equality with the other great gods of the
old sanctuaries of Heliopolis, Memphis, Herakleopolis, and other
ancient cities, and finally they satisfied, or, at all events, attempted
to do so, all worshippers of every form of the Sun-god Ra by
adding his name to that of Amen, and thus forming a great god
who included within himself all the attributes of the primeval god
Amen The highest conception of Amen-Ra under the
and of Ra.
XlXth and XXth Dynasties was that of an invisible creative
power which was the source of all life in heaven, and on the earth,
and in the great deep, and in the Underworld, and which made
itself manifest under the form of Ra. Nearly every attribute of
deity with which we are made familiar by the hymns to Ra was
ascribed to Amen after hisRa but the priests of Amen
union with ;

were not content with claiming that their god was one of the greatest
of the deities of Egypt, for they proceeded to declare that there was
no other god like him, and that he was the greatest of them all.
The power and might ascribed to Amen-Ra are Avell described
in hymns which must be quoted in full. The first of these occurs
in the Papyrus of Hu-nefer (Brit. Mus., No. 9,901, sheet i.), where
it follows immediately after a hymn to Ra this papyrus was ;

written in the reign of Seti I., and it is interesting to observe that

the two gods are addressed separately, and that the hymn to Ra
precedes that to Amen-Ra. The text reads " Homage to thee, :
—
" Amen-Ra, Avho dost rest upon Maat as thou passest over the
;

" heavens every face seeth thee. Thou dost wax great as thy
" majesty doth advance, and thy rays [shine] upon all faces.
" Thou art unknown, and no tongue hath power to declare thy
" similitude only thou thyself [canst do this]. Thou art One,
;

" even as is he that bringeth the tend basket. Men praise thee in
" thy name, and they swear by thee, for thou art lord over them.
" Thou nearest with thine ears and thou seest with thine eyes.
 ;;

6 HYMN TO AMEN-RA
" Millions of years have gone over the world, and I cannot tell the
'
number of those through which thou hast passed. Thy heart
"hath decreed a day of happiness in thy name of 'Traveller.'
"Thou dostover and dost travel through untold spaces
pass
" [requiring] millions and hundreds of thousands of years [to pass
" over] thou passest through them in peace, and thou steerest
;

" thy way across the watery abyss to the place which thou lovest
" this thou doest in one little moment of time, and then thou dost
" sink down and dost make an end of the hours." How far the

attributes ascribed to Amen-Ra in this hymn represent those

generally bestowed upon the god in the XlXth Dynasty is
unknown, but the points chiefly dwelt upon are the unity, and the
invisibility, and the long duration of the existence of the god

nothing is said about Amen-Ra being self-begotten and self-born,

or of his great creative powers, or of his defeat of the serpent-fiend
Nak, and it is quite clear that Hu-nefer drew a sharp distinction

between the attributes of the two gods.

The following hymn, 1 which was probably written under the
XXth or XXIst Dynasty, well illustrates the growth of the power
both of Amen-Ra and of his priests :
—
" Praise be to Amen-Ra, the
" Bull in Annu, the chief of all the gods, the beautiful god, the
" beloved one, the giver of the life of all warmth to all beautiful
" cattle. 2
Homage to thee, Amen-Ra, lord of the thrones of the
" two lands, the governor of the Apts (i.e., Thebes, north and south),
" thou Bull of thy mother, who art chief in thy fields, whose steps are
" long, who art lord of the land of the South, who art lord of the
" Matchau peoples, and prince of Punt, and king of heaven, and first-
" born god of earth, and lord of things which exist, and stablisher of
" creation, yea, stablisher of all creation.
Thou art One among the
" gods by reason of his seasons. Thou art the beautiful Bull of the
" company of the gods, thou art the chief of all the gods, thou art
" the lord of Maat, and the father of the gods, and the creator of

1
For the hieratic text see Mariette, Les Papyrus Hjgyptiens du Muse'e de
Boidaq, pll. 11-13 ; hymn is given by Grebaut, Hymne
and a French version of the
a,Ammon-Ba, Paris, 1875.
The word nsed here for cattle is rnenmen, and a play is intended upon it and
the name Amen, who in his character of " bull of Annu " was the patron of cattle.
 HYMN TO AMEN-RA
men and women, and the maker of animals, and the lord of
things which exist, and the producer of the staff of life (i.e.,

wheat and barley), and the maker of the herb of the field which
giveth life unto cattle. Thou Sekhem who wast
art the beautiful
made (i.e., who art
begotten) by Ptah, and the beautiful Child
beloved. The gods acclaim thee, thou who art the maker of
things which are below and of things which are above. Thou
illuminest the two lands, and thou sailest over the sky in peace,
king of the South and North, Ra, whose word hath unfailing
effect, who art over the two lands, thou mighty one of two-fold
strength, thou lord of terror, thou Being above who makest the

Amen-Ea, with his attributes.

earth according to thine own designs. Thy devices are greater

and more numerous than those of any other god. The gods
rejoice in thy beauties, and they ascribe praise unto thee in the
great double house, and at thy risings in (or, from) the double house
of flame. The gods love the smell of thee when thou comest from
Punt (i.e., the spice land), thou eldest born of the dew, who
comest from the land of the Matchau peoples, thou Beautiful
Face, who comest from the Divine Land (Neter-ta). The gods
tremble at thy feet when they recognize thy majesty as their
lord, thou lord who art feared, thou Being of whom awe is great,

thou Being whose souls are mighty, who hast possession of

 ;

8 HYMN TO AMEN-RA
" crowns, who dost make offerings to be abundant, and who dost
" make divine food (tchefau).
" Adorations be to thee, thou creator of the gods, who hast
u stretched out the heavens and made solid the earth. Thou art
" the untiring watcher, Amsu-Amen (or Min-Amen), the lord of
" eternity, and maker of everlastingness, and to thee adorations
" are paid as the Governor of the Apts. Thou hast two horns
" which endure, and thine aspects are beautiful, and thou art the

u lord of the ureret crown (<=> ° Pa) , and thy double plumes are
" lofty, thy tiara is one of beauty, and thy White Crown M o n\
u is lofty. The goddess Mehen (™"5Pn ), an d the Uatcheti
u goddesses Nekhebet and Uatchet), are about
("Hh Jk J)n,
, i.e.,

" thy face, and the croAvns of the South and North Cy ) , and the
" Nemmes crown, and the helmet crown are thy adornments (?) in
" thy temple. Thy face is beautiful and thou receivest the Atef
" crown anc^ thou art beloved of the South and the North
( j2) '

" thou receivest the crowns of the South and the North, and thou

" receivest the amesu sceptre , and thou art the lord of the
(y )

" makes sceptre (S) and of the whip (or flail,

1
Thou art
,
J\) -

" the beautiful Prince, who risest like the sun with the White
" Crown, and thou art the lord of radiant light and the creator of
" brilliant rays. The gods ascribe praises unto thee, and he who
" loveth thee stretcheth out his two hands to thee. Thy flame maketh
" thine enemies to fall, and thine Eye overthroweth the Sebdu fiends,
" and it driveth its spear through the sky into the serpent-fiend
" Nak and maketh it to vomit that which it hath swallowed.
" Homage to thee, Ra, thou lord of Maat, whose shrine is

" hidden, thou lord of the gods ; thou art Khepera in thy boat,
" and when thou didst speak the word the gods sprang into being.

1
In the text of Unas (1. 206 f.) we have, " O Unas, thou hast not departed
"as one dead, but as one living thou hast gone to sit upon the throne of Osiris.

" Thy sceptre db is in thy hand, and thou givest commands to the living, thy
( yJ
" sceptre mekes
( ^|\ ^zz^ If) an(i ^7 sceptre nehbet (/vw™ j ^Q ) are in
" thy hands, and thou givest commands to those whose places are hidden."
The God AMSU.
 ;

HYMN TO AMEN-RA 9

"Thou art Temu, who didst create beings endowed with reason;
" thou makest the colour of the skin of one race to be different
" from that of another, but, however many may be the varieties of
" mankind, it is thou that makest them all to live. Thou nearest
" the prayer of him that is oppressed, thou art kind of heart unto
" him that calleth upon thee, thou deliverest him that is afraid
" from him that is violent of heart, and thou judgest between the
" strong and the weak. Thou art the lord of intelligence, and
" knowledge is that which proceedeth from thy mouth. The Nile
" cometh at thy will, and thou art the greatly beloved lord of the
" palm tree who makest mortals to live. Thou makest every work
" to proceed, thou workest in the sky, and thou makest to come
" into being the beauties of the daylight ; the gods rejoice in thy
" beauties, and their hearts live when they see thee. Hail, Ra,
" who art adored in the Apts, thou mighty one who risest in the

"shrine: Ani (fl flfl ^)> tnou lord of the festival of the new
" moon, who makest the six days' festival and the festival of the
" last quarter of the moon. Hail, Prince, life, health, and strength,
" thou lord of all the gods, whose appearances are in the horizon,
" thou Governor of the ancestors of Aukert (i.e., the underworld),
" thy name is hidden from thy children in thy name Amen.' '

" Hail to thee, thou who art in peace, thou lord of joy of
" heart, thou crowned form, thou lord of the ureret crown, whose
" plumes are exalted, whose tiara is beautiful, whose White Crown
" is lofty, upon thee the crowns of the
the gods love to look ;

" South and North are established upon thy brow. Beloved art
" thou as thou passest through the two lands, as thou sendest
" forth rays from thy two beautiful eyes. The dead are rapturous
" with delight when thou shinest. The cattle become languid
" when thou shinest in full strength beloved art thou when thou
;

" art in the southern sky, and thou art esteemed lovely when thou
" art in the northern sky. Thy beauties take possession of and
" carry away all hearts, and love for thee maketh all arms to relax,
" thy beautiful form maketh the hands to tremble, and all hearts
" melt at the sight of thee.
" Hail, thou Form who art One, thou creator of all things
10 HYMN TO AMEN-BA
" hail, thou Only One, thou maker of things which exist. Men
" came forth from thy two eyes, and the gods sprang into being
" as the issue of thy mouth. Thou makest the green 'herbs whereby
" cattle live, and the staff of life for the use of man. Thou makest
" the fish to live in the rivers,
and the feathered fowl in the sky ;

" thou givest the breath of life to that which is in the egg, thou
" makest birds of every kind to live, and likewise the reptiles that
" creep and fly ; thou causest the rats to live in their holes, and
" the birds that are on every green tree. Hail to thee, thou
" who hast made all these things, thou Only One thy might ;

" hath many forms. Thou watchest all men as they sleep, and
" thou seekest the good of thy brute creation. Hail, Amen, who
" dost establish all things, and who art Atmu and Harmachis, all
" people adore thee, saying, ' Praise be to thee because of thy
" '
resting among us ; homage to thee because thou hast created
" '
us.' All creatures say, ' Hail to thee ' ! and all lands praise
" thee ; from the height of the sky, to the breadth of the earth,
" and to the depths of the sea thou art praised. The gods bow
" down before thy majesty to exalt the Will of their Creator ; they
" rejoice when they meet their begetter, and say to thee, '
Come
" '
in peace, father of the fathers of all the gods, who hast spread
" '
out the sky, and hast founded the earth, maker of things which
" '
are, creator of things which exist, thou Prince (life, health, and
" ;
strength [to thee !]), thou Governor of the gods. We adore thy
" '
Will (or, souls) for thou hast made us ; thou hast made us and
" '
hast given us birth.*
" Hail to thee,
maker of all things, lord of Maat, father of the
" gods, maker of men, creator of animals, lord of grain, who
" makest to live the cattle on the hills. Hail, Amen, bull,
" beautiful of face, beloved in the Apts, mighty of rising in the
" shrine, who art doubly crowned in Heliopolis
thou art the ;

" judge of Horus and Set in the Great Hall. Thou art the head
" of the company of the gods, Only One, who hast no second,
" thou governor of the Apts, Ani at the head of the company of the
" gods, living in Maat daily, thou Horus of the East of the double
" horizon. Thou hast created the mountain, and the silver and
" real lapis-lazuli at thy will. Incense and fresh dnti are prepared
 HYMN TO AMEN-RA 11

for thy nostrils, beautiful Face, who comest forth from the
land of the Matchau, Amen-Ra, lord of the thrones of the two
lands, at the head of the Apts, Ani, the chief of thy shrine.
Thou king who art One among the gods, thy names are manifold,
and how many they are is unknown thou shinest in the eastern
;

and western horizons, and overthrowest thy enemies at thy birth

daily. Thoth exalteth thy two eyes, and maketh thee to set in
splendour ; the gods rejoice in thy beauties which those who are
in thy [following] exalt. Thou art the lord of the Sektet Boat
and of the Atet Boat, which travel over the sky for thee in
peace. Thy sailors rejoice when they see Nak overthrown,
and his limbs stabbed with the knife, and the fire devouring
him, and his filthy soul beaten out of his filthy body, and his
feet carried away. The gods rejoice, Ra is content, and Annu
(Heliopolis) is glad because the enemies of Atmu are over-
thrown, and the heart of Nebt-Ankh (i.e., Isis) is happy because
the enemies of her lord are overthrown. The gods of Kher-aha
rejoice, and those who dwell in the shrine are making obeisance

when they see thee mighty in thy strength. Thou art the
Sekhem (i.e., Power) of the gods, and Maat of the Apts in thy
name of Maker of Maat.' Thou art the lord of tchefau food,
'

the Bull of offerings (?) in thy name, Amen, Bull of his mother.'
'

Thou art the fashioner of mortals, the creator, the maker of all
things which are in thy name of Temu-Khepera. Thou art the
Great Hawk which gladdeneth the body the Beautiful Face ;

which gladdeneth the breast. Thou art the Form of [many]

forms, with a lofty crown the Uatcheti goddesses (i.e., Nekhebet
;

and Uatchet) fly before his face. The hearts of the dead (?) go
out to meet him, and the denizens of heaven turn to him his ;

appearances rejoice the two lands. Homage to thee, Amen-Ra,

lord of the throne of the two lands ; thy city loveth thy radiant
light."

The chief point of interest in connexion with this hymn is the

proof it affords of the completeness with which iinien had absorbed
all the attributes of Ra and of every other ancient form of the
Sun-god, and how in the course of about one hundred years he
had risen from the position of a mere local god to that of the
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12 THE PRIEST KINGS

"king of the gods" of Egypt. In the XVIIIth and XlXth
Dynasties the wealth of his priesthood must have been enormous,
and the religious and social powers which they possessed made
them, in many respects, as powerful as the reigning family.
Thebes, the capital of Egypt and the centre of the worship of

Amen-Ra, was rightly called the "city of Amen," ® (j

(the No-Amon of Nahum iii. 8), and there is reason to think that
many of the great Egyptian raids in Syria and Nubia were made
as much for the purpose of supplying funds for the maintenance
of the temples, and services, and priests of Amen-Ra as for the
glory and prestige of Egypt. The slavish homage which the
Thothmes kings, and the Amen-heteps, and the Ramessids paid to
Amen-Ra, and their lavish gifts to his sanctuaries suggest that it
was his priests who were, in reality, the makers of war and peace.
Under the XXth Dynasty their power was still very great, and
the list of the gifts which Rameses III. made to their order
illustrates their influence over this monarch. Towards the close
of this dynasty we find that they had succeeded in obtaining
authority from the feeble and incapable successors of Rameses III.
to levy taxes on the people of Thebes, and to appropriate to the
use of their order certain of the revenues of the city ; this was
only what was to be expected, for, since the treasury of the god
was no longer supplied by expeditions into Syria, the priests
found poverty staring them in the face. When the last Rameses
was dead the high-priest of Amen-Ra became king of Egypt
almost as a matter of course, and he and his immediate successors
formed the XXIst Dynasty, or the Dynasty of priest-kings of Egypt.
Their chief aim was to maintain the power of their god and
own order, and for some years they succeeded in doing so
of their
but they were priests and not warriors, and their want of funds
became more and more pressing, for the simple reason that they
had no means of enforcing the payment of tribute by the peoples
and tribes who, even under the later of the kings bearing the
name of Rameses, acknowledged the sovereignty of Egypt. Mean-
while the poverty of the inhabitants of Thebes increased rapidly,
and they were not only unable to contribute to the maintenance
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of the acres of temple buildings and to the services of the god,

but found it difficult to obtain a living. These facts are proved
by many considerations, but chiefly by the robberies which are
described or referred to in several papyri of the royal tombs
in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings at Thebes and ; the
discoveries of the royal mummies at Der al-Bahari shows that the
Government of the period was unable either to protect the royal
tombs or to suppress the gang of robbers who systematically
pillaged them. The robberies were carried out with the connivance
of several high officials, and it Avas to the interests of large
numbers of the inhabitants of Thebes to make abortive the legal
proceedings which were taken by the Government against them.
Notwithstanding their growing poverty and waning influence the
priests in no way abated the pretensions of their god or of themselves,
and they continued to proclaim the glory and power of Amen-Ra in
spite of the increasing power of the Libyans in the Delta.
In a very remarkable document written for Nesi-Khensu, the
daughter of one of the priest-kings of Amen-Ra, the god is made to
enter into an agreement to provide for the happiness and deification
of the deceased in the Underworld, and the terms of this agree-
ment are expressed with all the precision, and in the phraseology,
of a leg-al document. This is interesting enough as illustrating; the
relations which the priests assumed to exist between themselves
and their gods, but the introduction to the agreement is more
important for our purpose here, because in it are enumerated all

the chief attributes which were ascribed to Amen-Ra under the

XXIst Dynasty. The following is a rendering of this portion of
l
the papyrus of Nesi-Khensu :

" This holy god, the lord of all the gods, Amen-Ra, the lord of
" the thrones of the two lands, the governors of Apt ; the holy soul
" who came into being in the beginning ; the great god who liveth
" by (or upon) Maat ; the first divine matter which gave birth
" unto subsequent divine matter !
2
the being through whom every

1
A hieroglyphic transcript of the hieratic text of this remarkable document,
together with a French translation, has been published by Maspero in Les Momies
Eoyales dc Deir-el-bahaH, p. 594 f.

2 Or, "the primeval paut which gave birth unto the [other] two pautti."
14 NESI-KHENSU
" [other] god hath existence ; the One One who hath made every-
" thing which hath come into existence since primeval times when
" the world was created the being whose births are hidden, whose
;

" evolutions are manifold, and whose growths are unknown the ;

" holy Form, beloved, terrible, and mighty in his risings the lord ;

" of wealth, the power, Khepera who createth every evolution of

" his existence, except whom at the beginning none other existed ;

" who at the dawn in the primeval time was Atennu, the prince of
" rays and beams of light who having made himself [to be seen,
;

" caused] all men to live who saileth over the celestial regions
;

" and faileth not, for at dawn on the morrow his ordinances are
" made permanent who though an old man shineth in the form of
;

" one that is young, and having brought (or led) the uttermost
" parts of eternity goeth round about the celestial regions and
" journeyeth through the Tuat to illumine the two lands which he
" hath created the God who acted as God, who moulded himself,
;

" who made the heavens and the earth by his will (or heart) the ;

" greatest of the great, the mightiest of the mighty, the prince who
" is mightier than the gods, the young Bull with sharp horns, the
" protector of the two lands in his mighty name of '
The everlast-
" '
ing one who cometh and hath his might, who bringeth the
" remotest limit of eternity,' the god-prince
'
who hath been prince
" from the time that he came into being, the conqueror of the two
" lands by reason of his might, the terrible one of the double
" divine face, the divine aged one, the divine form who dwelleth in
" the forms of all the gods, the Lion-god with awesome eye, the
" sovereign who casteth forth the two Eyes, the lord of flame
" [which goeth] against his enemies the god Nu, the prince who
;

" advanceth at his hour to vivify that which cometh forth upon his
" potter's wheel, the disk of the Moon-god who openeth a way
" both in heaven and upon earth for the beautiful form the ;

" beneficent (or operative) god, who is untiring, and who is

" vigorous of heart both in rising and in setting, from whose
" divine eyescome forth men and women at whose utterance the
;

" gods come into being, and food is created, and tchefau food is
" made, and all things which are come into being the traverser of ;

" eternity, the old man who maketh himself young [again], with
 NESI-KHENSU 15

" myriads of pairs of eyes and numberless pairs of ears, whose

" light is the guide of the god of millions of years ; the lord of
" life, who giveth unto whom he pleaseth the circuit of the earth
" along with the abode of his divine face, upon his who setteth out
" journey and suffereth no mishap by the way, whose work none

"can destroy; the lord of delight, whose name is sweet and

" beloved, at dawn mankind make supplications unto him the
" Mighty one of victory, theMighty one of twofold strength, the
" Possessor of fear, the young Bull who maketh an end of the
" hostile ones, the Mighty one who doeth battle with his foes,

" through whose divine plans the earth came into being ; the
" Soul who giveth light from his two Utchats (Eyes) the god ;

" Baiti who created the divine transformations the holy one who ;

" is unknown the king who maketh kings to rule, and who
;

" girdeth up the earth in its courses, and to whose souls the gods
" and the goddesses pay homage by reason of the might of his
" terror; since he hath gone before that which followeth endureth
;

" the creator of the world by his secret counsels ; the god Khepera
" who is unknown and who is more hidden than the [other] gods,
" whose vicar is the divine Disk ; the unknown one who hideth
" himself from that which cometh forth from him; he is the flame
" which sendeth forth rays of light with mighty splendour, but
" though he can be seen in form and observation can be made of
" him at his appearance yet he cannot be understood, and at dawn
" mankind make supplication unto him his risings are of crystal;

" among the company of the gods, and he is the beloved object of
" every god the god Nu cometh forward with the north wind in
;

" this god who is hidden who maketh decrees for millions of
;

" double millions of years,whose ordinances are fixed and are not
" destroyed, whose utterances are gracious, and whose statutes fail
" not in his appointed time who giveth duration of life
; and
" doubleth the years of those unto whom he hath a favour ; who
" graciously protecteth him whom he hath set in his heart ; who
" hath formed eternity and everlastingness, the king of the South
" and of the North, Amen-Ra, the king of the gods, the lord of
" heaven and of earth, and of the deep, and of the two mountains
" in whose form the earth began to exist, he the mighty one, who
16 FORMS OF AMEN-RA
" is more distinguished than all the gods of the first and foremost
" company."
The definiteness of the assertions of this composition suggest
that formed the creed of the worshippers of Amen-Ra, for every
it

one of them appears to have been made with the express purpose
of contradicting the pretensions urged by the priests of other gods,
e.g., Aten and Osiris ; and an examination of the sentences will

show that Amen is made to be the source of life of all things,

both animate and inanimate, and that he is identified with the

great unknown God who made the universe. It is, however,

important to note that he is not in any way identified with Osiris
in this text, a fact which seems to indicate that the national god of
the Resurrection in Egypt was ignored by the priests of Amen
who composed the contents of Nesi-Khensu's papyrus. From what
has been said above as to the importance of Amen-Ra it will be
evident that a large number of shrines of this god must have
existed throughout the country, but in nearly all them he was
of
an intruder, and his priests must have lived chiefly upon the
endowments which the pious Egyptians had provided for gods
other than he.
We may now consider the various forms x
in which Amen-Ra
is depicted on monuments and papyri. His commonest form is

that of a strong-bearded man who wears upon his head lofty

double plumes, the various sections of which are coloured
alternately red and green, or red and blue ; round his neck he
wears a deep collar or necklace, and his close-fitting tunic is

supported by elaborately worked shoulder-straps. His arms and

wrists are provided with armlets and bracelets, in his right hand
is the symbol of life, and in his left the sceptre ] . Hanging from
his tunic is some animal, the custom of wearing which
the tail of

by gods and kings was common in Egypt in the earliest times.

In this form his title is " Amen-Ra, lord of the thrones of the two
lands," |]
a O ^ SS ^ ( Instead of the sign of life, •¥-,

he sometimes holds the Jchepesh war knife, ^=^-, in his right hand. 2

1
For a number of them see Lanzone, op. cit., pll. 18 ff.

2 Lanzone, op. cit., pi. 21.

 FORMS OF AMEN-RA 17

At times he is given the head of a hawk which is surmounted by

the solar disk encircled by a serpent, n&; as " Amen-Ra-Temu in
Thebes " he has the head of a man surmounted by the solar disk

encircled by a serpent ; before him is the dnkh, -¥- , which is

provided with human

and arms, offering lotus flowers to the
legs
god. Thus he becomes the god both of Heliopolis and Thebes."
1

In many scenes we find Amen-Ra with the head of a ram, when he

usually wears the solar disk, plumes, and uraeus ; at times, how-
ever, he wears the disk and uraeus, or the disk only. In this form
he is called " Amen-Ra, lord of the thrones of the two lands, the
" dweller in Thebes, the great god who appeareth in the horizon,"

Heru-sa-atep, king of Ethiopia, adoring Amen-Ra.

or " Amen-Ra, lord of the thrones of the two lands, governor of

" Ta-Kenset (Nubia)." Another form of Amen-Ra is that in
which he is represented with the body of the ithyphallic god
Amsu, or Min, or Khem, i.e., as the personification of the power of
generation. In this form he wears either the customary disk and
plumes, or the united crowns of the South and North, and has one
hand and arm raised to support A , which he holds above his

shoulder ; he is called " Amen-Ra, the bull of his mother,"

r"" "!1

q and possesses all the attributes of Fa-a,

5^
i.e., the " god of the lifted hand,'

1
Lanzone, op. cit., pi. 19.

II-
18 FORMS OF AMEN-RA
In one of the examples reproduced by Lanzone * Amen-Ra in

his ithyphallic form stands by the side of a pylon-shaped building,

on the top of which are two trees, one on each side of a large lotus
flower; the lotus flower represents the rising sun, which was
supposed to issue daily from between two persea trees. In
another form Amen-Ra has the head of a crocodile, and he wears
the crown which is composed of the solar disk, plumes, and horns,
and is called the " disposer of the life of Ra and of the years of
Temu." Finally, the god was sometimes represented in the form
of a goose ; the animal sacred to him in many parts of Egypt,
and all over Nubia, was the ram. In very late dynastic times,

especially in the Ptolemaic period, it became customary to make

figures of Amen-Ra in bronze in which every important attribute
of the god was represented. In these he has the bearded head
of a man, the body of a beetle with the wings of a hawk, the legs
of a man with the toes and claws of a lion, and is provided with
four hands and arms, and four wings, the last named being
extended. One hand, which is stretched along the wing, grasps

the symbols 1 , -V- , u , and two knives ; another is raised to

support £\, after the manner of the "god of the lifted hand;"
a third holds the symbol of generation and fertility ; and the
fourth is lifted to his head. The face of the god is, in reality,
that of the solar disk, from which proceed the heads and necks of
eight rams. Resting on the disk is a pair of ram's horns, with a
disk on each, and stretching upwards are the two characteristic
plumes of the god Amen. From the tip of each of these projects
a lion-headed uraeus which ejects moisture from its mouth. This
form of the god was a production probably of the period imme-
diately following theXXVIth Dynasty, but some modifications of
it The idea which underlies the figure is that of
are not so old.
representing the paid or company of the gods, of which Amen was
the chief, and of showing pictorially how every one of the oldest
gods of Egypt was contained in him.
In the Saite Recension of the Booh of the Dead we find
several passages relating to Amen, or Amen-Ra, which appear to

1
Op. cit.,
P l. 20, No. 1.
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belong to the same period, and as they illustrate the growth of a

set of new ideas about the god Amen, some of them being probably
of Nubian origin, they are reproduced here. The first is found
in the Rubric to Chapter clxii. which contains the texts to be
recited over the amulet of the cow, and was composed with the
view of keeping heat in the body of the deceased in the Under-
world. The first address is made to the god PAR, AK -£s& Jn ,

which is clearly a form of Amen-Ra, for he is called " lord of the

phallus," ^zy ?\ fef

|C==a
'
"lofty of plumes," "lord of
transformations, whose skins (i.e., complexions) are manifold,"
<
*^^ ^v fev III' CDL the " god of many names,"
I ^ III
(1
1 A/WWV _B^_B^ ,
° J '

" the mighty runner of mighty strides," etc. The second address
is to the Cow Ahat, >\ \T\ \\ ^^hm, i.e., the goddess Meh-urt

or Net, who made a picture of herself and placed it under the

head of Ra when he was setting one evening, and is the petition
which is to be said when a similar amulet
is placed under the

head of the deceased, and runs. " Amen, Amen, who art in
" heaven, turn thy face upon the dead body of thy son, and make
" him sound and strong in the Underworld."
In Chapter clxiii. we have the second passage as follows :

" Hail, Amen, thou divine Bull Scarab (

^J §--> & "^L, $\ ?

" thou lord of the two TJtchats, thy name is Hes-Tchefetch

" (? V fl^^s- ^ '^T) Jn, the Osiris (i.e., the deceased) is the
" emanation of thy two TJtchats, one of which is called Share-
<~=> ^7^
" sharekhet *>\ T1T1T "%\ anc^ tne other
(jjjjj cfl) j

" Shapdneterarika (JM,

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ V ^)
" Shaka-Amen-Shakanasa er hatu Tern
'" The ma£ical
name of the deceased is
x
sehetch-nef-taui," and on his behalf the following prayer is

made — " Grant that

:
he may be of the land of Maat, let him not
" be left in his condition of solitude, for he belongeth to this land

UJ a =J T.T.T ^ ^ % ~~ ^ £ <=»

raV^»^kl*I^
20 FORMS OF AMEN-RA
"wherein he will no more appear, and 'An' (?) ( £s\ is his

" name. him be a perfect spirit, or (as others say) a strong

let
" spirit, and let him be the soul of the mighty body which is in
" Sau (Sais), the city of Net (Neith)."
The third passage is Chapter clxv., which is really a petition
to Amen-Ra by the deceased wherein the most powerful of the
magical names of the god are enumerated. The vignette of the
chapter contains the figure of an ithyphallic god with the body of
a beetle on his head are the characteristic plumes of Amen, and
;

his right arm is raised like that of Amsu, or Min, the god of the

reproductive powers of nature. The text reads, " Hail, thou

" Bekhennq ^ v\ T) Bekhennu Hail, Prince, Prince
(J , ! !

" Hail Amen, Hail Amen! Hail Par, Hail Iukasa C^K 1^ j£=& Jn
" (m v\ ^=^> *<k\ tpj ! Hail God, Prince of the gods of the eastern

" parts of heaven, Amen-Nathekerethi- Amen (f\ Jn /WWVN

^, fl

" ^^ I
ft! fl Q 0^1 Jn) • Hail, thou whose skin is hidden, whose

" form is secret, thou lord of the two horns [who wast born of]

"Nut, thy name is Na-ari-k ("^ -az>- M ^^>, or Ka-ari-k,

z=x) , and Kasaika (^ ^ ^ I

(j(j ^=* ^ J),
"is thy name. Thy name is Arethi-kasathi-ka (~K\ | Oil

" ^z^s "vx & I ji \m ^z^> <|\ J"n , and thy name is Amen-naiu-an-
(rv
fl

1
1
^j —
minim

aaaaaa i
o.

t
^1
.^k
rr\^
1

I
1
4

ill
u
V

I
4
^VVW

v
o
' I

<=> e=a
" or Thekshare -Amen - Rerethi, ) ^* LM 1\ J (1

" Hail, Amen, let me make supplication unto thee,

<?*^ ll QQ w) '

" for I know thy name, and [the mention of] thy transformations
" is in my
mouth, and thy skin is before mine eyes. Come, I pray
" thee, and place thou thine heir and thine image, myself, in the
" everlasting underworld. Grant thou that all my members may
" repose in Neter-khertet (the underworld), or (as others say)
" in Akertet (the underworld) ; let my whole body become like
" unto that of a god, let me escape from the evil chamber and let
" me not be imprisoned therein ; for I worship thy name. Thou
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" hast made for me a skin, and thou hast understood [my] speech,

"and thou knowest it exceedingly well. Hidden (n R§ fl)

" is thy name, Letasashaka (

*
skiY T ^T "%^
? ^^ "%^ M),
" and I have made for thee a skin. Thy name is Ba-ire-qai

"
(VI WT *\ 11 &)> %-meisMarqatha (-^"^
" *n^ name is Rerei 'QQw))> * n y name is Nasa-
Ih^))' (

" qebubu (^ ^^J^>JJ^>^j)> th J name is Thanasa-

" Thanasa ( \ (1
^aaa IK to _j|
1
©V thy name is Sharshathakatha

" Amen, Amen, God, God, Amen, I adore thy

" name, grant thou to me that I may understand thee grant ;

" thou that I may have peace in the Tuat (underworld), and that
" I may possess all my members therein." And the divine Soul
which is in Nut saith, " I will make my divine strength to protect
" thee, and I will perform everything which thou hast said."
This interesting text was ordered to be recited over a figure of the
" god of the lifted hand," i.e., of Amen in his character of the god
of generation and reproduction, painted blue, and the knowledge

of it was to be kept from the god Sukati (m \\ Z5 *fes. ^TT^ fli] Jn)

in the Tuat ; if the directions given in the rubric were properly

carried out would enable the deceased to drink water in the
it

underworld from the deepest and purest part of the celestial

stream, and he would become " like the stars in the heavens
above."
A perusal of the above composition shows that we are dealing
with a class of ideas concerning Amen, or Amen-Ra, which, though
clearly based on ancient Egyptian beliefs, are peculiar to the
small group of Chapters which are found at the end of the Sai'te
Recension of the Booh of the Dead. The forms of the magical
names of Amen are not Egyptian, and they appear to indicate,
as the late Dr. Birch said, aNubian origin. The fact that the

Chapters with the above prayers in them are found in a papyrus

containing so complete a copy of the Sai'te Recension proves that
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22 AMEN WORSHIP
they were held to be of considerable importance in the Ptolemaic
period, and they probably represented beliefs which were wide-
spread at that time. Long before that, however, Amen-Ra was
identified with Horus in all his forms, and Ra in all his forms, and
Osiris in all his forms,and the fathers and mothers of these gods
were declared to be he was also made to be the male
his ;

counterpart of all the very ancient goddesses of the South and the
North, and the paternity of their offspring was attributed to him.
From what has been said above it is evident that the worship
of Amen-Ra spread through all the country both to the north and
south of Thebes, and the monuments prove that it made its way
into all the dominions ofEgypt in Syria, and in Nubia, and in the
Oases. In Upper Egypt its centres were Thebes, Hermonthis,
Coptos, Panopolis, Cusae, Hermopolis Magna, and Herakleopolis
Magna in Lower Egypt they were Memphis, Sais, Xoi's, Metelis,
;

Heliopolis, Babylon, Mendes, Thmuis, Diospolis, Butus, and the

Island of Khemmis in the Libyan desert the Oases of Kenemet,
;

aaaaaa (i.e., the Oasis of the South, or Al-Khargeh), Tchestcheset,

n"=,
n-=
^ ^ (i.e., Oasis Minor, or Dakhel), Ta-ahet, =s==»
*| j
(1 fi
^
(i.e., Farafra), and the great Oasis of Jupiter Ammon ; in Nubia,
Wadi SabiVa, Abu Simbel, Napata, and Meroe and ; in Syria at

several places which were called Diospolis.

The worship of Amen-Ra was introduced into Nubia by its

Egyptian conquerors early in the XHth Dynasty, and the

inhabitants of that country embraced it with remarkable fervour
the hold which had gained upon'^them was much strengthened
it

when an Egyptian viceroy, who bore the title of " royal son of
Cush," was appointed to rule over the land, and no efforts were
spared to make Napata a second Thebes. The Nubians were
from the poverty of their country unable to imitate the massive
temples of Karnak and Luxor, and the festivals which they
celebrated in honour of the Nubian Amen-Ra, and the processions
which they made
honour, lacked the splendour and
in his
magnificence of the Theban capital; still, there is no doubt
that, considering the means which they had at their disposal, they

erected temples for the worship of Amen-Ra of very considerable

 1 ,

MENTHU 23

size and The hold which the priesthood of Amen-Ra of

solidity.

Thebes had upon the Nubians was very great, for in the troublous
times which followed after the collapse of their power as priest-
kings of Egypt, the remnant of the great brotherhood made its
way to Napata, and settling down there made plans and schemes
for the restoration of their rule in Egypt fortunately for Egypt ;

their designs were never realized. In Syria also the cult of

Amen-Ra was introduced by the Egyptians under the XVIIIth
Dynasty, a fact which is proved by the testimony of the Tell
el-'Amarna tablets. Thus in a letter from the inhabitants of the
city of Tunep, 1
^ v\ , to the king of Egypt (i.e., Amen-
hetep III. Amen-hetep IV.) the writers remind him
or his son
that the gods worshipped in the city of Tunep are the same as
those of Egypt, and that the form of the worship is the same.
From an inscription 2 of Thothmes III. at Karnak we know that in
the 29th year of his reign this king offered up sacrifices to his
gods at Tunep, and it is probable that the worship of Amen-Ra in
Northern Syria dates from this time. On the other hand Akizzi,
the governor of Katna, in writing to inform Amen-hetep III. that
the king of the Khatti had seized and carried off the image of the
Sun-god, begs that the king of Egypt will send him sufficient
gold to ransom the image, and he does so chiefly on the grounds
that in ancient days the kings of Egypt adopted the worship of
the Sun-god, presumably from the Syrians, and that they called
themselves after the name of the god. To emphasize his appeal
Akizzi addresses Amen-hetep III. as the " son of the Sun-god," a
fact which proves that he was acquainted with the meaning of the
title " sa Ra," i.e., " son of Ra," \^, which every Egyptian king
bore from the time of the Vth Dynasty onwards. This evidence
supports an old tradition to the effect that the Heliopolitan form of
the worship of the Sun-god was derived from Heliopolis in Syria.
In connexion with Amen-Ra must be mentioned an important
form of the Sun-god which was called Menthu,
AAAAAA
s=> v\
" 3—
i

1
See The Tell el-
l
Amarna Tablets in the British Museum, pp. lxv., lxxi.
2 Mariette, Karnak, pi. 13, 1. 2.
24 MENTHU-RA
or Menthu-Ra
/vww\
=» \\
* —
- /l
JH
i— i 'I
Q J;
-i—-t
though he was commonly
described as " lord of Thebes," the chief seat of his worship was at

Hermonthis, the Annu-Rest, HlStk^ i- e -j " Heliopolis of the

South," of the hieroglyphic texts. Menthu was probably an old

local god whose cult was sufficiently important to make it

Menthu giving "life" to Ptolemy Alexander.

necessary for the priests of Amen to incorporate him with the

great god of Thebes, and he appears to have been a personification
of the destructive heat of the sun. The chief centres of his
worship were Annu of the South, Thebes, Annu of the North,

Tchertet, 5
< > ^^ (Edfu), Dendera, and perhaps the temples of
MENTHU. Lord of Thebes.
 MENTHU-RA 25

the First Cataract, and his commonest titles are, " Menthu-Ra, lord
" of Thebes, King of the gods, he who is on his throne in Aptet,
11
Merti, mighty one of two-fold strength, lord of Thebes of the
" North, Sma-taui, Governor of Behutet, lord of Annu of the South,
" prince of Annu of the North," 1 and "lord of Manu," i.e., the Libyan
mountain. 2 Menthu is mentioned in the Pyramid Texts (Mer-en-
Ra, line 784), together with a number of ancient gods, in such a
way that we may be certain that his worship was widespread,
<==>
even in the Vlth Dynasty. Thus Khepera ® £5 , and Nu,

"\^j&, and Tern, and Uash, *£] cs=>, the son of Seb, and

Sekhem, the son of Osiris, I Y® \j^, "n^ JJ > are entreated to

hearken to the words which the dead king is about to address to

them. Nekhebet of the Temple of Sar, fj M <=> , in Heliopolis is

said to protect him, he is identified with the star Apsh,

[ '

J * \/ ,,
> an(i the gods who traverse the land of the

Thehennu, A/
® A ^^ *^\ =s?= ) ° , and who live on the " in-

destructible heavens," 111 /ww* © £3 *|k (j e ^ ju ^ [I ^*,

are besought to allow him to be with them.
Five obscure gods are next mentioned, i.e., Tchent, «~^ df,
c^-s> i

® e=s - is: =>

Kher, I, Shenthet, j
Khenu, VpG, and Benutch,
<- > V A^/W\A t=i O

J ^} and then it is said that " Seb hearkeneth to him, Tern

,

" provideth him with his form, Thoth heareth for him that which
" is in the books of the gods, Horus openeth out a path for him,
" Set protecteth him, and Mer-en-Ra riseth in the eastern part of
11
heaven even as doth Ra. He hath gone forth from Pe with the
" spirits of Pe, he is even as is Horus and is fortified by the Great

5 see Lanzoue, op. cit., p. 294.

i

firm
000 £24 &•
26 MENTHU-RA
" and the Little Companies of the gods. He riseth in the con-
" dition of a king, he entereth into heaven like Ap-uat, he hath

" received the White Crown and the Green Crown (|^^ ^ £/),
J
" his club is with him, his weapon (or sceptre) ams (*^\ t\ fl K),
" is in his grasp, his mother is Isis, his nurse is Nephthys, and the

"cow Sekhat-Heru (PTl^ l^^r$)

§i vetn mm muk. Net
" is behind him, Serqet is on two hands.
his . . . Let him pass,
" and let his flesh pass, let him pass, and let his apparel pass,

" for he hath gone forth as Menth ( aww J&j, he hath gone down
"
" like Ba (\ fe* JkA , and he hath hunted like Ba-ashem-f

(^s= ^-, 1\ J©- *^^) • Of the origin and early history of

Menthu nothing is known, but his worship must have been very
ancient if we by the passage quoted above from the
are to judge
text of king Mer-en-Rii, for, although mentioned with the two
obscure gods Ba and Ba-ashem-f, it is quite clear that he was a
great god and that the deceased hoped to resemble him in the
Underworld. Menthu is twice mentioned in the Theban Recen-
sion of the Book of the Dead, but curiously enough, only as one of
a number of gods. Thus, in Chapter cxl. 6, together with Ra,
Tern, Uatchet, Shu, Seb, Osiris, Suti, Horus, Bah, Ra-er-neheh,
Tebuti, Naam, Tchetta, Nut, Isis, Nephthys, Hathor, Nekht,
Mert(?), Maat, Anpu, and Ta-mes-tchetta, he is said to be the
" soul and body of Ra," and in Chapter clxxi. his name occurs

among the names of Tern, Shu, Tefnut, Seb, Nut, Osiris, Isis, Set,
Nephthys, Heru-khuti, Hathor, Khepera, Amen, etc., who are
entreated to bestow a garment of purity upon the deceased.
Menthu is usually depicted in the form of a man with the head
of a hawk, whereon he wears a crown formed of the solar disk with
the uraeus and two high plumes as such he is styled " lord of ;

Thebes."
In a figure reproduced by Lanzone 1
he has two hawks' heads,
each of which is provided with the solar disk, two uraei, and two
plumes ; in his right hand Menthu grasps the scimitar, ^sh, which

1
Op. cit., pi. 119, No. 3.
 MENTHU-RA 27

indicates that he was a god of war. Another proof of his warlike

l
attributes is a scene in which he is depicted, with a long spear
having a bronze or iron head, in the act of spearing a foe, whose
hands and feet are tied together. In the city of Tchert, -^
^,
Menthu was worshipped under the form of a man with the head of
a bull, but instead of the solar disk he wears on his head the
lunar crescent and disk, sometimes with and sometimes without
plumes. The warlike character of this local form of Menthu
is indicated by the bow and arrows, and club, and knife which he

holds in his hands, and we are justified in assuming that he was a

personification of the fierce, destroying heat of the sun which
warred against the enemies of the Sun-god, and smote them to the
death with his burning rays which were like fiery spears and
darts. In the narrative of the battle of Kadesh we are told that

Rameses II. "rose up as Ra riseth, and took the weapons (flfifl)

" of father Menthu," and that when he saw the foe before him
" he raged at them like Menthu, lord of Thebes, and took his
" weapons in his hand," and that having become like " Bar

( J
<r=> ^n in his hour," he leaped into his chariot and drove
headlong into the battle, wherein he, of course, gained a great
victory. Elsewhere Menthu is often styled the " mighty bull,"

and it is possible that originally this god was nothing but a

personification of the strength and might of the raging bull when
fighting a foe, and that his worship in one form or another existed
in predynastic times. It must, in any case, be very ancient,
when joined to Ra his name comes first in the compound
because
name and we have "Menthu-Ra" instead of Ra-Menthu. The
2
pictures of the god reproduced by Lanzone prove that the god
possessed other phases which are not at present well understood.

Thus he is represented standing upright, with the head of a hawk,

and he holds in the right hand what appears to be an ear of corn
and in the left a vase, as if he were in the act of making offerings.
In another scene the god, hawk-headed and wearing the solar
disk encircled by a uraeus, is seated on a throne and is represented

1
Op. cit., pi. 120, No. 4. Ibid., pi. 120.
 28 MUT
in the act of embracing a young Horus god who wears on his head
the solar disk with plumes, and a tight-fitting cap with a uraeus in
front of it, and who stands on the edge of the throne by the side of

the god.
The principal female counterpart of Amen-Ra, the king of the

gods, in the New Empire was Mut, A\ ^ J] , whose name means

" Mother," and in all her attributes we see that she was regarded
as the great " world -mother," who conceived and brought forth
whatsoever exists. The pictures of the goddess usually represent
her in the form of a woman wearing on her head the united crowns
of the South and the North, and holding in her hands the papyrus
sceptre and the emblem of life. Elsewhere we see her in female
form standing upright, with her arms, to which large wings are
attached, stretched oat full length at right angles to her body; at
her feet is the feather of Maat. She wears the united crowns, as
before stated, but from each shoulder there projects the head of a

vulture ; one vulture wears the crown of the North, \f , and the
other two plumes, m ,* though sometimes each vulture head has
upon it two plumes, which are probably those of Shu or Amen-Ra.
In other pictures the goddess has the heads of a woman or man, a
vulture, and a lioness, and she is provided with a phallus, and a
pair of wings, and the claws of a lion or lioness. In the vignette of
the clxivth Chapter of the Book of the Dead she is associated with
two dwarfs, each of whom has two faces, one of a hawk and one of
a man, and each of whom has an arm lifted to support the symbol
of the god Amsu or Min, and wears upon his head a disk and
plumes. In the text which accompanies the vignette, though the
three-headed goddess is distinctly called "Mut" in the Rubric, she

is addressed as " Sekhet-Bast-Ra," $J% ^^3 ^3 , a fact

which accounts for the presence of the phallus and the male head
on a woman's body, and proves that Mut was believed to possess
both the male and female attributes of reproduction.
We have already seen that the originally obscure god Amen
was, chiefly through the force of political circumstances, made to

1 Lanzone, op. cit., pi. 136.

The Goddess MUT, the Lady of Thebes
 FORMS OF MUT 29

usurp the attributes and powers of the older gods of Egypt, aud
we can see by such figures of the goddess as those described above
that Mut was, in like fashion, identified with the older goddesses
of the land with whom, originally, she had nothing in common.
Thus the head of the lioness which projects from one shoulder
indicates that she was identified with Sekhet or Bast, and the
vulture heads prove that her cult was grafted on to that of
Nekhebet, and the double crowns show that she united in herself
all the attributes of all the goddesses of the South and North.

Apet.

Thus we find her name united with the names of other goddesses,
e.g., Mut-Temt, Mut-Uatchet-Bast, Mut-Sekhet-Bast-Menhit, and
among her aspects she included those of Isis, and Iusaaset.

Locally she usurped the position of Ament,

~~ °
c i

M
J) , the old

Amen D
female counterpart of and of Apet, (1 Q J) , the personifi-
cation of the ancient settlement Apt, from which is derived the
name " Thebes " (Ta-apt) she was also identified with the
;

goddess of Amentet, i.e., Hathor in one of her forms as lady of the

30 FORMS OF MUT
Underworld ; and with the primeval goddess Ament, who formed
one of the four goddesses of the company of the gods of Hermo-
polis, which was adopted in its entirety by the priests of Amen
for their gods ; and with the predynastic goddess Ta-urt,
or ^ PI 1°^' or ^ PT fl°^) and in short '
~!k ^»Bi» ' ^ ' '
; '

with every goddess who could in any way be regarded as a " mother-
goddess." The centre of the worship of Mut was the quarter of
Thebes which was called Asher, or Ashrel, or Asnrelt, 1 and which
probably derived its name from the large sacred lake which existed
Q
there ; the temple of the goddess, A\ ^, Het-Mut, with its

sanctuary, A\ TL , was situated a little to the south of the

great temple of Amen-Ra. From the inscriptions which have

been found on the ruins of her temple we find that she was styled
" Mut, the great lady of Ashert, the lady of heaven, the queen of the

gods,"
53
she was thought to have
^ ^ 4« = J ^ _ ^ T existed with Nu in
|
, aad that
primeval time,
AAAAM nnn W\AA>\
aaaaaa pa
""
q
AA/WSA
<k^v J } ^'. • She was, moreover, called
a MAMA
" Mut, who giveth birth, but was herself not born of any,"

*V\ ffj
(I ,_n_ fn I II. Here also Ave find her associated with

to as the " lady of the

3
several goddesses, and referred life of the

two lands," ^37-¥-|T, and "lady of the house of Ptah, lady of

T

heaven, queen of the two lands," etc.

The great temple of Mut at Thebes was built by Amen-hetep

III., about B.C. 1450, and was approached from the temple of
Amen-Ra by an avenue of sphinxes ; the southern half of the

1
The forms of the name given by Brugsch (Diet. Geog., p. 73) are

"*"*, U _ -S£=& aa >aa,

SZ1 <=*

2
Champollion, Notices, ii., p. 207.

mnr.ss-? O AAA-A X O
TA-URT (THOUERIS), the Associate of HATHOR.
 TEMPLE OF MUX 31

building overlooked a semi-circular lake on which the sacred

procession of boats took place, and at intervals, both inside and
outside the outer wall of the temple enclosure were placed statues
of the goddess Mut, form of Sekhet, in black
in the basalt.
Another famous sanctuary of Mut was situated in the city of

Pa-khen-Ament, •£*< (1
^, the ITaxra/aowis of Ptolemy

(iv. 5, § 50), and the capital of the nome, $LSl_®, Sma-Behutet,

the Diospolites of Lower Egypt. This city was also called

"Thebes of the North," ^^@, or the "City of the North,"

^% to distinguish it from Thebes, the great city of Amen
which is always referred to as the " City," par excellence. From
the Egyptian word nut, "city," is derived the Biblical form "No,"
and the "No Amon" of Nahum iii. 8, which "was situate among
" the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart
" was the sea, and her wall was from the sea," can hardly be any
other than the city of Amen and Mut in the Delta. Among other

shrines of Mut must be mentioned Bekhen, J

^ ^ , a town in

the Delta, which was probably situated in the sixth nome of

Lower Egypt, the Khas, rv/vo

24J-,
of the Egyptians, and the
TPffF

Gynaecopolites of the Greeks. Dr. Brugsch pointed out that the

deities worshipped at Bekhen were " the Bull Osiris," Amen-Ra,
x
Mut, and Khensu, and he considered it probable that the city lay

near the capital of the nome which was called Khasut, ^

11 "v\
^,
by the Egyptians and Xoi's by the Greeks. Another shrine of Nut

was situated at 'An, Hr , by which we are probably to under-

'
stand the region in which HpaxovnoK^, or Heroopolis, lay.
The
district An, ^according to Dr. Brugsch, formed the neutral
of
border between the South and the North, and a text quoted by
him concerning it, says, "When Horus and Set were dividing
"the country they took up their places one on one side of the
" boundary and the other on the other, and they agreed that the

1
Diet. Qeog., p. 202.
 i

32 MUT AND NU
" country of An should form the frontier of the country on one
x
" side of it, and that it should be the frontier of the other also."
From what has been said above it appears that Mut was
originally the female counterpart of Nu, and that she was one of
the very few goddesses of whom it is declared that she was " never
born," i.e., that she was self-produced. Her association with Nu
suggests that she must be identified with or partake of some of
the characteristics of a remarkable goddess who is mentioned
in the Pyramid Texts (Unas, line 181) under the name of
ra ,^\ /w\AAA _
Mut, ^\ v\ ZZXt , a variant spelling of which is Mauit, 2

f\ a a \\ M o J). Her name occurs in a passage in which a

prayer is Unas that " he may see," and following
made on behalf of
is the petition, " Ra, be good to him on this day since yester-
" day " (sic) 3 after this come the words, " Unas hath had union
;

" with the goddess Mut, 4 Unas hath drawn unto himself the flame
" of Isis, Unas hath united himself to the lotus," etc. 5 The only

mention of Mut in the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead

6
is found in a hymn to Osiris, which forms the clxxxiiird Chapter;
the deceased is made to say to the god, " Thou risest up like an
" exalted being upon thy standard, and thy beauties exalt the
" face of man and make long his footstep[s]. I have given unto
" thee the sovereignty of thy father Seb, and the goddess Mut, thy

D a
30X =5?

r-vv —

Did. Geog., p. 118.

3 Becueil de Travaux, torn, iii., p. 197, note 1.
± nvwv\ pa i—i n a$ —

AAA/lM
4 If
^^^^^^^^^^^^^fl'^ "^ ^^^^' 11 '1

Mdit, are the same goddess as A\ ^ , it would seem that her name was read as
Mut, under the Early Empire.

5
Q*«£~(^k*s«M*LI(5D
6
Papyrus of Hunefer, Brit. Mus., No. 9,901, sheet 3.
 D
'

KHENSU 33

M mother, who gave birth to the gods, brought thee forth as the
" first-born of five gods, and created thy beauties and fashioned
" thy members." The papyrus which contains this passage was
written during the reign of Seti I., about B.C. 1370, and it is

evident that at that period Mut was identified with Nut, and that
she was made to be the female counterpart of Seb.
The third member of the great triad of Thebes was Khensu,

1 vJ) wno was declared to be the son of Amen-Ra and Mut,

A/WWA I —21— i

and who was worshipped with great honour at Thebes. According

to Dr. Brugsch,
1
the name " Khensu " is derived from the root

khens, ® M-A, "to travel, to move about, to run," and the like,
/WW\A '

and Signor Lanzone 3

renders the name by " il fugatore, il per-
secutor " for both groups of meanings there is authority in the
;

by the former scholar represent

texts, but the translations proposed
the commonest meaning of the word. Khensu was, in fact, the
"traveller," and as he was a form of Thoth and was identified by
the Thebans with the Moon-god the epithet was appropriate. As
far back as the time of Unas the motion of Thoth as the Moon-god

in the sky was indicated by the word Jchens, for in line 194 we
read, " Unas goeth round about heaven like Ra, and travelleth
" through heaven like Thoth." 3
In the passage of the text of the
same king (line 510) which describes how he hunted, and killed,

and ate the gods, mention is made of the god " Khensu the
slaughterer," ^ V ^cs I'oj, who "cut their throats for
" the king, and drew out their intestines for him," and he is

described as the " messenger whom he sent out to meet them." 4

Khensu the slaughterer and the messenger can, then, be no other

than Khensu the Moon-god of later times, and thus we see that,
under the Early Empire, Khensu occupied a very important
position in the mythology of the period as the " messenger " of the
great gods, and the "traveller" who journeyed through the sky

i Religion, p. 359. 2 Op. cit., p. 973.

II —
 ,

34 WORSHIP OF KHENSU
under the form of the moon. We
have already referred to the
great antiquity of the section of the text of Unas in which the
hunting of the gods by the king is described, and there is every
reason to believe that the existence of Khensu was formulated in
the minds of the Egyptians in very primitive times, and that his
name is older than the dynastic period. We may note in passing

that the other gods mentioned in the section are Aker, "v\ _ I

Tern, and Seb, all of whom are well known from texts of the
dynastic period, and Tcheser-tep-f, Her-Thertu, and Sheshemu, 1
who assist in marking, and snaring, and cutting up the gods.
Among certain ancient Oriental nations the worship of the Moon
always preceded that of the Sun, and there is reason for thinking
that several of the oldest gods of Egypt were forms of the Moon in
her various phases. In the theological system which the priests of
Heliopolis succeeded in imposing upon the country some of these
were preserved either by identification with the gods of the new
scheme or by adoption, and comparatively fixed attributes were
At a still later period, when the cult of Amen
assigned to them.
and Amen-Ra was common throughout the country, a further
selection from the old gods was made, and some gods had positions
apportioned to them in the company of the gods of Amen-Ra at
Thebes. The priesthood of that city showed great astuteness in
making Khensu, one of the most ancient forms of the Moon-god, to
be the son of Amen-Ra, and in identifying him with the sons of
the great cosmic gods Horus and Ra.
The Khensu in the latter part of
chief centre of the worship of
the dynastic period was Thebes, where Rameses III. built the

famous "House of Khensu in Thebes," ^ • \\*] ^ f ©,

C=~~=1
or "House of Khensu in Thebes, Nefer-hetep," ~*»* ® 1 t\

T © A
C

n*
^" s ^e S rea* deity of his temple he was styled
" great god, lord of heaven," " Khensu in Thebes, (surnamed)
" Nefer-hetep, Horus, lord of joy of heart in the Apts," and the texts

show that shrines were built in his honour at Bekhent, J)

® ^
«£_) V9
/VW\AA }
KHENSU in Thebes, Nefer-Hetep.
 —° ,

WORSHIP OF KHENSU 35

in the Delta (?), at Shentu, 9 «»%©, at Nubit,

(Ombos), at Behutet, ^ (Edfu), at Sma-Behutet, "T <=^>, and

at Khemennu (Hermopolis). In the last-named place he was called

" Khensu-Tehuti, the twice great, the lord of
Khemennu," a fact 1

which proves that in the late dynastic times he was wholly

identified with Thoth as Khensu-Tehuti he was also worshipped
;

at Behutet, or Edfu. In Thebes his name was united with that of

Rfi and of Shu, and we find such forms as Khensu-Ra, ® 1 ^
and Khensu-Shu, ® I U @ |
. The great temple of Khensu at
/WW\A I I

Thebes appears to have contained three shrines, which probably

corresponded to three aspects of the god, and we thus have:
1. The Temple of Khensu. 2. The Temple of Khensu in Thebes,
Nefer-lietep. 3. The Temple of Khensu, who worketh [his] plans in
Thebes >
^i\\ %l - pxi k i ;•*
The for - f

the god Khensu-pa-khart,

JJ^ ^ % D Jl)^, i.e., "Khensu the
Babe," and Khensu-Hunnu,

Child," were
®^
probably worshipped in the main portion of the
^ {f%$> le ->
" Khensu the

temple, for they were purely forms of the Moon-god, and they
bore the same relation to him that Heru-pa-khart (Harpocrates)
and H era- Hunnu bore to Horns the Great or to Rii.
From a series of extracts quoted by Dr. Brugsch 3 from the
inscriptions on the temple of Khensu at Thebes we find that he was
the "lord of Maat," like Ptah, and the " moon by night " as the ;

new moon he is likened to a mighty, or fiery bull, and as the full

moon he is said to resemble an emasculated bull. As Khensu-pa-
khart he caused to shine upon the earth the beautiful light of the
crescent moon, and through his agency women conceived, cattle
became fertile, the germ grew in the egg, and all nostrils and
throats were filled with fresh air. He was the second great light
in the heavens, and was the "first great [son] of Amen, the
" beautiful youth, who maketh himself young in Thebes in the

1 ® 1 Jt |=| EEo®.
2
Brugsch, Did. Geog., p. 600. 3 Religion, p. 360 f.
 ;

36 KHENSU NEFER-HETEP
" form of Ra, the son of the goddess Nubit, ryi a child in
(|(| ^J,
" the morning, an old man in the evening, a youth at the beginning
" of the year, who cometh as a child after he had become infirm,

"and who reneweth his births like the Disk." 1

From this

passage it appears that Khensu-pa-khart was both the spring

sun, and the spring moon, and also the moon at the beginning of

each month, in fact, the symbol of the renewed light of the sun
and moon, and the source of generation and reproduction. In
these aspects he was readily identified with many forms of the
young Sun-god, whether Horus or Ra, and with some of the gods
of reproduction, e.g., Amsu, or Min. As a Horus god he became
the son of Osiris, the " Bull of Amentet," and of one of the forms of
Isis, and as the " Bull of his mother," *-*
^^ AN *-=—, he was

identified with Amsu-Ra, =s^=

- — a Jn , and was regarded as the

brother of the Bull Osiris. As Dr. Brugsch pointed out, 2 the

" two Bulls " mentioned in texts of the late period are Osiris and

Khensu, and they represent the Sun and the Moon.

The forms in which Khensumonuments are is depicted on the
of considerable interest, and may be thus described. Whether
standing or seated on a throne he has usually the body of a man
with the head of a hawk sometimes, however, his head also is
;

that of a man. He wears on his head the lunar disk in a crescent,

O, or the solar disk with a uraeus, or the solar disk with the
plumes and a uraeus. As u Khensu of Behutet, the great god,
lord of heaven," he is seen seated on a throne and holding in

his hands 1 and ¥•. As Khensu Nefer-hetep he appears on the

stele of Pai, J^ <g\ (1(1

^j , in the form of a mummied man seated
3
on a throne over his forehead is the uraeus of royalty and by
the side of his head is the lock of youth. Behind his neck hangs
the mendt (w , and below his chin is the collar which is usually

worn by Hathor ; in his hands are £\ , |

, u , and j . On the

stele behind his back are two pairs of ears and two pairs of eyes,

1
Brugsch, Thesaurus, p. 511. " Religion, p. 362.
3
See Lanzone, op. cit., pi. 340.
The dual God KHENSU standing upon Crocodiles.
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KHENSU NEFER-HETEP 37

S> §> §> §> , and the deceased is made to address the god as

"lord of the gods, Khensu-NEFER-HETEP-TEHUTi, lord of Annu

" rest (i.e., Annu of the South), chief Mabi
( JM Jn\ ,
peace,

" peace, gracious one, who art at peace, and who lovest
" peace." As " Khensu, the mighty, who cometh forth from Nu,"
^^ c^ s
he is provided with two hawks' heads, one

facing to the right and the other to the left, and four wings, and
he stands with each foot upon the head of a crocodile ; on his
heads rest the lunar crescent and disk. In this form he represents
both the sun at sunrise and the new moon, and the two crocodiles
symbolize the two great powers of darkness over which he has

triumphed. As " Khensu, the chronographer," ® 1 £=.

J^
I 8 (i H y ®« he wears the solar disk on his head and

holds a stylus in his right hand, and as Khensu-Ra, ® 1T V T»

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he wears the crown, /J

The phase of Khensu which appears to have been of the

greatest interest to the Egyptians was that which was deified
under the name of Khensu Nefer-hetep. This god not only ruled
the month, but he was also supposed to possess absolute power
over the evil spirits which infested earth, air, sea, and sky, and
which made themselves hostile to man and attacked his body under
the forms of pains, sicknesses, and diseases, and produced decay,
and madness, and death. He it was, moreover, who made plants
to grow, and fruit to ripen, and animals to conceive, and to men
and women he was the god of love. We have no means of knowing
what views the Egyptians held concerning the influence of the
moon on the minds of human beings on the seventh, fourteenth,
and twenty-first day of its age, but it is probable that, like the
Arabs, they assigned to it different and special powers on each of
these days. In the reign of Rameses III. a large temple was built
at Thebes in honour of the Moon-god, and according to a tradition

which his priests in very much later times caused to be inscribed

upon a stone stele, the fame of his Theban representative was so

wide-spread that it reached to a remote country called Bekhten,

which was situated at a distance of a journey of seventeen months
 . ,

38 PRINCESS OF BEKHTEN
from Egypt. 1 According to this tradition a king of Egypt,
who was probably Rameses II., was in the country of Nehern,

HI £££ 0^4, i.e., a portion of Western Syria near the Euphrates,

collecting tribute according to an annual custom, when the " prince

of Bekhten " came with the other chiefs to salute his majesty and
to bring a gift. The other chiefs brought gold, and lapis-lazuli,

and turquoise, and precious woods, but the prince of Bekhten

brought with his offerings his eldest daughter, who was exceed-
ingly beautiful ; the king accepted the maiden, and took her to
Egypt, where he made her the chief royal wife and gave her the
Egyptian name of Ra-neferu (©JJJjL i- e -> the "beauties of Ra,"
the Sun-god.
Some time after, that is to say, in the fifteenth year of the
reign of the king of Egypt, the prince of Bekhten appeared in
Thebes on the xxiind day of the second month of summer, and
when he had been led into the presence he laid his offerings at the
feet of the king, and did homage to him. As soon as he had the
opportunity he explained the object of his visit to Egypt, and said
that he had come on behalf of the young sister of Queen Ra-neferu,
who was grievously sick, and he begged the king to send a
•

w Cjj

or Bent-enth-reshet,
J V <=>
n ^^ C/J
Q . Thereupon the king
summoned into his presence all the learned men of his court,
and called upon them to choose from among their number a skilled
physician that he might go to Bekhten and heal the Queen's young
sister ; the royal scribe Tehuti-em-heb was recommended for this
purpose, and the king at once sent him off with the envoy from
Bekhten to that country. In due course he arrived there and
found that the princess of Bekhten was under the influence of

1
See Rosellini, Monumenti Storici, torn, ii., tav. 48 ; de Rouge, Journal
Asiatique, 5 e serie, torn, viii., pp. 201-248; x., pp. 112-168; xi., pp. 509-572;
xii., pp. 221-270 and my Egyptian Beading Booh, pp. xxvii.
; ff. and 40 ft.
2
The meaning of this name appears to be " daughter of joy," or " daughter of
pleasure," resliet being a well-known word for pleasure, joy, and the like ; the first

part of the name bent must represent the Semitic word bath, J"I3, " daughter," from
.run = run
NEFER-HETEP.
 PRINCESS OF BEKHTEN 39

some which he was powerless either to exorcise or to

evil spirit,

contend with in any way successfully. When the king of Bekhten

saw that his daughter was in no way benefited by the Egyptian
scribe, he despatched his envoy a second time to Egypt with the
would send a god to heal his daughter, and
petition that the king
the envoy arrived in Thebes at the time when the king was
celebrating the festival of Amen.
As soon as the kin<r had heard what was wanted he went into
the temple of Khensu Nefer-hetep, and said to the god, " my
" fair Lord, I have come once again into thy presence [to entreat]
" thee on behalf of the daughter of the Prince of Bekhten " and ;

he entreated him to allow the god Khensu to go to Bekhten, and

said, " Grant that thy magical (or, saving) power may go with
" him, and let me send his divine Majesty into Bekhten to deliver
" the daughter of the Prince of that land from the power of the
" demon." The king of Egypt, of course, made his request to a
statue of the god Khensu Nefer-hetep, and the text of the stele
affords reason for believing that the statue was provided with a

moveable head, for after each of the petitions of the king we have

the words hen ur sep sen '

U ^r—a ^* © u, which mean that the

god " nodded firmly twice " as a sign of his assent to the king's

wishes. The head of the statue was worked by some mechanical

contrivance which was in the hands of the priests, and there is

little doubt that not only the head, but also thearms and hands
of statues of the gods were made to move by means of cords or
levers that were under the control of the high priest or priest in

charge. When the god was unwilling to grant the request of the
suppliant the head or limbs of his statue remained motionless. In
the present case the king first asked Khensu-Nefer-hetep to send
Khensu to Bekhten, and when the god had nodded his assent, he
further asked him to bestow upon Khensu his sa <=mt°, i.e., his

magical, or divine, or saving power.

From this passage we learn that a god was able to transfer
his power work wonders from himself to a statue, and the text
to
tells us that Khensu Nefer-hetep bestowed upon the statue of

Khensu which was to go to Bekhten a fourfold portion of his

40 PRINCESS OF BEKHTEN
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was done is not stated, but it is tolerably certain that the statue of
Khensu was brought near that of Khensu Nefer-hetep, and that
the hands of the latter were made to move and to rest upon the
head or shoulders of the former four times. That statues of gods
were made to move their arms and hands on special occasions is
well known, and in proof may be quoted the instance given in the
Stele of the Nubian prince Nastasenen. Before this prince was
crowned king:, we are told, he was one of those who were chosen
by the priests of Amen, the great god of Napata, to appear in the
Temple of the Holy Mountain in order that their god might tell
them which was to be king of those of the royal family who
were claimants of the throne of Nubia. On a certain day all the
young princes assembled in the chamber wherein was the statue
of the god, and as they passed before it the arms and hands of
Amen-Ra extended themselves and took hold of the prince whom
the god had chosen to be his representative upon the throne of
Nubia, and he was forthwith acclaimed by the priests and generals
of the soldiers, and in due course his coronation took place. It
would be idle to assume that statues of gods with moveable heads
and limbs were employed in this way in Nubia only, and we may
be quite certain that the Nubian priests of Amen-Ra merely
followed the customs connected with the election of kings which
were current The better informed among the people
in Egypt.
must have known that the limbs of the statue were moved by
mechanism worked by the priests, but the ignorant, who believed
that the doubles of the gods animated their statues, would assume
that it was they who moved the head and limbs of the statues
and gave them a voice to speak. 1

Returning to the narrative of the Stele we find that the king

of Egypt despatched Khensu to Bekhten, where the god arrived
after a journey of seventeen months. As soon as he had been
welcomed to the country by the Prince of Bekhten and his
generals and nobles the god went to the place where the princess

1 Compare also Maspero, Annuaire, 1897, Paris, 1896, pp. 15 fE. ; and Le
Double el les Statues Prophetiques, p. 88.
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PRINCESS OF BEKHTEN 41

was, and he found that Bent-reshet was possessed of an evil spirit

but as soon as he had made use of his magical power the demon
left her and she was healed straightway. Then that demon spoke
to Khensu, and acknowledged his power, and having tendered to
him his unqualified submission he offered to return to his own
place;but he begged Khensu to ask the Prince of Bekhten to
make a feast at which they both might be present, and he did so,
and the god, and the demon, and the Prince spent a very happy
day together. When the feast was concluded the demon returned
to his own land, which he loved, according to his promise. As
soon as the Prince recognized the power of Khensu he planned to
keep him in Bekhten, and the god actually tarried there for three
years, four months, and five days, but at length he departed
from his shrine and returned to Egypt in the form of a hawk of
gold. When the king saw what had happened, he spoke to the
priest, and declared to him his determination to send back to
Egypt the chariot of Khensu, and when he had loaded him with
gifts and offerings of every kind the Egyptians set out from

Bekhten and made the journey back to Thebes in safety. On his

return Khensu took all the gifts which had been given to him by
the Prince of Bekhten, and carried them to the temple of Khensu
Nefer-hetep, where he laid them at the feet of the god. Such is
the story which the priests of Khensu under the New Empire were
wont to relate concerning their god " who could perform mighty
" deeds and miracles, and vanquish the demons of darkness." *

p^nxtf-xift-
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CHAPTER II

HAP §
—
OR HAPI 8 °^^
T=r
—
THE GOD OF THE NILE
has already been said above that the god Osiris was probably
IT in predynastic times a river-god, or a water-god, and that in
course of time he became identified with Hap, or Hapi, the god of
the Nile ; when such an identification took place we have no
means of knowing, but that such was undoubtedly the case is
apparent from large numbers of passages in texts of all periods.
The meaning of the name of the Nile-god has not yet been
l
satisfactorily explained, and the derivation proposed for it by the
priests in the late dynastic period in no way helps us ; it is certain
that Hep, later Hap, is a very ancient name for the Nile and
Nile-god, and it is probably the name which was given to the

riverby the predynastic inhabitants of Egypt. One of the oldest

mentions of Hep is found in the text of Unas 2 (line 187), where it

is said, " Keep watch, messengers of Qa (a 'v\ ^) , keep watch,

" ye who have lain down, wake up, ye who are in Kenset,
" ye aged ones, thou Great Terror
( y ess ^. ^\ ^^ , Setaa-
" ue), who comest forth from Hep, thou Ap-uat (^Z^f^f), who
" comest forth from the Asert Tree <==> mouth Unas
(J\
\^), the of
" is pure." It is important to note that Hep is mentioned in
connexion with Kenset, ^^ ^ ; now Kenset here means the
first nome of Egypt, in which were included the First Cataract

1
Hd-pu, i.e., "this is the body"; see Brugsch, Religion, p. 638.
2 See Teta, 1. 65.
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THE NILE GOD 43

and its Islands Elephantine, Sahel, Philae, Senmut, etc., and thus

itwould seem as if the Nile-god Hep, and Ap-uat, " the opener of
the ways," were even in the Vth Dynasty connected Avith the
places in which in later times the Nile was thought to rise. In
the lines which follow the extract given above there is an allusion
to the food which Unas is to eat in the Underworld, and to the
Sekhet-Aaru, or Elysian Fields, where he is to live, and it is clear
that the Nile-god and Ap-uat were exhorted to send forth the
waters of the river from Kenset in order that they might produce
grain for the needs of the king. In another passage (Unas, line 43 1
the destroying power of Hep is referred to, and it is said that
the houses of those who would steal away the king's food shall
be given to the thieves (?), and their habitations to Great Hep,
a ^ rp3 n o

Hep, or Hapi, is always depicted in the form of a man, but

woman, and they are intended to indicate
his breasts are those of a
the powers of fertility and of nourishment possessed by the god.
As the Egyptians divided their country into two parts, the South
and the North, so they divided the river, and thus there came into
being the god of the Nile of the South and the god of the Nile of
the North. An attempt has been made to show that the Nile of
the South was that portion of the river which flowed from the Sudan
to Philae, but this is not the case, for the Egyptians believed that

the Nile rose in the First Cataract, in the Qerti, <=> , or

" Double Cavern," and the Nile of the South was to them that
portion of the river which extended from Elephantine to a place
some little distance north of the modern Asyiit. The god of the

South Nile has upon his head a cluster of lotus plants,

whilst he of the North Nile has a cluster of papyrus plants

the former is called H ap-Reset, | d ¥^ , and the latter

Hap-Meht, § o w **. When the two forms of Hep or Hapi

are indicated in a single figure, the god holds in his hands the two
plants, papyrus and lotus, or two vases, from which he was
believed to pour out the two Niles. By a pretty device, in which
the two Nile-gods are seen tying in a knot the stems of the lotus
44 THE NILE GOD
and papyrus round X, the emblem of union, the Egyptians
symbolized the union of the South and North, and a slight
modification of the design, £|L, was cut upon the sides of the

thrones of kings, from very early times, to indicate that the

thrones of the South and North had been united, and that the
rule of the sovereigns who upon such thrones extended over
sat

Upper and Lower Egypt. When once Hapi had been recognized
as one of the greatest of the Egyptian gods he became rapidly
identified with all the great primeval, creative gods, and finally he
was declared to be, not only the maker of the universe, but the
creator of everything from which both it and all things therein
sprang. At a very early period he absorbed the attributes of Nu,
<w ~n . the primeval watery mass from which Ra, the Sun-

god, emerged on the first day of the creation ; and as a natural

result he was held to be the father of all beings and things, which
were believed to be the results of his handiwork and his offspring.

When we consider the great importance which the Nile possessed

for Egypt and her inhabitants it is easy to understand how the
Nile-god Hapi held a unique position among the gods of the
country, and how he came to be regarded as a being as great as,
if not greater than Ra himself. The light and heat of Ra brought
life to all men, and animals, and to every created thing, but
without the waters of Hapi every living being would perish.
There was, moreover, something very mysterious about Hapi,
which made him to be regarded as of a different nature from Ra,
for whilst the movement
was apparent to all men,
of the Sun-god
and his places of rising and setting were known to all men, the
source of the waters of the Nile-god was unknown. The Egyp-
tians, it is true, at one period of their history, believed that the
Nile rose out of the ground between two mountains !
which lay
between the Island of Elephantine and the Island of Philae, but
they had no exact idea where and how the Inundation took place,

1
Herodotus mountains Kpw<£i and Mw^i, which have, by some,
calls these
j/] Q n /www
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been derived from Qer-Hapi, =[] jj n £££, and Mu-Hapi, ™~™

Q
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and the rise and fall of the river were undoubtedly a genuine
mystery to them. The profound reverence and adoration which
they paid to the Nile are well expressed in the following extract
from a hymn to the Nile, as found in a papyrus of the XVIIIth
or XlXth Dynasty, it reads: — "Homage to thee, Hapi, thou
" appearest in this land, and thou comest in peace to make Egypt
" to live. Thou art the Hidden One, and the guide of the dark-
" ness on the day when it is thy pleasure to lead the same. Thou
"art the Waterer (or Fructifier) of the fields which Ra hath
" created, thou givest life unto all animals, thou makest all the
" land to drink unceasingly as thou descenclest on thy way from
" heaven. Thou art the friend of bread and of Tchabu (jSNj 1 @ J\ ,

" i.e., the god of drink), thou makest to increase and be strong

"Nepra D (1 1
| jj, i.e., the god of corn), thou makest pros-

perous every workshop, Ptah, thou lord of fish; when the

" Inundation riseth, the water-fowl do not alight upon the fields
" that aresown with wheat. Thou art the creator of barley, and
" thou makest the temples to endure, for millions of years repose
" of thy fingers hath been an abomination to thee. Thou art the
" lord of the poor and needy. If thou wert overthrown in the
" heavens the gods would fall upon their faces, and men would
" perish. He causeth the whole earth to be opened by the cattle,
" and princes and peasants lie down and rest Thy form is

" that of Khnemu. When thou shinest upon the earth l

shouts of
"joy ascend, for all people are joyful, and every mighty man
" receiveth food, and every tooth is provided with food. Thou art
" the bringer of food, thou art the mighty one of meat and drink,
" thou art the creator of all good things, the lord of divine meat
tw
( (1(1(S; l

Jfl) i
pleasant and choice. . . . Thou makest the
" herb to grow for the cattle, and thou takest heed unto what is

" sacrificed unto every god. The choicest incense is that which
" followeth thee, thou art the lord of the two lands. Thou fillest

" the storehouses, thou heapest high with corn the granaries, and
" thou takest heed to the affairs of the poor and needy. Thou

1
The form of Khnemu here referred to is Kbnemu-Ra.
46 THE NILE GOD
" makest the herb and green things to grow that the desires
" of all may be and thou art not reduced thereby.
satisfied, Thou
" makest thy strength to be a shield for man."

The following passage is of particular interest, for it proves

that the writer of the hymn felt how hopeless it was to attempt to
describe such a mighty and mysterious god as the Nile. " He
" cannot be sculptured in stone, he is not seen in the images on
" which are set the crowns of the South and the North and the
" uraei, neither works nor offerings can be made to him. He
" cannot be brought forth from his secret abodes, for the place
" wherein he is cannot be known. He is not to be found in
" inscribed shrines, there enough is no habitation which is large
" to contain him,and thou canst not make images of him in thy
" heart His name in the Tuat is unknown, the God doth
" not make manifest his forms, and idle are imaginings concerning
" them." 1
From this passage it is clear that the Egyptians paid
peculiar honour to Hapi, and that he was indeed regarded as the

" Father of the gods," ° |

, and " the creator of things which

exist," __ SK
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, and that the epithet of "Vivifier,"
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,

was especially suitable to him. must be noted too that in one It

aspect Hapi was and this being so Isis

identified with Osiris,
became his female counterpart, and it is probable that, when
offerings were made to Osiris, i.e., Osiris- Apis, or Serapis, in late

dynastic times, when every sanctuary of this double god was called

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Hymne au Nil, Paris, 1868 and my First Steps in Egyptian, p. 204.
;
 UATCH-URA AND MAUIT 47

a "Serapeum," Hapi was held to be included among the forms

of the god. From a number of passages found chiefly in com-
paratively late texts we learn that the festival of the annual rise
of the Nile was throughout Egypt with very great
celebrated
solemnity, and statues of the Nile-god were carried about through
the towns and villages that men might honour him and pray to
him. When the inundation was abundant the rejoicings which
took place after the performance of the religious ceremonies
connected with it were carried out on a scale of great magnificence,
and all classes kept holiday. The ancient Egyptian festival
has its equivalent among the Muhammadans in that which is

celebrated by them about June

17, and is called Lelet al-Nukta,
Night of the Drop, because it is believed that on that night
i.e.,

a miraculous drop falls from heaven into the Nile and makes
it to rise.
been said above that Osiris was identified with Hapi,
It has
and this being so, Isis was regarded as the female counterpart of
Hapi, but there is little doubt that in very early dynastic times
him as wives or sisters. Thus
other goddesses were assigned to
of Hapi of the South the female counterpart was undoubtedly
Nekhebet, but then this goddess was only a form of Isis in
dynastic times, whatever she may have been in the predynastic
period. In the north of Egypt the ancient goddess Uatch-uea,
nJL :fe M
^ J=-r appears to have been the equivalent of
^

Nekhebet in the South. But Hapi was also identified with Nu,
the great primeval water abyss from which all things sprang,
and as such his female counterpart was Nut, or one of her many
forms. The oldest form of this goddess appears to be Mut,

^^E£,
who is
or Muit, $^41°'
mentioned in the text of Unas
or Mauit,
(line
^^
181).
(](]-$,
The text
generally shows that the deceased king is identified with H api the
Nile-god, and he thus became master of the Nile-goddesses of the
South and North, for it is said, " Ra, be thou good to Unas this
" day as yesterday. Unas has been united to the goddess Mut,
" and he hath breathed the breath of Isis, and he hath been joined
" to the goddess Nekhebet, and he hath been the husband of the
48 MAUIT
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Sin The mention of Mut, Isis, and Nekhebet in this

connexion proves that all these three goddesses were intimately

related, and it is clear that even when the text of Unas was
written the ancient goddesses Mut and Nekhebet were identified
with Isis. We should expect Uatchet to appear in connexion
with Nekhebet, but this goddess must have been absorbed in Isis

long before the copies of the Pyramid Texts which we have were
written.
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CHAPTER III

THE TRIAD OF ABU (ELEPHANTINE), KHNEMU,

Qk^l- SATET XI' AND ANC*ET Tzlk - >

KHNEMU, the first member of the great triad of Abu, or

Elephantine, is one of the oldest gods of Egypt, and we
find him mentioned in the text of Unas in such a way as to show
that even at the remote period of the reign of that king his cult
was very old. The views which the Egyptians held concerning
this god changed somewhat in the course of their long history, but
tne texts show that Khnemu always held an exalted position
among the ancient gods of their country, and Ave know from
Gnostic gems and papyri that he was a god of great importance in
the eyes of certain semi- Christian sects for some two or three
centuries after the birth of Christ. It is probable that Khnemu
was one of the gods of the predynastic Egyptians who lived
immediately before the archaic period, for his symbol was the
flat-horned ram, and that animal appears to have been introduced
into Egypt from the East ; he disappears from the monuments
before the period of the Xllth Dynasty. In the text of Unas the
name of Khnemu is found in a section which contains twenty-five
short paragraphs, the greater number of which must certainly date
from a period far older than the reign of this king, for the forms of
the words and the language are very archaic, and few of the names
of the serpents which are addressed in them occur in later texts.
Khnemu is represented on the monuments in the form of a ram-

headed man who usually holds in his hands the sceptre jL and the
emblem of life, ¥-. He wears the White Crown, to which are
sometimes attached plumes, uraei, a disk, etc. ; in one example
II —

I
50 KHNEMU
quoted by Lanzone he has the head of a hawk, which indicates
x

that he possessed a solar aspect. As a water-god he is seen with

outstretched hands over which flows water, and he is sometimes
seen with a jug, Q, above his horns, which indicates his name.

The name of Khnemu is connected with the root lchnem, Pj ¥\ V,,

" to build";
"to join, to unite," and with khnem, ^t^ym
astronomically the name refers to the " conjunction " of the sun
and moon at stated seasons of the year,
2
and we know from the
texts of all periods that Khnemu was the " builder" of gods and
men. He it was who, according to the statements which were
made by his priests at Elephantine, the chief seat of his worship,
made the first egg from which sprang the sun, and he made the
gods, and fashioned the first man upon a potter's wheel, and he
continued to " build up " their bodies and maintain their life.
The portion of Egypt in which the worship of Khnemu was
supreme extended from Thebes to Philae, but the principal
sanctuaries of the god were at the two ends of the First Cataract,
i.e., on Elephantine on the north and on Philae and the adjoining
islands on the south. He was the god par excellence of the First
Cataract, throughout which, with his female counterpart Satet and
the local Nubian goddess Anqet, he was worshipped from the
earliest dynasties the goddess Satet was identified as a form of
;

the star Sept, A ^ J] , of Elephantine and of Menhet, lady of

Latopolis. An examination of the texts makes it clear that

Khnemu was originally a water or river-god, and that in very
early times he was regarded as the god of the Nile and of the
annual Nile-flood, and as such he bore the name of Qebh, fOJ),
and appeared as the ram-headed god, *W . In the passages quoted
by Signor Lanzone and Dr. Brugsch he is called the " builder of
3 4

" men and the maker of the gods and the Father who was in the

" beginning," VM ^ v& ^^ ^\ | , — TtTtT a; " maker of

" things which are, creator of things which shall be, the source

1
Op. cit., pi. 336, No. 4. 2 Brugsch, Beligion, p. 290.
3 4
Dizionario, p. 957. Beligion. p. 291.
 Q ;

KHNEMU-RA 51

" of things which exist, Father of fathers, and Mother of mothers,"

/VWW\

-wtfS— m
H II /T* ^~^ '^-."-'.T.;
/WWVA III I III
I I
„OT«
WWW
"Father of
fl

" the fathers of the gods and goddesses, lord of created things from
" himself, maker of heaven, and earth, and the Tuat, and water,
" and mountains :
"
*^L_ *«mm 3 ^|^| ^37
2J
O ^rii

(g) Aw™ r^v i, and "raiser up of heaven upon its four pillars and

" supporter of the same in the firmament," <=> -C) NK *

Khnemu united within himself the attributes of the four great

gods Ra, Shu, Qeb or Seb, and Osiris, and in this aspect he is
represented in pictures with four rams' heads upon a human body
according to Dr. Brugsch these symbolize fire, air, earth, and
water. When depicted with four heads Khnemu was the type of
the great primeval creative force, and was called Sheft-hat,
*l=_ «=^ The first ram's head was the head of Ra, and symbolized
o in c #
J '

Khnemu of Elephantine ; the second was the head of Shu, and

symbolized Khnemu of Latopolis ; the third was the head of Seb,
and symbolized Khnemu of Het-urt; and the fourth was the head
of Osiris, and symbolized Khnemu as lord of Hypselis. As
Sheft-hat Khnemu was the lord of Hermopolis Magna and of
Thmuis, and possessed all the attributes which have been
enumerated above. From another text we learn that the four
rams also symbolized the life of Ra, the life of Shu, the life of Seb,
and the life of Osiris, and that the ram of Ra gave him sovereignty
over the South and North, and identified him with the Ram of

Mendes, Ba-neb-Tettu, "5^ ^37 ||^.

The principal shrines of Khnemu-Ra were situated at Sunnu,
1
flj§£©, the modern Syene, on the Island of Abu, ^i^, the

modern Elephantine, and on the Island of Senmut, ^

the modern Biggeh, which marked the frontier of Ta-kens,

1 , or Nubia. He appears in these as the lord of all the

1
0r ? OJ^@ -
The Islancl was also called A
J ©(?
>
" eb,.iet -"
52 KHNEMU-RA
South of Egypt, and is associated with Isis, the great goddess of
the South, and in fact is to the South of Egypt exactly what Ptah-
Tanen, who was associated with Nephthys, was to the Delta and
the North of Egypt. To him was ascribed every attribute of Ra,
and thus he is described as the god who existed before anything
else who made himself,
was, and who was the creative power
which made and which sustains all things. When the cult of
Khnemu-Ra became general in the south his priests increased the
importance of their god by identifying him with Nu, ^^ 3 ,

the great primeval god of the watery abyss, and from being the
local river-god of the Nile in the First Cataract he became the god

Hap-ur, l^T^i ^||, or the Nile of heaven; in the

latter aspect he was said to dwell in the Island of Senmut.

The views which were held about Khnemu-Ra as god of the
earthly Nile are best illustrated by the famous inscription which
was discovered on a rock on the Island of Sahal in 1890 by the
late Mr. Charles Wilbour. According to it, in the xviiith year of

king Tcheser fw ^1,

7
who has been identified with the third

king of the Illrd Dynasty, the whole of the region of the South,
and the Island of Elephantine, and the district of Nubia were
ruled by the high official Mater, m o
^^ v& . The king sent a
despatch to Mater informing him
was in great grief by
that he
reason of the reports which were brought to him into the palace
as he sat upon his throne, and because for seven years there had
been no satisfactory inundation of the Nile. As the result of this
grain of every kind was very scarce, vegetables and garden
produce of every kind could not be found, and in fact the people
had very little food to eat, and they were in such need that men
were robbing their neighbours. Men wished to walk out, but
could not do so for want of strength ; children were crying for food,
young men collapsed through lack of food, and the spirits of the
aged were crushed to the earth, and they laid themselves down on
the ground to die. In this terrible trouble king Tcheser remem-

bered the god I-em-hetep, (1 J\ /

, the son of Ptah of the

South Wall, who, it would seem, had once delivered Egypt from a
 1

KHNEMU-HAPI 53

similar calamity, was no longer forthcoming but as his help

Tcheser asked his governor Mater to tell him where the Nile rose,
and what god or goddess was its tutelary deity. In answer to
this despatch Mater and made his way immediately to the kino-,
gave him information on the matters about which he had asked
questions. He told him that the Nile flood came forth from the
Island of Elephantine whereon stood the first city that ever
existed ; out of it rose the Sun when he went forth to bestow
life upon man, and therefore it is also called " Doubly Sweet Life,"

1 ® • The spot on the island out of which the river rose was
1 "J"

the double
n
cavern
— -m
(?) Qerti, <~> ^ LJ
, which was likened to two
~^ V
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 -

breasts, ?
from which all good things poured forth ; this

double cavern was, in fact, the " couch of the Nile," ^= <

p=^
D

£== (^ ^_% ar>d from it the Nile-god watched until the season

drew nigh, and then he rushed

of inundation forth like a vigorous
young man, and filled the whole country. 1
At Elephantine he
rose to a height of twenty-eight cubits, but at Diospolis Parva in
the Delta he only rose seven cubits. The guardian of this flood
was Khnemu, and it was he who kept the doors that held it in,

and who drew back the bolts at the proper time. Mater next
went on to describe the temple of Khnemu at Elephantine, and
told his royal master that the other gods in it were Sept (Sothis),
Anuqet, Hapi, Shu, Seb, Nut, Osiris, Horus, Isis, and Nephthys,
and after this he enumerated the various products that were found
in the neighbourhood, and from which offerings ought to be made
to Khnemu. When the king heard these words he offered up
sacrifices to the god, and in due course went into his temple to
make supplication before him ; finally Khnemu appeared before
him, and said, " I am Khnemu the Creator. My hands rest upon
" thee to protect thy person, and to make sound thy body. I
" gave thee thine heart. ... I am he who created himself. I am
the primeval watery abyss, and I am Nile who riseth at his will

>WWV\ f ^ H j| a r\
1
His inundation is thus described J\ /
J\ U (I
 —

54 KHNEMU-HAPI
" to give health for me to those who toil. I am the guide and
" director of all men, the Almighty, the father of the gods,
" Shu, the mighty possessor of the earth." Finally the god
promised that the Nile should rise every year, as in olden time,
and described the good which should come upon the land when he
had made an end of the famine. When Khnemu ceased to speak
king Tcheser remembered that the god had complained that no
one took the trouble to repair his shrine, even though stone lay
near in abundance, and he immediately issued a decree in which
it was ordered that certain lands on each side of the Nile near

Elephantine should be set apart for the endowment of the temple

of Khnemu, and that a certain tax should be levied upon every
product of the neighbourhood, and devoted to the maintenance of
the priesthood of the god ; the original text of the decree was
written upon wood, and as this was not lasting, the king ordered
that a copy of it should be cut upon a stone stele which should be
1
set in a prominent place. It is nowhere said that the god kept
his promise to Tcheser, but we may assume The that he did.
form of the narrative of the Seven Years' Famine summarized
above is not older than the Ptolemaic period, but the subject
matter belongs to a much older time, and very probably represents
a tradition which dates from the Early Empire.
We have seen that the spirit, or soul, of Khnemu pervaded all

things, and that the god whose symbol was a ram was the creator
of men and gods, and in connexion with this must be noted
the fact that, together with Ptah, he built up the edifice of the
material universe according to the plans which he had made under
the guidance and direction of Thoth. As the architect of the
universe he possessed seven forms which are often alluded to in
texts ;
they are sometimes represented in pictures, and their names
are as follows :

D 3 Khnemu Nehep, " Khnemu the Creator."

1 jk X A '

\lf 1 1 \\
5} , Khnemu Khenti-taui, " Khnemu, governor of

the two lands."

1
For the hieroglyphic text see Brugscb, Die biblisclten sieben Julire der
Hiingersnoth, Leipzig, 1891.
The Goddess SATI.
 FORMS OF KHNEMU 55
[= =l2
®
^J' Khnemu
^= Sekhbt ashsep-f, " Khnemu,
1 ^ ®
weaver of his light."

|
^ uru ^-^, Khnemu Khenti per-ankh, "Khnemu,
Governor of the House of Life."

= T^Cw' Khnemu Neb-ta-Ankhtet, "Khnemu, lord of

the Land of Life."

Q
r)TK
If
¥-
jf|. Khnemu Khenti netchemtchem ankhet,
" Khnemu, G-overnor of the House of Sweet Life."
^W Jj
5, Khnemu Neb, "Khnemu, Lord."

Sati >
s3|j'
or Satet '
^C^ or
>
T"~$\' was &e Prin-
cipal female Khnemu, and was worshipped with
counterpart of
him at Elephantine, where she was a sister goddess of Anqet. Her

name appears to be connected with the root sat, ]T" , "to

shoot, to eject, to pour out, to throw," and the like, and sat is

also used in connexion with the scattering abroad and sowing of

seed, and with the sprinkling of water ; thus at any rate at one
period she must have been regarded as the goddess of the inunda-
tion, who poured out and spread over the land the life-giving

waters of the Nile, and as the goddess of fertility. She sometimes

carries in her hands a bow and arrows, a fact which suggests that
in her earliest form she was a goddess of the chase ; according to
Dr. Brugsch, she was identified by the Greeks with their goddess
Hera. 2
In many pictures of the goddess we see her wearing the
crown of the South and a pair of horns, which prove that she was
a form of Ast-Sept, A ^ -^ J) , or Isis-Sothis. At the time
j|

when the temple of Dendera was built she was identified with the

local goddess Isis-Hathor of Dendera, with A:\jent, (1 " ^J),

of Thebes, and Menat, awaa W of Heliopolis, and Renpit of

1
This goddess must not be confounded with the Satet, ? "*
J] ?
who is

represented in the form of a woman, and bears upon her head the Utchat ^^^ ,

ami was a local Alexandrian form of Isis; see Lanzone, Dizionario, p. 1124.
2
Religion, p. 299.
 »

56 SATI OR SATET
Memphis, the goddess of the year, etc. In the text of Pepi I.

Sati is mentioned (line 297) under the form Sethat, |l s=> (j

^*,
and we see from the context that in that early period the goddess
possessed a temple at Elephantine. The dweller in Tep, „ ^,
is said to have aided the king, who "has censed himself and
" performed his ceremonies of purification with a vessel of wine,
" which hath come from the vine of the god. Seb stretcheth 1
. . .

" out his hand to Pepi and guideth him through the gates
" of heaven, a god in his beautiful place, a god in his place,
*"^~ °> anc behold Sethat washeth
" '

1 Ibv fP 'I 1 frk ll ^

" him with the water which is in her four vases in Abu " (Elephan-

tine). The mention of Tep shows that there was some connexion
between the goddess of the city of Per-Uatchet and the goddess of
Elephantine long before the period of the Vlth Dynasty. In the
preface cxxvth Chapter of the Booh of the Dead the
to the
deceased enumerates the various sacred places which he has
visited, and says, " I have been in the waters of the stream, and I
" have made offerings of incense. I have guided myself to the
" Shentet Tree of the [divine] children, and I have been in Abu
" (Elephantine) in the Temple of Satet," ° This is
||
pA .

the only mention of Sati, or Satet, in the Theban Recension of the

Booh of the Dead, but it is of great importance as showing that
the temple of the goddess at Abu was regarded as one of the
principal holy places in Egypt. It has already been said that

Sati was connected by the Egyptians with the star Sept, A J)

wherein dwelt the soul of Isis, and from this point of view Sati
was a form of Isis, and became in consequence a female counter-
part of Osiris ; this fact will account for the mention of Sati in the
Booh of the Dead. The centre of the worship of Sati appears to
have been the Island of Sahal, J^~, which lies about two miles to
the south of Elephantine, in the First Cataract.

- ~
J ^
I I

^Y>\ aa/w\a '|66l

I I
I

I
The Goddess ANQET.
 .

ANQET 57

Anqet, aa^a n 9
was the third member of the triad of

Elephantine, which consisted of Khnemu, Sati, and Anqet, and

she seems to have possessed many of the attributes of her sister-
goddess Sati. In pictures Anqet is represented in the form of a

woman who holds in her hands the sceptre T, and the emblem of

"life," •¥-; she wears on her head a crown of feathers which are

arranged in such a way as to suggest a savage origin. She

appears to have been originally a goddess of some island in the
First Cataract, but in early dynastic times she was associated with
Khnemu and Sati, and her worship was common throughout
Northern Nubia ; later the centre of her worship was" at SAhal,
and she was regarded as a goddess of that island, and was called
"lady of Satet," ^37 ^^ Nebt Satet. Her temple there seems

to have been named " Amen-heri-ab," (1 <=> 3 T, but it is clear

I AftAAAA \\ U vi>

from the appearance of Amen's name in its title that it cannot be

older than the XVIIIth Dynasty. At Philae another temple
was built in her honour, and it bore the name of " Pa-mer,"

£3-2, and it seems that from this island southwards

she was identified with Nephthys. In very early times Osiris,

Isis, and Nephthys were associated in a triad, and as Osiris was a
form of Khnemu, and Khnemu a form of Osiris, and Isis and Sati
were sister goddesses, it followed as a matter of course that Anqet
1
should be identified with Nephthys. According to Dr. Brugsch,
the name "Anqet" is derived from the root anq, (I
•

,
" to

surround, to embrace," and the like, and has reference to the

goddess as the personification of the waters of the Nile which
embrace, and nourish, and fructify the fields. Among the pictures
of Anqet reproduced by Signor Lanzone 2
is one in which the
goddess is seen seated in a shrine with a table of offerings before
her ; the shrine is placed in a boat, at each end of which is an

aegis of a goddess, who wears on her head a disk and horns, ^4y

and is probably Isis ; the boat floats on a stream from which runs
a small arm. The goddess is styled "Anqet, lady of Satet (i.e.,

2
1
Beligion, p. 302. Dizionario, pi. xliv. ff.
 — .

58 KHNEMU HER-SHEF
" the Island of Sahal), lady of heaven, mistress of all the gods,"

r^^^^^'^i^in^ 7
^!- in an ° ther p ictnre

she is seen suckling a young king whose neck she embraces with her
left arm, and in a text which accompanies another representation
she is described as the " giver of life, and of all power, and of all

" health, and of all joy of heart," ^ ^ ^7 [1

~J | ^ <A ^
We have now to considertwo very important forms of
Khnemu, that is to say, 1. Khnemu who, under the form of Her-
shef, was worshipped at Herakleopolis Magna, and 2. Khnemu
who, under the form of Osiris, was worshipped at Mencles.
1. Khnemu as Her-shef, ^ n3 J, or Her-sheft,

JJ , was worshipped at Suten-henen, or Henen-su,

I m /w»™ or Het-Henen-su,
^, under the J ^)
AAAA
K O©
I

T AWVAA ©' •
III LT=1 T AWAA JT <=>

form of a horned, ram-headed man, and wore the White Crown

with plumes, a disk, and uraei attached. The Greeks trans-
scribed the name Her-shef by s

'
Apaacf)^, and as Plutarch says
that it means " strength, bravery," it is clear that in his time the
latter portion of it, shef or sheft, was derived from shef, or shift,

JJ, "^^^ |
j "strength, power, bravery," and the like.

On the other hand two variant forms of the name of the god
are: Her-she-f. v «^^, i.e., " He who is on his lake," and

Heri-sha-f, ^ ^ ^j\ ° °,
i.e., "He who is on his sand."

The first form would connect the god with Lake Moeris, and the
second refers to him as an aspect or phase of Osiris, who bears this
title in Chapter cxli., line 109, and Chapter cxlii., line 24, of the
Booh of the Dead. In Chapter xlii., line 14, the god Aa-shefit,
< >

7^ n (1 (1 ^ 2L Jn , is mentioned, and it is probable that he also is

to be identified with Osiris. Henen-su, the centre of the worship

of Khnemu under the form of Her-shefi, is often referred to in the
Booh of the Dead, and a number of important mythological events
are said to have taken place there. Thus it was here that Ra rose
for the first time when the heavens and the earth were created
(xvii. 7-9), and it was this rising which formed the first great act
HERU-SHEFIT. the Lord of Suten-Henen
 —

THE BENNU 59

of creation, because as soon as Ra rose he separated the earth from

the sky. was here crowned lord of the universe, and here
Osiris
his son Horus assumed the throne of his father left vacant by the
death of Osiris. When Ra ordered the goddess Sekhet to go forth
and destroy mankind because they had mocked him and had spoken
lightly of his age, she started on her journey from Henen-su. To
this place also who had
returned Set after his defeat by Horus,
wounded him was believed to have taken a
severely, and Osiris
spade and covered over with earth the blood which dropped from *

him and his fiends, and to have buried the bodies of those whom
Horus had slain. It is this act which is alluded to by the deceased
when he says (Chapter i., line 30), " I have grasped the spade on
" the day of digging the earth in Suten-lienen (or Henen-su)."
Elsewhere (xvii. 49) we have an allusion to the " day of the union
of the two earths," IT *K\ , smut taui, which is explained

by the stronger expression, " the completing of the two earths,"

c
fofo temt taui.
'
The text which follows says that it
,

refers to " the mingling of earth with earth in the coffin of Osiris,
" who is the Soul that dwelleth in Henen-su, and the giver of
,;
meat and drink, and the destroyer of wrong, and the guide of
" the everlasting paths, i.e., Ra himself." An entirely different
matter in connexion with the two earths is mentioned in line 121),

where there is an allusion to " Shu, the strengthener of the two

A A X
" lands in Henen-su,"
A/WVAA A/WVAA ^ A
R\ 3
I —21 i I
'

'
• • •
^^ u\> <=
'S —21

% ^™ , and there is little doubt that the words refer to the

part which Shu played when he
at the Creation, held up with his
arms and hands the sky which Ra had made to separate it from
the earth.
At Henen-su lived the Great Benxu,
J m% tj^wj _y> QQ

- a (Chapter cxxv. 18), and in the neighbourhood dwelt the

w
—
'

awful "Ckusher of Bones," [l^^^ ° E i, Set-qesu, who is

mentioned in the Negative Confession, and in this place the souls

of the beatified found a place of rest in the realm of Osiris in this

1
Naville, Heracleopolis, p. 8.
 —

60 HER-SHEF
place (cxxxvii.A, 25). Near Henen-su were the two great mytho-
logical lakes called

the variant forms

Heh, ^i
of the
! , and Uatch-urA,
first of these
^^ ^S
are :
(|

Semu - heh,
;

P ^5^ tjk ^ -^ jf 1
' ' an ^ U tet -heh, ^\ ^ ^
W\ i

AAAAAA
.

^
The sanctuary
^> *=»/V

of Osiris at Henen-su was called Nareref, "^ Jy>

nm , or

" An-rut-f," _n_ y\ , i.e., " the place where nothing groweth,"

and it was entered by a door on the south side called Re-stau,

~^~ some portion of the sanctuary
'
' '
(Chapter xvii. 52) ; in

was the Aat-en-shet, '^ |1 , or " region of fire," and near it

was the torture chamber named " Sheni," X (1(1 . This

chamber was guarded by a god with the face of a greyhound

and the eyebrows of a man, and he sat watching at the " Elbow,"
a \\ , of the " Lake of Fire " for the dead who passed that way,

and as he remained himself unseen he was able to upon them

seize

and tear out their hearts and devour them. The texts show that
there was great difference of opinion about the name of this

monster, which is given as Mates, ^g^ e=^ ^>^ , and Beba,

These
and Heri-sep-f
facts, which are derived
\\ © chiefly from the xviith Chapter
of the Booh of the Bead, prove that Henen-su, or Herakleopolis,
possessed a system of theology of its own, and that this system
must be very ancient, but whether it is older than that of Helio-
polis it is impossible, at present, to say definitely. What is

certain, however, is that the great local god Her-shef was

sufficiently important to be regarded as a form of the great ram-
god Khnemu. It must be noted also that Her-shef was a solar
god, and that as such many of the titles of Ra were bestowed upon
him ; it is up the world with his beams, that his
said that he lit

right eye was the sun and his left eye the moon, that his soul was
the light, and that the north wind which gave life to all came
forth from his nostrils. He is said, moreover, like Ra, to be
" One." 1 In a figure of the god reproduced by Lanzone 2 he has
1 "
Religion, p. 304. Dizionario, p. 552.
The Goddess ANIT.
 HER-SHEF 61

four heads ; one is the head of a bull, one that of a ram, and two
are the heads of hawks. Above these are the characteristic horns
of Khnemu which are surmounted by two plumes and four knives.
These four heads represent the four gods who formed Khnemu of
Henen-su, i.e., Ra, Shu, Seb, and Osiris, and thus he might be
identified with Ra-Tem of Heliopolis, or Amen-Ra of Thebes, and
either of these compound gods might be worshipped as one of his
forms.
The female counterpart of Her-shef possesses various names,
and was identified with various goddesses this is not to be
as she
wondered at her chief attributes were those of Hathor and
;

Isis, and her local name was Atet, J), or Mersekhnet,

3=r|lff fij . Many of her attributes, however, were those of

Net (Neith), ^^ J), and Meh-urt, and Heqet, and Anit, | M\

°;

as the last named goddess she was the sister of Ka-hetep, i.e.,

Osiris. According to a text quoted by Dr. Brugsch, 1 Atet, the

local goddess of Henen-su, in the form of a cat slew Apep, the
great serpent of darkness. From this it is clear that she was a
female counterpart of Ra, who, as we knew from the xviith
Chapter of the Booh of the Dead, took the form of a cat, and slew
Apep, the prince of darkness, who had taken the form of a monster
serpent. The text says, " I am the Cat (Mau, y\ tSr) , which
e *=
" fought (?) hard by the Persea Tree (Ashet, (1 ^ A), in Annu, on

"the night when the foes of Neb-er-tcher 2 (

wf) were
" destroyed." The explanation of this statement which follows the
question, " Who then is this ? " is " The male Cat is Ra himself,
" and he is called '
Mau by ' reason of the words of the god Sa, 3
" who said about him, '
[Who] is like (man, 2
Q y> -
)> un ^o him?'
"and thus his name became 'Mau' (i.e., Cat)." The fight here
referred to is the first battle which the god of light waged against

1
Diet. Geog. t p. 399.
3 A form of Osiris, both as the lord of the universe, and as lord of his
re-united body.
3 The god of Reason, or Intelligence.
 —

62 HENEN-SU
the fiends of darkness at Annu, after which he rose in the form of
the sun upon this world.
Finally, in connexion with the city Henen-su we must note
that there existed in the temple there a shrine which was dedicated

to the goddess Neheb-kau ^^ t\ ?

J *tM WL 3 , who was
worshipped there in the form of a huge serpent. She was one of
the Forty-two Assessors of the Hall of Maati (Negative Confession,
line 40), and in the Papyrus of Nu (cxlix. 5) the deceased says
"
that she has " stablishecl his head for him ; elsewhere she seems
to be mentioned as a form of Nut, and to be the female counter-
part of the serpent god Nau. 1
She was a goddess who provided
for the dead meat and drink, not the material offerings of earth,
but the divine tchefaut food, ^ |
*|\ \\ <=> <l^ 3 i , or |) ^=^ or
,

tcheftchef,
^^% "^ "%v , which may be compared to the nectar

and ambrosia on which the gods of Olympus lived, and which grew
in the portion of the Sekhet-Aaru, or Elysian Fields, called

Tchefet, ^3 ^/V © . What this food was cannot be said, but the

word tchef or tcheftchef is connected with tcheftchef, 1^10)

"to shed light," and

"Eye
tchefetch
^^ "
0, the "pupil of the eye"

of Ra, i.e., the of Horus," '

V^, which is mentioned so
Pyramid Texts, and it must then either be a celestial
often in the
food made of light, or some product of the mythological Olive

Tree, ^* w, Baqet, which grew in Annu (Unas, line 170).

In any case Neheb-kau was a very ancient goddess who was

connected with the Elysian Fields of the Egyptians, and she is

often depicted in the form of a serpent with human legs and arms,
and sometimes with wings also, and she carries in her hands one
or two vases containing food for the deceased. In the text of
Unas (line 599) she is referred to in the following passage :

" Homage to thee, Horus, in the domains of Horus ! Homage

" to thee, Set, in the domains of Set ! Homage to thee, thou

AA/WV\
1

Aat x., 1. 6.
 HENEN-SU 63

" god Aar (l\ ^j\ -^^) in Sekhet - Aarer

>/
,
\ |
^ nifil ril , nl ii 11
1
iM ril n

Homa° e thee Ne tetthab

"11^21)1)1)1)!)' to '
Q ^(jo),
" daughter of these four gods who are in the Great House. Even
" when the command
Unas goeth not forth, uncover yourselves
of
" in order that Unas may see you as Horus seeth Isis, as Nehebu-

" kau (>www A J

^\ ULi 3^j seeth Serqet, as Sebek seeth Net
" (Neith), and as Set seeth Netetthab."

Among the greatest of the festivals at Henen-su were those

in honour of Neheb-kau which, according to Dr. Brugsch, were 1

celebrated on the first of Tybi, that is to say, nine days after the

"Festival of Ploughing the Earth," Khebs-ta, © JO ^^7,

when men began to plough the land after the subsidence of the
waters of the Inundation. Under the heading " Osiris " reference

is made ceremony of " ploughing the

to the performance of the
earth," which gave the name to the festival, but it may be noted
in passing that it appears to have had a double signification, i.e.,
it commemorated the burial of Osiris, and it symbolized the
ploughing of the land throughout the country preparatory to
sowing the seed for the next year's crop. Other festivals
were those of Bast, Avhich were celebrated in the spring of the
Egyptian year, and those of the " hanging out of the heavens,"
K^y ° ^3[P , i.e., the supposed reconstituting of the heavens

each year in the spring. Finally, in connexion with Henen-su

may be mentioned the God Heneb, 2 8 ViX B|M , for whom in
r> /wwv\ *£u

the Saite period the Heru planted two vineyards

official ; of the
attributes of this god we know nothing, but it is probable that he
was supposed to preside over grain and other products of the land.
In several passages of the Booh of the Dead we have the word
heribet | ^t L ,
" corn-lands, provisions," and the like, and

in Chapter clxxx. line 29, a god called Henbi, « Ml J \ M jj.

is mentioned, and he appears to be identical with the Heneb of

the stele of Heru.

1
liel'ujion, p. 305. -
Bragsch, Diet. Gt'og., pp. 85:2, 1364.
 64 FORMS OF KHNEMU
Coming now to the second great form of Khnemu, viz., that
under which he was worshipped at Mendes, we find that at a very
early date he was identified with the great god of that city, and
was known as Ba-neb-Tettu, "^ ^37
j
j? @, i.e., the Ram, lord

of Tettu. Now
word for " soul " in Egyptian was Ba, and
as the

as a name of the ram was also Ba, the title Ba-neb-Tettu was
sometimes held to mean the " Soul, the lord Tettu," and this was
the name at Mendes of the local form of Khnemu, whose symbol
there, as elsewhere, was a ram. Ba-neb-Tettu, whose name was
corrupted by the Greeks into MeVSr??, and Tamai al-Amdid by
:

the Arabs, was said to be the " living soul of Ra, the holy Sekhem

"who dwelleth within Hat-mehit, v-^-i,," and the "life of Ra,"

V- a^vnaa a and he was worshipped throughout the sixteenth

nome from the earliest times. He was regarded as the virile

principle in gods and men, and is styled, " King of the South and
" North, the Ram, the virile male, the holy phallus, which stirreth
" up the passions of love, the Ram of rams, whose gifts are brought
" forth by the earth after it hath been flooded by the Nile, the
" Soul, the life of Ra, who is united with Shu and Tefnut, the One
" god, who is mighty in strength, who riseth in the heavens with
" four heads, who lighteth up the heavens and the earth (like Ra),
" who appeareth in the form of the Nile like (Osiris), who vivifieth
" the earth (like Seb), and who formeth the breath of life for all
"men, the chief of the gods, the lord of heaven and the king of
"the gods." 2 Ba-neb-Tettu was originally a local form of Ra,
but he subsequently was made to include within himself not only
the Soul of Ra, but the Souls of Osiris, and Seb, and Shu. These
3
four Souls are reproduced by Signor Lanzone, and appear in the
form of four rams, the horns of each being surmounted by a
uraeus ; they are described as " The Soul of Seb, lord of Het-

1
aj>-^\ ^3. As a matter of fact the first portion of this name represents
©/xout?, the Greek name of one portion of the ancient city of Tettu, and the second
— —
al-Amdid " is a corruption of Ba-neb-Tettu, which became Ba-neb-Tet, then
"
Ba-n-Tet, and finally Man-Tet, Mendes.
2 3
See Brugsch, Religion, p. 309. Dizionario, pi. 68.
C=D
 F

HAT-MEHIT 65

" teft ; the Soul of Osiris, lord of Ta-sent ; the Soul of

" Shu, lord of Anit "
; and the Soul of Ra, dweller in
In allusion to these Souls the Ram of Mendes is sometimes
described as the Ram with " Four faces (or, heads) on one neck,"

99 _^ J 0"

The female counterpart of Ba-neb-Tettu was Hat-mehit,

e==^ 00 anc^ ^ er son ky the g ^ was Heru-pa-khart,
\| Qhc!$'
the dweller within Tettu, vv S)?| ft
u. This goddess is

always represented as a woman, who bears on her head the fish,

<
^)\, which is the symbol of the nome, *-«-il. She is described as
"ITT T T

Q
the dweller in Atemet, **"* (j ] and she was in some

way connected with Punt, but the centre of her worship in Egypt
was the city of Mendes, of which [she is called the " Mother " she ;

was, of course, a form both of Isis and Hathor, and as such was
called " the Eye of Rfi, the lady of heaven, and the mistress of the
gods." In when Ba-neb-Tettu was especially
late dynastic times,

regarded as the Soul of Osiris, and when the other aspects of the
god were not considered of so much importance, Hat-Mehit was
wholly identified with Isis, and her son " Harpocrates, the
dweller in Mendes," became to all intents and purposes " Horus,
the son of Isis," by Osiris. Thus we see that the local god of
Mendes, who was originally a form of Ra, the Sun-god by day,
was merged into Osiris, the Sun-god by night ; the priests, how-
ever, were careful to preserve the peculiar characteristics of their
god, i.e., virility and the power to create, and to recreate, and they
did so by declaring that the phallus and the lower part of the

backbone, - —•— >^ , of Osiris were preserved in the temple of

the city which bore the name of Per-khet, ^^ , i.e., the

" House of the staircase." The Ram of Mendes was then a form

of " Osiris as the Generator," jl ^ %> 1^ f"^ >

as ne is called

1
Piehl in Recneil, torn, ii., p. 30; de Rouge, Gcog. Ancienne, p. 114.

II —
66 DECAY OF MENDES
in Chapters cxli. and Book of the Dead, and the
cxlii. of the
popularity of his cult in the Delta was probably due to the
elaborate phallic ceremonies which were celebrated at Mendes and
in the neighbourhood annually.
Before the close of the Ptolemaic period, however, some
calamity seems to have fallen upon Mendes, and her sanctuary
was forsaken and her god forgotten on the other hand, the ;

portion of the city which was known by the name Thmuis,

Gfxovis, survived, and was sufficiently important in Christian
times to possess a bishop The Copts called
of its own.
the place -ejutoveujc, or ^Baki ojuioyi, and a Bishop of
Thmoui was present both at the Council of Nice and the Council
1
of Ephesus.
Finally, we have to note that Khnemu as a form of Shu, i.e.,

as a personification of the wind, and atmosphere, and the supporter

of heaven, and the light of the Sun and Moon, was worshipped at
several places in Upper Egypt and in Heliopolis under the form of
a ram ; the centre of his worship at this last-named place was
Het-Benben, or the " House of the Obelisk." At Latopolis he
absorbed the attributes of Tern, and he was identified with Nu, the
maker of the universe and creator of the gods ; similarly, he was
regarded as a form of Ptah and of Ptah-Tanen, and his female
counterparts were Menhit, Sekhet, and Tefnut. In a hymn which
is inscribed on the walls of the temple of Esna he is called, " The
" prop of heaven who hath spread out the same with his hands," and

the sky is said to rest upon his head whilst the earth beareth up his
feet. He is the creator of heaven and earth and of all that therein
is, and the maker of whatsoever is he formed the company of the
;

gods, and he made man upon his potter's wheel. He is the One
god, the source from which sprang the regions on high, the
primeval architect, the maker of the stars, the creator of the gods,
who was never born, and the begetter or maker of his own being,
whom no man can understand or comprehend. Many other
passages in the inscriptions at Esna ascribe to him naturally all

the powers and attributes 2

of Ptah. Among several interesting
1
Amelinean, La GeograpMe de I'HJgypte, p. 501.
2
For the enumeration of several of them see Brugsch, Religion, p. 504.
 KHNEMU-SHU 67

addresses to the god may be mentioned that wherein it is said,

"Thou hast raised up heaven to be a dwelling-place for thy soul,
"and thou didst make the great deep that it might serve as a
" hiding-place for thy body." Finally, it may be noted that as
Khnemu-Shu absorbed the attributes of Nu, Ra, Ptab, Thoth, etc.,

so also several great goddesses, besides those already mentioned,

were identified with his female counterparts, e.g., Nut, Net (Neith),
Nebuut, etc.
 ( 68 )

CHAPTER IV

ATEN, (]*£*, THE GOD AND DISK OF THE SUN

N connexion with the Sun-gods of Egypt and with their

I
be
various forms which were worshipped in that country must
considered the meagre facts which we possess concerning Aten,
who appears to have represented both the god or spirit of the sun,

and the solar disk itself. The origin of this god is wholly obscure,
and nearly all that is known about him under the Middle Empire
is that he was some small provincial form of the Sun-god which
was worshipped in one of the little towns in the neighbourhood of
Heliopolis, and it is possible that a temple was built in his honour
in Heliopolis itself. It is idle to attempt to describe the attributes
which were originally ascribed to him under the Middle or Early
Empire, because the texts which were written before the XVIIIth
Dynasty give us no information on the subject. Under the
XVIIIth Dynasty, and especially during the reigns of Amen-
hetep III. and his son Amen-hetep IV., he was made to usurp all
the titles and attributes of the ancient solar gods of Egypt, Ra,
Ra-Heru-khuti, Horus, etc., but it does not follow that they
originally belonged to him. In the Theban Recension of the
Booh of the Dead, which is based upon the Heliopolitan, we
find Aten mentioned by the deceased thus Ra, :
— " Thou,
" shinest from the horizon of heaven, and Aten is adored when he
" resteth (or setteth) upon this mountain to give life to the two
1
"lands." Hunefer says to Ra, "Hail, Aten, thou lord of beams
" of light, [when] thou shinest all faces "
(i.e., everybody) live ;

See my Chapters of Coming Forth by Day (Translation), p. 7

1
; for the
passages which follow see the Vocabulary, s.v. aten, p. 48.
 ATEN WORSHIP 69

Nekht says to Ra, " thou beautiful being, thou dost renew
" thyself and make thyself young again under the form of Aten " ;

Ani says to Ra, "Thou turnest thy face towards the Underworld,
" and thou makest the earth to shine like fine copper. The dead
" rise up to see thee, they breathe the air and they look upon thv
" face when Aten shineth in the horizon ;
" " .... I have come
" before thee that I may be with thee to behold thy Aten daily; "
" thou who art in thine Egg, who shinest from thy Aten," etc.
These passages show that Aten, at the time when the hymns
from which they are taken were composed, was regarded as the
material body of the sun wherein dwelt the god Ra, and that he
represented merely the solar disk and was the visible emblem of
the great Sun-god. In later times, owing to protection afforded
to him by Amen-hetep III., the great warrior and hunter of the
XVIIIth Dynasty, other views were promulgated concerning Aten,
and he became the cause of one of the greatest religious and social
revolutions which ever convulsed Egypt. After the expulsion of
the Hyksos, Amen, the local god of Thebes, as the god of the
victorious princes of that city, became the head company of
of the
the gods of Egypt, and the early kings of the XVIIIth Dynasty
endowed his shrine with possessions, and gave gifts to his priest-

hood with a lavish hand. In spite of this, however, some of these

kings maintained an affection for the forms of the Sun-god which
were worshipped at Heliopolis, and Thothmes IV., it will be
remembered, dug out the Sphinx from the sand which had buried
him and his temple, and restored the worship of Ra-Harmachis,
and he was not the only monarch who viewed with dismay the
great and growing power of the priests of Amen-Ra, the " king of
the gods" at Thebes.
Amen-hetep III., the son of Thothmes IV., held the same
views as his father in this respect, and he was, apparently, urged to

give effect to them by his wife Thi, f

J
\\ ()(H , the daughter of Iuaa,

M% ~^\ , and Thuau, s=> v\ ft v\ J) , who was a foreigner and

who was in no way connected with the royal house of Egypt.

Having married this lady, he gave her as dowry the frontier city
of Tcharu, —3^ v\ ) ©, and her natural ability, coupled with the
70 THI AND AMEN-HETEP III.

favour of her husband, made her chief of all the royal wives, and a
great power in the affairs of the government of the country. It

has been thought by some that she was a native of the country near
Heliopolis, and it is was a votary of Aten,
possible that she herself
but be that as it may, she appears to have supported the king in
his determination to encourage the worship of this god. At an
early period in his reign he built a temple in honour of Aten at
Memphis, and later he built one at Thebes, quite close to the great
sanctuary of Amen-Ra, the priests of whom were, of course, power-
less to resist the will of such an active and able king. Soon after

The beams of Aten illumining the names of Khu-en-Aten and his family.

his marriage with Thi, Amen-hetep III. dug, in his wife's city of
Tcha.ru, a lake, which was about 6000 by 1000 feet broad,
feet long
1

and on the day of the festival when the water was allowed to flow
into it, he sailed over it in a boat called " Aten-neferu," (j
"^ T IT,
i.e., the " Beauties of
Aten " the name of the boat is a clear proof
;

of his devotion to the god Aten. Amen-hetep IV., the son of

Amen-hetep III. by the foreign lady Thi, not only held the
religious views of his father, but held them very strongly, and his

1
(T\ ^^ "~-a « U ^=— s>~-£> <o<a, i.e., "its length 3600 cubits,

its breadth 600 cubits."

 AMEN-HETEP IV. (KHU-EN-ATEN) 71

life shows that he must have been from his youth up an adherent
of the worship of Aten it is supposed, and with much probability,
;

that the intensity of his love for Aten and his hatred for Amen-Ra
were due to his mother's influence.
Amen-hetep IV. succeeded his father without difficulty, even
though his mother was not a member of the royal family of Egypt,
and few years of his reign he followed the example of
for the first

the earlier kings of his dynasty, and lived at Thebes, where he no

doubt ruled according to his mother's wishes he offered up;

sacrifices to Amen-Ra at the appointed seasons, and was, outwardly

at least, a loyal servant of this god, whose name formed a part
of his name as " son of the Sun." We may note in passing, that
he had adopted on his accession to the throne the title " Hio-h-
" priest of Ra-Heru-khuti, the exalted one in the horizon, in his

"name of Shu who is in Aten,"

c

]
y u
mmm t\§ ^jf ,
— <£h ,
—
.s
*— _§^ [3 _p O xv
£= (j "g*, which is a clear proof that

he was not only a worshipper of Ra-Harmachis, another of the

forms of the Sun-god of Heliopolis, but also that he endorsed the
views and held the opinions of the old College of Priests at
Heliopolis, which made Shu to be the creator of the gods, and
which assigned the disk (Aten) to him for a dwelling-place.
Amen-hetep' s titles as lord of the shrines of the cities of Nekhebet
1
and Uatchet, and Horus of gold 2 also prove his devotion
as the
to a Sun-god of the South whose attributes were the same as the
Sun-god of Heliopolis. During the early years of his reign at

Thebes he built a massive Benben,

J
"vww
J }
m honour of
Rii-Harmachis at Thebes, and it is probable that he took the
opportunity of restoring or enlarging the temple of Aten which
had been built by his father at the same time we find that he
;

worshipped both Amen and Aten, the former in his official position
as king, and the latter in his private capacity. It was, however,

1^\ I
72 THE CITY KHUT-ATEN
impossible for the priests of Amen-Ra to tolerate the presence of

the new god Aten and his worship in Thebes, and the relations
between the king and that powerful body soon became strained.
On the one hand the king asserted the superiority of Aten over
every god, and on the other the priests declared that Amen-Ra
was the king of the gods. As, however, Amen-Ra was the centre
of the social life of Thebes, and his priests and their relatives

included in their number the best and greatest families of the

capital city, it came to pass that the king found himself and the
worship of Aten wholly unsupported by the great mass of its

population, whose sympathies were with the old religion of Thebes,

and by those who gained their living in connexion with the
worship of Amen-Ra. The king soon realized that residence in
Thebes was becoming impossible, and in the fifth year of his reign
he began to build a new capital bank of the Nile, near
on the east
a place which is marked to-day by the Arab villages of Haggi
Kandil and Tell el- Amarna ; he planned that it should include
a great temple to Aten, a palace for the king, and houses for
all those who were attached to the worship of Aten and were
prepared to follow their king there.
Whilst the new capital was building the dispute between the
king and the priests of Amen-Ra became more severe, and matters
were much aggravated by Amen-hetep IV. when he promulgated
name of Amen and his figure from
the edict for obliterating the
every monument in Egypt. At length the king left Thebes and
took up his abode in his new capital, which he called " Khut-

Aten," ^ a^a, i.e., " Horizon of Aten," and as a si«:n of the

entire severance of his connexion with the traditions of his house

in respect of Amen-Ra he discarded his name " Amen-hetep " and
called himself Khut-en-Aten
(^>J — (j ~g*l, i.e., "Glory of

Aten," or, " Spirit of

Aten." At the same time he changed his
Horus name of " Exalted One of the double plumes " to " Mighty
Bull, beloved of Aten " (or, lover of Aten), and he adopted as lord
of the shrines of Nekhebet and Uatchet the title of " Mighty one
of sovereignty in Khut-Aten," and as the Horus of gold he styled
himself, " Exalter of the name of Aten." The temple of Aten at
 ;

ATEN WORSHIP 73

Khut-Aten was, like that at Heliopolis, called Het Benben,

^
M AAAAAA a name which probably means "House of
J] J
" was begun on a very large
the Obelisk ; it scale, but was never
finished. It contained many altars whereon incense was burnt
and offerings were laid, but no sacrifices of any kind were offered
up on them. The high-priest of Aten assumed the title of the

high-priest of Ra at Heliopolis, Ur-maau, ^* ~p "v\ >> ^j ?

and in many respects the new worship was carried on at Khut-

Aten by means of many of the old forms and ceremonies of the
Heliopolitan priesthood
on stated occasions the
king himself officiated.

The worship of Aten as

understood by Amen-
hetep IV. was, however,
a very different thing
from the ancient wor-
ship of Aten, for whereas
that was tolerant the
new worship was not.
It is clear from the re-
liefs which have been
found in the city of
Khut-Aten that Aten
Amcn-hetep IV. and his Wife adoring Aten.
was regarded as the giver
of and the source of all life on this earth, and that his symbols
life,

were the heat and light of the sun which vivified and nourished
all creation. Aten was also the one physical body of the Sun, and
the creed of Aten ascribed to the god a monotheistic character or
oneness, of which it denied the existence in any other god. This
being so, the new religion could neither absorb nor be absorbed by
any other; similarly, Aten could neither absorb nor be absorbed by
the other gods of Egypt, because he had nothing in common
with them. Attempts have been made to prove that the Aten
worship resembled that of the monotheistic worship of the
Hebrews, and to show that Aten is only another form of the name
74 HYMN TO ATEN
Adon, i.e., the Phoenician god i*TN, whom the Greeks knew as
"a Sams ; but as far as can be seen now the worship of Aten was
something like a glorified materialism, which had to be expounded
by priests, who performed ceremonies similar to those which
belonged to the old Heliopolitan sun-worship, without any con-
nexion whatsoever with the worship of Yahweh, and a being of
the character of Adon, the local god of Byblos, had no place in it

anywhere. In so far as it rejected all other gods, the Aten

religion was monotheistic, but to judge by the texts which describe
the power and works of Aten, it contained no doctrines on the
unity or oneness of Aten similar to those which are found in the

Amen-hetep IV. seated on his throne beneath the Disk.

hymns to Ra, and none of the beautiful ideas about the future life,

with which we are familiar from the hymns and other compositions
in the Book of the Dead.
The chief source of our knowledge of the attributes ascribed
to Aten is obtained from the hymns to this god which Amen-
hetep IV. caused to be inscribedon his monuments, and from
one of them which has twice been published in recent years we l

1
First by Bouriant in Memoires cle la Mission, torn, i., pp. 2ff., and later, with
numerous corrections of Bouriant' s text and a running commentary by Mr. Breasted,
in Be Hymnis in Solem sub rege Amenopliide IV. conceptis, Berlin (no date).
 — V

HYMN TO ATEN i
75

obtain the following extracts. The hymn is prefaced by these

words :

" 1. A hymn of praise to Heru-khuti (Harmachis), who

" springeth up joyfully in the horizon in his name of Shu who is
'

" in the Disk,' and who liveth for ever and for ever, Aten the
" Living One, the Great One, he who is [celebrated] in the thirty
" year festival, the lord of the orbit (0 "^1 of the sun, the lord
" of the sun, the lord of heaven, the lord of earth, the lord of the
" House of Aten in the city of Khut-Aten, 2. by the king of the
" South and of the North, who liveth by Maat, the Lord of the Two

" Lands, f Nefer-kheperu-Ra-ua-en-RajL 1 the son of the Sun, who

" liveth by Maat, the lord of crowns, f Khu-en-Aten J,
2
who is great

" in the duration of his life, 3. and by his great royal wife, his darling,
" the Lady of the Two Lands, f Nefert-iti, Nefer-neferu-Aten
'*
the living one, the strong one for ever." The hymn proper
begins after the words, " He (i.e., the king) saith, 4. Thy rising is
'

" '
beautiful in the horizon of heaven, 5. thou Aten, who hadst
" '
thine existence in primeval time. 6. When thou risest in the
" '
eastern horizon thou fillest every land with thy beauties, 7. thou
" '
art beautiful to see, and art great, and art like crystal, and art
" '
high above the earth. 8. Thy beams of light embrace the lands,
" '
even every land which thou hast made. 9. Thou art as Ra,
" '
and thou bringest [thyself] unto each of them, 10. and thou
" '
bindestthem with thy love. 11. Thou art remote, but thy beams
" '
are upon the earth. 12. So long as thou art in the heavens day
"' shall follow in thy footsteps. 13. When thou settest in the
u '
western horizon the earth is in darkness, and is like a being that
"'is dead. 14. They lie down and sleep in their habitations,
" '
15. their heads are covered up, and their nostrils are stopped,
" '
and no man can see his neighbour, 16. and all their goods and

1
These titles mean something like, " Beauty of the creations of Ra, tbe only
one of Ra."
- I.e., " Glory of Aten."
3 The proper name is Nefert-iti, and her title means " Beauty of the beanties
of Aten."
76 HYMN TO ATEN
" '
possessions may be away from under their heads without
carried
" '
their knowing it. 17. Every lion cometh forth from his den,
" '
18. and serpents of every kind bite; 19. the night becometh
" '
blacker and blacker, 20. and the earth is silent because he who
" '
hath made them hath sunk to rest in his horizon.
"21. When thou risest in the horizon the earth lightens, and
" when thy beams shine forth it is day. 22. Darkness taketh to
" flight as soon as thy light bursteth out, and the Two Lands keep
" festival daily. 23. Then [men] wake up and stand upon their
" feet because thou hast raised them up, wash themselves,
24. they
" and they array themselves in their apparel, 25. and they lift up
" to thee their hands with hymns of praise because thou hast risen.
" 26. [Over] all the earth they perform their work. 27. All beasts
" and cattle repose in their pastures, 28. and the trees and the
" green herb put forth their leaves and flowers. 29. The birds
" fly out of their nests, and their wings praise thy Ka as they fly
" forth. 30. The sheep and goats of every kind skip about on
" their legs, 31. and feathered fowl and the birds of the air also
" live [because] thou hast risen for them. 32. The boats float
" down and sail up the river likewise, 33. for thy path is opened
" when thou risest. 34. The fish in the stream leap up towards
" thy face, 35. and thy beams shine through the Avaters of the
" great sea.
" 36.
Thou makest male seed to enter into women, and thou
" causest the liquid seed to become a human being. 37. Thou
" makest the man child to live in the body of his mother.
" 38. Thou makest him to keep silent so that he cry not, 39. and
" thou art a nurse to him in the womb. 40. Thou givest breath
" that it may vivify every part of his being. 41. When he goeth
" forth from the belly, on the day wherein he is born, 42. thou
" openest his mouth that he may speak, 43. and thou providest
" for him whatsoever is necessary. 44. When the chick is in the
" the egg, and is making a sound within the shell, 45. thou givest
" it air inside it so that it may keep alive. 46. Thou bringest it
" to perfection so that it may split the eggshell, 47. and it cometh
" forth from the egg to proclaim that it is a perfect chick,
" 48. and as soon as it hath come forth therefrom it runneth
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HYMN TO ATEN 77

" about on its feet. 49. How many are the things which thou
" hast created
" 50. There were in the face of the One God, and his
" had rest. 51. Thou didst create the earth at thy will
" when thou didst exist by thyself, 52. and men and women, and
" beasts and cattle, and flocks of animals of every kind, 53. and
11
every thing which upon the earth and which goeth about on
is

" its feet, 54. and everything which is in the air above and which

" flieth about with wings, 55. and the land of Syria and Nubia,

Amen-hetep IV. and his Wife and Daughter.

" and Egypt. 56. Thou settest every man in his place, 57. and
" thou makest for them whatsoever they need. 58. Thou pro-
" videst for every man that which he should have in his storehouse,
" and thou computest the measure of his life. 59. They speak in
" tongues which are different [from each other], 60. and their
" dispositions (or characteristics) are according to their skins.
" 61. Thou who canst discern hast made the difference between
" the dwellers in the desert to be discerned.
" Q2. Thou hast made Hapi (i.e., the Nile) in the Tuat, 63. and
78 HYMN TO ATEN
" thou bringest him on according to thy will to make rational
" beings to live, 64. inasmuch as thou hast made them for thyself,

"65. thou who art the lord of all of them, and who dost remain
" with them. 66. Thou art the lord of every (?) land, and thou
"shinest upon them, 67. thou Aten of the day, and art
art
" revered in every foreign land (?), 68. and thou makest their
" lives. 69. Thou makest Hapi in heaven to come down to them,
" 70. and he maketh his rushing waters to flow over the hills like

"the great green sea. 71. and they spread themselves abroad
" and water the fields of the people in their villages. 72. Thy
" plans (or, counsels) are doubly beneficent. 73. Thou art the
" Lord of eternity, and thou thyself art the Nile in heaven, and
" all foreign peoples and all the beasts on all the hills 74. go about
"on their feet [through thee]. 75. Hapi (i.e., the Nile) cometh
" from the Tuat to Egypt, 76. and thou givest sustenance to its
" people and to every garden, and 77. [when] thou hast risen they
" live for thee.
" 78. Thou hast made the seasons of the year so that they
" may cause the things which thou hast made to bring forth,
" 79. the winter season bringeth them cold, and the summer
" season fiery heat. 80. Thou hast created the heavens which are
" far extending that thou mayest rise therein and mayest be able
" to look upon all which thou didst create when thou didst exist
" by thyself, 81. and thou dost rise in thy creations as the living
" Aten, 82. and thou dost rise, and dost shine, and dost depart on
" thy path, and dost return. 83.Thou didst create [the forms]
" of created things in thyself when thou didst exist alone. 84.
" Cities, towns, villages and hamlets, roads and river[s], 85. from
" these every eye looketh upon thee, 86. forthou art the Aten of
" the day and art above the earth. 87. Thou journeyest through
" that which existeth in thine Eye. 88 89.
" Thou art in my heart, 90. and none knoweth thee except thy

" son f Nefer-kheperu-Ra-ua-en-Ra 91. and thou makest him to

J,

" be wise and understanding through thy counsels and through

" thy strength. 92. The earth is in thy hand, inasmuch as thou
" hast made them (i.e., those in it). 93. When thou risest man-
 HYMN TO ATEN 79

" kind live ; and when thou settest they die. 94. As lono- as thou
" art in the sky they live in thee, 95. and the eyes of all are upon
" thy beauties until thou settest, 96. and they set aside their
" work of every kind when thou settest in the west. 97. Thou
" risest and thou makest grow to for the kino-.
"98 from the time when thou didst lay the foundations
" of the earth, 99. and thou didst raise them up for thy son who
" proceeded from thy members." [Here follow two lines wherein
the names and titles of the king are repeated.]
The above version of the hymn to Aten will serve to illustrate
the views held by the king and his followers about this god, and
may be compared with the hymns to Ra, which are quoted in the
section on the forms of the Sun-god, when it will be seen that
many of the most important characteristics of hymns to sun-gods
are wanting. There is no mention of enemies or of the fiends, Apep,
Sebau, and Nak, who were overcome by Ra when he rose in the
eastern horizon ; no reference is made to Khepera, or to the
serviceswhich Thoth and Maat were believed to render to him
daily and the frequent allusions to the Matet and Sektet Boats
;

in which Ra was thought to make his journey over the sky are
wholly omitted. The
myths which had grown up about Ra
old
are ignored, and the priests of Aten proclaimed with no uncertain
voice the unity of their god in terms which provoked the priests
of Amen to wrath. Aten had existed for ever, they said, he was
beautiful, glorious, and self-existent, he had created the sun and
his path, and heaven, and earth, and every living being and thing
therein, and he maintained the life in man and beast, and fed all
creatures according to his plans, and he determined the duration
of their life. Everything came from Aten, and everything
depended upon him ; he was, moreover, everlasting.
From the
absence of any mention of the " "
gods or of the well-known great
gods of Egypt it is evident that they wished to give a monotheistic
character to the worship of Aten, and it was, manifestly, this
characteristic of it which made the king and his god detested at
Thebes ; it accounts for the fact that Amen-hetep IV. felt it to be
necessary to build a new capital for himself and his god, and
supplies us with the reason why he did not settle in one of the
80 ATEN WORSHIP
ancient religious centres of his kingdom. We should expect that,
as he styled himself the high-priest of Heru-khuti (i.e., Harmachis),
he would have taken up his abode in Memphis or Heliopolis,
where this god was greatly honoured, but as he did not, we are
driven to conclude that there was in the worship of Aten and in
the doctrines of his priests something which could neither brook
nor tolerate the presence of another god, still less of other
gods, and that that something must have been of the nature of
monotheism.
Now although the hymn quoted above gives us an idea of the
views held by Amen-hetep IV. and his adherents concerning
Aten, it is impossible to gather from it any very precise imforma-
tion about the details of the belief or doctrine of Aten, but it is

clear that in practice the religion was of a sensuous character, and

eminently materialistic. Incense was burnt freely several times
in the day, and the hymns sung to Aten were accompanied by the
sounds of the music of harps and other instruments, and the people
vied with each other in bringing gifts of fruit, and flowers, and
garden produce to lay on the altars which were never drenched
with the blood of animals offered up for sacrifice. The worship of
Aten was of a joyous character, and the surroundings among
which it was carried on were bright and cheerful. The mural
decorations in the temple were different from those of the older
temples of Egypt, for they were less severe and less conventional,
and they were painted in lively colours; in fact, the artists

employed by Amen-hetep IV. threw off many of the old trammels

of their profession, and indulged themselves in new designs, new
forms, new colours, and new treatment of the subjects which they
wished to represent. We may see from the remains of their wall
decorations that the artists of the city of Khut-Aten made one
great step in advance, that is to say, they introduced shading into
their painting, and
it is greatly to be regretted that it was retraced

later was only during the reign of Amen-hetep IV. that the
; it

Egyptian artist ever showed that he understood the effects of light

and shade in his work. The texts and inscriptions which were
placed upon the walls relate to the glory and majesty and
beneficence of Aten, and everywhere are seen representations of
 G

ATEN WORSHIP 81

the visible emblem of the god. The form in which he is depicted

is that of the solar disk, from which proceed rays, the ends of

which terminate in hands wherein are the emblems of life, ¥•>

and sovereignty, 0; in the bas-reliefs and frescoes we see these

human-handed rays shining upon the king, and his queen and
family, and upon the cartouches containing the names of himself
and of his queen Nefert-ith. The simple interpretation of such
scenes is that the sun is the source of all life and of everything
which supports upon earth, but it is probable that the so-called
it

Aten heresy was in some way founded upon the views which the
Atenites held about this method of representing their god. Be
this as it may, Amen-hetep IV. loved to be depicted with the

human-handed rays falling upon him, and whatever his doctrines

of Aten were he preached them with all the enthusiasm of an
Oriental fanatic, and on special occasions he himself officiated as
high-priest of the cult. The wisdom of his policy is open to
doubt, but there is no reason for regarding him as anything but
an earnest and honest propagandist of a new creed.
Now, as the king changed his religion and his name, so he
also caused his own form and figure when represented in bas-
reliefs to be changed. In the earlier monuments of his reign he is

depicted as possessing the typical features of his father and of

others of his ancestors, but at Tell el-Amarna his physical
characteristics are entirely different. Here he is portrayed with
a very high, narrow, and receding forehead, a large, sharp,
aquiline nose, a thin, weak mouth, and a large projecting chin,
and his head is set upon a long and extremely slender neck ;

his chest is rounded, his stomach inflated, his thighs are large and
broad, and in many respects his figure resembles that of a woman.
It is impossible that such representations of the king would
be permitted to appear in bas-reliefs in his city unless he
approved of them, and it is clear that he did approve, and
that his officials understood that he approved of this treatment
of his person at the hands of sculptors and artists, for some
of the high officials were themselves represented in the same
manner. Still, some of the drawings of the king must be
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82 AMEN-HETEP IV.

regarded as caricatures, but whether intentional or otherwise

cannot be said.

For a few years Amen-hetep IV. led a life of great happiness

and enjoyment in his new capital, and his whole time seems to
have been passed in adorning it with handsome buildings, fine
sculptures, and large gardens filled Avith trees and plants of every
kind he appears to have bestowed gifts Avith a lavish hand upon
;

his favourites, who it must be admitted, were his officials who

seconded his wishes and gave effect to them. Life at Khut-Aten

was joyous, and there is no evidence that men troubled

themselves with thoughts about death or the kingdom of Osiris
if they did, they made no mention of them in their hymns and
inscriptions.

On the other hand Amen-hetep IV. did not, or could not,

abolish the characteristic funeral customs and beliefs of his

country, and the tombs of the adherents of Aten bear witness to

the fact. The king caused a tomb to be hewn out of the rock in

the mountains near the town, on its eastern side, and it contained,
when discovered in 1892 by the natives, the things which are
usually found in tombs of men of high rank. The sarcophagus
was broken in pieces, but scattered about the mummy-chamber
and along the corridor which led to it were numbers of objects and
fragments of objects made of the beautiful purple and blue glazed
faience which is Amen-hetep IV.
so characteristic of the reign of

The body of the king must have been mummified, and on it must
have been laid the same classes of amulets that are found on the
royal mummies at Thebes. Portions of several granite ushabtiu
figures were also found, a fact which shows that those who buried
the king assumed he would enjoy a somewhat material life in
Sekhet-hetepet and Sekhet-Aarru in the kingdom of Osiris. That
Amen-hetep IV. thought little about his death and burial is proved
by the state of his tomb, which shows that he made no attempt to
prepare it for the reception of his body when the need should
arise. This is the more strange because he had caused his eldest

daughter A ten-merit, f\ ^^ "^x. (1 (1 <=> Jj , to be buried in it, and

he must have known from sad experience what great preparations
 AMEN-HETEP IV. 83

had to be made, and what complicated ceremonies had to be per-

formed when a royal personage was laid to rest. The tombs of
the adherents of Aten are very disappointing in many ways,
though they possess an interest peculiar to themselves. From the
scenes painted on their walls it is possible to obtain an idea of the
class of buildings which existed in the city of Khut-Aten, and of

the arrangements of its streets and gardens, and of the

manner free
in which the various members of the royal family moved about
among the people. The king's tomb was never finished, and the
remains of the greater number of the paintings on its walls show
that they were executed not for him but for his eldest daughter,
who has already been mentioned ; the chief subject chosen for
illustration is the worship of Aten, and both the scenes and the

texts accompanying them represented that the god was adored by

every nation in the world.
It is, unfortunately, not known how old the king was when he
died, but he must have been a comparatively young man, and his
reign could not have been so long as twenty years. In the ten or
twelve years of it which he lived at Khut-Aten he devoted himself
entirely to the building of his new capital and the development of
the cult of Aten, and meanwhile the general condition of Egypt
was going from bad to worse, the governors of Egyptian possessions
in Syria and Palestine were quarrelling among themselves, strong
and resolute rebels had risen up in many parts of these countries,
and over and above all this the infuriated jDriesthood of Anien-Ra
were watching for an opportunity to restore the national god to his
proper place, and to upon the throne a king who would
set

forward the interests of their brotherhood. This opportunity came

with the death of Amen-hetep IV., when Tut-ankh-Amen, a son of
Amen-hetep III. by a concubine, ascended the throne he married ;

a daughter of Amen-hetep IV., who was called Ankh-s- en-pa- Aten,

but she changed her name into Ankh-s-en-Amen, and both the new
king and queen were worshippers of the great god of Thebes.
Tut-ankh-Amen at once began to restore the name and figure of
Amen which his father-in-law had cut out from the monuments,
and began to build at Thebes very soon after his accession he
;

came ito terms with the priests of Amen, and in due course
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84 AMEN-HETEP IV.

removed his court to the old capital. On the death of Tut-ankh-

Amen, a "superintendent of the whole stud of Pharaoh" of the

name of Ai ascended the throne by virtue of his marriage with
Thi, who was some way related to the family of Amen-hetep IV.
in

before Ai became king he was a follower of Aten, and built him-

self a tomb at Khut-Aten, which was ornamented after the manner

of those of the adherents of this god, but as soon as he had taken

up abode at Thebes and begun to reign over Egypt he built
his
another tomb in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings at Thebes.
The decoration of the sarcophagus which he placed in the
latter tomb makes it quite certain that when he made it he had

rejected the cult of Aten, and that he was, at all events outwardly,
a loyal follower of the god Amen-Ra. On the death of Ai several
pretenders to the throne rose up in Egypt, and a period of anarchy
followed. Of the details of the history of this period nothing is

known, and the only certain fact about it is that the power of the
XVIIIth Dynasty was broken, and that its downfall was certain.
During the reigns of Tut-ankh-Amen and Ai the prosperity of the
city Khut-Aten declined rapidly, and as soon as the period of
anarchy which followed their reigns began its population left it,
little by little, and its downfall was assured the artists and work-
;

men of all kinds who had obtained work there under Amen-hetep
found their occupation gone, and they departed to Thebes and the
other cities whence they had come. Under the reign of Heru-em-
heb the decay of the city advanced and it became generally
deserted, and very soon after men came from far and near to carry
off, for building purposes, the beautiful white limestone blocks
which were in the temple and houses. Heru-em-heb was the
nominee of the priests of Amen-Ra, and he used all his power and
influence to stamp out every trace of the worship of Aten, and
succeeded. Thus Amen-Ra conquered Aten, Thebes once more
became the capital of Egypt, the priests of Amen regained their
ascendancy, and in less than twenty-five years after the death of
Amen-hetep IV. his city was deserted, the sanctuary of his god
was desecrated, his followers were scattered, and his enemies were
in undisputed possession of the country.
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CHAPTER V

THE GREAT COMPANY OF THE GODS OF

HELIOPOLIS

A
least nine
PERUSAL

gods ;
of the

in certain
Pyramid Texts
priests of Heliopolis believed in the existence of three
companies of gods, and that to each company they assigned at
cases a
reveals the fact that the

company contained eleven,

twelve, or more gods. In the text of Unas (line 222 if.) we find
a series of addresses to Ra-Tem, wherein are mentioned Set

and Nephthys, ^J? ^ , Osiris, Isis, and Her-hepes, E , JJ

* | ,
Thoth, Anubis, and Usert, ^%, ~^' I
'
anc^

Horns, which seems to show that one company of gods, of which the
dual god Ra-Tem was the head, consisted of Set, Nephthys, Her-
hepes, Osiris, Isis, Thoth, Anubis, Usert, and Horus, i.e., in all ten
gods. In the next section but one of the same king's text (line 240 f.)
the Great Company of the gods of Heliopolis are declared to be :

I.Tem, ^. 2. Shu, Poa^. 3. Tefnut, gfL. 4. Seb,

1g*J.
5. Nut, °. 6. Isis, i . 7. Set, >$_j. 8. Nephthys,

9. Thoth, a >^. 10. Horus, v^. Here again we have ten gods
assigned to the divine company, but curiously enough the name of
Osiris, one of the most important of the gods, is omitted. Follow-
ing these ten names comes an address to the " Great Company of

the Gods,"
c
^^, which clearly refers to the gods

whose names we have mentioned. In the text of Pepi II.

(line 665), the gods who are declared to form " the Great Company
of the gods who are in Annu" are: — 1. Tem. 2. Shu. 3. Tefnut.
c
4. Seb. 5. Nut. 6. Osiris. 7. Isis. 8. Set, [1 , and 9.
86 GODS OF HELIOPOLIS
Nephthys, ^] and they are
, called the " offspring of Tern, who
" made wide when he gave them birth in your name of
his heart
" Nine.'
'
A few lines lower down the king makes a petition to
' 51

the " Great Company of the gods who are in Annu," and he
includes in it the names of Tem, Shu, Tefnut, Seb, Nut, Osiris,
Osiris-Khent-Amenti, Set of Ombos, Heru 2
of Edfu, Ra, Khent-
Maati, 3
and Uatchet ; thus the Great Company of the gods of

Heliopolis may contain either nine or twelve gods. In several

passages in the Pyramid Texts two groups or companies of gods,
eighteen in number, are mentioned ; thus in the text of
Mer-en-Ra, line 453, allusion is made to the "very great
" eighteen gods who are at the head of the Souls of Annu," but
these, clearly, include the Great Company and the Little Company,
who are addressed on behalf of the deceased in the text of Unas,
lines 251, 252.

The triple Company to which allusion is sometimes made,

nmninmrnmnmrn
bably supposed to include the
t ^> «-
<

Great Company
^ *- *--
of the gods of
heaven, the Little Company of the gods of earth, and the Company
of the gods of the Underworld, but from many passages it is

evident that the Great and Little Companies represented to the

Egyptian, for all practical purposes, the whole of the gods whom
he attempted to worship. The priests of the provincial cities and
towns adopted by degrees the more important of the views of the
Heliopolitan priesthood concerning the Egyptian cosmogony and
theogony, and as they were able to identify their local gods with
Temu, or Ra-Tem, the head of the Heliopolitan Company of gods,
and with the members of his company to whom their attributes
were most akin, no serious opposition appears to have been offered
by them to the tenets of the great religious centre of Heliopolis.
The priests of this city were prudent enough to include as forms of
the gods of their divine companies the great ancient gods and
goddesses of the South and the North, as well as a number of

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lesser gods whose worship was quite local, and in this way they

succeeded in causing their doctrines to be accepted throughout the

length and breadth of Egypt, and there is no doubt that the great
theological system of Thebes under the Middle and New Empires
was based entirely upon that of Heliopolis. We have now to
describe the attributes of the gods of the Great Company, which
for convenience may be assumed to consist of the folio win « :

Tern, Shu, Tefnut, Seb, Nut, Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys.

ac
1. Tem * , or

Tem was a form of the Sun-god, and was the great local god
of Annu, and the head of the company of gods of that place. His
name is connected with the root tem, t\ or temem,
^^ •

tar _M* _B^

}
'
"
to ^ e com pl e W " to make an end of," and he
was regarded as the form of the Sun-god which brought the day to
an end, i.e., as the evening or night sun. He is always depicted
in the human form. The attributes of the god have been already
described in the section which treats of the forms of the Sun-
god Ra.

2.SHn,p m ^,orp^,orP!jy,orQ[y.
3. Tefnut,
f- |.
Shu and his female counterpart Tefnut may be considered
together, because they are usually mentioned together, at all events
in the texts of the later periods. The name Shu appears to be

derived from the root shu, G@jR, "dry, parched, withered,

empty," and the like, and the name Tefnut must be connected
C± jJ~rfD /WWW ^^j-^j /WW\A
with the root a^ww or ^^ww, "to spit,
tef,
f ? teftef,

be moist," and the like ; thus Shu was a god who was connected
with the heat and dryness of sunlight and with the dry atmosphere
which exists between the earth and the sky, and Tefnut was a
personification of the moisture of the sky, and made herself
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88 SHU AND TEFNUT
manifest in various forms. The oldest legend about the origin of
the gods is contained in the text of Pepi I., wherein it is said

(line upon a time Tern went to the city of Annu and

465) that once
that he there produced from his own body by the irregular means
of masturbation his two children Shu and Tefhut. In this crude
form the myth is probably of Libyan origin, and it suggests that its
inventors were in a semi-savage, or perhaps wholly savage, state
when it was first promulgated. In later times, as we have already
seen, the Egyptians appear to have rejected certain of the details
of the myth, or to have felt some difficulty in believing that Shu
and Tefhut were begotten and conceived and brought forth by
Tern, and they therefore assumed that his shadow, Ti, hhaibit,

acted the part of wife to him ; another view was that the goddess
1
Iusaaset was his wife.
The old ideas about the origin of the twin gods, however,
maintained their position in the minds of the Egyptians, and we
find them categorically expressed in some of the hymns addressed
to Amen-Ra, who under the New Empire was identified with Tern,
just as at an earlier period Ra was identified with the same god.
In two hymns quoted by Brugsch we have the following
2 :

" Amen-Ra, the gods have gone forth from thee. What flowed
" forth from thee became Shu, and that which was emitted by thee
" became Tefhut thou didst create the nine gods at the beginning
;

" of all things, and thou wast the Lion-god of the Twin Lion-gods,"

Q _2i£ J] fiZj i

J\ nj . The Twin Lion-gods are, of course,

Shu and Tefnut, who are mentioned in the Booh of the Dead in
several passages. 4
In the second hymn to Amen-Ra it is said,

1
In the passage referred to the opening words are, " Tern came to take

pleasure in himself," J\ I \h
f^\ iu s«, and M. Maspero thinks that the name

of the goddess Iusaaset, J\ v\ <>-=- M ,

may be derived from them. See

La Mythologies Hgyptienne, p. 247.

2 Religion, p. 422. 3 Brugsch, Beise, pi. 26, 1. 26.

h (1(1 <jj y see the list of passages given in my Vocabulary to the Boole of

the Dead, pp. 197, 198.

The God SHU.
 SHU AND TEFNUT 89

" Thou art the One God, who didst form thyself into two gods,
" thou art the creator of the Egg, and thou didst produce thy
" Twin-Gods." In connexion with the production of Shu and
Tefnut Dr. Brugsch refers to the well-known origin of the gods of
Taste and Feeling, Hu, 8 v\ ^ Jn, and Sa, sb *\\ Jn, who are
said to have sprung into being from the drops of blood which fell

from the phallus of Ra, and to have taken up their places among
the gods who were in the train of Ra, and who were with Temu
1
every day. (Booh of Hip Dead, xvii. 62).
Shu is represented in the form of a man who wears upon his
head one feather, f) , or two, [1] , or four, tHjj. ; the phonetic value

of the sign \\ is shu, and the use of it as the symbol of the god's
name seems to indicate some desire on the part of the Egyptians to
connect the word shu, or shdu, "feather," with shu, "light, empty
space, dryness," etc. As the god of the space which exists

between the earth and the sky, Shu was represented under the
form of a god who held up the sky with his two hands, one
supporting it at the place of sunrise, and the other at the place of

sunset, and several porcelain figures exist in which he is seen

kneeling upon one knee, in the act of lifting up with his two
hands the sky with the solar disk in it. When Shu wears no
feather he bears upon his head the figure of the hind-quarter of a
lion Jg), peh; in mythological scenes we find him both seated and
standing, aud he usually holds in one hand the sceptre j, and in
2
the other •¥ . In a picture given by Lanzone he grasps in his
left hand a scorpion, a serpent, and a hawk-headed sceptre. The
goddess Tefnut is represented in the form of a woman, who wears
upon her head the solar disk encircled by a serpent, and holds in

her hands the sceptre I, and -r; she, however, often appears with
the head of a lioness, which is surmounted by a uraeus, and she is

sometimes depicted in the form of a lioness.

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90 SHU
An examination of the texts shows that Shu was a god of
lio-ht, or light personified, who made himself manifest in the beams
of the sun by day, and in the light of the moon by night, and his

home was the disk

(J\
^A of the sun. Viewed in this connexion

it is easy to understand the scene in which the god appears rising

up from behind the earth with the solar disk upon his head, and
his hands supporting that upon which it rests. In a text at Edfu
published by Bergmann, the creator of Shu is called Tauith,
1

"
"J
3 , and to him the king who caused the words to be inscribed

is made to say, " Thou hast emitted (!

/"^ dshesh) Shu, and
" he hath come forth from thy mouth. ... He hath become a
" god, and he hath brought for thee every good thing ; he hath
and he hath emitted for thee in his name of Shu,
" toiled for thee,
" the royal double. He hath laboured for thee in these things,
" and he beareth up for thee heaven upon his head in his name
" of Shu, and Tauith giveth the strength of the body of heaven

"in his name of Ptah. He beareth up II

fj ^or ^hee

" heaven with his hands in his name of Shu, the body of the
" sky." 2
It must be noted that the same word dshesh, [
^^ i>
is used to express both the idea of " pouring out " and of
"supporting," and it is difficult to reconcile these totally different

meanings unless we remember that it is that which Tern, or

Ra-Teni, has poured out which supports the heavens wherein
shines the Sun-god. That which Tern, or Ra-Tem, has poured
out is the light, and light was declared to be the prop of the sky.

1 Hieroglyphische Inschriften, Vienna, 1879, pi. 42, 11. 1-4, 10, 11.

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 SHU 91

From a number of passages examined by Dr. Brugsch 1

we find

that Shu was a personification of the rays which came forth from
the eyes of Ra, and that he was the soul of the god Khnemu, the
great god of Elephantine and of the First Cataract he also ;

represented the burning, fiery heat of the sun at noon, and the sun
in the height of summer.
In another aspect his abode was the region between the earth
and the sky, and he was a personification of the wind of the North ;

Dr. Brugsch went so far as to identify him with the " spiritual

Pneuma in a higher sense," and thought that he might be regarded

as the vital principle of all living beings. He was certainly, like

his fatherTem, thought to be the cool wind of the North, and the
dead were grateful to him for his breezes. Shu was, in fact, the
god of the space which is filled with the atmosphere, even as Ra
was the god of heaven, and Seb the god of the earth, and Osiris
the god of the Underworld. From the Booh of the Dead (xvii. 16)
we learn that Shu and Tefnut were supposed to possess but one
soul between them, but that the two halves of it were identified

with the soul of Osiris and the soul of Ra, which together formed
the great double soul which dwelt in Tattu. The gate of Tchesert
in the Underworld was called the "gate of the pillars of Shu"
(xvii. 56), and Shu and Tefnut laid the foundations of the house
in which the deceased was supposed to dwell. From the xviiith
Chapter of the Book of the Dead we find that the princes of
Heliopolis were Tem, Shu, Tefnut, Osiris, and Thoth, and that Ra,
Osiris, Shu, and Bebi were the princes of the portion of the
Underworld which was known by the name of Anrut-f. We
may note in passing that Bebi,
J J
mm J), or Baba,
J (1
J (1 Jj,

or J^_ jjj
, or Baba,
J ^^J^^^ , or Babai,

J ^7^ 1^ JI "%* !^ QQ $\ '

was *^ e nrst_Dorn son °f Osiris.

According to Dr. Brugsch, Baba was personified in the form of

some Typhonic mythological animal, and was the god who presided
over the phallus ; the blood which fell from his nose grew up into

plants which subsequently changed into cedars. Dr. Pleyte has

1
Beligion, p. 4:'d.
 .

92 SHU
rightly identified Bebi or Baba with the Befiwv or Befitova of
Plutarch (De and with the Bdfiw; of Hellanicus. 1
Iside, § 62)
Bebon was a name of Typhon, i.e., Set, and that he was represented
by an animal is proved by the hieroglyphic form of his name,
which determined by the skin of an animal, J <^s J
is ^^ W
In Chapter xxiii. the deceased prays that his " mouth may be
unclosed by Shu with the iron knife wherewith he opened the
mouth of the gods." From Chapters xxxiii. and xxxv. we learn
that Shu was believed to possess power over serpents, and he it
was who made the deceased to stand up by the Ladder which
would take him to heaven (xcviii. 4). That souls needed a ladder
whereby to mount from earth to heaven was a very ancient belief
in Egypt. The four pillars which held up the sky at the four
cardinal points were called the "pillars of Shu" (cix. 5, ex. 13),
and Shu was the breath of the god Ra (exxx. 4). The deceased
was nourished with the food of Shu, i.e., he lived upon light and ;

in the Roman period Shu was merged in Ra, the god of light.
The part played in Egyptian mythology by Tefhut is not easily
defined, and but little is known about her. In the text of Unas
(line 453) she is mentioned together with the two Maat goddesses,

^^j \ (1 , and with Shu, but curiously enough, she seems to appear

as the female counterpart of a god called Tefen, *^. . The

passage reads, "Tefen and Tefnet have weighed Unas, and the
" Maat goddesses have hearkened, and Shu hath borne witness,"
etc. In the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead she is
mentioned a few times in connexion with Shu (Chapters xvii.,

exxx., etc.), and she is one of the group of gods who form the
divine company and the " body and soul of Ra " (cxl.
7), but she
performs no service for the deceased beyond providing him with
breath. She was originally a goddess of gentle rain and soft

wind, but at a comparatively late period of Egyptian history she

was identified with Nehemauit at Hermopolis, with Menhit at
Latopolis, with Sekhet in Memphis, and with Apsit in Nubia.
Unlike most of the gods of Egypt, Shu and Tefnut do not appear

1
Aeg. Zeitschrift, 1865, p. 55.
 SHU 93

to have have had set apart for them any special city or district,
but at the same time titles were given to certain cities which pre-
supposed some connexion between them and these gods. Thus
c~ =1
Dendera was called Per-Shu, R @ T , i.e., " House of Shu," and
Apollinopolis Magna was called Hinu-en-Shu-nefer, m (](j
Q
and Edfu was the "Seat of Shu,"
Y ($£$ J, jj(5^©, and
Memphis bore the name of " Palace of Shu," Jrtl
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Similarly, one portion of Dendera was known as the " House of

Tefnut," or the " Aat of Tefnut," ^=^_r^^, i^m^ ga or

r» av Whether there were statues of Shu and

Tefnut in these cities cannot be said, but it is very probable that
they were worshipped in their sanctuaries under the forms of lions,

and in this connexion it is worthy of note that Aelian records

{Be Nat. Animal, xii. § 7) that the people of Heliopolis worshipped
lions in the temple of Helios.
It has already been mentioned that Shu was the sky-bearer
par and we may note in passing the interesting myth
excellence,

which the Egyptians possessed about him in this capacity, and the
explanation which they gave of his occupying this position.
According to the text which is found in the tomb of Seti I. in the
Valley of the Tombs of the Kings at Thebes, in very remote times,
when Ra ruled over gods and men and had his throne established
Suten-henen, or Henen-su, mankind began to utter
in the city of

seditious words against him, and the great god determined to

destroy them. He summoned Hathor, Shu, Tefnut, Seb, and Nut
into his presence, and having told them what men, who had pro-
ceeded from his eye, had been saying about him, he asked them
for their advice, and promised that he would not slay the rebels
until he had heard what the " first-born god " and the " ancestor
gods " had to say on the matter. In answer to this the first-born

god Nu, 1 J (1 t\ fl %>

f%
& , advised him to let his daughter

Hathor, "the eye of Ra," go forth and slay men ; Ra accepted the
advice straightway, and Hathor went forth and slew all mankind,

1
Brugscb, Did. Gdog., p. 776.
94 SEB
and when she returned Ra was well pleased with her. Soon after
this he hecame wearied with the earth, and the goddess Nut
having been turned into a cow he mounted upon her back and
remained there, but before long the cow began to shake and to
tremble because she was very high above the earth, and when she
complained to Ra about it he commanded Shu to be a support to
her, and to hold her up in the sky. In the picture of the cow
which accompanies the text we see her body resting upon the head
and the two raised hands and arms of the god. When Shu had
taken up his place beneath the cow and was bearing up her body,
the heavens above and the earth beneath came into being, and the

four legs of thecow became the four props of heaven at the four
cardinal points and thus it came to pass that the god Seb and
;

his female counterpart Nut began their existence.

Seb, ^.J^.or^J^, or vj|, or *"], or V|.

Seb was the son of Shu and Tefnut, and Avas the brother and
husband of Nut, and the father of Osiris and Isis, Set and
Nephthys, and some say of one of the Horus gods ; according to
the late Dr. Brugsch his name should be read Geb or Keb, or
Gebb, or Kebb, and in very early times this undoubtedly seems to
have been the correct form of the god's name. He is usually
represented in the form of a man who bears upon his head either
the white crown Q or the crown of the
,
North, to which is added

the Atef crown, ^T, or a goose, ^*> of the peculiar species

called seb. This bird was sacred to him because he was believed
to have made his way through the air in its form. Seb was the
god of the earth, and the earth formed his body and was called the
" house of Seb," just as the air was called the " house of Shu," and

the heaven the " house of Ra," and the Underworld the " house of
Osiris." As the god of the surface of the earth from which spring-
up trees, and plants, and herbs, and grain he played a very
prominent part in the mythology of the Underworld, and as the
god of the earth beneath the surface of the ground he had
authority over the tombs wherein the dead were laid. In hymns
SEB, THE ERPA OF THE GODS
 "

SEB 95

and other compositions he is often styled the erpdt, o

i.e., the hereditary, tribal chief of the gods, and he plays a very
important part in the Book of the Dead. Thus he is one of the
company of the gods who watch the weighing of the heart of the
deceased in the Judgment Hall of Osiris, and on his brow rested
the secret gates which were close by the Balance of Ra, and which
were guarded by the god himself (xii. 2).

The soul of Seb was called Smam-ue, fl Ih^ t\7

^Zh 3 ^*
(xvii. 116). The righteous who were provided with the necessary
words of power were enabled to make their escape from the earth
wherein their bodies were laid, but the wicked were held fast by
Seb (xix. 14); Sekhet and Anpu were great helpers of the
deceased, but it was Seb whom he asked to open wide his two jaws
for him, whom he begged to open his eyes, and loose his legs which
were bandaged (xxvi. 1). And of him the deceased said, "My
"father is Seb, and my mother is Nut" (xxxi. 5). Like Shu the
god Seb was appealed to by the deceased for help against serpents
(xxxiii. 2), and he was never tired of boasting that his cakes were
" on the earth with the god Seb " (liii.
and that the gods had 4),
declared that he was " to live upon the bread of Seb " (lxviii. 9). In
a burst of joy, Nu, the overseer of the house of the overseer of the
seal, is made to say, "
The doors of heaven are opened for me, the
" doors of earth are opened for me, the bars and bolts of Seb are
" opened for me " (lxviii. 2), and " I exchange speech with Seb
"(lxxviii. 12), I am decreed to be the divine heir of Seb, the
" lord of the earth, and to be the protector therein. The
" god Seb refresheth me, and he maketh his risings to be mine
(lxxx. 11,12).
The show that there was no special city or
religious texts
district set apart for the god Seb, but a portion of the temple
estates in Apollinopolis Magna was called the " Aat of Seb,"

^ J \v\ '
an(^ a name °f Dendera was "the home of the children

of Seb," ^ IT]
(]() ^ ffl P J
^J ^ • The chief seat of the god

appears to have been at Heliopolis, where he and his female

counterpart Nut produced the great Egg whereout sprang the Sun-
 1 ;

96 SEB
god under the form of a phoenix. 1 Because of his connexion with
this Egg Seb is sometimes called the " Great Cackler," Kenken-ur,
S Z3 "^» % § Thus the deceased says, " Hail, thou god Tern,
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" grant unto me the sweet breath which dwelleth in thy nostrils.
" I embrace that great throne which is in the city of Hermopolis,
" and I keep watch over the Egg of the Great Cackler (or,
" according to another reading, I am the Egg which is in the
" Great Cackler, and I watch and guard that mighty thing which
" hath come into being wherewith the god Seb hath opened the
" earth), I germinate as it germinateth ; I live as it liveth ; and
"[my] breath is [its] breath" (Booh of the Dead, Chapters liv.,

" lvi., lix.).

The name of the phoenix in Egyptian is "Bennu," ~

J
and this bird played a very prominent part in Egyptian mythology,
but the texts do not bear out the extraordinary assertions which
have been made about it by classical writers. According to the
story which Herodotus heard at Heliopolis (ii. 73), the bird visited
that place once every five hundred years, on its father's death
when it was live hundred, or fourteen hundred and sixty-one
years old, it burnt itself to death. It was supposed to resemble
an eagle, and to have red and gold feathers, and to come from
Arabia ; before its death it built a nest to which it gave the power of
producing a new phoenix, though some thought that a worm crept
out of its body before it died, and that from it the heat of the sun
developed a new phoenix. Others thought that it died after a life

of seven thousand and six years, and another view was that the
new phoenix rose from the burnt and decomposing remains of his
old body, and that he took these to Heliopolis where he burnt
them. 2 All these fabulous stories are the result of misunder-
standings of the Egyptian myth which declared that the renewed
morning sun rose in the form of a Bennu, and of the belief which
declared that this bird was the soul of Ra and also the living-

symbol of Osiris, and that it came forth from the very heart of the

1
Bragsch, Religion, p. 577.
2 See Luciart, Be Mort. Pers., xxvii. ; Philostratus, Vit. Apollon., iii. 49 ;

Tzetzes, Chi liar, v. 397 ; Pliny, Hist. Nat., x. 2 ; Poruponius Mela, iii. 8.
 SEB 97

g od. The sanctuary of the Bennu was the sanctuary of Ra. and
Q
Osiris, and was called Het Benben, J Lvw^ J
i.e., the
" House of the Obelisk," and remembering this it is easy to under-
stand the passages in the Booh of the Dead, " I go in like the
" Hawk, and I come forth like the Bennu, the Morning Star (i.e.,
" the planet Venus) of Ra " (xiii. 2) ; "I am the Bennu which is in
" Heliopolis" (xvii. 27), and the scholion on this passage expressly
informs us that the Bennu is Osiris. Elsewhere the deceased
says, " I am the Bennu, the soul of Ra, and the guide of the gods
" in the Tuat
;
(xxix.c 1) ; let it be so done unto me that I may
" enter in like a hawk, and that Imay come forth like Bennu,
"the Morning Star" (cxxii. 6). On a hypocephalus quoted by
Prof. Wiedemann, 1 the deceased is made to say, " I am in the form
" of the Bennu, which cometh forth from Het-Benbenet in Annu,"

and from many passages we learn that the Bennu, the Soul of Ra,
which appeared each morning under the form of the rising sun,
was supposed to shine upon the world from the top of the famous
Persea tree wherein he renewed himself. We may note that a
Chapter of the Book of the Dead (lxxxii.) was written with the
special object of enabling the deceased to transform himself into a

Bennu bird if he felt disposed to do so ; in it he identifies himself

with the god Khepera, and with Horus, the vanquisher of Set,
and with Khensu.
It has already been said that Seb was the god of the earth,

and the Heliopolitans declared that he represented the very

ground upon which their city stood, meaning that Heliopolis was
the birthplace of the company of the gods, aud in fact that the work
of creation began there. In several papyri we find pictures of the

first act of creation which took place as soon as the Sun-god, by

whatsoever name he may be called, appeared in the sky, and sent
forth his rays from the heights of heaven upon the earth, and in

these Seb always occupies a very prominent position. He is seen

lyingupon the ground with one hand stretched out upon it, and
the other extended towards heaven, which position seems to be
referred to in the text of Pepi I., lines 338, 339, wherein we read,

i
Aeg. Zeit., 1878, p. 93.

II — II
98 SEB AND NUT
" Seb throws out his [one] hand to heaven and his [one] hand

" towards the earth,

XX
By his side stands the god Shu, who supports on his

upraised hands the heavens which are depicted in the form of a

woman, whose body is bespangled with stars ; this woman is the
goddess Nut, who is supposed to have been lifted up from the
embrace of Seb by Shu when he insinuated himself between their
bodies and so formed the earth and the sky. This was the act of
Shu which brought into being his heir Seb, and his consort Nut,

and it was the heirship of this god which the kings of Egypt
boasted they had received when they sat upon their thrones.
Seb was the hereditary tribal chief of the gods, and his throne
represented the sovereignty
both of heaven and of earth;
as a creative god he was
 SEB AND NUT 99

the entrance into and the exit from this passage, and as the head
of one lion symbolized the evening and the west, and the other
symbolized the morning and the east, in later days each lion's
head was provided with a separate body, and the one was called
Sef, I , i.e., "Yesterday," and the other was called Tuau,

* 1^ V ^' *' e *' "To-day" (Book of the Dead, xvii., lines 14, 15).

Though he was god of the earth Seb also acted as a guide to the
deceased in heaven, and he provided him with meat and drink ;

numerous passages in the Booh of the Bead refer to the gifts which
he bestowed upon Osiris his son, and the deceased prayed fervently
that he would bestow upon him the same protection and help
which he had bestowed upon Osiris.

Shu supporting the boat of the Sun-god beneath the sky-goddess Nut.

In two passages in the Booh of the Dead (Chapter xxxi. 3 of

the Saite Recension and Chapter lxix. 7, Theban Recension) we
;

appear to have an allusion to a myth concerning Seb which is

otherwise unknown. In the former the deceased says, " I, even I,

" am Osiris, who shut in his father Seb together with his mother
" Nut on the day of the great slaughter. My father is my Seb and
"mother is Nut"; and in the latter he says, "I, even I, am Osiris,
" who shut in his father together with his mother on the day of

"making the great slaughter," and the text adds, "now, the father
" is Seb, and the mother is Nut." "
The word used for " slaughter
100 NUT
is shdt, a ^k , and there is no doubt whatsoever about its

meaning, and according to Dr. Brugsch 1

we are to understand
an act of self-mutilation on the part of Ra, the father of Osiris,

similar to that which is referred to in the Book of the Dead.

Chapter xvii., line 61. According to this passage the gods Ammiu,
-JL- \\ \\ \\ f=a *n i , sprang from the drops of blood 2 which fell

from Ra after the process of mutilation, and Dr. Brugsch compared

the action of Osiris in shutting in, ^"g , his father Seb with
the punishment which Kronos inflicted upon his father Uranus
because he threw the Cyclopes into Tartarus, and the Ammiu gods
had an origin somewhat similar to that of the Erinnyes.

Nut,
D ~,
or®", or ®®, or « ^o
The goddess Nut was the daughter of Shu and Tefnut, and
the wife of Seb, the Earth-god, and the mother of Osiris and Isis,
and Set and Nephthys ; she was the personification of the heavens
and the sky, and of the region wherein the clouds formed, and in
fact of every portion of the region in which the sun rose, and
travelled from east to west. As a goddess of the late historical
period in Egypt Nut seems to have absorbed the attributes of a
number of goddesses who possessed attributes somewhat similar to
those of herself, and the identities of several old nature goddesses
were merged in her. In the Pyramid Texts (e.g., Unas, line 452)
Nut appears as the regular female counterpart of Seb, who is

described as the "Bull of Nut," " ^a ", i.e., he was either

the father, or husband, or son of the goddess ; her name is some-
times written without f==* s the determinative for sky, e.g., in
Pepi I., line 242, where it is said, "Nut hath brought forth
her daughter Venus," f I

ff| 1
1
(j
««w O "fe^ R cs jO . ^ Properly

1
Religion, p. 581.

n ^¥M=^!^ ^l^^t^
Id

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 NUT 101
a o
speaking, Nut, is the personification of the Day-sky, i.e., of

the sky which rests upon the two mountains of Bakhau and Manu,
that is, the Mountain of Sunrise and the Mountain of Sunset, but
the Pyramid Texts prove that the Egyptians conceived the
existence of a personification of the Night-sky, and it seems as if

Nut giving birth to the Sun, the rays of which fall ou Hathor in the horizon.

this goddess and her male counterpart were entirely different

beings from Seb and Nut, and had different names. In the text
of Unas (line 557) we find mentioned the two gods Nau and Naut,
I
A. „
^ , , who are, however, regarded as one god
 i 1 1 ;

102 NUT
and are addressed accordingly. Thus it is said, "Thy cake is to

" thee, Nau and Naut, even as one who uniteth the gods and who
"maketh the gods to refresh themselves beneath their shadow."
In this passage it is certainly right to assume that Naut represents
the Night-sky because of the determinative of the name t=d,
which is the sky, or heaven, inverted. In another passage (Teta,
line 218) we read of the "star Nekhekh of Naut" (or Nut),
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the other hand too much stress must not be laid upon the
c
determinative, because in the word 1 ^ v\ f=q, which seems

the " firmament strewn with stars,"

l
to mean the determinative is

that of the Day-sky.

At a very early period, however, the difference between the
Day-sky and the Night-sky was forgotten, at least in speaking,

and it is chiefly from good funeral texts that we learn that

a distinction between them was made in writing. In the
2
Papyrus of Ani are several examples of the name Nut written
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lift'
, and the latter form is several times found in

the Papyrus of Nu, which dates from the first half of the period of
the XVIIIth Dynasty; whenever one or other of these forms is
found in good papyri it is the Night-sky which is referred to in
the text. We have already seen in the paragraphs on the god
Nu that he had a female counterpart called Nut, who represented
the great watery abyss out of which all things came, and who
formed the celestial Nile whereon the Sun sailed in his boats ; this

watery path was divided into two parts, that whereon the Sun
sailed by day, and that over which he passed during the night.
The goddess Nut, whom the texts describe as the wife of Seb, is

for all practical purposes the same being as Nut, the wife of Nu
this fact is proved by her titles, which are, " Nut, the mighty one,
" the great lady, the daughter of Ra " ;
" Nut, the lady of heaven,
" the mistress of the gods "
;
" Nut, the great lady, who gave birth
" to the gods ;
" Nut, who gave birth to the gods, the lady of
"

1
Maspero, Becueil, torn, v., p. 25.
2
See my Vocabulary to the Booh of the Dead, p. 159.
NUT, the Mother of the Gods.
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NUT 10;

" heaven, the mistress of the Two Lands." 1

The shrines of the
goddess were not very numerous, but there was a Per- Nut,
a
^ J) , in Memphis, and a Het-Nut, cj , in the Delta, and
three portions of the temple territory inDendera were called
respectively Ant-en-Nut, Per-mest-en-Nut, and Per-netch-
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goddess
and

is
ctzd
t
usually represented in the form
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2
The
of a
woman who bears upon her head a vase of water,
0, which has the phonetic value Nil, and which
indicates both her name and her nature 3 she
sometimes wears on her head the horns and disk of
the goddess Hathor, and holds in her hands a
papyrus sceptre and the symbol of "life." She
once appears in the form of the amulet of the

buckle, ft, from the top of which projects her

head, and she is provided with human arms,
hands, and feet ; sometimes she appears in the
form which is usually identified as that of Hathor,
* *
that is as a woman standing in a sycamore tree .«
* •
+
»
*+
» «
« i *

and pouring out water from a vase, (v, for the « *

souls of the dead who come to her. The syca-

D ^
more tree of Nut," „ /$ <
IS

mentioned in Chapter lix. of the Booh of the Dead,

and in the vignette we see the goddess standing
in it.

On a mummy-case at Turin the goddess

appears in the form of a woman standing on the

! ° ~ ^fc* o o ^
f=^ ^ II 1«
° Q ^
Y7

2
Brugsch, Diet. Geog., p. 366.
3
For a good collection of figures of the goddess see Lanzone, op. cit., pi. 150 ff.
104 NUT
emblem of gold, f^. Above her head is the solar disk
with uraei, and she is accompanied by the symbols of Ne-
khebet, Uatchet, and Hathor as goddess of the West; by her
feet standtwo snake-headed goddesses of the sky, each of whom
wears the feather on her head. The goddess herself wears the
(J

vulture crown with uraei, and above are the uraei of the South
and North and the hawk of Horus wearing the white crown.
Below her is the sycamore tree, her emblem, and in it sits the
great Cat of Ra who is cutting off the head of Apep, the god of
darkness and evil. In the form in which she appears in this
picture Nut has absorbed the attributes of all the great goddesses,
and she is the type of the great mother of the gods and of the
world.
On coffins and in many papyri we find her depicted in the
form of a woman whose
body is bent round in
such a way as to form a
semi-circle ; in this atti-

tude she represents the

sky or heaven, and her
legs and arms represent
the four pillars on which
the sky was supposed to
rest and mark the position
Seb and Nut.
of the cardinal points.

She is supported in her position by Shu, the son of Ra, who

is supposed to have lifted her up from the embrace of Seb,
and this last-named god is seen lying on the ground, with one hand
raised to heaven and the other touching the earth. On each side

of Shu is a hawk; the one represents the rising and the other the
setting sun. According to one myth Nut gave birth to her son
the Sun-god daily, and passing over her body he arrived at her
mouth, into which he disappeared, and passing through her body
he was re-born the following morning. Another myth declared
that the sun sailed up the legs and over the back of the goddess in
the Atet, or Matet Boat until noon, when he entered the Sektet
boat and- continued his journey until sunset. In the accompanying
The Goddess NUT holding a Tablet on which stands
HARPOCRATES.
 NUT 105

picture we see Ra in his boat with Shu and Tefnut (?) sailing
up through the watery abyss behind the legs of Nut, in the Atet
Boat, and sailing down the arms of the goddess in the Sektet Boat
into the Tuat or Underworld the whole of the body and limbs of
;

the goddess are bespangled with stars. In another remarkable

picture we see a second body of a woman, which is also bent round
in such a way as to form a semi-circle, within that of Nut,
and within this second body is the body of a man which is

bent round in such a way as to form an almost complete circle.

Some explain by saying that the outer body of a woman

this scene

is the heaven over whichRa travels, and that the inner body is
the heaven over which the Moon makes her way at night, whilst
the male body within them is the almost circular valley of the
Tuat others, however, say that the two women are merely personi-
;

fications of the Day and Night skies, and this view is, no doubt,
the correct one. The raising up of Nut from the embrace of Seb
represented, as we have before said, the first act of creation, and
the great creative power which brought it about having separated
the earth from the waters which were above it, and set the sun
between the earth and the sky, was now able to make the gods,
and human beings, animals, etc. The Egyptians were very fond of
representations of this scene, and they had many variants of it, as
may be seen from the collection of reproductions given by
Lanzone. 1
In some of these we find Shu holding up the Boat of
Ra under body of Nut, in others we see the two boats of Ra
the
placed side by side on her back, the god in one boat being
Khepera, and the god in the other being Osiris. Shu is some-
times accompanied by Thoth, and sometimes by Khnemu ; in one
instance Seb has a serpent's head, and in another the goose, which
is his symbol, is seen standing near his feet with its beak open in
the act of cackling. The Egyptian artists were not always con-
sistent in some of their details of the scene, for at one time the

region wherein is the head of Nut is described as the east, ¥> an(^

at another as the west, ft ; at one time Seb lies with his head to the

east, and at another to the west. Finally, the goddess once

Op. cit., pll. luOff.

106 NUT
appears holding up in her hands a tablet, on which stands a
youthful male figure who is probably intended to represent
Harpocrates, or one of the many Horus gods in this example she ;

is regarded as the Sky-mother who has produced her son, the

Sun-god. According to another myth Nut was transformed into
a huge cow, the legs of which were held in position by the Four
Children of Horus, whilst her body was supported by Shu, as the
body of Nut when in the form of a woman was borne up by
this god.

From a large number of passages found in texts of all periods

we learn that, from first to last, Nut was always regarded as a
friend and protector of the dead, and the deceased appealed to her
for food, and help, and protection just as a son appeals to his
mother. In the text of Teta (line 175), it is said to the deceased,
" Nut hath set thee as a god to Set in thy name of god,' and thy '

" mother Nut hath spread herself out over thee in her name of
"
' Coverer of the sky,' " ^^
,-

^k
, MAMA <<r\

NK
3-?
O ^L 1
pa r-1

—
~^~ °
n n §k <===> n |

1
and in line 268 we have, " Nephthys hath united again for thee

" thy members in her name of Sesheta, M r^vn ""^X ^ sjk , the lady

" of the buildings through which thou hast passed, and thy mother

" A
Nut in her name of Qersut, M ^\ ^ hath granted
, that she

" shall embrace thee in her A

name Qersu, fl ^K and, that she

" shall introduce thee in her name of '

Door.' " In the text of
Pepi I. (line 256) it is said, " Pepi hath come forth from Pe with
" the spirits of Pe, and he is arrayed in the apparel of Horus, and
" in the dress of Thoth, and
Isis is before him and Nephthys is
" behind him Ap-uat hath opened unto him a way, and Shu
;

" lifteth him up, and the souls of Annu make him ascend the
" steps and set him before Nut who stretcheth out her hand to
"him." In the Book of the Dead are several allusions to Nut and
to the meat and drink which she provides for the deceased, and a
chapter (lix.) is found which was specially composed to enable him
to " snuff the air, and to have dominion over the waters in the
The Goddess MUT pouring out Water from the Sycamore
Tree over the deceased and His Soul.
 NUT 107

" Underworld." The text reads :

— " Hail, thou sycamore of the
" goddess Nut ! Grant thou to me of the water and of the air
" which dwell in thee. I embrace the throne which is in Unnu
" (Hermopolis), and I watch and guard the egg of the Great
" Cackler. 1 It groweth, I grow ; it liveth, I live ; it snuffeth the
"air, I snuff the air." To make sure that the recital of these
words should have the proper result they were accompanied by a
vignette, in which the goddess is seen standing in a tree, out of
which she reaches to the deceased with one hand a table covered
with bread and other articles of food with the other she sprinkles ;

water upon him from a libation vase as he kneels at the foot of

a tree.
The sycamore of Nut was situated at Heliopolis, and is often
mentioned in mythological texts. According to the Book of the
Dead (cix. 4) there were two turquoise-coloured sycamores at
Heliopolis, and the Suu-god passed out between them each morning
when he began his journey across the sky, and " strode forward
"over the supports of Shu (i.e., the four pillars, I T, which bore
" up the sky) towards the gate of the East through which Ra
" rose." The sycamore of Nut was probably one of these, but in
any case Apep, the personification of darkness and evil, was slain
at its foot by the Great Cat Ra, and the branches of this tree
became a place of refuge for weary souls during the fiery heats of
noonday in the summer time. Here they were refreshed with
that food whereon the goddess herself lived, and here they
participated in the who were her offspring
life of the divine beings
and associates. Since the mythological tree of Nut stood at
Heliopolis and was a sycamore it may well have served as the
archetype of the sycamore tree under which tradition asserts that
the Virgin Mary sat and rested during her flight to Egypt, and
there seems to be little doubt that many of the details about her
wanderings in the Delta, which are recorded in the Apocryphal
Gospels and in writings of a similar class, are borrowed from the
old mythology of Egypt. Associated with the sycamore of Nut

1
I.e., the Egg out of which sprang the Sun, which was produced by Seb and
Nut.
 108 NUT
were the plants among which the Great Cackler Seb laid the Egg
of the Sun, and these may well be identified with the famous
balsam trees, from which was expressed the oil which was so

highly prized by the Christians of Egypt and Abyssinia, and which

was used by them in their ceremony of baptism ; these trees were
always watered with water drawn from the famous 'Ain Shems
(a meaning the " Eye of the Sun "), i.e., the well of
name really
water which is fed by a spring in the immediate neighbourhood,
and is commonly called the " Fountain of the Sun." We may
note in passing another legend, which was popular among the
Copts, to the effect that the Virgin Mary once hid herself and her
Son from their enemies in the trunk of the sycamore at Heliopolis,
and that it is based upon an ancient Egyptian myth recorded by
Plutarch which declared that Isis hid the body of Osiris in a tree
trunk.
In the later times of Egyptian history the priests of Dendera
asserted that the home of Nut was in their city, and in an inscrip-
tion on their temple * they recorded that it was the birthplace,

, of Isis, and that it contained the birth- chamber,

P
'
'

® i
wherein Nut brought forth the goddess in the form of

a dark-skinned child, whom she called " Khnemet-ankhet, the lady

of love," fj
^ nr O ^^ t=t ,
on the fourth of the five epagomenal

days. When Nut saw her child, she exclaimed, "As nHl, i.e.,

behold), I havebecome thy mother," and this was the origin of

the name Ast, or Isis. In Thebes Nut was identified with Isis,

the god-mother, A\ <=> vv , the lady of Dendera, the dweller in

Ant, the goddess Nubt, i* to<

M wk was bc-ra in Per-Nubt, and

gave birth to her brother Osiris in Thebes, and to her son Horus

(the Elder) in Qesqeset, 2 •>

an d to her sister Nephthys in

Het-Seshesh, I ^; and in the same city she was regarded as a

1
Brugsch, Astronomische unci Astrologische Inschriften Altaegyptisclier Denk-
mdler, Leipzig, 1883, p. 101.
2
Brugsch, Diet. G6og., p. 865.
 ;

NUT 109

form of the goddess Apet, ° HI , or An, ° II , i.e., the hippo-

(j
(J

potamus goddess Ta-ubt, o "^\ 5fe 1, an(* also of the local

city goddess Apet, \\

^ (2 ^ J ? an d s0 she became a form

of Hathor. The identification of Nut with Api the hippo-

potamus goddess is very ancient, for in the text of Unas
(line 487 ff.) we read, " Come Shu, come Shu, come Shu, for
'Unas is born on the thighs of
and he hath sunk down Isis,

'
on the thighs of Nephthys, having been brought forth.
'Temu, thou father of Unas, grant that Unas himself may be
'
set among the number of the gods who are perfect, and
'
have understanding, and are indestructible x
Api, mother
2
'
of Unas, give thou thy breast to this Unas in order that he
1
may convey it to his mouth, and that he may suck milk there-
'
from." Another form of Nut was Heqet, fi ° JJ , a goddess

who was, strictly speaking, the female counterpart of Sebek-Ra of

Koni Ombo.
As the children of Nut were not all brought forth in one
place so they were not all born on the same day ; her five children,
i.e., Osiris, Horus, Set, Isis, and Nephthys, were born on the five

epagomenal days of the year, or as they are called in Egyptian, " the
Q
® On
five days
J
over the year,"
J '
mil e in
j
I i
. the first,
'
®'
Sf^, took

place the birth of Osiris, tfj M J ft , on the second, ® , was born

Heru-ur,
fl
[1
~
fl ^ f|
, on the third, ® , was born
~
Set,
f|]
fl
~
|5)

^j, on the fourth, ©, was born Isis, [1 JS) jj~(^, and on

|
the

first,
fifth,

third, and
(
, was born Nephthys, |

fifth of the epagomenal days were unlucky, Q£x,

[1 §) ^ ^ Q j^- The

the second is not described as either lucky or unlucky, but the

fourth is said to be a "beautiful festival of heaven and earth,"

***
 —

110 NUT
<Z£? T V F
"V The part which Nut played in the Egyptian

Underworld was a very prominent one, and from numerous

passages in the Book of the Bead we can see that without her
favour life would be impossible for those who have left this world,
and have begun their journey through the Tuat. The care and
protection which Nut exhibited towards her son Osiris caused her
to be regarded as a tender and pitiful mother, and every pious
Egyptian prayed that she might do for him even as she had done
for Osiris, and hoped that through her he might shine in heaven

like the star Sept (A^, Sothis), when it shines in the sky just

before sunrise.
The favour Nut gave the deceased the power to rise in a
of
renewed body, even as Ra rose from the Egg which was produced
by Seb and Nut, and it enabled him to journey with the Sun-god
each day from sunrise to sunset, and to pass through the dreary
habitations of the Tuat in safety. So far back as the time of
Men-kau-Ra (Mycerinus) the Egyptians delighted to inscribe on
the cover of the coffins of their dead a portion of the following
extract :

I W I /\ AA/WVi 9
peshesh-nes mut-lc Nut her-k em
Spread eth herself thy mother Nut over thee in

D ^
1
At
verts en r
shet- pet ertd-s un-nek em
her name of coverer of heaven, she maketh thee to be as

1
neter an
««=-
khefti-k
k
em ren-k en
1
neter

a god without thine enemy in thy name of god,

1
Brugsch, Thesaurus, p. 481.
 NUT 111

ekl
Ichnem-s
1
=»$ k-*
thu ma
2
lihet
^^Vk™P
neb tut em ren-s

she withdraweth thee from thing every evil in her name

sk-M^
Khnemet tu

of " Defender from every evil, great

neb
¥*
urt
— fc-
thut

lady ;
^ Urd dm
and from Ura whom
A-D-

iw
mesu-s
"
she hath brought forth ;

and whenever was possible they painted on them figures of the

it

goddess, who was represented with her protecting wings stretched

out over the deceased, and with the emblems of celestial water and
air in her hands. They believed that the dead were safely under
the protection of the goddess when a picture of her was painted
on the cover of the coffin above them, and they rarely forgot to
suggest her presence in one form or the other.
The following passages from the text of Pepi I. (line 100 if.)

illustrate other aspects of the goddess : — " Hail, Nut, in whose

" head appear the Two Eyes (i.e., Sun and Moon), thou hast taken
" possession of Horus and art his Urt-hekau (i.e., mighty one of
" words of power), thou hast taken possession of Set and art his

"Urt-hekau. Behold, Nut, who didst decree that thou shouldst

" be born in thy name of Pet-Annu (i.e., Sky of Heliopolis), decree
" thou that this Pepi shall live, and that he may not perish.
" Nut, who hast risen as a queen that thou mayest take posses-
" sion of the gods and of their doubles, and their flesh and their
" divine food, and of everything whatsoever which they have, grant
" thou that he may be without opposition, and that he may live,
" and let thy life, Nut, be the life of Pepi. Thy mother cometh
"to thee and thou mo vest not. Nut cometh to thee and thou
" mo vest not. The Great Protectress cometh to thee and thou

1
See text of Teta, 11. 175, 279 ; Pepi I., 11. 60, 103.
112 NUT
" movest not, but as soon as she hath bestowed her protection upon
" thee thou dost move, for she hath given thee thy head, she hath
" brought to thee thy bones, she hath collected thy flesh, she hath
" brought thee thy heart in thy body, thou livest according to thy

"precepts, thou speakest to those who are before thee, thou

"protectest thy children from grief, thou purifiest thyself with the
"purifications of all the gods, and they come to thee with their
" doubles."
 I

( 113 )

CHAPTER VI

OSIRIS, j^, AS-AR, OR jg, ^,

FROM history of
the hieroglyphic texts of all

Egypt we learn that the god of the dead, par

periods of the dynastic

excellence, was the god, whom the Egyptians called by a name

which may be tentatively transcribed As-ar, or Us-ar, who is
commonly known to us as " Osiris." The oldest and simplest form
of the name is \\ , that is to say, it is written bv means of two

hieroglyphics, the first of which represents a "throne" and the

other an "eye," but the exact meaning attached to the combination
of thetwo pictures by those who first used them to express the
name of the god, and the signification of the name in the minds of
those who invented it cannot be said. In the late dynastic period
the first syllable of the name appears to have been pronounced
Aus or Us, and by punning it was made to have the meaning of
the word usr, " strength, might, power," and the like, and there
is little doubt that the Egyptians at that time supposed the name

of the god to mean something like the " strength of the Eye," i.e.,

the strength of the Sun-god Ra. This meaning may very well
have suited their conception of the god Osiris, but it cannot be
accepted as the correct signification of the name. For similar
reasons the suggestion that the name As-ar is connected with the
Egyptian word for "prince," or " chief," ser, cannot be entertained.
It is probable that the second hieroglyphic in the name As-ar is to

i Other forms are

j Q^ , Usr-Ra,
^ [1
<=> ^, User,
-f] ^ ()(]

Uasri, and M (§_ |l ^jj, Ausares.

II —
 1 ,,

114 OSIR1S-UNNEFER
be understood as referring to the great Eye of heaven, i.e., Ra, but
the connexion of the first with it is not clear, and as we have no
means of knowing what attributes were assigned to the god by his

earliest worshippers the difficulty is hardly likely to be cleared up.

The throne or seat, , is the first sign in the name of As-t,

jj
o
jj

who is the female counterpart of Osiris, and it is very probable

that originally the same conception underlay both names. It is

useless to argue
1
that, because the dynastic Egyptians at a late

period of their history substituted the disk of Ra, O, for the

eye, -<s>-, in the name As-ar, and because they addressed to the
o-od hymns in which they identified him as the source of light and

as Ra, therefore As-ar was originally a solar god, especially when

we remember the childish plays upon words which the priests
resorted to whenever they attempted to find etymologies for the
names of their gods.
In comparatively late times Osiris was called Un-nefer,

^J^
/wwv\
T
U i—
3 , in religious and mythological texts, and the priests (like

modern Egyptologists) tried to explain the name. The writer of a

hymn quoted by Dr. Brugsch derived the word from un, ~Sk$ *

" to open, to appear, to make manifest," and neferu, T

*^~ v\ i

" good things," and when he wrote, " Thy beauty (or goodness)
" maketh itself manifest in thy person to rouse the gods to life in
"thy name Un-nefer," it is clear that he was only making a play
of words on the name "Un-nefer"; and again when he wrote,
"Thou comest as the strength (usr) of Ra in thy name of As-ar,"
his object was rather to play with words on the name As-ar than
name of Osiris. We may
to afford a trustworthy derivation of the
modern derivations and explanations of the
note in passing that
name Un-nefer are equally unsatisfactory. 2 The truth of the
matter seems to be that the ancient Egyptians knew just as little

1 See Brugsch, Religion, p. 81.

2 According to one writer the name means " beautiful hare," and according to
another the " Good Being " ; in one case un is connected with the verb un, " to be,"

and in the other with the god Un, -^* JH ,

or Unti, t$0% J] ,
who is mentioned

in the Book of the Dead, Chapters xv. (Litany), 1 ; cxxxvi.A 7.

OSIRIS - UNNEFER.
 ATTRIBUTES OF OSIRIS 115

about the original meaning of the name As-ar as we do, and that
they had no better means of obtaining information about it than
we have.
Passing now to the consideration of the original characteristics
and attributes of Osiris we find that the oldest religious texts
known to us refer to him as the great god of the dead, and
throughout them it is tacitly assumed that the reader will under-
stand that he once possessed human form and lived upon earth,
and that by means of some unusual power or powers he was able
to bestow upon himself after his death a new life which he lived in
a new body in a region over which he ruled as king, and into
which he was believed to be willing to admit all such as had lived
a good and correct life upon earth, and had been buried with
appropriate ceremonies under the protection of certain amulets,
and with the proper recital of certain " divine words " and words
of power. The worship of Osiris is, however, very much older
than these views, which, it is clear, could only belong to a people
who had advanced to a comparatively high state of civilization and
of mental development.
The oldest authorities for the religious views of the ancient
Egyptians are the " Pyramid Texts," which are known to us from
copies made in the IVth, Vth and Vlth Dynasties, that is to say,
in the period of their highest development ; even at this remote
time the priests of Annu had composed a system of theology which
was supported by the authority of the king and his high officials,
and there is no doubt that it was based upon older systems of
religious thought and belief. What these may have been it is
useless to speculate, and all that is certain about the Heliopolitan
system is that, whilst proclaiming the supremacy of their local
god Tern or Ra-Tem, its priests took care to include in it as many
of the ancient provincial gods as possible, and to adopt wherever
they were able to do so the ancient beliefs and traditions concern-
ing them. Among such gods Osiris held a very prominent place,
in fact he was in respect of the dead and of the Underworld what
Ra, or Ra-Tem was to the living and to this world, and in some
passages he is referred to simply as " god," T, without the addition
of any name. No other god of the Egyptians was ever mentioned
116 WORSHIP OF OSIRIS
or alluded to in this manner, and no other god at any time in
Egypt ever occupied exactly the same exalted position in their
minds, or was thought to possess his peculiar attributes.
Up to the present no evidence has been deduced from the
hieroglyphic texts which enables us to say specifically when Osiris

began to be worshipped, or in what town or city his cult was first

established, but the general information which we possess on this

subject indicates that this god was adored as the great god of the
dead by the dynastic Egyptians from first to last, and that the
earliest dynastic centres of his worship were situated at Abydos
in the South and at Tettu (Mendes) in the North ; in proof of
these statements the following considerations are submitted. In a
Rubric to one of the versions of the lxivth Chapter of the Theban
Recension of the Book of the Bead it is said that the Chapter was
" found " during the reign of Semti, that is to say, the Chapter 1

was revised, or edited, or re-written, or received some kind of

literary treatment, during the reign of the fifth king of the
1st Dynasty. If we look at the version of the Chapter to which
this Rubric isappended we find this sentence " I am Yesterday, :
—
" and I am To-day and I have the power to be born a second time.
;

" I the hidden Soul create the gods, and I give sepulchral meals to
" the divine beings in Amenti and in heaven." Osiris is mentioned
by name in connexion with " his city," and Tern, Khepera,
Shu, the Urti goddesses, i.e., Isis and Nephthys, the goddess
Aukert, the Chief of Re-stau, Hehi, the Bennu, and the 4,601,200
spirits, who are twelve cubits high, are referred to, and we see that
the whole of the religious and mythological systems of the
Egyptians as made known to us by texts of later periods were in a
well- developed state even in the 1st Dynasty.
Confirmation of this fact is afforded by a small wooden plaque,
"
in the British Museum, which was made for a " royal chancellor

called Hemaka, X
Jp [_J , who flourished in the reign of Semti, the

king in whose reign the lxivth Chapter of the Booh of the Dead
was " found." On the right-hand side of the plaque is a scene in
which the king is represented in the act of dancing before a deity,

1 His name was formerly read Hesepti.

 SEMTI AND OSIRIS 117

who wears the crown of the South and is seated within a shrine
set upon the top of some steps from ; various texts and scenes
inscribed upon papyri and coffins, etc., of the New Empire we
know that Osiris was called the " god on the top of the steps," and
that he was depicted as a being seated in a shrine set on the top of
a flight of steps, and there is no doubt that the god before whom
Semti danced was Osiris. Immediately below the scene on the
plaque described above is a representation of a ceremonial boat,
and we compare it with certain vignettes in the Boole of the Dead
if

and elsewhere we cannot fail to identify it as the well-known

Hennu Boat of the god Seker (Socharis). Now, in the Rubric of
the Chapter already referred to, we are told that the Chapter was
found " in the foundations of the shrine of Hennu," and thus the
Chapter and the god Hennu, i.e., the god of the Hennu Boat, were
in existence in the 1st Dynasty, and they were in some way
specially —
connected with king Semti if we are to believe an
Egyptian tradition which was current under the XVIIIth Dynasty,
about B.C. 1G00. Moreover, if the gods whom the Egyptians under
the IV th and Vth Dynasties declared to belong to the company of
Osiris existed under the 1st Dynasty, Osiris also must have existed,
and the mention of the Underworld by the name of Amenti, or
Amentet, presupposes the existence of its god and king, one of
whose chief titles was Khenti-Amenti. It is important to note
also that on the plaque of Hemaka Osiris wears the White Crown,
or Crown of the South, a fact which suggests that at the time
when it was made he was regarded as a god of the South, and to
note that although in later times his cult was general throughout
Egypt he was always represented with the White Crown on his
head, and that it was one of his most characteristic attributes.
The plaque of Hemaka proves that a centre of the Osiris cult
existed at Abydos under the 1st Dynasty, but we are not justified
in assuming that the god was first worshipped there, and when we
remember the frequent allusions in the Pyramid Texts to Pe and
Tep, the two divisions of the city of Per-Uatchet in the Delta, it is
difficult not to think that even under the 1st Dynasty shrines

had been built in honour of Osiris at several places in Egypt.

Dynastic tradition asserted that the head of Osiris was buried at
118 OSIRIS KHENT-AMENTI
Abydos, and for this reason that city became of the first importance
to worshippers of the god, but we know that the local god of the
nome was An-Her, and that his cult was thrust out by that of
Osiris, who was adored under Khent-Amenti "
the title of " Osiris ;

there must then have been a time when Osiris was brought to
Abydos, and it is probable that he was introduced into that city
from the North, for the following reasons. In the Pyramid Texts,
which are the oldest exponents of the religious system which made
Osiris thesupreme god of the dead, we have frequent allusions to
the food and drink which the deceased enjoys, and to the apparel
wherein he is arrayed in the Underworld. We find that he wears
white linen garments and sandals, that he by a lake sits in the
Field of Peace with the gods, and partakes with them of the tree of

life, ^ a*a^a ¥•
9
and that he eats figs and grapes, and drinks
oil and wine, and that he lives on the " bread of eternity," and
the " beer of everlastingness, ' ^ Q ™^ XI ft =0=

His bread was made of the wheat which Horus ate, and the four
children of Horus, Mestha, Hfipi, Tuamutef, and Qebhsennuf
" appeased the hunger of his belly, and the thirst of his lips." He
abhorred the hunger which he could not satisfy, and he loathed
the thirst which he could not slake, and one of the greatest delights
of his existence was the knowledge that he was " delivered from
the power of those who would away his food."
steal

Another source of great joy was the power which he possessed

of washing himself clean, and he and his double are represented as
sitting down to eat bread together, each having washed himself
clean ;
yet another source of enjoyment was his journeying by
water in a boat which was rowed by the mariners of the Sun-god
Ra. All these and similar statements point clearly to the fact that
the reward which Osiris bestowed after death upon his follower
was a life which he led in a region where corn, and wine, and oil,

and water were abundant, and where circumstances permitted him

to wear white linen robes and white sandals, and where he was not
required to do work of any kind, and where he was able to perforin

1 See the Chapter " Doctrine of Eternal Life " in my Papyrus of Ani, London,
1894, pp. lxxv.-lxxvii.
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ANGELS OF THOTH 119

his ablutions at will, and to repose whensoever it pleased him to

do so. He possessed his own estate, or homestead, where he abode
with his parents, and presumably with a wife, or wives, and
family, and his heavenly life was to all intents and purposes
nothing but a duplicate of his life upon earth. In several passages
in the Pyramid Texts we also have allusions to a life in which his
enjoyments and delights were of a more spiritual character, but it
is evident that these represent the beliefs and doctrines of the

priests of Ra, who declared that the blessed fed upon light, and
were arrayed in light and became beings of light, and that the
place wherein they lived was the boat of the Sun-god Ra, wherein
they passed over heaven, and wherefrom their souls flew down
to earth to visit the scenes of their former life. Thus, as far back
as the period of the Vth Dynasty texts belonging to two distinct
cults, i.e., the cult of Osiris and the cult of Ra, existed side by side,

and no attempt appears to have been made to suppress either that

of Osiris or that of Ra ; in other words, the priests of Heliopolis
had the good sense to allow the beliefs which were connected with
the cult of Osiris to find expression in the great Recension of
religious texts which they promulgated about
B.C. 3500. The cult
of Osiriswas very ancient, and was universal, and they saw that
the cult of Ra would not take its place in the minds of the
Egyptians for a very considerable time, if ever.
From what has been said above it is quite clear that the
followers of Osiris believed in a material heaven, and we have now
to consider where that heaven Avas situated. In a passage in the

text of Unas (line 1 91 if.) the Angels of Thoth, ^ V^ ^^ ^

and the Ancient Ones, ^ v^, and the Great Terrifier,

I <zs^ \\ v\ ^=s , who cometh forth from the Nile, fi , Hap,

and Ap-uat, \f S=^^£^3: d^, who cometh forth from the

tree Asert, (1
<=> w , are called upon to witness that the mouth
of the king pure, because he eats and drinks nothing except that
is

upon which the gods live. The text says, " Ye have taken Unas
" with you, and he eateth what ye eat, he drinketh that which ye
" drink, he liveth as ye live, he dwelleth as ye dwell, he is powerful
120 THE MATERIAL HEAVEN
" as ye are powerful, and he saileth about as ye sail about " ; thus
the heaven where Unas lived after death was in some place where
there were waters whereon he could sail in a boat. The text
continues, "Unas hath netted [fowl and fish] with the net in
" Aaru, Unas hath possession over the waters in Sekhet-hetep,
" and his offerings of meat and drink are among the gods. The
" water of Unas is as wine, even as it is for Ra, and Unas goeth
" about heaven like Ra, and he traverseth heaven like Thoth."

From this extract we see that the region where the heaven of Unas
was situated is called Aaru, (I
"%\ _^£ >
* ne name having as
])])])])

a determinative a sign which is intended to represent a mass of

waving reeds; in another place (line 412) the region is called

Sekhet- Aar, H ® jjj]]]

\\ <K\ _s^ , and is identical with the

Sekhet-Aarru, DJJO
^
1^ *ST ^ anc* Sekhet- Aanru,
™ lm Q '^X '
i
n

1 1 Q
" ^\ ~ ^ , of the later Recensions of the Book of
the Dead. From a number of other passages Ave find that Aaru or
Sekhet- Aaru was divided into a number of districts, the chief of

which was called Sekhet-hetepet, 000 "J, 1,e -> Viem oi

Q
Offerings," or Sekhet-hetep, (]]]]] =&=, i.e., "Field of Peace,'
and was presided over by the god Sekhti-hetep, 000

To the south of this region lay Sekhet- Sanehemu,

l

Y~) Mv V ^^ '
'
*' e *' " Field °f ^ ne Grasshoppers," and in
it were the Lakes of the Tuat, c^> X , and the

Lakes of the Jackals,

L J
—h— <k\ v\ -^ a . In the
waters of Aaru, or Sekhet-Aaru, Ra purified himself (Pepi I.,

line 234), and it was here that the deceased also purified himself
before he began his heavenly life ; here also dwelt the three classes
of beings who are called Akhemu-seku, Akhemu-Betesh, and
Akhemu-Sesh-emau, 2 that is to say, three classes of celestial bodies

1
See Book of the Bead, cxxv. Pt. iii., 1. 19.

1-
?$.q»k--*jsr.
oo
THE SEKHET-HETEPl
[FROM THE PAPYRUS OF AN

ANI Ploughing and Reaping and*

of TM
 OR ELYSIAN FIELDS
»RIT. MUS. NO. 10470, SHEET 35).]

'RSHIPPING THE GODS IN THE ABODE

LESSED.
 THE MATERIAL HEAVEN 121

or beings who were thought never to diminish, ojp melt away,

or decay.
All the evidence as to the position of the region Aaru shows
that originally it was thought to be in the sky, but,
on the other
hand, there are indications that was entered from certain places
it

in the Delta, and among such was the region which contained the
double city, Pe-Tep and Tettu, or Tatau. Thus in a passage in
the text of Pepi I. (line 255) it is said, " Pepi hath gone forth from
" Pe, and from being with the Souls of Pe, and he is arrayed in as
" the apparel of Horus, and in the garment of Thoth, and as Isis is
" before him and Nephthys is behind him, Apuat openeth a way
" for him, andShu beareth him up, and the Souls of Annu make
"him to mount the steps that they may present him to Nut
" who stretcheth out her hands to him, even as they did for
" Osiris when he arrived in the other world. Hra-f-ha-f

v*L_ ^ e P* *iat k J ourne y e d on to Sekhet-Aar,

w jjJk*^')'
"
(P J HilH =» \ ^ o^> JSd J) ,
be hath come forth from Uart,

" ana s ^ nce ne * s * ne D0(ty which hath come forth

Vol w\ ^ ^ ) '
"

"from God, and the uraeus which hath come forth from Ra, he
" hath sailed on to Sekhet-Aar, having the four Spirits of Horus,
"Hap, Amset, Tuamutef, and Qebhsennuf, with him, two on each
" side." This view of the position of Sekhet-Aaru is supported by
several passages in the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead,
and the pictures of the district, with its lakes and canals which
form the vignettes to the cxth Chapter, indicate that it was
situated to the north of Egypt. The name Sekhet-Aaru appears
to mean "Field of Reeds" or "Field of Plants," and the idea
conveyed by it was that of some very fertile region where farming-
operations could be carried on with ease and success, and where it

would be possible to possess a large, well-kept, and well-stocked

homestead, situated at no great distance from the Nile, or from
one of main branches. In the text the deceased prays, " Let
its

" me have the power to order my own fields in Tettu, and my own
" growing crops in Annu. Let me live upon bread made of white

1
I.e., " He whose face is behind him."
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122 TETTU-BUSIRIS
"grain, and let my beer bemade from red grain, and may the
" persons of my father and mother be given unto me as guardians
" of my door, and for the ordering of my homestead. Let me be
" sound and strong, and let me have much room wherein to move,
"and let me be able to sit wheresoever I please " (Chapter Hi.).

In the neighbourhood of Tettu, then, the original Sekhet-

Aaru was thought to be located, and in Tettu the reconstruction of
the dismembered body of Osiris took place, and was here that
it

the solemn ceremony of setting up his backbone was performed

each year. The city of Tettu, ft ft csi %S , or Tatau,
here referred to was the capital of the ninth nome of Lower
Egypt called Per-Asar-neb-Tettu, '"^ IRj ^7 ft e
^ ^, by the
Egyptians, and Busiris by the Greeks. In a portion of it called

Neb-sekert, ^37
P <
5>[J1 ]
, was preserved, according to one

tradition, the backbone, of Osiris; according to another his

jj^,
jaws were there preserved. 1
From what has been said above it is clear that the cult of
Osiris is certainly as old as the period of the 1st Dynasty, and that
the oldest centre of his worship was situated in the Delta. Every-
thing which the texts of all periods record concerning him goes to
show that he was an indigenous god of North-east Africa, and that
his home and origin were possibly Libyan. We have no means of
finding out what were the earliest conceptions about Osiris, but it
seems that he was originally a water spirit, or the god of some arm
of the Nile, or portion of the main body of the Nile, and that
he developed later into a great water-god Dr. Brugsch 2 and ;

M. Maspero both regarded him as a water-god, and rightly

3

consider that he represented the creative and nutritive powers of

the Nile stream in general and of the Inundation in particular.
The natural opponent of Osiris was Set, Avho typified death
and destruction, and who was the god par excellence of the desert
and in various forms and told in different ways we have the
narrative of the contest between the powers of life and death, and

1
See de Rouge, Ge'og. Ancienne, p. 59. ~ Religion, pp. 190, 197.
3
Histoire Ancienne, torn, i., p. 172.
 OSIRIS AS WATER-GOD 123

light and darkness, and decay and regeneration, which appears in

the religious texts of every period. In fact, Set was the opponent
in every way of Osiris who, in the words of Dr. Brugsch, typified
the " unbroken rejuvenescence of immortal Nature according to
" the Divine Will and according to eternal laws." 1
In the xviith
Chapter of the Book of the Dead the deceased says, " I am
"Yesterday (u sef); I know To-day (^ "v\ "v\ O tuau)"
"
and in answer to the question which follows, " Who then is this ?

it is said, " Yesterday is Osiris, and To-day is Rti, on the day when
" he shall destroy the enemies of Neb-er-tcher, and when he shall
" establish as prince and ruler his son Horus" (lines 15-18). This
passage proves that although Osiris was the type of that which is

gone, or dead, or the past, he possessed a power of regeneration

which expressed itself in the young Horus. In his aspect of a
water-god Osiris was the personification of the falling Nile, or the
Nile in winter, and of the night sun, and of the winter sun, but he
was, nevertheless, the cause of the fertility of Egypt, which was
personified as Isis, and was the father of the young Horus, who in
due course grew into an Osiris, and produced by means of Isis a
young Horus to take his place, becoming thus the " father of his
2
father."
Among a people like the Egyptians it would not be very long
before the annual rise, and inundation, and fall of the Nile would
be compared to the chief periods in the lives of men, and before
the renewed rise of the Nile in the following year would be
compared to man's immortality, which in Egypt was taken for
granted from the earliest times ; and that this is exactly what
happened the hieroglyphic texts supply abundant proof. Un-
fortunately, however, we find nowhere in Egyptian works a
connected narrative of the life, acts and deeds, and sufferings and
death, and resurrection of Osiris, the man-god, but we possess a
tolerably accurate account of them in Plutarch's De Iside et

Osiride.
3
The mythological history of Isis and Osiris by this

"Die ununterbrochene Verji'ingung der unsterblichen

1 Nafcur nacb gottlicbem
Willen und nacb ewigen Gresetzen," liel'ujion, p. 611.
3 Brugsch, Religion, pp. 612, 613.
3
Ed. Didot (Serijpta M
or alia, torn, iii., pp. 427-469), § xii. ff.
124 ISIS AND OSIRIS
writer is so important that an English rendering of it by
Mr. Squire is given at the end of this chapter, but it will be
necessary here to summarize the main facts in it in order that
they may be compared with the hieroglyphic texts which refer to
the subject. According to these Osiris was the son of Rhea, the
Egyptian Nut, the wife of Helios, the Egyptian Ra, by Kronos,
the Egyptian Seb when Helios found that his wife was with
;

child by Seb he declared that she should not be delivered of her

child in any month or in any year. By a stratagem Hermes, the
Egyptian Thoth, played at tables with Selene, and won from her
the seventieth part of each day of the year, i.e., in all five days,
which he added to the year. On the first of these five days Osiris
was born, and a voice was heard to proclaim that the lord of
creation was born. In due course he became king of Egypt and
taughtmen husbandry, and established a code of laws, and made
men worship the gods when Egypt had become peaceful and
;

prosperous he set out to instruct the other nations of the world,

and Isis ruled Egypt during his absence. On his return Typhon,
the Egyptian Set, and his seventy-two comrades, made Osiris to
lie down which was immediately closed by them, and
in a chest,
cast into the Nile, which carried it down to its Tanaitic mouths.
When Isis heard what had befallen her husband she cut off a lock
of her hair as a sign of grief, and then set out to find his dead
body. At length she traced it to Byblos, whither it had been
carried by the sea, and she found that the waves had gently laid

it among the branches of a tamarisk tree, which had grown to a

magnificent size, and had enclosed the chest within its trunk.
The Byblos here referred to is not Byblos in Phoenicia, but the
papyrus swamps of Egypt, which are called in Egyptian Athu,

(1 c=^= 9 \\ Jf \X , a name meaning "papyrus plants;" the Greeks

rendered the Egyptian word for " papyrus" by BvfiXos, and some
copyist of the Greek text misunderstood the signification of the
word in this passage, and rendered it by the name of the city of
Phoenicia.
The king of the country, admiring the tree, had it cut down
and made a pillar for the roof of his house it is this tree trunk ;
 ISIS AND OSIRIS 125

which is referred to by the hieroglyphic sign u , tef, and which is

continually used in the texts with reference to Osiris. It has

been said to represent a mason's table, but the four cross-bars
have nothing to do with such a thing, for they are intended
to indicate the four branches of a roof-tree of a house which
were turned to the four cardinal points. When Isis heard
that the tree had been cut down, she went to the palace of
the king, and through the good offices of the royal maidens
she was made nurse to one of the king's sons. Instead of
nursing the child in the ordinary way, Isis gave him her
finger to suck, and each night she put him into the fire to
consume his mortal parts, changing herself the while into a
swallow and bemoaning her fate. On one occasion the queen
saw her son in the flames, and cried out, and thus deprived
him of immortality. Then Isis told the queen her story, and
begged for the pillar which supported the roof. This she cut
open, and took out the chest and her husband's body, and departed
with them to Egypt ; having arrived there she hid the chest and
set out in quest of her son Horus.
One night, however, Typhon was out hunting by the light
of the moon, and he found the chest, and recognizing the
body, tore it into fourteen pieces, which he scattered up and
down throughout the land. When Isis heard of this she
took a boat made of papyrus *
—a plant abhorred by crocodiles
—and sailing about she gathered together the fragments of
Osiris's body. Wheresoever she found one, she buried it and
built a tomb over it. Meanwhile Horus had grown up, and
being encouraged in the use of arms by Osiris, who returned
from the other world, he went out to do battle with Typhon
the murderer of The fight lasted some days, and
his father.
Typhon was made captive, and was given over to the custody
of Isis who, however, set him free. Horus in his rage tore
from her head the royal diadem, but Thoth gave her a helmet
in the shape of a cow's head. In two other battles fought between

1 Moses was laid in an ark of bulrushes, and was therefore believed to be safe

from the attacks of crocodiles.

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126 VICTORY OF HORUS

Horus and Typhon Horus was the victor. The great battle
between Horus and Typhon took place, we are told in the IVth
Sallier Papyrus, on the 26th day of the month Thoth they first ;

of all fought in the form of two men, but they afterwards changed
themselves into two bears, and they passed three days and three
nights in this form.
From the above summary it is clear that in Plutarch's time

the Egyptians believed that Osiris was the son of a god, that he
lived a good life upon earth and ruled as a wise and just king,
that he was slain by the malice of evil men, that his body was
mutilated, and that his wife Isis collected his limbs which had
been scattered throughout Egypt by Set, or Typhon, and that
Osirisby some means obtained a new life in the next world, where
he reigned as god and king. The hieroglyphic texts contain
abundant testimony that the statements of Plutarch are sub-
stantially correct, and from first to last Osiris was to the Egyptians
the god-man who suffered, and and rose again, and reigned
died,

eternally in heaven. They believed that they would inherit

eternal life, just as he had done, provided that what was done for

him by the gods was done for them, and they made use of amulets,
and magical texts of all kind, and performed ceremonies connected
with sympathetic magic in order that they might compel Osiris
and the gods who had brought about his resurrection (i.e., Thoth,
the " lord of divine words, the scribe of the gods," and Isis, who
made use of the words with which Thoth supplied her, and Horus
and his companion gods who performed the symbolic ceremonies
which were effectual in producing the reconstitution of the body
of Osiris and its revivification) to act on their behalf even as they

had acted for the god. The species of the amulets used were
constant, and they appear to have been sixteen in number, viz.,
four figures of the children of Horus each with his characteristic
head, four lapis-lazuli Tet pillars, two bulls, a figure of Horus, a
figure of Thoth, two carnelian Tet pillars, and two lapis-lazuli

utchats, ^^ jrp[p

According to Plutarch the number of portions into which Set

tore the body of Osiris was fourteen, but the hieroglyphic texts
give at times fourteen and at others sixteen ; the cities and
 SHRINES OF OSIRIS 127

sanctuaries wherein these were buried are :— 1. Ament in Koptos.

2. Aa-fib in Elephantine. 3.An-rut-f in Herakleopolis Magna.
4. Kusae. 5. Heliopolis. 6. At- Ament in Sma-behutet (Diospolis
of Lower Egypt). 7. Letopolis. 8. Pa-Thuhen in Sa'is. 9. Meh-
ta-f in Hermopolis of Lower Egypt. 10. Athribis. 11. Aq
(Schedia). 12. Ab, in the Libyan Nome. 13. Het-sera in the city
1
of Netert. 14. Apis. In the late period of Egyptian history, i.e.,

inGraeco-Roman times, the sanctuaries of Osiris were forty-two in

number in other words, each nome possessed its central shrine
; of
which was called a " Serapeum," or the place where Serapis
Osiris,

was worshipped, but this happened because Osiris Khent Amenti

was identified with Serapis, who was not the god Osiris himself,
but only a dead Apis bull which had become an Osiris. It has
already been said that in some lists the sanctuaries of Osiris are
stated to be sixteen in number, but it is tolerably certain that the
true number is fourteen, because in the inscriptions at Dendera
which refer to the " mysteries " of Osiris, the statue of Seker-Osiris,
which played such a prominent part in the ceremonies performed
there, was made up of fourteen pieces,
2
although sixteen pieces are
3
sometimes enumerated. The sixteen members of the body of
Osiris are : —his head, ®, the soles of his feet, yjft), his bones, £ c ,,

his arms, a, his heart, ^ , his interior, * O, his tongue.

^K, his eye, ^, his fist, *i-^, his fin S ers >
)))>
his back,
D
X, his ears, <§-^§>, his loins,
1^ ^ X ^> nis Dod y> 2"! ^'

1 See Brugsch, A&j. Zeitschrift, 1881, p. 79 ff. Another list of the sixteen
sanctuaries is given by M. Loret in Becueil, torn, v., p. 85, where they are

enumerated in the following order :

—Tettu, 1

(£>
^
& , Abydos,
"
Y\ f^^l
Memphis, q E Y ^L , Nubia, X , Herakleopolis, f
Q ^ , , Kusae,
V
Atef -khent, ^ ^=— _ ,,^, , Sa'is, Txf *~^~, Mehtefc,
^' Amu & I '

Sma-Behutet, T ^, Re-aqiu, I
j -y^y , Hen, <^>^^, Netrat,

1 JL> { ©,'
B et ^ Ka " qem
'
f" @
Dendera 4ar*
'
'
^^ ^BHE' > S£ -

- They are enumerated by Brugsch, Aeg. ZeiL, 1881, p. 90 ff.

8 Recueil, torn, hi., p. 56; torn. iv\, p. 23.
 ,

128 OSIRIS THE MAN-GOD

his head with the face of a ram, ® ^=— *"ww <£> q U ^> 22. , and

his hair, <=> o -

1

All the evidence on the subject now available goes to prove,

as the paragraphs above show, that the early Egyptians believed

that Osiris was aman-god who was murdered and whose body was
mutilated, and that the various members of his body were recon-
stituted and we know from a very interesting text at Dendera 2
;

that during the month of Khoiak a number of festivals were

celebrated at all the chief sanctuaries of Osiris in Egypt, and that
elaborate ceremonies were performed in them commemoration
in
of every event which took place in the life, death, and resurrection
of the god. In this text the uses of the various sanctuaries are
described, and detailed instructions are given for themaking of the
funeral chest, and of the model of the god which was to be buried
in the coffin, and of the incense, and of the amulets, and of the
fourteen divine members, and of all the materials, etc., which were
employed in the ceremonies. On the xiith day of Khoiak the
Festival of the Ploughing of the Earth and the Festival of the

TenA, (j , were celebrated; on the xivth day the great

1 The hieroglyphic texts tell us that the head of Osiris was buried in the

sanctuary of Arq-heh, <c=r> « Mr l

© , in Abydos ; his left eye was buried in

Het-Maakheru, [) I
, in Lower Egypt ; his eyebrows were buried in Am, ^~

(PeVusium) ; his jaw-bones Avere buried at Faket in Upper Egypt ; certain portions

V&y u^
of his head were buried at Heb-kert, ^ , ha the Delta ;
his neck was

buried in the Delta ; an arm and his right leg were buried at Aterui qema,
Cx
WW ^W^ '
*^ s l e ft le
o was buried at Mehet, SPf ^ ;
a bone of his back (os

coccyx) was buried at Heliopolis, and his thighs at Het-her-ateb, J i i (I ',

a foot was buried at Netert, \

^ , and his heart at Usekht-Maati,

ijjpji I) M J 4 J] ; his phallus was buried at Het-Bennu, J ^ ^^ ^

and a portion of his backbone at Pa-paut-neteru, ^ |
. Various other

parts of his body were buried at different places, and in the case of a few members
the honour of possessing them was claimed by more than one city.
2
See Brugsch, Becueil, i., 15, 16 ; Diimichen, Besidtats, iv. 1-27 ; Mariette,
Denderah, torn, iv., pll. 35-39.

r
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SETTING UP TET 129

Festival of Pert; on the xvith day the Festival of Osiris Khent

Amenti ; on the xxivth day the model of the god of the preceding-
year was taken out from its place and buried suitably, and the new
Osiris was embalmed in the sanctuary ; on the last day of the month
the Tet, u, was set up in Tettu, because on this day the divine
members of Osiris, |
9>R.^> were brought. The new Osiris remained
without burial for seven days because of the tradition which
declared that the god had remained for seven days in the womb of
his mother Nut when she was with child.
In connexion with the ceremonies in the great sanctuaries,
e.g., Dendera, thirty-four papyrus boats were employed, and these
were lit up with 365 lights, or lamps, ] U "^ Q, ^^n II

The gods of Mendes, with Anubis, occupied one boat, and Isis,

Nephthys, Horus, and Thoth, each had a boat ; the remaining

twenty-nine boats were dedicated to the following gods :
— Mestha,
Hapi, Tuamutef, Qebh-sennuf, Sah-heq, |^T, Armauai,
<2>
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,

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, Ast-sen- ,
^ ,

ARI-TCHER, jj^jQIU^S^^^, SeM, ^ J\ ^ , HeR-A-F,

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f ^ Q, *^ 1 ' ^-Q"? er - Am -

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NeTCHEH-NeTCHEH,
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^ "SI,
Asbu, \\ n
J %> 1 , Per-em-khet-khet, ^=S /= J"^^"^ 1 , Erta-

nef-nebt, <=> V J
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, Tesher-maati, § -<2>-
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, KnENT-

het-Anes,
fQH^pSl, Maa-em-qeeh, ^y^^Q"\
An-f-em-hru-seksek, j\ p i — <=> —»— ^fe? —h— X . The above
facts prove that in the Ptolemaic period the views which were held
generally about Osiris were substantially the same as those which
were in vogue in the times when the Pyramid Texts were
II —
130 FORMS OF OSIRIS
composed, and it is clear that the cult of Osiris was widespread
even in the Vth Dynasty, or about B.C. 3500.
From the Pyramid Texts we learn that the dead kings were
already identified with Osiris, and that Osiris was identified with
the dead Sun-god, but knowing when he was
we have no means of
merged in Seker, the god of the Memphite Underworld. The
Heliopolitan priests declared that he was the son of Seb and Nut,
but it is much to be regretted that they did not preserve for us the
genealogy of the god according to the priests of the predynastic
period. The festivals which were celebrated in the month of
Khoiak were, no doubt, founded upon very ancient tradition, but
the elaboration of detail given in the text at Dendera, to which
reference has already been made, does not suggest a primitive
antiquity, although it shows how deeply seated was the cult of
Osiris in the hearts of the people. The numerous aspects under
which the god was worshipped also show that some of the original
conceptions of the attributes of the god were forgotten in compara-
tively early days, both by foreigners and Egyptians, and it is this
fact which explains how he came to be identified with the Greek

god Dionysos. The aspects of Osiris were nearly as numerous as

those of Ra, hence we find him identified with the sun and moon,
and with the great creative and regenerative powers of Nature,
and he was at once the symbol of rejuvenescence, resurrection, and
of life of every sort and kind which has the power of renewing
itself.

We
must now consider the various forms in which Osiris is

represented on the monuments, and in papyri, etc. The common

form of the god is that of a mummy, who wears a beard, and has

the White Crown, /), on his head, and a mendt, (w , hanging from
the back of his neck. In a scene reproduced by Lanzone 1 he
appears in a group with the Hawk-god Seker, the Beetle-god

Kheprer, and the goddess Shent, aaKaa, and has two forms, i.e.,

Osiris, lord of Khut, and Khent Amenti, r -<s>- ^37 '^^ ° , and

flm
^ >^> f ' ^n ano ^ ner scene 2 he appears in the form of the Tet

1
Dizionario, plate 15. -Ibid., pi. 17.
 i ii 111 1 11 1 1 1 ii tii nun in in n un in iiiiii nrmS

osiris wearing the white crown and menat ano holding the sceptre,
Crook, and Flail. Before him are the Four Children of Horus, and
behind him is his wlfe isis.
 —
FORMS OF OSIRIS 131

pillar, and is called " Osiris Tet," and stands at the head of a bier,
on which lies the god Seker in mummied form. On a stele at
Turin 1 Osiris appears in mummied form, seated, and holding in his
hands the sceptre f , and the flail or whip £\ ; on his head is the
White Crown with plumes, to which the name Atef is usually-
given. His titles are " Osiris Khenti-Amentet, Un-nefer, lord of
Tatcheser, the great god, king of the living." Behind him are
seated Ptah-Sekri, ^ § ^^ ^ w) >
" ^ or<^ °f the bidden chest,"
Anpu, "dweller in the city of embalmment," Horus, son of Isis,
and Hathor. As a form of Khnemu-Ra he has the head of a ram,
the horns of which are surmounted by a solar disk and by four

knives. 3 A common symbol of the god is A, i.e., the box which

contained the head and hair of Osiris and which was preserved at
Abydos, where these relics were buried. Elsewhere we see the
body of the god bent round backwards in such a way as to form the
region of the Tuat or Underworld (see vol. i., p. 229). Sometimes
the god is seated on a throne, which is supported on the back of a
monster serpent that rests on the top of the mythological flight of

steps, /\ , at Henen-Su ; he is accompanied by Maat, Horus, son

of Isis, Thoth, Heka, ^=^ jj , who holds a serpent in each hand,

and the snake-headed goddess Heptet, 8 . The exact part

which this last-named deity played in connexion with Osiris is

unknown, but it is certain that it was of considerable importance,

and that the goddess assisted in bringing about his resurrection.
Heptet has the body of a woman with the head of a bearded
snake ; on her head is a pair of horns which are surmounted by a
solar disk, and Atef Crown, and uraei with disks and horns, r>.

In each hand she holds a knife. 3

4
On the walls of the temple of Dendera is preserved a very
interesting group of scenes connected with the story of the death
and resurrection of the god, which may be briefly described thus :

1. Osiris lying on his stomach on his bier, beneath which are

his four crowns ; he is called, " Osiris, beloved of his father, the
:!
1
Lanzone, op. cit., pi. 96. 2
Ibid., pi. 143. Ibid., pi. 211.
4
See Mariette, Deaderah, torn, iv., pi. 6515., Paris, 1S73.
 FUNERAL OF OSIRIS

king of the gods, the lord of life, Osiris." In front of Osiris is

Horus who presents to him a lotus flower.

No. 1.

2. Osiris lying on his funeral bier ; at the head stands

No. 2.

Nephthys, and at the foot Isis.

3. Osiris, ithyphal-

lic, and wearing the

Atef Crown, lying on
his bier. On the head
of the bier is a hawk
with outstretched wings,
and behind it stands
Isis ; on the foot is a
similar hawk, and be-
No. 3. hind it stands Horus,
 FUNERAL OF OSIRIS loo

son of Isis. Above is the soul of Osiris. Below the bier are two
crowns, a tunic, and a cap.
4. Osiris, naked and beardless, lying on his bier, at the head
of which is a statue of Isis, and at the foot a statue of Nephthys.
5. Osiris, naked and beardless, lying on his bier, at the head
of which stands Isis who is addressing the god ; beneath the bier are
figures of the four children of Horus, Mestha, Hapi, Tuamutef, and
Qebhsennuf, who, besides representing the gods of the four cardinal
points, may here be considered as personifications of the four large,
internal organs of the body.
6. Osiris, naked, lying upon
his bier, over the foot of which
is the vulture goddess Uatchet,
and over the head the uraeus
goddess Nekhebet.
7. Osiris, in mummied form,
lying on his bier beneath a funeral No. 6.

chest, over which a hawk stretches out its wings.

8. Osiris,
j ^g ^ , of Behutet (Edfu) lying on his bier, with

Xo. 8.

Nephthys at his head and Isis at his feet.

9. Osiris ofTa-khent lying on his bier, with a Hawk-goddess

at the head and a Vulture-goddess at the foot.
10. Osiris of Hap, ^^1©? wearing the Atef Crown, lying-

face downwards on his bier, beneath which are a number of

crowns and caps of the god.
134 FUNERAL OF OSIRIS
11. Osiris lying on his bier in the Meskhen chamber with the
four funeral vases beneath.
12. Osiris, mummied, and beardless, lying on his
ithyphallic,

bier ; he is watched over by three hawks, and by Isis, who stands

at the head, and by a
frog - headed form of
the god Horus. Be-
neath the bier are the
ape-headed god Aurt,
<
1 anc* two
4 _a '

snake-goddesses, one of
No - 12 -

which is called Her-

tept, S»
x ©
^ ^) Pn '
anc^ an ibis-headed god.

13. Seker-Osiris of
Mendes, beardless, lying up-
on a bier, with Anubis in .at-
tendance, holding in his

hands a vase of unguent,

and an instrument used in
embalming.
No. 13.
14. Seker-Osiris of
Mendes, in the form of a hawk-headed mummy, upon his
lying
bier, beneath which grow
three small trees.
15. Seker-Osiris,
naked, and bearded, and
wearing the Atef Crown,
lying upon his bier, be-
No. 14. neath which grow three
trees.

16. Ptah-Seker-Asar of Memphis, in mummied form and

bearded, lying upon his bier, at the head of which, on a pedestal,
stands a figure of Isis. The bier is placed within a funeral chest,
the pillars of which are in the form of Tet, u . On the right is

" Asar Tet, the holy one in Tettu, rj'S 7

M m
>" m ^ ne form

of a Tet pillar, which is provided with human hands and arms ;

 FUNERAL OF OSIRIS 135

No. 16.

above it appear the head of Osiris and the sceptre and flail, or
whip.

Osiris on his bier ; beneath are the Canopic jars.

The mummy of Osiris on its bier with the hawk of Horus above ; at the head is NephthyS,
and at the foot Isis.

17. Osiris, beardless, and wearing the White Crown and

plumes, in the act of raising himself from his bier at the command
of Heru-netch-tef-f.
136 FUNERAL OF OSIRIS

No. 17. No. 18.

18. Osiris Un-nefer, in mummied form, lying on his bier, at

the head of which grows the Persea tree, Ashet (1 A ; above the
upper branches stands a soul in the form of a man-headed hawk.
19. Osiris, bearded, lying on his bier, which rests within an
elaborately ornamented funeral chest ; beneath the bier are a
number of helmets, caps, etc., belonging to the god. Through one
end of the chest Heru-netch-tef-f thrusts his lance, and touches the
face of Osiris with it, with the view, presumably, of effecting the
" opening of the mouth."

Ceremonial scene connected with the resurrection of Osiris.

20. Osiris, ithyphallic and bearded, in mummied form, lying

upon his bier ; over his feet and his body hover two hawks. At
the head kneels Hathor, " Mistress of Amentet, who weepeth for
"her brother," and at the foot is a frog, symbol of the goddess
Heqet, ( £> J); beneath the bier are an ibis-headed god holding
the TJtchat, two serpents, and the god Bes. It is interesting
to note that the frog-headed goddess Heqet, who was a form of
PTAH-SEKER-AUSAR, the Triune God of the Resurrection
 FUNERAL OF OSIRIS 137

Hathor, was connected by the Christians with the Christian

Resurrection ; in proof of this may be cited the lamp described by

No. 20.

Signor Lanzone, 1
whereon, he tells us, is a figure of a frog, and
the legend Eyoj
3
elfxt '^^ao-rctcri?, " I am the resurrection."
21. Osiris, bearded, ithyphallic, in mummied form, and
wearing the White Crown, lying on his bier, by the side of which
stand Anubis, jackal-headed, and Heqet, frog-headed. At the

Anubis addressing' Osiris on his bier.

head stands H eru-netch-tef-f in the form of a hawk, and Nephthys

kneels ; at the foot kneels Isis.
22. Osiris, bearded, wearing the White Crown with plumes,

No. 22.
1
Dizionario, p. 853.
138 RESURRECTION OF OSIRIS
and holding in his hands the sceptre and flail, or whip, raising
himself up on his knees from his bier, which is enclosed within
the funeral chest. Beneath the bier are most of the crowns of
the god. Beside it stands Isis.

23. Osiris rising up out of a basket (?), which rests upon a

pedestal ; behind him stands Isis with her wings stretched out on
both sides of him, and before him is a bearded god who presents
to him " life." On the right is a second scene in which the god is

seen kneeling within the boat of the double Tet, u , wherein are

No. 23.

a papyrus plant and a lotus plant, the emblems of the South and
North respectively. The boat rests upon a sledge, the supports
of which are made in the form of inverted lotus flowers, which are
well known types of the dawn and of renewed life. The title of the
god here is " Osiris Seker, lord of the funeral chest [at] Abydos,"
-'5a z^l 1$ ^^ r^rn
i pi i -JQ
Q °

The two commonest titles of Osiris are " Khent-Amenti,"

li^. and "Un-Ne™,"

Hi^J, or
(Zl^Il -1
as such he holds in his hands one or two sceptres and the whip, or
flail,
J\, and wears the White Crown.
j, |,
Sometimes he
appears as a man, with a large mouth and eyes and nose, and with
a Tet surmounted by a disk, plumes, horns, uraei, etc., issuing
from his head. 1 He once appears in the form of Ptah pouring
2
out water from a libation vase for a deceased person who kneels
before him, and once he appears with the head of the Bennu. 3 In
1
Lanzone, Dizionario, pi. 293. 2 Ibid., pi. 294.
3
Rid., pi. 295.
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RESURRECTION OF OSIRIS 139

some scenes Osiris appears as a god of vegetation, and in one

instance the god is represented in mummied form, and wearing the
xVtef Crown, and from body a row of plants is seen growing
his

in another he is represented by a small mound of earth, which is

called " Osiris," \\% and from which four trees grow. Above the

mound is a large serpent with the White Crown upon its head, and
two small serpents growing out from its body on the right are: ;
—
1. A ram-headed god, holding a serpent, and 2. the serpent
Khebkheb, ® ® on the left are a ram-headed god
J Hlft
;
J
holding a serpent, and a feather. The Osiris ceremonies varied in
different places, according as the god was identified with local
gods, but in all great religious centres Osiris, under one name or
another, possessed his own sanctuary. Thus, as Dr. Brugsch has
pointed out, in Northern Nubia Osiris was known as Khnemu, in
1

Apollinopolis and Denclera as An, in Thebes as Khnemu-ut-em-

ankh, in Coptos as Amsu-Heru-ka-nekht, in Diospolis Parva as
Sekhem, in Lycopolis as Sekhem-taui, in Antaeopolis as Maui,
in Cusae as Urt-ab, in Memphis as Seker, in Cynopolis and
Oxyrhynchus as Anubis, in Herakleopolis as Ka-hetep and Heru-
shefi, in the Libyan Nome as Khent-Amenti, in Heroopolis as
Ankh and Tern, in Busiris as Tet or Tettu, in Heliopolis as Ser-aa,
and in other places in the Delta as Fentet-ankh, Heru-ap-shata.
In the cxlist and cxliind Chapters of the Book of the Dead we
have a complete list of the forms and shrines of Osiris, and as they
are of great importance for forming a right idea of the universality
of the cult of Osiris in Egypt, it will be found, in two versions, at
the end of this section on the great gods of Heliopolis.
We have now traced the history of Osiris from the time when
he was a river or water god, and of only quite local importance, up
to the period when his worship reached from the north of the Delta
to the Nubian Nome at Elephantine, and he had become in every
sense of the word the national god of Egypt. We have now to
consider Osiris in his character of god and judge of the dead, and
as the symbol of the resurrection, and the best source upon which

1
Religion, p. 018.
140 OSIRIS, JUDGE OF THE DEAD
we can draw for information on this subject is the Booh of the
Dead. In this work Osiris is held to be the greatest of the gods,
and it is he who men after death, and he is the
is the judge of
arbiter of their future destiny. He attained this exalted position
because he was believed to have been once a human being who
had died and had been dismembered but his limbs had been ;

reconstituted and he had become immortal. The most remarkable

thing about him was that his body had never decayed like the
bodies of ordinary men, and neither putrefaction nor worms ever
acquired power over it, or caused it to diminish in the least degree.

It is true that it was embalmed by Horus, and Anubis, and Isis,

who carried out with the greatest care and exactitude all the
prescriptions which had been ordered by Thoth, and who performed
their work so thoroughly well that the material body which Osiris
possessed on this earth served as the body for the god in the world
beyond the grave, though only after it had undergone some
mysterious change, which was brought about by the words of
power which these gods said and by the ceremonies which they
performed. A very ancient tradition declared that the god Thoth
himself had acted the part of priest for Osiris, and although the
Egyptians believed that it was his words which brought the dead
god back to life, they were never able wholly to free themselves
from the idea that the series of magical ceremonies which they
performed in connexion with the embalmment and burial of the
dead produced most beneficial results for their deceased friends.

The compositions which form the chapters of the Booh of the

Dead are declared to have been written by Thoth, and they were
assumed to be identical with those which this god pronounced on
behalf of Osiris ; the ceremonies which were performed by the
priests at the recital of such compositions were held to be identical
with those Avhich Horus and Anubis performed for the " lord of
life," and if the words were said by duly appointed and properly
qualified priests, in a suitable tone of voice, whilst the ministrants
and libationers performed the sacred ceremonies according to the
Rubrics, it was held to be impossible for Osiris to refuse to grant
the deceased eternal life, and to admit him into his kingdom. It may
be argued that the words and the ceremonies were the all-important
 OSIRIS, JUDGE OF THE DEAD 141

man and of his eternal life, but this

factors of the resurrection of
was not the Egyptians only regarded them as means
case, for the

to be used with care and diligence; it was Osiris, the god-man

himself, who had risenfrom the dead and was living in a body
perfect in all its members, who was the cause of the resurrection.
Osiris could give life after death because he had attained to it,

and he could give eternal life to the souls of men in their

transformed bodies because he had made himself incorruptible and
immortal. Moreover, he was himself " Eternity and Everlasting-
ness," and it was he who "made men and women to be born

again,"

birth into the

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of the world which

^
beyond the grave and
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new birth was the

is everlasting. Osiris could give life because he

was life, he could
make man to rise from the dead because he was the resurrection •

but the priesthood taught in

all periods of Egyptian history that it

was necessary to endeavour to obtain the favour of the o-od by

means of magical and religious words and ceremonies. From the
earliest times the belief in the immortality of Osiris existed, and
the existence of the dead after death was bound up with that of
the god. Thus in the text of Unas (line 240) it is said of the
king to Tern, " Tern, this is thy son Osiris. Thou hast given
" him his sustenance and he liveth ; he liveth and Unas liveth he
;

" dieth not, and thisUnas dieth not he is not destroyed, and this ;

" Unas shall not be destroyed if he begetteth not this Unas shall ;

"not beget; if he begetteth this Unas shall beget." In a text

nearly two thousand years later the deceased Ani is made to ask
Tern, the head of the company of the gods of Heliopolis, " How
"long have I to live?" and he
shalt exist for replies, "Thou
" millions of millions of years, a period of millions of years " * now ;

Tern was identified with Ra, and Ra, at the time when this text was
written, was held to be the father of Osiris, and to all intents and
purposes the question of the scribe Ani was addressed to Osiris.
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142 OSIRIS, JUDGE OF THE DEAD

about Osiris and his cult is contained in the Book of the Bead,
which may be termed the Gospel of Osiris, wherein the god is

made to point out to man the necessity for leading a pure and
good life and to instruct him in the words and deeds
upon earth,

which will enable him to attain eternal life, and we must now
briefly describe the relations which were believed to exist between
this god of truth and life and the deceased. In the accompanying
plate, which contains the famous " Judgment Scene " of the Booh
of the Bead, as contained in the Papyrus of Ani in the British
Museum, we have a representation of Osiris in his capacity as the
Judge of the dead, and a description of it will explain the views
of the ancient Egyptians on the judgment of the souls of the dead.
From certain passages and allusions in the Pyramid Texts it is
clear that the ancient Egyptians believed that the souls of the
dead, and perhaps also their bodies, were judged, and the place
of their judgment seems to have been situated in the sky no ;

details of the manner in which it was performed are given, but it

seems as if the judgment consisted in the " weighing of words,"

%s> piq ft f\ <r-=^ v\, utcha metn, that is to say, the weighing of

actions, for the word metu means " deed, action," as much as
" word " (like the Hebrew ddbhdr, "Q"j). The " weighing of words"

(or actions) was carried out by means of a pair of scales, Makhaat,

^\ a T (]
^ Y| rtl, which were presided over by Thoth, who from

very remote days was known as Ap-rehui, \/ <=^> | % ^

i.e.,
" Judge of the two combatant gods," that is to say, " Judge of
Horus and Set," and as Ap-senui, yJ^^W," Judge of the

Two Brothers." Thoth, however, only watched the Balance when

" words " were being tried in it on behalf of Osiris — at least this

was the view in later times.

The Egyptians, having once conceived the existence of a
Balance in the Underworld, proceeded to represent it pictorially, and
as a result we have in the vignette of the Judgment Scene a pair

of scales similar to those with which they were acquainted in daily

life. They were too logical to think that words, or even actions,
could be weighed in a material balance, and they therefore
The Goddess MESKHENET.
 —
OSIRIS, JUDGE OF THE DEAD 143

represented the weighing of the material heart, from which they

declared all thoughts and actions proceeded, and sometimes the
whole body of the man who is to be judged was placed by the
artist in one pan of the Scales. They had, moreover, in very
early times arrived at the conception of " right, truth, law, and

"rectitude," all of which they expressed by the word madt, ^

^
•

u
,

and it was against the emblem of Madt, the feather, [), that they

weighed either the heart or the whole body. Why the feather was
chosen as the symbol of madt instead of the usual object, /— i, it is

impossible to say, and this fact suggests that all the views which
the Egyptians held about the weighing of the heart have not yet
been understood. As the Judgment Scene stands it represents
a mixture of different views and opinions which belong to different
periods, but it seems impossible to doubt that at some remote time
they believed in the actual weighing of a portion of the physical
body of a man as a part of the ceremony of judgment. The
judgment of each individual seems to have taken place soon after
death, and annihilation or everlasting life and bliss to have been
decreed at once for the souls of the dead ; there are no sufficient
grounds for assuming that the Egyptians believed either in a
general resurrection or in protracted punishment. How far they
thought that the prayers of the living for the dead were efficacious
in arresting or modifying the decree of doom cannot be said, but
very considerable importance was attached by them to funeral
prayers and ceremonies in all ages, and there is no doubt that they
were the outcome of the firm belief that they would result in the
salvation and well-being of the souls of the dead. The Judgment
Scene as given in the Papyrus of Ani may be thus described :

The scribe Ani and his wife Thuthu enter the Hall of Maati,
wherein the heart, symbolic of the conscience, is to be weighed in

the Balance against the feather, emblematic of Right and Truth.

In the upper register are the gods who sit in judgment, and who
form the great company of the gods of Heliopolis, to whom are
added Hathor, Hu, and Sa. On the standard of the Balance sits

the dog-headed ape, the companion of Thoth, the scribe of the

gods ; and the god Anubis, jackal-headed, examines the pointer to
 ;

144 OSIRIS, JUDGE OF THE DEAD

make certain that the beam is exactly horizontal, and that the
tongue of the Balance is in its proper place. On the left of the

Balance are :— 1. Shai, BH^.^ jj> tne &od of luck '

or destin y 5

2. the Meskhen, jfi (1 ® , or rectangular object with a human

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head which rests upon a pylon, and is commonly thought to be

connected with the place of birth ; 3. Meskhenet,

| p ^ %$ ,

the goddess of the funeral chamber, and Renenet, ^^ Njf , the

goddess of nursing ; 4. the soul of Ani in the form of a human-

headed hawk standing upon a pylon. The lines of hieroglyphics
which appear above the figures of Ani and his wife contain a
version of Chapter xxx.b of the Book of the Dead, in which the
deceased addresses his heart, and prays that the sovereign chiefs
may not oppose his judgment, and that it may not be separated
from him in the presence of the keeper of the Balance. The
sovereign chiefs here referred to are Mestha, Hapi, Tuamutef, and
Qebhsennuf, the children of Horus. After the heart has been
weighed, Thoth, being satisfied with the result, addresses the gods,
saying, " The heart of Osiris Ani hath indeed been weighed, and
" his soul hath borne witness concerning him (or it) it hath been ;

" found true by trial in the Great Balance. No evil hath been
" found in him, he hath not wasted the offerings in the temples,
"he hath not done harm by his deeds, and he hath uttered no
" evil report whilst he was upon earth." In answer to these words
the gods ratify the sentence of Thoth, and they declare that he is
holy and righteous, and that he hath not sinned against them

therefore the monster Amemet, a 1\ ^v ^, or the "Eater of

the dead," who is seen standing behind Thoth, shall not prevail
over him, and they further decree that he shall have a homestead
in Sekhet-hetepu for ever, and that offerings shall be made to
him, and that he shall have the power to appear before Osiris
at will.
In the second part of the scene Horus, the son of Isis, leads
Ani by the hand into the presence of Osiris, who is enthroned
within a shrine in the form of a funeral chest. Osiris has upon his
head the Atef crown, and he holds his usual emblems of authority.
 THE JUDGMENT SCEN E AN
I

' S HEART BEING WEIGHED IN THE BALANCE.

The Company of the Gods
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OSIRIS AS JUDGE 145

1' I'
4\i from
n * s nec ^ hangs the mendt, (jo^, i.e., the
amulet which was associated with joy and pleasure. The title of
the god is " Osiris, lord of everlastingness." Behind him stand
Isis and Nephthys ; before him, standing on a lotus flower, are the
four Children of Horus, i.e., the four gods of the cardinal points.
The first, Mestha, has the head of a man ; the second, Hapi, the
head of an ape ; the third, Tuamutef, the head of a jackal ; and
the fourth, Qebhsennuf, the head of a hawk. In some papyri the
lotus on which these gods stand is seen to have its roots in a lake,
or stream, of water, which flows from under the throne of Osiris.
Near the lotus hangs the skin of the pied bull which was sacrificed

at the beginning of that portion of the funeral ceremony when two

gazelles and a goose were also slain as sacrifices. The side of the
throne of Osiris is painted to resemble that of a funeral chest.
The roof of the shrine is supported on pillars with lotus capitals,
and is surmounted by a figure of Horus Sept or Horus Seker, and
by rows of uraei. The pedestal on which the shrine rests is in the
form of the hieroglyphic which is emblematic of Maat, i.e., /— i,

" Right and Truth." Before the shrine is a table of offerings, by

the side of which, on a reed mat, kneels Ani with his right hand
raised in adoration in the left hand he holds the kherp sceptre.
;

He wears on his head a whitened wig, and the so-called " cone,"
the signification of which is unknown. In his speech Horus, the
son of Isis, says, " I have come to thee, Un-nefer, and I have
'
brought unto thee the Osiris Ani. His heart is righteous, and it
'
hath come forth innocent from the Balance ; it hath not sinned
'
against any god orany goddess. Thoth hath weighed it accord-
'
ing to the decree pronounced unto him by the company of the
'
gods and it is most true and righteous. Grant that cakes and
;

'
ale may be given unto him, and let him appear in the presence
'
of Osiris and let him be like unto the followers of Horus for
;

'
ever and ever." The scribe Ani then makes his prayer to Osiris

in the following words :

— " Behold I am in thy presence, lord of

Amentet. There is no sin in my body. I have not spoken that

which is not true knowingly, nor have I done aught with a false

heart. Grant thou that I may be like unto those favoured ones
who are in thy following, and that I may be an Osiris greatly
II —
146 OSIRIS AS JUDGE
"favoured of the beautiful god, and beloved of the lord of the
*'
world, [I] who am indeed a royal scribe, who loveth thee,
" Ani maa kheru before the god Osiris." The reply of the god
Osiris is not recorded, but we may assume that the petition of Ani
was granted by him, and that he ratified the decision of the gods
in respect of a habitation in the Sekhet-Aaru. Thus Ani was free
to pass into all the various regions of the dominion of Osiris, and
to enter into everlasting life and happiness.
In the description of the Judgment Scene given above,
reference is made to the Eater of the Dead, and in connexion with

him it must be observed that he was supposed to devour straight-

way the souls of all those who were condemned in the Judgment
Hall of Osiris, and that from one point of view the punishment of
the wicked consisted of annihilation. Above, too, it has been said

that Ani became "maa kheru, ^ I, before Osiris,"

Jp
when once his heart had been weighed and had not been found
wanting. Egyptologists have investigated the meaning of these
words very carefully, but have not agreed as to their meaning ; as

a result maa kheru has been rendered " victorious, triumphant,

" just, justified, truth-speaking, truthful, true of voice, mighty of
" word or speech, etc." Their true meaning seems to be " he
whose word is right and true," i.e., he whose word is held to be
right and true by those to whom it is addressed, and therefore,
whatsoever is ordered or commanded by the person who is declared
in the Judgment Hall to be maa kheru is straightway performed
by the beings or things who are commanded or ordered. Before a
man who is maa kheru every door in the Underworld opened
itself, and every hostile power, animate or inanimate, was made to

remove itself from his path.

Passing now from the consideration of Osiris as the king and
judge of the dead, we must briefly refer to the beautiful hymns to

the god which are found in the Booh of the Dead and elsewhere.
First among these must be mentioned the very remarkable
composition which is inscribed on a stele in the Bibliotheque
Rationale, Paris, and which was first made known by Cbabas.
The text is in the form of a hymn addressed to Osiris, but it is of
 OSIRIS AS JUDGE 147

unique importance in that it contains a proof of the substantial

accuracy of the account of the life and death of Osiris, and of the

birth of Horus, given by Plutarch. After enumerating the various

great shrines of Osiris in Egypt, and ascribing great praise to this
god, and summarising his beneficent acts, an allusion is made to
his death and to the search which Isis made for his body. This
goddess, the sister and wife of Osiris, was a skilled worker of
miracles, and she knew words of power and how to utter them in
such a way that the greatest effect might result from them. In
the form of a bird she sought her brother's body ceaselessly, and
went round about over the face of the earth uttering cries and
moans, and she did not desist from her quest until she found it.
When she saw that he was dead she produced light with her
feathers, and air by the beating of her wings, and then by means
of the words of power which she had obtained from Thoth she
roused Osiris from his state of helplessness and inactivity, and
united herself to him, and became with child by him, and in due
course brought forth her son Horus in a lonely place unknown to

any. The hymn in which the passage occurs is so important that

a rendering of it is here given ; the hieroglyphic text, with

interlinear transliteration and translation, will be found at the end
of this section.
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CHAPTER VII

HYMN TO OSIRIS
XVIII TH DYNASTY, ABOUT B.C. 1500

"1 T OMAGE to thee, Osiris, the lord of eternity, the king

of the gods, thou who hast many names, whose forms
" of coming into being are holy, whose attributes are hidden in the

"temples, whose Double is most august (or venerated). Thou art

"the Chief of Tettu (or Busiris), the Great One who dwelleth 2. in
" Sekhem (Letopolis), the lord to whom praises are offered in the
" nome of Athi, the Chief of the divine food in Annu (On, or Helio-
1

" polis), and the lord who is commemorated in the [Hall (or City) of]
" two-fold Right and Truth. Thou art the Hidden Soul, the lord
"of Qereret (Elephantine 2 ), the holy one in the city of the White
" Wall (Memphis), the Soul of Ra, and thou art of his own body.
" Offerings and oblations are made to thy satisfaction in 3. Suten-
" henen (Herakleopolis), praise in abundance is bestowed upon

"thee in Nart, 3 and thy Soul hath been exalted as lord of the
" Great House in Khemennu (Hermopolis). Thou art he who is

"greatly feared in Shas-hetep, the lord of eternity, the Chief of

"Abtu (Abydos), thy seat extendeth into the land of holiness
" (Underworld), and thy name is firmly stablished in the mouth of
"mankind. 4. Thou art the substance of [which were made] the
"two lands (i.e., Egypt), thou art Tern, the divine food of the
" doubles, thou art the chief of the company of the gods, thou art
" the operative and beneficent Spirit among the spirits, thou drawest

1
I.e., the ninth nome of Lower Egypt, also read Anetch.

2 Qereret = Oerti, , or <z> ,-M , were the two caverns where the
Nile was thought to rise at Elephantine.
3 A sanctuary near Herakleopolis.
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" thy waters from the abyss of heaven, thou bringest along the
" north wind at eventide and air for thy nostrils to the satisfaction
" of thy heart. 5. Thy heart germinateth, thou producest the light
" for divine food, the height of heaven and the starry gods obey
"thee, thou openest the great pylons [of heaven], and thou art he
" unto whom praises are sung in the southern heaven, and to
" whom adorations are performed in the northern heaven. The
" stars which never set 6. are under the seat of thy face, and the
" stars which never rest are thy habitations ; and unto thee
" offerings are made according to the decree of the god Seb.
"The company of the gods sing praises unto thee, and the
" starry gods of the Underworld bow down with their faces to the
" earth [before thee], the ends of the earth prostrate themselves
" before thee,and the bounds of heaven make supplication unto
"thee 7. when they see thee. Those who are among the holy
" ones are in awe of thee, and the two lands in their length and

"breadth ascribe praises unto thee when they meet thy majesty,
" thou glorious master, thou lord of masters, who art endowed
" with divine rank and dignity, who art stablished in [thy] rule,

"thou beautiful Sekhem company of the gods, who art

of the
" pleasant of face, 8. and art beloved by him that looketh upon
" thee. Thou puttest thy fear in all the lands, and by reason of
" love for thee all [men] proclaim thy name as being above that of
" every name. All mankind make offerings unto thee, thou lord
" who art commemorated in heaven and in earth, and who art
" greatly praised in the Uak and the two lands with one
festival,
" consent 9. cry out unto thee with cries of joy, thou great one,
" thou chief of thy divine brethren, thou prince of the company of
" the gods, thou stablisher of Maat throughout the two lands, who
"placest thy son upon the great throne of his father Seb, the
" darling; of his mother Nut.
"thou great one of two-fold strength, thou hast cast down
" Seba, thou hast slain 10. thine enemy, and thou hast set thy

"fear in thy foe. Thou bringest [together] remote boundaries,

" thou art firm of heart, thy two feet are lifted up, thou art the
"heir of Seb and of the sovereignty of the two lands, who hath
"seen thy power and hath given command for thee to lead 11. the
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" two lands by thy hand until the end of time. Thou hast made
" the earth in thy hand, and its waters, and its air, and its green
" herb, and all its cattle, and all its birds, and all its fishes, and all

" its reptiles, and [all] its four-footed beasts. The desert is thine

"by right, son of 12. Nut, and the two lands are content to
"make him to rise up upon the throne of his father like Ra.

"Thou risest in the horizon, thou givest light through the

" darkness, thou makest light to spread abroad from thy plumes,

"and thou floodest with light the two lands like the 13. Disk at
" the beginning of sunrise. Thy crown pierceth heaven, thou art
" a brother of the starry gods, and the guide of every god, and
" thou dost work by decree and word, thou favoured one of the
" company of the gods, who art greatly beloved by the Lesser
" Company of the gods.
"Thy sister protectedand she drove away thy foes,
thee,
" 14. and she warded off from thee evil hap, and uttered the
" words of power with all the skill of her mouth her tongue was ;

" trained, and she committed no fault of utterance, and she made
" [her] decree and [her] words to have effect, Isis, the mighty one,
" the avenger of her brother. She sought thee without weariness,
"15. she went round about through this land in sorrow, and she
" set not to the ground her foot until she had found thee. She
" made light with her feathers, she made air to come into being
" with her wings, and she uttered cries of lamentation at the bier
" of her brother. 16. She up from his state of iDactivity
stirred
" him whose heart was still (i.e., Osiris), she drew from him his seed,
" she made an heir, she suckled the babe in solitariness, and the
" place wherein she reared him is unknown, and his hand is mighty

"within the house 17. of Seb. The company of the gods rejoice
" and are glad at the coming of Horus, the son of Osiris, whose
" heart is stablished, and whose word taketh effect, the son of Isis
"and the heir of Osiris. The assessors of Maat gather together
" unto him, and with them are assembled the company of the gods,

"and Neb-er-tcher himself, and the lords of Maat. 18. Verily

" those who repulse faults rejoice in the house of Seb to bestow
"the rank [of Osiris]upon its lord, to whom is by right all
" sovereignty. The voice of Horus hath found the power of maat.
 HYMN TO OSIRIS 131

" The rank of his father hath been given unto him, and he hath
"come forth by the command of Seb. He hath
crowned 19.
"received the sceptre of the two lands, and the White Crown is
"stablished upon his head. He judgeth the earth according to
"his plans, and heaven and earth are open before his face. He
"layeth his commands upon men, and and upon the pat spirits,
" and hen-memet beings,
and Egypt, and the Ha-nebu, and all the
"region 20. wherein the Disk revolveth are under his plans, as
" well as the north wind, and the river flood, and the celestial
" waters, and the staff of life, and every flower. [He is] Nepra,
" and he giveth his green herbs ; he is the lord of tchefau food, he
" leadeth on abundance, and he giveth it unto all lands.

"21. There is joy everywhere, [all] hearts are glad, [all]

" hearts are glad, every face is happy, and every one adoreth his
" beauties. His love is doubly sweet unto us, and his active
" beneficence embraceth all hearts, and the love for him is great in
" every body, and they do what is right 22. for the son of Isis.
" His enemy hath fallen before his wrath, and he that worketh
" evil hath fallen at the sound of his voice ; when the son of Isis,
" the avenger of his father, the son of Isis, cometh against him, he
" shooteth forth his anger in his season. Holy and beneficent is his
" name, and the awe of him abideth in its place. 23. His laws are
" stablished everywhere, the path is cleared, the roads are opened,
" and the two lands are content ; wickedness departeth, evil goeth
" away, the earth is at peace under [the rule of] its lord, and Maat
" is stablished by 24. its lord, and setteth its back against iniquity.
"The heart of Un-nefer, the son of Isis, is glad, for he hath
" received the White Crown, and the rank of his father is his by
" right in the house of Seb he is Ra when he speaketh and Thoth
;

" when he writeth. 25. The assessors [of Osiris] are content let ;

" what hath been decreed for thee by thy father Seb be performed
" according to his word.
" May Osiris, Governor of Amentet, lord of Abydos, give a
" royal offering ! May he give sepulchral meals of oxen, and fowl,
" and bandages, and incense, and wax, and gifts of all kinds, and
" the [power to] make transformations, and mastery over the Nile,
" and [the power] to appear as a living soul, and to see the Disk
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" daily, and entrance into and exit from Re-stau ; may [my] soul
" not be repulsed in the Underworld, may it be among the favoured
" ones before Un-nefer, may it receive cakes and appear before the

Osiris on his funeral bed.

" altar of the Great God, and snuff the sweet breath of the north
" wind."
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CHAPTER VIII

HYMNS TO OSIRIS, AND OSIRIS UN-NEFER,

FROM THE BOOK OF THE DEAD

I " A*~^ LORY be to thee, Osikis Un-nefer, the great god who
1

I "Y" dwellest within Abtu (Abydos), thou king of eternity,

" thou lord of everlastingness, who passest through millions of
" years in the course of thine existence. Thou art the eldest son
" of the womb of Nut, and thou wast engendered by Seb, the
" Ancestor ( d erpdt) ; thou art the lord of the crowns of
" the South and North, thou art the lord of the lofty white crown,

" and as prince of gods and men thou hast received the crook, |
, and
"the whip, A , and the dignity of his divine fathers. Let thine
" heart, Osiris, who art in the Mountain of Amentet, be content,
" for thy son Horus is stablished upon thy throne. Thou art
crowned lord of Tettu (Mendes), and ruler in Abtu (Abydos).
"Through thee the world waxeth green in triumph before the
"might of Neb-er-tcher. He leadeth in his train that which is,
" and that which is not yet, in his name Ta-her-sta-nef he toweth ;

" along the earth by Maat in his name of 'Seker'; he is exceedingly

" mighty and most terrible in his name Osiris he endure th for
'
'
;

" ever and for ever in his name of Un-nefer.' '

" Homage be to thee, King of kings, Lord of lords, Ruler

" of princes, who from the womb of Nut hast ruled the world and

" the Underworld u\ <J±> f^^^o Akert). Thy members are [like]

"bright and shining copper, thy head is blue [like] lapis-lazuli,

1
Prom the Papyrus of Ani, sheet '2.
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" and the greenness of the turquoise is on both sides of thee, thou
" god An (
I J]) of millions of years, whose form and whose beauty
"of face are all-pervading in Ta-tchesert (i.e., the Underworld)."
II. "Praise be unto thee, 1
Osiris, lord of eternity, Un-
®
" nefer-Heru-Khuti (^ I J ^k "^ u S) i
whose forms are
"manifold, and whose attributes are majestic, Ptah-Seker-Tem

"( D 8 ^^ *M \\ .~\ J) ) in Annu (Heliopolis), the lord of the

"Hidden House, the creator of Het-ka-Ptah (Memphis) and of

" the gods [therein], thou guide of the Underworld, whom [the gods]
f>
@). Isis

"embraceth thee with content, and she driveth away the fiends

"from the mouth of thy paths. Thou turnest thy face upon
"Amentet, and thou makest the earth to shine as with refined
"copper. Those who have lain down (i.e., the dead) rise up to
" look upon thee, they breathe the air and they look upon thy face
"when the disk riseth on the horizon ; their hearts are at peace

"inasmuch as they behold thee, thou who art Eternity and

" Everlastingness."

III. "1. Homage 1

to thee, Khabesu (i.e., Starry deities

"1 lik Ji P
*) ' in -^ nnn (Heliopolis) and Hememet (m t^ Jj^ ^)
"in Kher-aha, thou god Unti, who art more glorious than the gods
" who are hidden in Annu. 2. Homage to thee, An (|
'

^) in

"An-tes (| ), Great One, Heru-khuti, thou stridest over

"heaven with long strides, Heru-khuti. 3. Homage to thee,

"soul of eternity, thou god Bai (^ (1(1^), who dwellest in

" Tettu (Mendes), Un-nefer, son of Nut ; thou art the lord of
" Akert (i.e., the Underworld). 4. Homage to thee in thy dominion
" in Tettu ; the Ureret crown (\/\ is stablished upon thy head ;

" thou art One and thou makest the strength which is thine own
"protection, and thou dwellest in Tettu. 5. Homage to thee,

" lord of the Acacia Tree (- — ° ^ «&* Jn), the Seker Boat is upon its

1
From the Papyrus of Ani, sheet 19.
 HYMN TO OSIRIS 155

"sledge ; thou drivest back the Fiend (['

J Q y ° |
Sebcm), the

" worker of and thou causest the Utchat (^§) to rest upon
evil, ,

" its seat. 6. Homage to thee, thou who art mighty in thine hour,
1
"thou great and mighty prince, who dwellest in An-rut-f; thou
" art the lord of eternity and the creator of evcrlastingness, thou
"art the lord of Suten-henen (Herakleopolis Magna). 7. Homage
" to thee, thou who restest upon Maat, thou art the lord of Abtu,
" and thy limbs are joined unto Ta-tchesertet what thou ;

"abominatest is falsehood (or, deceit and guile). 8. Homage to

" thee, thou who art within thy boat, thou bringest along Hapi
" (Nile) from out of his source
;
2
Shu shineth upon thy body, and
" thou art he who dwelleth in Nekhen.
3
9. Homage to thee,

"creator of the gods, king of the South and North, Osiris,

"
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whose word is maat, thou possessor of the two
" lands in thy seasons of operative power thou art the lord of the ;

" Atebui (i.e., the two lands which lay one on each side of the

"celestial Nile)." The above nine addresses form, in reality, a

litany, and after each of them the deceased said to Osiris, "
" grant thou unto me a path whereon I may pass in peace, for I
" am just and true; I have not spoken lies wittingly, nor have I
" done aught with deceit."
IV. " Homage 4 to thee, Osiris Un-Nefer, whose word is

" niaclt, thou son of Nut, thou first-born son of Seb, thou mighty
" one who comest forth from Nut, thou king in the city of Nifu-ur,
" thou Governor of Amentet, thou lord of Abtu, thou lord of souls,

" thou mighty one of strength, thou lord of the Atef crown, j£ .

"in Suten-henen, thou lord of the divine form in the city of

"Nifu-ur, thou lord of the tomb, thou mighty one of souls in
"Tattu, thou lord of [sepulchral] offerings, whose festivals are
"many in Tattu. The god Horus exalteth his father in every
" place, and he uniteth himself unto the goddess Isis and unto her

1
A district of the Underworld.
2 An was originally a Nile god.
allusion to the fact that Osiris
:>
Nekhen was the sanctuary of the goddess Nekhebet of Nekhebet (Eileithvia-

polis), whose male counterpart was An, a form of Osiris.

4
Bool- of the Dead, Chap, cxxviii. (Saite Recension).
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"sister Nephthys and the god Thoth reciteth for him the mighty
;

" glorifyingswhich are within him, and which come forth from his
" mouth, and the heart of Horus is stronger than that of all the
" gods. Rise up, then, Horus, thou son of Isis, and avenge thy
" father Osiris. Hail, Osiris, I have come unto thee ; I am
" Horus and I have avenged thee, and I feed this day upon the
" sepulchral meals of oxen and feathered fowl, and upon all the
" beautiful things offered unto Osiris. Rise up, then, Osiris, for
" I have struck down for thee all thine enemies, and I have taken
" vengeance upon them for thee. I am Horus upon this beautiful
" day of thy fair rising in thy Soul, which exalteth thee along with
"itself on this day before thy divine sovereign princes. Hail,
" Osiris, thy double (lea) hath come unto thee and rests with
" thee, and thou restest therein in thy name of Ka-Hetep. It
" maketh thee glorious in thy name of Khu, and it maketh thee like
" unto the Morning Star in thy name of Pehu, and it openeth for
" thee the ways in thy name of Ap-uat. Hail, Osiris, I have
" come unto thee, and I have set thine enemies under thee in
" every place, and thy word is macit in the presence of the gods
" and of the divine sovereign chiefs. Hail, Osiris, thou hast
" received thy sceptre and the place whereon thou art to rest, and
" thy steps are under thee. Thou bringest food to the gods, and
" thou bringest sepulchral meals unto those who dwell in their
" tombs. Thou hast given thy might unto the gods, and thou
"hast created the Great God ; thou hast thy existence with them
" in their spiritual bodies, thou gatherest thyself unto all the gods,
" and thou hearest the word of madt on the day when offerings to
" this god are ordered on the festivals of Uka."

V. " Homage to thee, 1 Governor oe Amentet, Un-nefer,

" lord of Ta-tchesert, thou who art diademed like Ra, verily I
" come to see thee and to rejoice at thy beauties. His disk is thy
" disk ; his rays of light are thy rays of light ; his TJreret crown is

" thy TJreret crown ; his majesty is thy majesty ; His risings are
" thy risings ; his beauties are thy beauties ; the terror which he
" inspireth is the terror which thou inspirest ; his odour is thy

1
Book of the Dead, Chap, clxxxi.
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HYMN TO OSIRIS 157

" odour ; his hall is thy hall ; his seat is thy seat ; his throne is thv
" throne ; his heir is thy heir ; his ornaments are thy ornaments ;

" his decree is thy decree ; his hidden place is thy hidden place
" his things are thy things ; his knowledge is thy knowledge ; the
" attributes of greatness which are his are thine ; the power which
" protecteth him protecteth thee he dieth not and thou diest not ;

" he is not overcome by his enemies and thou art not overcome by
" thine enemies ; no evil thing whatsoever hath happened unto
" him, and no evil thing whatsoever shall happen unto thee for
" ever and ever.
" Homage to thee, Osiris, son of Nut, lord of the two horns,
" whose Atef crown is exalted, may the Ureret crown be given
"unto thee, along with sovereignty before the company of the
" gods. May the god Temu make awe of thee to exist in the
" hearts of men, and women, and gods, and spirits, and the dead.
" May dominion be given unto thee in Annu ; mayest thou be
" mighty of transformations in Tattu (Mendes) ; mayest thou be
" the lord greatly feared in the Aati ; mayest thou be mighty
" in victory in Re-stau ; mayest thou be the lord who is com-
" memorated with gladness in the Great House ; mayest thou have
" manifold risings like the sun in Abtu may triumph be given
;

" unto thee in the presence of the company of the gods mayest ;

" thou gain the victory over the mighty Powers may the fear of ;

" thee be made to go [throughout] the earth and may the princes ;

" stand up upon their stations before the sovereign of the gods of
" the Tuat, before thee the mighty Sekhem of heaven, the Prince
" of the living ones, the king of those who are in [his train], and
" the Glorifier of thousands in Kher-aha. The denizens of heaven
" rejoice in thee, thou who art the lord of the chosen offerings in
" the mansions above ; a meat offering is made unto thee in the city
" of Het-ka-Ptah (Memphis) ; and the '
things of the night ' are
" prepared for him in Sekhem (Letopolis). Behold, mighty god,
" thou great one of two-fold strength, thy son Horus avengeth thee.
" He doeth away with every evil thing whatsoever that belongeth
" to thee, he bindeth thy person, he gathereth
up in order for thee
" together for thee thy members, he collecteth for thee thy bones,
" and he brinsreth to thee whatsoever belomreth to thee. Thus
158 HYMN TO OSIRIS
" thou art raised up, Osiris, and I have given unto thee thy
" hand, and I make thee to stand up a living being for ever and
" ever.
Homage to thee,
VI. " Governor oe those who are in
1

" Amenti, who makest mortals to be born again, who renewest thy
" youth, thou comest who dwellest in thy season, and who art more
" beautiful than , thy son Horus hath avenged thee ; the
"rank and dignity of Tern have been conferred upon thee, Un-
" nefer. Thou art raised up, Bull of Amentet, thou art stablished
"in the body of Nut, who unite th herself unto thee, and who
" cometh forth with thee. Thy heart is stablished upon that which
" supporteth it, and thy breast is as it was formerly thy nose is ;

"firmly fixed with life and power, thou livest, and thou art
" renewed, and thou makest thyself young like Ra each and every
" day. Mighty, mighty is Osiris in victory, and he is firmly
" stablished with life."

VII. " Thy heart rejoiceth, 2 lord of the gods, thy heart
" rejoiceth greatly ; Land and the Red Land are at
the Black
" peace,and they serve thee humbly under thy sovereign power.
"The temples are stablished upon their own lands, cities and
" nomes possess firmly the goods which are inscribed in their names,
" and we will make to thee the divine offerings which we are

"bound to make, and offer sacrifices in thy name for ever.

" Acclamations are made in thy name, libations are poured out to

"thy double. Sepulchral meals [are brought unto thee] by the

" khus who are in their following, and water is sprinkled upon
" the offerings (?) upon both sides of the souls of the dead in
" this land ; every plan which hath been decreed for thee according
" to the commands of Ra in the beginning hath been perfected.
" Now, therefore, son of Nut, thou art diademed as Neb-er-tcher
" is diademed at his rising. Thou livest, thou art stablished, thou
" renewest thy youth, thou art true and perfect ; thy father Ra
" maketh strong thy members, and the company of the gods make
" acclamations unto thee.The goddess Isis is with thee, and she
" never leaveth thee [thou art] not overthrown by thine enemies.
;

1 Book of the Dead, Chap, clxxxii. (11. 1.5-19).

2 Ibid., Chap, clxxxiii. (11. 17 ft'.).
 HYMN TO OSIRIS 159

" The lords of all lands praise thy beauties even as they praise Ra
" when he riseth at the beginning of each day. Thou risest up
" like an exalted one upon thy standard, thy beauties exalt the
" face and make long the stride. I have given unto thee the sove-
" reignty of thy father Seb, and the goddess Mut, thy mother, who
" gave birth to the gods, brought thee forth as the first-born of
" five gods, and created thy beauties, and fashioned thy members.
" Thou art stablished as king, the white crown is upon thy head,
" and thou hast grasped in thy hands the crook and the whip ;

" whilstthou wert in the womb, and hadst not as yet come forth
" therefrom upon the earth, thou wert crowned lord of the two
" lands, and the Atef crown of Ra was upon thy brow. The gods
" come unto thee bowing low to the ground, and they hold thee in
" fear ; they retreat and depart when they see thee possessing the
"terror of Ra, and the victory of thy Majesty is in their hearts.
" Life is with thee, and offerings of meat and drink follow thee,
" and that which is thy due is offered up before thy face."

VIII. " Homage to thee, 1

thou holy god, thou mighty and
"beneficent being, thou Prince of eternity who dwellest in thy
" abode in the Sektet Boat, thou whose risings are manifold in the

"Atet Boat, to thee are praises rendered in heaven and upon

" earth. Peoples and nations exalt thee, and the majesty of thy
" terror is in the hearts of men, and spirits, and the dead. Thy
" Soul is in Tattu (Mendes) and the terror of thee is in Suten-henen
" (Herakleopolis) ; thou settest the visible emblems of thyself in
"Annu and the greatness of thy transformations in the double
" place of purification."

IX. " Homage to thee, great God, thou Lord of Maati,

" I have come to thee, my Lord, and I have brought myself
" hither that I may behold thy beauties. I know thee, and I know
" thy name, and I know the names of the Two and Forty gods who
" exist with thee in the Hall of Maati, who live as warders of
" sinners and who feed upon their blood on the day when the lives
" of men are taken into account in the presence of the god
" Un-nefer ; in truth thy name is '
Rekhti-merti-neb-Maati.' In

1
Booh of the Dead, Chap, clxxxv.
160 HYMN TO OSIRIS
" truth I have come to thee, and I have brought Maat to thee, and
" I have destroyed wickedness for thee. I have not done evil to

"mankind. I have not oppressed the members of my family.

" I have not wrought evil in the place of Maat. I have had no
"knowledge of worthless men. I have not wrought evil. I have
" not made to be the first [consideration] of each day that excessive
" labour should be performed for me. I have not brought forward
" my name for honours. I have not ill-treated servants. I have
" not thought scorn of God. I have not defrauded the oppressed
" one of his goods. I have not done that which is an abomination
" unto the gods. I have not caused harm to be done to the servant
" by his chief. I have not caused pain. I have made no man to
" suffer hunger. I have made no one to weep. I have done no
" murder. I have not given the order for murder to be done for

"me. I have not inflicted pain upon mankind. I have not

" defrauded the temples of their oblations. I have not purloined
" the cakes of the gods. I have not carried off the cakes offered to
" the spirits. I have not committed fornication. I have not
" entered the holy places of the god of my city in a polluted con-
" dition. I have not diminished from the bushel. I have neither
" added to nor filched away land. I have not encroached upon the
" fields [of others]. I have not added to the weights of the scales
" (i.e., cheated the seller). I have not misread the pointer of the
"scales (i.e., cheated the buyer). I have not carried away the
" milk from the mouths of children. I have not driven away the
" cattle from their pastures. I have not snared the feathered fowl
" of the preserves of the gods. I have not caught fish [with bait
" made of] fish of their kind. I have not turned back the water at
" the time [when it should flow]. I have not cut a cutting in a
" canal of running water. I have not extinguished a fire when it

" should burn. I have not violated the seasons of the chosen meat
" offerings. I have not driven off the cattle from the property of
"the gods. I have not repulsed God in his manifestations. lam
" pure. I am pure. I am pure. I am pure. My purity is the
" purity of that great Bennu which is in the city of Suten-henen
" (Herakleopolis Magna), for, behold, lam the nose of the god of
" the winds who maketh all mankind to live on the day when the
 HYMN TO OSIRIS 161

" Eye of Ra is full in Annu at the end of the second month of the
1
"season Pert in the presence of the divine lord of the earth.
" I have seen the Eye of Ra when it was full in Annu, therefore let
" not evil befall me in this land and in this Hall of Maati, because
" I, even I, know the names of these gods who are therein and who
"are the followers of the great god."

1 I.e., the Season of Growing; the second month of Pert is the sixth month
of the Egyptian year.

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CHAPTER IX

HYMN TO OSIRIS 1

XVIIITH DYNASTY, ABOUT B.C. 1500

i.im,£.
dnetch hrd-k Asdr
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M heh
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suten
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neteru
Homage to thee, Osiris, lord of eternity, king of the gods,

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ash rennu tcheser kheperu sheta dru em
many of names, holy of creations, hidden of forms in

erperu shepses ka pu hhent Tattu ur

the temples, whose ka is venerated, chief of Tattu, great one

khert em Sekhem neb hennu em

contained in the temple of Sekhem, lord of praises in

ft o\\

Ji/?i khent tchef em Annu neb

the nome Athi, chief of the sacred food in Heliopolis, the lord

1
The stele on which the following text is inscribed is preserved in the
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Its importance was first recognized by Chabas (see
Eevue Archeologique, 1857, p. 65), and a complete copy of it will be found in
Ledrain, Monuments Jfigyptiens, pll. xxii. ff.
 HYMN TO OSIRIS 163

b D
selchau em Madti ba sheta neb Qerert

who is commemorated in Maati, soul hidden, lord of Qerert,

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tcheser em
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ba
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tchet -
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holy one, in White Wall, the soul of Ra, of his very body,

ra
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hetep em Suten-henen menleh hennu em Nart
satisfied with in Henen-suten, abundant of praise in Nart,
offerings

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kheper setheset ba -
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hath become exalted his soul [as] lord of the Great in Khemennu,
House

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da neru em Shas-hetep neb heh hhent

great one of terror in Shas-hetep, lord of eternity, chief

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Abtu her dst -
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of Abydos, extendeth his seat in the Land of established

holiness.

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ren em re en ret pautti en

of name in the mouth of mankind, the two-fold pant of

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tn ni Tern tchef lean

Ica/U hhent paut
the two lands, Tern the divine god of the has, chief of the paut
164 HYMN TO OSIRIS

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neteru khu menhh emmd kliu Jchenp en nef
of the gods, spirit beneficent among the spirits, he clraweth

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we/ er fentet-f er heteptu db -f

[and] air to his nostrils to the satisfaction of his heart,

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retet. en db-f meses-nef Ichut telief

germinateth his heart, he produceth the light, the divine food,

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setem-nef hert sbau sun-nef sbau dam

obey him heaven and the he maketh to the great gates,
star-gods, be open

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neb hennn em pet reset tuau em pet mehtet
lord of praises in the southern adored in the northern
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dulchemu seku hher dst hrd-f dst -

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the stars which never [are] under of his face, his seats
diminish the seat

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pu dukhemu-urtu per-nef hetep em

are the stars which never rest, cometh to him an offerinj by
 HYMN TO OSIRIS 1 65

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Seb
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paut
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neteru her
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w£?« tua -
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the order of Seb, the paut of the gods praise him, the star gods

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166 HYMN TO OSIRIS

maa-nef ertd sent -f em taiu neb en

him that seeth him. He putteth his fear in all lands, through

wierf £em &a - sen re% -

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love [of him] they all proclaim his name before [every name].

terp - nef nebu neb sehhau em

*& to him
Make offerings all men, the lord who is commemorated in

=- ^ ™m k a&
/?e£ em ta ash hi em Uak
heaven [and] in earth, [he is] greatly praised in the Uak festival;

dru - nef dhhi an taui em bu ud ur

make to him cries to joy the two lands all together, the great one,

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tep en sennit -
f seru en jpaut neteru

first of his divine brethren, prince of the paut of the gods,

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smen madt khet taui erta sa

stablisher of right and throughout the two lands, placer of the son
truth

her nest-f da en at -
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upon his throne great of his father Seb, darling of his mother
 |

HYMN TO OSIRIS 167

Nut da pehpeli sekher -f Sebd aha sma -

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Nut, great one of two-fold he casts down Seba, he hath slaughtered
strength,

hhffft -/ er^a sent -

/ em Merit -/ cm
his enemy placing his fear in his foe. Bringer

trheru uatu men db retui-f thest

of boundaries remote, firm of heart, his two feet are lifted up.

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sovereignty lands.

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command
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the end of times. He hath made this earth in his hand,

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pait nebt khepanen uebt tchetfet - / did -

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[its] birds all, [its] fishes all, its reptiles, its quadrupeds,
168 HYMN TO OSIRIS
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se£ smadu en sa Nut taui hem her

the desert is by right to the son of Nut, the two lands are content

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to crown on the throne of the father like Ra. He riseth
[him]

cOd "^^^ jc^. <wr D — * ^^ pf^

em &7m£ erfoz -/ shep en her leek sehetch-nef

on the horizon, he giveth light through the darkness, he shineth

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sAw em shuti-f bdh-nef taui ma dthen

with light from his plumes, he floodeth with the two like the Disk
]ight lands

em £ep fotaii hetch-f tem-nes hert sensen

at the early sunrise. His crown pierceth heaven, he is a brother

s&a% semi* e% %e£er -?z.e6 menhh utu

of the star gods, the guide of god every, operative by command

mek /im e?i £><z%i( neteru dat merer

and word, favoured one of thepaut of the gods great, beloved of

j?a«£ neteru netcheset dri en sent -

f mdhet -
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thepaut of the gods little. Hath made his sister his protection,
 HYMN TO OSI] 169

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seherit kheru sehemt sep shet hheru

driving away foes, turning back evil hap, uttering the word

P 1
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em hhu res dqert nes an uh
with the power of her mouth, perfect of tongue, not erring

£
en metu semenlchet utu metu Ast hhut

of speech, operating by decree and word Isis, the strong one,

netchet sens hehet su dtet bekek

the avenger of her brother. She sought him without weariness,

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revet ta pen em hai an Jchen nes

she went round about this earth in sorrow, not alighted she

an qemtu - s su writ shut em shut - s

without finding him, she made light with her hair (or,
feathers)

khepert
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ra

hennu
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mendt
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making to wind with [her] wings, she made cries at the bier
become

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sen - s setheset enenu en urt - db

of her brother. She raised up [from] inactivity the one still of heart,
170 HYMN TO OSIRIS
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en nebs suteni en madts nef qemen-tu

upon its lord, the sovereignty of its right [is] to him. Hath found

Heru Icheru-f man, ertau - nef dot ent tef

Horus his voice true. Hath been given the rank of his father.
to him

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shep - nef heq taui ketch men
He hath received the sceptre of the two theWhite is established
lands, Crown
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dm t&p-f djp-nef ta er hhert-f

upon his head. He judgeth the earth according to his plan.

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pet ta Icher dst lp°d-f s-utu-nef ret

Heaven and are under the seat of his face. He comniandeth men,
earth

khu pat hamemet Ta-merd Ha-nebu

spirits, the dead, the , and Egypt, the lords of the north,

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shentu dthen Idler seJcheru-f meht dter

the circle of the Disk, are under his plans, and the north the flood,
wind,
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172 HYMN TO OSIRIS

e?MMu Me£ en dnhh ren/pet nebt Neprd

the celestial waters, the staff of life, herb every. Nepra,

£a-/ sem -f neb tchefau bes -f

he giveth his green herbs, the lord of tchefau food, he leadeth on

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sesaw tti -
f su em tarn bu neb kJient

abundance, he giveth it in [all] lands. Everywhere is joy.

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afeit netchem hatu kher reshut hrd-neb thehu

hearts are glad, hearts rejoice, every face is happy.

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Every place adoreth his beauties. Doubly sweet is his love

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J\ —"— III

Jcher-n menlchut-f rer - nes dbu ur mert-f

to us, his active goodness goeth round hearts, great is his love

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in every body, and they do what is right to the son of Isis.

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His enemy hath fallen before his wrath, the maker of evil
 HYMN TO OSIRIS 173

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at the utterance of the voice, shooting forth his wrath in his season,

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cometh unto him the son of Isis, the avenger of his father.

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setcheseru semsnlchu ren-f shefit hetep-nes dst - s

Holy and beneficent is his name ; awe resteth in its seat,

/w mew er /&epw -
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stablished everywhere are his laws, the path is opened,

ra tk v n ^
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mdthennu un seherui taui duit

the roads are opened, content are the two lands, wickedness

^p^P £\ <=>\\-a - krf, <£.

shems a?u rim fa em /&e£ep Mer
departeth, evil goeth away, the earth is at peace beneath

neb-f smen Madt en neb - s ertau sa

its lord, established is Maat by its lord, it giveth the back

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er a.s/ef netchern db-h Un-nefer sa Ad sh&p

to iniquity. Glad is thy heart, Un-nefer, son of Isis, he hath

174 HYMN TO OSIRIS

ne/ /&e£c/i smadu nef dat ent tef

received the White is his by right the rank of his father

Crown,

em Ichennu Het - Seb Bd tchet-f Tehuti

within the House of Seb, [he is] Ra [when] he Thoth
speaketh,

an -
f tchatchat her-thd utu en

[when] he writeth. The assessors are content ; what hath decreed

nek dtf-h Seb dri-entu hheft tchetet-nef

for thee thy father Seb let be performed even as he spake ;

suien td hetep Asdr Khent Amenti neb Abtu

may give a royal Osiris, governor of Amenti, lord of Abydos,
offering

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per Icheru dh
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may he give sepulchral meals, oxen, fowl, bandages, incense, wax,

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mat renpet neb dri kheperu sekhem

gifts of herbs of all kinds, the making of transforma- the mastery
tions,

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of Nile, appearance as a soul living, the sight of the disk
 HYMN TO OSIRIS 175

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tep tuait dq pert em Re-stau an shend
at dawn daily, entrance and exit from Re-stau, not being repulsed
into «

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f em ma
the soul in the Underworld, reception

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before the altar of the god great, the snuffing of the wind

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CHAPTER X

"THE NAMES OF OSIRIS IN EVERY SHRINE

WHEREIN HE DWELLETH"
(THEBAN RECENSION, ABOUT B.C. 1600)

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15. Asar Her-ab semt

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16. Asar Em Ati (Anetch)

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17. Asar Em Sehtet

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18. Asar Em Netchefet

19. Asar Em Resu .

20. Asar Em Pe .

21. Asar Em Neteru

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22. Asar Em Sau-kheri \<
23. AsarEmBaket
24. Asar Em Sunnu

25. Asar Em Rehenenet

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32. Asar Em Pet .

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33. Asar Em-ast-f-amu-Re-stau

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34. Asar Netchesti .

35. Asar Smam-ur .

36. Asar Sekri w

37. Asar Heq-tchetta
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38. Asar Tua f=u)

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178 NAMES OF OSIRIS

39. Asar Em Ater .

40. Asar Em Sek .

41.

42.

43.
Asar Neb-tchetta

Asar Athi

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44. Asar Em Re-stau

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47. Asar Em Tau-enenet s ! TTn'

48. Asar Em Netebit

49. Asar Em Sati .

50. Asar Em Beteshu

51. Asar Em Tepu .

52. Asar Em Sau-heri

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54. Asar Em Shennu 9 0^

55. Asar Em Henket
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56. Asar Em Ta-Sekri s I

57. Asar Em Shau .

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58. Asar Em Fat-Heru
59. Asar em Maati
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60. Asar
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CHAPTER XI

PLUTARCH'S MYTHOLOGICAL HISTORY OF

ISIS AND OSIRIS 1

XII. " |^k j

OW the story of Isis and Osiris, its most significant and
^^ " superfluous parts omitted, is thus briefly related :

" Rhea, they say, having accompanied with Kronos by stealth, was
" discovered by Helios, who hereupon denounced a curse upon her,
" '
that she should not be delivered in any month or year.' Hermes
"however, being likewise in love with the same Goddess, in
" recompence of the favours which he had received from her, plays
" at tables with Selene, and wins from her the seventieth part of
" each of her illuminations ; these several parts, making in the
" whole five new days, he afterwards joined together, and added to
" the three hundred and sixty, of which the year formerly
" consisted : which days therefore are even yet called by the
" Egyptians the '
Epact ' or '
superadded,' and observed by them
" as the birth-days of their Gods. For upon the first of them, say
" they, was Osiris born, just at whose entrance into the world a
" voice was heard, saying, the lord of all the earth *
is born.'
" There are some indeed who relate this circumstance in a different
" manner, as that a certain person named Pamyles, as he was
" fetching water from the temple of Jupiter at Thebes, heard a

"voice commanding him to proclaim aloud, that 'the good and

" great king Osiris was then born '
; and for this reason Kronos
" committed the education of the child to him, and that in memory
"of this event the Pamylia were afterwards instituted, a festival
"much resembling the Phallephoria or Priapeia of the Greeks.

1
See S. Squire, Plutarch's Treatise of Isis and Osiris, Cambridge, 1744,
p. 15 ff.
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ISIS AND OSIRIS 187

" Upon the second of these days Avas Aroueris (Apovrjp^) born
" whom some call Apollo, and others distinguish by the name of
/i
" the elder Orus. 1
Upon the third, Typho [i.e., Set kj
" came into the world, being born neither at the proper time, nor
" by the right place, but forcing his way through a wound which
"he had made in his mother's side. Isis was born on the fourth
" of them, in the marshes of Egypt as Nephthys was upon the
;

"last, whom some call Teleute and Aphrodite, and others Nike.
" Now as to the fathers of these children, the two first of them are
" said to have been begotten by Helios Isis by Hermes Typho; ;

" and Nephthys by Kronos and accordingly, the third of these

;

" superadded days, because it was looked upon as the birth-day of

" Typho, was regarded by the kings as inauspicious, and consequently
" they neither transacted any business in it, or even suffered them-
" selves to take any refreshment until the evening. They further
" add, that Typho married Nephthys and that Isis and Osiris,
;

" having a mutual affection, enjoyed each other in their mother's

" womb before they were born, and that from this commerce sprang
" Aroueris, whom the Egyptians likewise call the '
elder Orus,' and
"
" the Greeks '
Apollo.'
XIII. " Osiris, being now become king of Egypt, applied
" himself towards civilizing his countrymen, by turning them from
" their former indigent and barbarous course of life ; he moreover
" taught them how to cultivate and improve the fruits of the earth ;

" he gave them a body of laws to regulate their conduct by, and
" instructed them in that reverence and worship, which they were
" to pay to the gods with the same good disposition he afterwards
;

" travelled over the rest of the world, inducing the people every-
u where to submit to his discipline, not indeed compelling them by

" force of arms, but persuading them to yield to the strength of

" his reasons, which were conveyed to them in the most agreeable
" manner, in hymns and songs accompanied with instruments of
" music ; from which last circumstance, the Greeks conclude him
" to have been the same person with their Dionysos or Bacchus.
" During Osiris's absence from his kingdom Typho had no

1
'Apouiypis = HeBU-UB, V\ -^=f
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188 ISIS AND OSIRIS

"opportunity of making any innovations in the state, Isis being
" extremely vigilant in the government and always upon her guard.
"After his return, however, having first persuaded seventy-two
" other persons to join with him in the conspiracy, together with a
"certain queen of Ethiopia named A so, who chanced to be in
" Egypt at that time, he contrived a proper stratagem to execute
"his base designs. For having privily taken the measure of
" Osiris's body, he caused a chest to be made exactly of the same
" size with it, as beautiful as might be, and set off with all the

"ornaments of art. This chest he brought into his banqueting

" room ; where, after it had been much admired by all who were
" present, Typho,
as it were in jest, promised to give it to any one
" of them, whose body upon trial it might be found to fit. Upon
" this the whole company, one after another, go into it, but as it
" did not fit any of them, last of all Osiris lays himself down in it,

" upon which the conspirators immediately ran together, clapped

" the cover upon it, and then fastened it down on the outside with
"nails, pouring likewise melted lead over it. After this, they
" carried it away to the river side, and conveyed it to the sea by
" the Tanaitic mouth
of the Nile which for this reason is still held
;

" in the utmost abomination by the Egyptians, and never named

" by them but with proper marks of detestation. These things, say
" they, were thus executedupon the 17th day of the month Athyr,
" when the Sun was in Scorpio, in the 28th year of Osiris's reign
" though there are others who tell us that he was no more than 28
" years old at this time.

XIV. " The first who knew the accident which had befallen
" their king, were the Pans and Satyrs who inhabited the country
" about Chemmis
and they immediately acquainting the people
;*

" with the news gave the first occasion to the name Panic Terrors,
" which has ever since been made use of to signifie any sudden
" affright or amazement of a multitude. As to Isis, as soon as the
" report reached her, she immediately cut off one of the locks of
" her hair, and put on mourning apparel upon the very spot where

1
I.e., Apu, (I v\ ©, the Panopolis of the Greeks; the name Xe'/x/us, the

modern Akhmim, is derived from the old Egyptian name, _ "^ '
 ISIS AND OSIRIS 189

" she then happened to be, which accordingly from this accident
" has ever since been called Coptos, or the City of Mourning, though
" some are of opinion that this word rather signifies Deprivation.
" After this she wandered everywhere about the country, full of
" disquietude and perplexity, in search of the chest, enquiring of
" every person she met some children whom she
with, even of
" chanced to see, whether they knew what was become of it. Now
"it so happened that these children had seen what Typho's accom-
" plices had done with the body, and accordingly acquainted her by
" what mouth of the Nile it had been conveyed into the sea. For
" this reason therefore the Egyptians look upon children as endued
" with a kind of faculty of divining, and in consequence of this
" notion are very curious in observing the accidental prattle which
" they have with one another whilst they are at play (especially if

"it be a sacred place), forming omens and presages from it. Isis,

" during this interval, having been informed that Osiris, deceived by
" her sister Nephthys who was in love with him, had unwittingly
" enjoyed her instead of herself, as she concluded from the melilot
" garland (top MekikaTivov o-recfyavov), which he had left with her,
" made it her business to search out the child, the fruit of this
"unlawful commerce (for her sister, dreading the anger of her
"husband Typho, had exposed it as soon as it was born), and
" accordingly, after much pains and difficulty, by means of some
" dogs that conducted her to the place where it was, she found it

"and bred it up so that in process of time it became her constant

;

"guard and attendant, and from hence obtained the name of

"Anubis, being thought to watch and guard the Gods, as dogs do
" mankind.
" At length she receives more particular news of the chest,
" that it had been carried by the Avaves of the sea to the coast of
" Byblos, and there gently lodged in the branches of a bush of
" Tamarisk, which in a short time had shot up into a large and
" beautiful tree, growing round the chest and enclosing it on every

"side, so that it was not to be seen and farther that the king of
;

" the country, amazed at its unusual size, had cut the tree down,

"and made that part of the trunk, wherein the chest was concealed,
" a pillar to support the roof of his house. These things, say they,
 190 ISIS AND OSIRIS
" being made known to Isis in an extraordinary manner by the
" report of demons, she immediately went to Byblos ; where,
" setting herself down by the side of a fountain, she refused to
" speak to anybody, excepting only to the queen's women who
" chanced to be there ; these indeed she saluted and caressed in
"the kindest manner possible, plaiting their hair for them, and
" transmitting into them part of that wonderfully grateful odour,
" which issued from her own body. This raised a great desire in
" the queen their mistress, to see the stranger, who had this
" admirable faculty of transfusing so fragrant a smell from herself
" into the hair and skin of other people. She therefore sent for
" her to court, and after a further acquaintance with her, made her
"nurse to one of her sons. Now the name of the king, who
" reigned at this time at Byblos, 1 was Melcarthus, as that of his
" queen was Astarte, or according to others, Saosis, though some
" call her Nemanoun, which answers to the Greek name of
" Athenais.
XVI. " Isis fed the child by giving it her finger to suck
" instead of the breast ; she likewise put him every night into the
" fire in order to consume his mortal part, whilst transforming
" herself into a swallow she hovered round the pillar and bemoaned
" her sad fate. Thus continued she to do for some time, till the
" queen, who stood watching her, observing the child to be all in a
" flame, cryed out, and thereby deprived him of that immortality,
"which would otherwise have been conferred upon him. The
" goddess
upon this, discovering herself, requested that the pillar
" which supported the roof might be given her ; which she accord-
" ingly took down, and then easily cutting it open, after she had
" taken out what she wanted, she wrapped up the remainder of
" the trunk in fine linnen, and pouring perfumed oil upon it,
" delivered it again into the hands of the king and queen (which
" piece of wood is to this day preserved in the temple of Isis, and
" worshipped by the people of Byblos). When this was done she
" threw herself upon the chest, making at the same time such a

1 The Byblos really referred to here is a city in the Papyrus Swamps of the
Delta.
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ISIS AND OSIRIS 191

" loud and terrible lamentation over it, as frighted the younger of
" the king's sons, who heard her, out of his life. But the elder of
" them she took with her, and set sail with the chest for Egypt
" and it being now about morning, the river Phaedrus sending
" forth a rough and sharp air, she in her anger dried up its
" current.

XVII. " No sooner was she arrived at a desert place, where

" she imagined herself to be alone, but she presently opened the
" chest, and laying her face upon her dead husband's embraced his
" corpse, and wept bitterly ; but perceiving that the little boy had
" silently stolen behind her, and found out the occasion of her
" grief, she turned herself about on the sudden, and in her anger

gave him so fierce and stern a look that he immediately died of

i
the affright.
'
Others indeed say that his death did not happen in
" this manner, but, as was hinted above, that he fell into the sea,
" and afterwards received the greatest honours on account of the
" goddess ; for that the Maneros, whom the Egyptians so frequently
" call upon in their banquets, is none other than this very boy.
"This relation is again contradicted by such as tell us, that the
" true name of this child was Palaestinus, or Pelusius, and that the
" city of this name was built by the goddess in memory of him
"adding farther, that the Maneros above mentioned is thus
" honoured by the Egyptians at their feasts, because he was the
" first who invented music. There are others again, who affirm
" that Maneros is not the name of any particular person, but a
" mere customary form, and complimental manner of greeting
" made use of by the Egyptians one towards another at their more
" solemn feasts and banquets, meaning no more by it than to
" wish that what they were then about might prove fortunate
'

" and happy to them,' for that this is the true import of the word.
" In like manner, say they, the human skeleton, which at these
" times of jollity is carried about in a box, and shewn to all the
" guests, is not designed, as some imagine, to represent the par-
" ticular misfortunes of Osiris, but rather to remind them of their
" mortality, and thereby to excite them freely to make use of and
" to enjoy the good things which are set before them, seeing they

"must quickly become such as they there saw ; and that this is
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192 ISIS AND OSIRIS

" the true reason of introducing it at their banquets — but to
"proceed in the narration.
XVIII. " Isis intending a visit to her son Orus, who was
1
" brought up at Butos, deposited the chest in the meanwhile in a
" remote and unfrequented place ; Typho however, as he was one
" night hunting in the light of the moon, accidentally met with it

"and knowing the body which was enclosed in it, tore it into
"several pieces, 14 in all, dispersing them up and down in different
" parts of the country. Upon being made acquainted with this
" event, Isis once more sets out in search of the scattered fragments
" of her husband's body, making use of a boat made of the reed
" Papyrus in order the more easily to pass thro' the lower and
—
" fenny parts of the country For which reason say they, the
" crocodile never touches any persons, who sail in this sort of
" vessels, as either fearing the anger of the goddess, or else respect-
" ing it on account of its having once carried her. To this occasion
" therefore is to be imputed, that there are so many different
" sepulchres of Osiris shewn in Egypt for we are told, that ;

" wherever Isis met with any of the scattered limbs of her husband,
" she there buried it. There are others however who contradict
" this relation, and tell us, that this variety of sepulchres was owing
" rather to the policy of the queen, who, instead of the real body,
" as was pretended, presented these several cities with the image
" only of her husband and that she did this, not only to render
;

" the honours, which would by this means be paid to his memory,
" more extensive, but likewise that she might hereby elude the
"malicious search of Typho; who, if he got the better of
" Orus in the war wherein they were going to be engaged, dis-
" tracted by this multiplicity of Sepulchres, might despair of being
"able to find the true one —we are told moreover, that notwith-
" standing all her search, Isis was never able to recover the privy-
" member of Osiris, which having been thrown into the Nile
"immediately upon its separation from the rest of the body,
"had been devoured by the Lepidotus, the Phagrus, and the
" Oxyrynchus, fish which of all others, for this reason, the

1
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ISIS AND OSIRIS 193

"Egyptians have more especial avoidance. In order, how-

in
" ever, to make some amends for the loss, Isis consecrated the
" Phallus made in imitation of it, and instituted a solemn
" festival to its memory, which is even to this day observed by the
" Egyptians."
"After these things, Osiris returning from the other world
" appeared to his son Orus, encouraged him to the battle, and at
" the same time instructed him in the exercise of arms. He then
" asked him, what he thought the most glorious action a man
'

"could perform?' to which Orus replied, 'to revenge the injuries

"offered to his father and mother.' He then asked him, 'what
" animal he thought most serviceable to a soldier ? ' and beinsr
" answered '
a horse,' this raised the wonder of Osiris, so that he
" further questioned him, 'why he preferred a horse before a lion ?
"
because,' says Orus,
' 'tho' the lion be the more serviceable
" creature to one who stands in need of help, yet is the horse more
" useful in overtaking and cutting off a flying adversary.' These
" replies much rejoiced Osiris, as they shewed him that his son
" was sufficiently prepared for his enemy. We are moreover told,
" that amongst the great numbers who were continually deserting
" from Typho's party was h,is concubine Thueris, and that a serpent 1

" pursuing her as she was coming over to Orus, was slain by his
" soldiers —
the memory of which action, say they, is still preserved
" in that cord, which is thrown into the midst of their assemblies,
" and then chopt into pieces — afterwards it came to a battle between
" them, which lasted many days ; but victory at length inclined to
" Orus, Typho himself being taken prisoner. Isis however, to
" whose custody he was committed, was so far from putting him to
" death, that she even loosed his bonds and set him at liberty.
u This action of his mother so extremely incensed Orus, that he

" laid hands upon her, and pulled off the ensign of royalty which
" she wore on her head ; and instead thereof Hermes clapt on an
"helmet made in the shape of an oxe's head. After this Typho
" publicly accused Orus of bastardy but by the assistance of ;

" Hermes, his legitimacy was fully established by the judgment of

1
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19 4 ISIS AND OSIRIS

"the Gods themselves. After this, there were two

other battles
" fought between them, in both which Typho had the worst. Fur-
" thermore, Isis is said to have accompanied Osiris after his death,
tT
lmd in consequence hereof to have brought forth Harpocrates,
" who came into the world before his time, and lame in his lower
" limbs."
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CHAFfER XII

ASAR-HAPI, J^jj/^, OR SERAPIS.

connexion with the history of the god Osiris mention must be

IN made Asar-Hapi or Serapis, a deity whose
of cult was wide-
spread in Egypt under the Ptolemies, and in many provinces of the
Roman Empire after that country had passed under the authority
of the Caesars. The second part of the name, " Hapi," was that
which was given to the famous bull which formed the object of
worship at Memphis very early in the dynastic period of Egyptian
history, and which is commonly known as the " Apis Bull,"
whilst the first part is, of course, nothing but the name Osiris in
its Egyptian form. The Greeks fused the names of the two deities

together under the form Zapani*;, and, although the exact nature
of the attributes which they assigned to Osiris and Apis united is

not quite clear, it seems tolerably certain that they regarded Serapis
as the form which Apis took after death. According to the
hieroglyphic texts * which were found on stelae and other objects in
the Serapeum at Sakkara, Apis is called " the life of Osiris, the

"lord of heaven, Tern [with] his horns [in] his head," 8 ^ <^ ¥
\\ ^zi7 f=q . ^- 5? *^— , and he is said to "give life,

strength, health, to thy nostrils for ever." Elsewhere Apis-Osiris

is described as, " the great god, Khent Amentet, the lord of life for

*™>" JtSViMlil^TfTSl' «* as this

text belongs to the period of the XVIIIth Dynasty, we see that

even at the beginning of the New Empire Apis and Osiris were

1
See Mariette, Le Serapeum de Memphis, Paris, 1882, p. 125 ff. ; Mariette,
Memoire sur cette Representation gravee en trie de quelques proscyntmes du Serapeum,
Paris, 1856.
196 SERAPIS
joined together by the priests of Memphis, and that the attributes
of Apis had been made to assume a funereal character, and that he
was at that time recognized as a god of the Underworld. On a
monument of the XlXth Dynasty, Apis 1
is said to be " the renewed
life of Ptah," \J
^ J

$ ,
and in an inscrip-

tion of the XXVIth

Dynasty he is called
the " second Ptah,"

D
m
the same text we have a
i nsTrraa^raaHMi^gsanB^essem
"u|T<<
"^ »»/"»rpif
l , mention of the " temple
i&ir :uZm\:^zr^m:m^~rjm:Et^
mm^MMfim^TA^Mv^mRrxnm of Asar - H api," rj
j\
iimm:immr$mQh^zmiimwM i.e., of Serapis,
tv rjb
aaHPw^^gygjBEagsBapBiHiBBd
^n^^iiiTj»:^ra"5!C«^iif^^tsi:r^"?t and we may learn from
\\*%~w^tw€^^&®i&mirjm£m&2 this fact that Apis had
fez>*!l^^^tgg£Kg»KfKMtynOC-Kgir been finally made a god
my.~\misLmT&muci£zzM£Zk:r,ri
of the Underworld, and
ML^Zki^suttzzmmiaiimg&m*
that his identity had been
g^ggggfekgy^gii^^TXEiroj^rii
^mm^n^^im
ifl^m@»s im°i:Q merged in that of Osiris.
i^\^rMm^mu?^tmmn:t-jak'M.i^ The identification of
:mmmm&%kw^mu\m^^$ Apis with Osiris was
Mm4m*ints\mfrM^A*ztm\^m easy enough, because
KmmMiz^MZ*i^m%m&mD one of the commonest
iwig^sf^^iCsrs^/^^eH-jri^^x^i
names of Osiris was
mS Ifrl^EBKSS^IHeiails H*r.<n
i^ttzzmtmizzmntiW^mHrm "Bull of the West,"
^mz~£mt:ir^im^t^zir.rrm*mz2^ and the identification
mmm^.^mtr^r,^^K^iMS~rm once made the shrines
of Osiris were regarded
Sepulchral tablet with a scene in which the deceased is

seen adoring Osiris, Serapis, and other gods. as the proper places at

which the worship of the double god should be paid. Apis was, in
fact, believed to be animated by the soul of Osiris, and to be Osiris

incarnate, and the appearance of a new Apis was regarded as a new

Mariette, Seraphim, p. 139. 2 Ibid., p. 198. i

 SERAPIS 197

manifestation of Osiris upon earth ; but he was also an emanation

of Ptah, and he was even called the "son of Ptah," 1 ^ ° § .

The double god Asar-Hapi or Hapi-Asar, is depicted in the form

of a bull, which has the solar disk and a uraeus between its
horns. The peculiar marks on a bull which indicated that he was
Apis, and the general history of the god will be found in the
Chapter on " Animals sacred to the Gods."
The chief centre of the worship of Serapis in Ptolemaic times
was Alexandria, where it was established, according to tradition, by
Ptolemy Soter. This great ruler of Egypt appears to have wished
to find some god who could be worshipped both by Greeks and
Egyptians at a common shrine, and one whom he could cause to be
regarded as the characteristic god of his dynasty in Egypt. The
most important Egyptian god at the time was Osiris, that is to say
god of the Egyptian Underworld, but it was
Osiris- Apis, the great

impossible for him

remove the great sanctuary of this god, and
to
he therefore determined either to rebuild some ruined Serapeum at
/Uexandria, or to found a new one wherein he might set up a
statue which should be worshipped both as the
god of the Egyptian
Underworld and the Greek Hades, and in which would be united
the attributes of Osiris Khent Amenti, and of Dis. Whilst
Ptolemy was meditating upon these or similar things he had a
dream, wherein a colossal statue of some god appeared to him, and
told him to remove it from where it was to Alexandria : according
to Plutarch {Be Iside et Osiride, § 28), he had never seen a
similar statue, and he knew neither the place where it stood, nor to
whom it belonged. One day he happened to mention his dream to
Sosibius, and described the statue which he had seen, whereon this
man declared that he had seen a statue like it at Sinope. Tradition
says that this was Sinope on the Pontus, and adds that as the
inhabitants of the city were extremely unwilling to part with their
statue, it, of its own accord, after waiting for three years, entered

ZEZI
1
In the text of Pepi I. (1. 671) the god Ur-sheps-f, -^^ I ^^ j^i
is lied the "
called '-beloved, *^£.
beloved, the son of Ptah," *^X. M
(J (J
D x 1v-\
| (

8 , but we are not

justified in assuming him to be an old form of Osiris-Apis.

198 SERAP1S
into a ship and arrived at Alexandria safely after a voyage of only
three days. When the Greeks came to see the statue it was
introduced to them as the god Hades, and the Egyptian priests
were ready to bestow upon him the name Asar-Hapi, or Serapis,
by which name the Greeks were, apparently, quite contented to
call him. Thus both the Greeks and Egyptians in Alexandria
acquired a god whom they willingly
worshipped as the god of the Under-
world.
As soon as the god who was now
called Serapis had been established in
his new home, his former worship and
rites were greatly modified, and his
services and processions were made to
resemble those of the Egyptians, who
naturally expected their main features
to be brought into harmony with
those of the cult of Osiris, their
national god. It appears to have
been to the interest of all parties to

welcome Serapis, and all must admire

the astute action of Ptolemy, who
succeeded in making the Greeks think
that in worshipping this god they were
adoring one of their own native deities,

and who persuaded the Egyptians that

they were maintaining the supremacy
of Osiris- Apis in spite of the fact that
the Macedonians were the rulers and
masters of the country. Some doubt
Asar-Hapi (Serapis).
has been cast upon the identification of
the Sinope mentioned by Plutarch with the Sinope of Pontus, but
with insufficient reason. The Serapeum which Ptolemy repaired, or

^, and was a ^=>

*
founded, was probably near Raqetit \ (1(1

very remarkable building its main plan seems to have resembled

;

that of the famous Serapeum at Memphis, but parts of it were

richly painted and gilded, and it possessed a fine library which was
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SERAPIS 199

said to contain some 300,000 volumes. The following is Plutarch's

account of the introduction of the god of Sinope into Egypt :

" After this, say they, both Isis and Osiris, on account of their
eminent virtue, were translated from the order of good Demons
to that of Gods, as in after ages were Hercules and Bacchus ; and
therefore the honours which are paid them are very properly of
the mixed kind, such as are due both to Gods and Demons, their
power being very great, not only upon earth, but in those regions
likewise which are under the earth. For, say they, Osiris is none
other than Pluto, nor is Isis different from Proserpine, as Arche-
machus the Euboean asserts, and as appears likewise to have
been the opinion of Heraclides of Pontus from his declaring the
oracle at Canopus to belong to Pluto.
XXVIII. " But the following facts will make this point still

more evident. Ptolemy, surnamed the Saviour, had a dream,

wherein a certain Colossean statue, such as he had never seen
before, appeared unto him, commanding him to remove it as soon

as possible from the place where it then stood to Alexandria.

Upon this the king was in great perplexity, as he knew neither
to whom the statue belonged nor where to look for it. Upon his

relating the vision to his friends, a certain person named Sosibius,

who had been a great traveller, declared that he had seen just
such a statue as the king described at Sinope. Soteles and
Dionysius were hereupon immediately dispatched in order to
bring it away with them, which they at length accomplished
though not without much and the manifest interposi-
difficulty,

tion of providence. Timotheus the Interpreter, and Manetho, as

soon as the statue was shown to them, from the Cerberus and
Dragon that accompanied it, concluded that it was designed to

represent Pluto, and persuaded the king that it was in reality

none other than the Egyptian Sarapis must be observed,

; for it

that the statue had not this name before it was brought to
Alexandria, it being given to it afterwards by the Egyptians, as
equipollent, in their opinion, to its old one of Pluto. So again,
Avhen Heraclitus the Physiologist asserts that Pluto and Bacchus
are the same, does not this directly lead to the same conclusion ?
For as to those who say that by Pluto is here meant the body,
200 SERAPIS
" because the soul, whilst it is in it, is as it were intoxicated and
" beside itself, and that from hence springs the relation between
" it and Bacchus, this is too subtle and finespun an allegory to
" deserve our serious notice. Heraclitus's assertion therefore may
" be much more probably accounted by supposing the Bacchus
for,
" here meant to be the same as Osiris again the same
Osiris, and
" as Sarapis, this latter appellation having been given him, upon
" his being translated from the order of Genii to that of the Gods,
" Sarapis being none other than that common name by which all

" those are called, who have thus changed their nature, as is well
" known by those who are initiated into the mysteries of Osiris.
" Little regard therefore is to be paid to those Phrygian Tales,
" wherein mention is made of one Sarapis, as the daughter of
" Hercules,and of Typho, as born of Isaeacus one of his sons :

" nor does Phylarchus better deserve our credit, when he tells us
" that '
Bacchus first brought two bullocks with him out of India
" into Egypt, and that the name of the one was Apis, and that of
" the other Osiris,' adding moreover, '
that Sarapis. in the proper
" meaning of the word, signifies him who disposed the Universe
si
into its present beautiful order.'' Now though this assertion of
" Phylarchus be weak enough, yet it is not quite so absurd as that
" of those who assert, that Sarapis is no god at all, but the mere
'

il
denomination of the sepulchral chest, wherein the body of Apis
" after its death is deposited much more tolerable than either of
;
'

" the preceding is their opinion, who would derive this name from
" words which in the Greek language import, '
one who first
" impelled and gave motion to the universe.'' The priests indeed, at
" least the greatest part of them, tell us, that Sarapis is none other
" than the mere union of Osiris and Apis into one word ; declarative
" as it were of that opinion, which they are perpetually explaining
" and inculcating, '
that the Apis ought ever to be regarded by us,
" as a fair and beautiful image of the soul of Osiris.' For my part
" I cannot but think, that if this word be of Egyptian extraction,
" it ought to be interpreted so as to express joy and gladness, seeing

" that festival, which we Grecians call Charmosyna, or the feast of

" joy, is by the Egyptians expressly termed Sarei. Nor altogether
" disagreeable to this last notion of Sarapis, is the explication which
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SERAPIS 201

" Plato gives of the corresponding name

Hades or Pluto, stiling
of
" him, ' the son of cheerfulness, and a kind and gentle Deity to all
" such as come unto him.' There are likewise many other words,
" which when interpreted into Greek, become entire sentences
" such particularly is Amenthes, or that subterraneous region
" whither they imagine the souls of those who die to go after their
" decease, a name which expressly signifies in the tongue, the receiver
" and giver. But whether this likewise be not one of those words,
1

" which were originally transplanted from Greece into Egypt, we

" will enquire in another place."

1
The Egyptian form of the word is 9 Amentet, and the name means
" hidden place."
 ( 202 )

CHAPTER XIII

AST, j, OR jo, OR j^, ISIS

NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that As, or Ast, i.e., Isis,

is one of the goddesses most frequently mentioned in the

hieroglyphic texts, nothing is known with certainty about the
attributes Avhich were ascribed to her in the earliest times. From
the fact that she was regarded as the female counterpart of Osiris
in the dynastic period, we may assume that she was also associated
with the god in this capacity in the predynastic period, and
if he was originally a water spirit or a river-god, she must
have possessed the same characteristics. The name Ast has,
like Asak, up to the present defied all explanation, and it is

clear from the punning derivations to which the Egyptians

themselves had recourse, that they knew no more about the
meaning of her name than we do. The probability is that As, or
Ast, is a Libyan name originally, and that it is to be classed with
the names of the other Libyan deities, e.g., Net, Bast, etc., who
were worshipped by the predynastic Egyptians, and the sounds of
whose names were expressed by hieroglyphic symbols as nearly as
possible when the people of the country borrowed or invented the
art of writing. The symbol of the name of Isis in Egyptian is a
seat, or throne, u, but we have no means of connecting it with the
attributes of the goddess in such a way as to give a rational
explanation of her name, and all the derivations hitherto proposed
must be regarded mere guesses. Isis is usually depicted in the
as
form of a woman who wears on her head a vulture head-dress, and
holds in her hand a papyrus sceptre. The usual ornament or
crown on her head consists of a pair of horns, between which is a
solar disk, and this is sometimes surmounted by j| the symbol of ,

the sound of her name. Sometimes she wears the double crowns
The Goddess ISIS.
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ISIS 203

of the South and the North, to the back of which is attached the
feather of Mafit, and sometimes she wears with the pair of horns
and the solar disk two plumes. 1
Her horns are usually those of
the cow of Hathor, or of one of the sister forms of this goddess,
\f
but occasionally 2 she wears ^jDaJr^j^j^jn^s^hjojmSj "^2" under her ,

double crown ; since, however, Osiris was represented by the Ram

of Mendes, and was identified with Khnemu, it is only to be
expected that his female counterpart Isis should appear sometimes
with the horns which are the peculiar characteristic of the great
Ram-god. woman, and not as a goddess, is depicted in
Isis, as a
the ordinary head-dress of a woman, but even so she has the
uraeus over her forehead, for the Egyptians wished it never to be
forgotten that she was of divine origin ; of the forms which she had
the power to take in her character of the " lady of words of
power " mention will be made further on.
An examination of the texts of all periods proves that Isis
always held in the minds of the Egyptians a position which was
entirely different from that of every other goddess, and although it

is certain that their views concerning her varied from time to time,
and that certain aspects or phases of the goddess were worshipped
more generally at one period than at another, it is correct to say
that from the earliest to the latest dynasties Isis was the greatest
goddess of Egypt. Long before the copies of the Pyramid Texts
which we possess were written the attributes of Isis were well-
defined, and even when the priests of Heliopolis assigned to her
the position which she held in the cycle of their gods between
B.C. 4000 and 3000 the duties which she was thought to
B.C.

perform in connexion with the dead were clearly defined, and were
identical with those which belonged to her in the Graeco- Roman
period. was the great and beneficent goddess and mother,
Isis

whose influence and love pervaded all heaven, and earth, and the
abode of the dead, and she was the personification of the great
feminine, creative power which conceived, and brought forth every
living creature, and thing, from the gods in heaven, to man on the
earth, and to the insect on the ground ; what she brought forth
she protected, and cared for, and fed, and nourished, and she
1
See Lanzone, Dizlonariv, pll. 306 ff. ~ Mil, pi. 308, No. 3.
204 ISIS

employed her life in using her power graciously and successfully,

not only in creating new beings but in restoring those that were
dead. She was, besides these things, the highest type of a faithful
and loving wife and mother, and it was in this capacity that the
Egyptians honoured and worshipped her most. In the section on
Osiris a rendering of the Mythological History of Isis and Osiris
by Plutarch has already been given, but reference must here be
made to one or two passages in it for purposes of comparison with
Egyptian texts. According to this document Osiris was slain by
the cunning of his brother Typhon, or Set, and the box containing
his body was thrown into the river, which carried it to the sea ;

after long search Isis found it, and set it, as she thought, in
a safe hiding place, but was found by Typhon, who cut it up
it

into a number of pieces. It is nowhere so stated, but it seems

that Isis was childless before the death of Osiris, and both the
narrative of Plutarch and a passage in the Hymn to Osiris quoted
above (p. 150) agree in stating that, by means of certain words of
power which had been given to her by Thoth and which she knew
how to use, she restored her dead husband to life, and was united
to him ; as the result of this embrace she conceived her son Horns,
and in due course brought him forth.
The incidents of her search for the dead body of Osiris,
and of the conception and birth, and rearing of her child power-
fully impressed the imagination of the Egyptians, and hieroglyphic
literature is full of allusions to them. In the Pyramid Texts
the deceased is said (Unas, line 181) "to breathe the breath
of Isis," and to make his passage in heaven, with Isis, in the
Matet Boat, i.e., the boat of the rising sun (line 293) ; moreover,
he is declared to be the very son of Isis and of her twin
form Nephthys. 1
In a remarkable passage in the text of Teta
(line 84) the deceased is introduced to the triad of goddesses, Isis,

Nephthys, and Asbet, <k\ [>

J° , as their son, and elsewhere
(line 172) Seb, the father of Osiris and Isis, is made to speak of

ii
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s sd t s ^ t *« ram ?
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Unas, 1. 487.
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Isis and Nephthys as his " sisters." These things the Egyptians
believed because their ancient traditions told them of all that Isis
had done for her husband and child, and they hoped that the
goddess would be present at the celebrations of their funeral rites,

and that she would secure them a new birth. In the illustrated
for
Recensions of the Boole, of the Dead Isis frequently appears both
as the mother of Horus, the heir to the throne of Osiris, and as
the mourning; widow of her husband. In the vignette to the
clist Chapter Isis kneels at the bier of the deceased, and says to
him, " I have come to protect thee with the north wind which
" cometh forth from Tern; I have strengthened for thee thy throat;
" I have caused thee to be with the god ; and I have placed all

" thine enemies under thy feet." This speech refers to the air
which Isis produced by the beating of her wings when she restored
Osiris to life in order that she might conceive an heir by him, and
also to the air which she provided for her son Horus after he had
been stung to death by a scorpion. Everywhere in the Booh of
the Dead Isis is regarded as a giver of life and of food to the dead,
and she appears behind the god in the shrine wherein Osiris is

seated in the Judgment Hall, and in one of her aspects she is

identified with one of the two Maat goddesses ; she may, in fact,

be regarded as one of the judges of the dead.

Now, the Book of the Dead supplies us with many interesting

allusions to her relations with Osiris, but it says little about her

devotion to her son Horus, whom she reared with loving care that
he might become the " avenger of his father," and we must have
recourse to the texts which are found inscribed on the " Metternich
stele,"
1
if we would gain a clearer idea of the troubles which Isis
endured after the death of Osiris. In one of these the goddess is

made to relate the narrative of her wanderings and sorrows, and

she says, " I, even I, am Isis, and I came forth from the house
"wherein my brother Set had placed me." From this it is clear

that Set was not content with murdering his brother Osiris, but
that he must needs shut up the widow and her child in some place
1
This stele was found in Alexandria in 1828, and was given to Prince
Metternich by Muhammad 'AH for a facsimile of it, and renderings of the texts
;

upon it, see Golenischeff, Die MetternicTistele, Leipzig, 1877.

206 ISIS

of restraint. Whilst Isis was thus confined, " Thoth, the great
" god, the prince of Law both in heaven and upon the earth,"
came to her and said, " Come, thou goddess Isis, it is good to be
" obedient, for there is life for him that will follow the advice of
" another. Hide thou thy son the child [Horus], and this is what
" shall happen his limbs shall grow, and he will become endowed
:

" with two-fold strength, and then he shall be made to sit upon the
" throne of his father, and he shall avenge him and take possession
" of the rank of the prince of the Two Lands." Isis took the
advice of her friend Thoth and, she says, " I came forth from the
" house at eventide, and there also came forth with me Seven
" Scorpions, who wereaccompany me, and to be my helpers.
to
" Two scorpions, Tefen and Befen, were behind me, two scorpions,
" Mestet and Mestetef were by my side, and three scorpions, Petet,
" Thetet, and Maatet, shewed me the way. I cried out unto them
" in a very loud voice, and my speech entered into their ears even
" as into the ears of one who knoweth that obedience is a thing
" which is applauded, and that disobedience is the mark of the
" person who is of no account, and I said unto them, '
Let your
"faces be turned to the ground that ye may [shew me] the way.'
" So the leader of this company brought me unto the marshes of
" Pa-sui, the city of the two Divine Sandals, which lay at the
"beginning of the Papyrus Swamps ((1 cs ft "w Ateh). When
" I had arrived at Teb I came forth to the habitations of the
"women who belonged to the overlord of the district, and the chief
who had seen me coming along shut her doors in my face,
" Avoman

"and was angry with me in her heart because of those (i.e., the
" Seven Scorpions) that were with me. Now the scorpions took
" counsel on the matter, and they all at one time ejected their
" poison on the tip of the tail of Tefen ; but as for me, a poor
" fen- woman opened her door to me, and I entered into her house.
" Meanwhile the Scorpion Tefen entered under the leaves of the
" door of the lady [who had shut her doors upon me], and she
" stung her son, and fire straightway broke out in the house of the
" noble lady ; but there was no water forthcoming to put it oat,
" and the heavens dropped down no rain upon the house of the
" noble lady, for it was not the season for rain. And, behold, the
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"heart of the woman who had not opened her doors to me was
" sad, for she knew not whether her son would live, and although
" she went round about through her city uttering cries of lamenta-
" tion none came at her call. But mine own heart was sad for the
" child's sake, and I wished to restore to life him that had com-
" mitted no fault. Thereupon I cried out to the noble lady,
" '
Come to me. Come to me, for my speech hath in it the power
" to protect, and it possesseth life. I am a woman who is well-
" known in her city,and I can drive the evil out of thy son by one
" of my utterances, which my father taught me, for I was the
" beloved daughter of his body.'
:

The noble lady presumably listened to the words of Isis, who,

it seems, either went to her house, or had the dead child brought

into her presence, for the narrative continues, " Then Isis laid her
" hands upon the child to restore to life him that was without
" breath (literally' him whose throat was foul'), and said, poison '

" of Tefen, come forth, and appear on the ground come not in, ;

" approach not poison of Befent, come forth, and appear on the
!

" ground for I am Isis the goddess, and I am the lady of words of
!

" power, and I know how to work with words of power, and most
" mighty are [my] words all ye reptiles which sting, hearken
!

" unto me, and fall ye down on the ground poison of Mestet? !

" come not hither poison of Mestetef, rise not up

! poison of !

" Petet and Thetet, enter not here [0 poison of] Maatet, fall down !'"
!

Next in the narrative we have the words of the " Chapter of the
stinging [of scorpions] " which " Isis, the goddess and great
enchantress at the head of the gods," spake on this occasion, and it

is said that she learnt her method of procedure from Seb, who had
taught her how to drive out poison. At the dawn of day she
uttered the words, " poison, get thee back, turn away, begone,
and added " Mer-Ra " and at eventide she said, "The
retreat," ;

Egg of the Goose " cometh forth " from the Sycamore." Then
turning to the Seven Scorpions she said, " I speak to you, for I
" am alone and am in sorrow which is greater than that of anyone
" in the nomes of Egypt. I am like a man who hath become old,
" and who hath ceased to search after and to look upon women in
" their houses. Turn your faces down to the ground, and find ye
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208 ISIS

" me straightway a way

swamps and to the hidden places in
to the
" Khebet." Following this passage come the exclamation, " The
x

" child liveth and the poison dieth the Sun liveth and the poison ;

" dieth," and then the wishes, " May Horus be in good case for his
" mother Isis ! And may he who shall find himself in a similar
" state be in good case also " As the result of the utterances of
!

Isis the fire in the house of the noble lady was extinguished, and
" heaven was satisfied with the words which the goddess Isis had "

spoken. The narrative is continued by Isis in these words :

" Then came the lady who had shut her doors against me, and
" took possession of the house of the fen-woman because she had
" opened the door of her house unto me, and because of this the

"noble lady suffered pain and sorrow during a whole night, and
" she had to bear [the thought] of her speech, and that her son had
" been stung because she had closed the doors and had not opened

"them to me." Following this come the words, "0, the child
"liveth, the poison dieth ! Verily, Horus shall be in good case for
" his mother Isis ! Verily, in like manner shall he be in good case
" who shall find himself in a similar position ! Shall not the bread
" of barley drive out the poison and- make it to return from the
" limbs ? Shall not the flame of the hetchet plant drive out the fire
" "
from the members ?
" come to thy child Horus, thou whose mouth is
' Isis, Isis,

" wise, come to thy son

:

' thus cried out the gods who were near

" her after the manner of one whom a scorpion hath stung, and like
" one whom Behat, whom the animal Antesh put to flight, hath
" wounded. Then came Isis like a woman who was smitten in her
"own body. And she stretched out her two arms, [saying], I will
" protect thee, I will protect thee, my son Horus. Fear thou not,
" fear thou not, son, my glorious one. No evil thing whatsoever
" shall happen unto thee, for in thee is the seed whereof things
" which are to be shall be created. Thou art the son within the

i ^ J <a> Khebet, or Khebit, J

(1(1 y&^ "Ml, is, as Dr. Brugscb has

shown, the Egyptian original of the Greek Xe/t/us, or X6,u/3is, an island in the
neighbourhood of the city of Buto (Pe and Tep), which, according to Herodotus,
floated.
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ISIS 209

" Mesqet, who hast proceeded from Nu, and thou shalt not die by
"the flame of the poison. Thou art the Great Bennu who wast
" born on the Incense Trees in the House of the Great Prince in
" Heliopolis. Thou art the brother of the Abtu Fish, who dost
" arrange that which is to be, and who wast nursed bv the Cat
"within the House of Net. Beret, Hat and Bes protect thy
" limbs. Thine head shall not fall before him that is hostile to
" thee. The fire of that which hath poisoned thee shall not have
" dominion over thy limbs. Thou shalt not fail on land, and thou
" shalt not be in peril on the water. No reptile that stingeth shall
" have the mastery over thee, and no lion shall crush thee or gain
" the mastery over thee. Thou art the son of the holy god and
" dost proceed from Seb. Thou art Horus, and the poison which
" is in thy limbs shall not have the mastery over thee. And even
" so shall it be with him that is under the knife. And the four
" noble goddesses shall protect thy limbs."

From the above we see that the gods informed Isis that her
son Horus had been stung by a scorpion, and from what follows we
shall see in what condition Isis found her son. She says, " I, Isis,
" conceived a man child, and I was heavy with Horus. I, the
" goddess, bare Horus, the son of Isis, within a nest of papyrus
" plants (or, Island of Ateh.') I rejoiced over him with exceedingly
" great joy, for I saw in him one who would make answer for his
" father. I hid him, and I concealed him, for I was afraid lest he
" should be bitten. Now I went away to the city of Am, and the
" people thereof saluted me according to their wont, and I passed
" the time in seeking food and provision for the boy ; but when I
" returned to embrace Horus, I found him, the beautiful one of
" gold, the boy, the child, inert and helpless. He had bedewed the
" ground with the water of his eye, and with the foam of his lips
" his body was motionless, and his heart was still, and his muscles

"moved not, and I sent forth a cry Then straightway

" the dwellers in the swamps came round about me, and the fen
" men came out to me from their houses, and they drew nigh to
" me at my call, and they themselves wept at the greatness of my

"misery. Yet no man there opened his mouth to speak to me

" because they all grieved for me sorely and no man among them ;

ii —
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210 ISIS

" knew how to restore Horus to life. Then there came unto me a
" woman who was well known in her city, and she was a lady at
" the head of her district, and she came to me to restore [Horus] to

"life. Her heart was filled with her own affairs, according to
" custom, but the child Horus remained motionless and moved not.
" The son of the goddess-mother had been smitten by the evil of
" his brother. The plants [where Horus was] were concealed, and
way into them.
" no hostile being could find a
" The word of power of Tern, the father of the gods, who is in
" heaven, acted as the maker of life, and Set had not entered into
" this region, and he could not go round about the city of Kheb
" (Khemmis) ; and Horus was safe from the wickedness of his
" brother. But Isis had not hidden those who ministered unto him
" many times each day, and these said concerning him, '
Horus
"liveth for his mother;' they found out where he was, and a
"scorpion stung him, and Aun-ab (i.e., Slayer of the Heart)
" stabbed him."

Then " Isis placed her nose in the mouth of Horus to learn if
" there was any breath in him that was in his coffin, and she opened

"the wound of the divine heir, and she found poison therein.
" Then she embraced him hurriedly and leaped about with him like
" a fish when it is placed over a hot fire, and she said, Horus is '

" stung, Ra, thy son is stung. Horus, thy very heir, and the
"lord of the of Shu is stung. Horus, the child of the
" Papyrus Swamps, the child in Het-ser is stung the beautiful ;

" Child of gold is stung, and the Child, the Babe, hath become a
" thing of nothingness. Horus, the son of Un-nefer, is stung,' etc.
" Then came Nephthys shedding tears, and she went about the
" Papyrus Swamps uttering cries of grief, and the goddess Serqet
" said, '
What is it ? What is it ? What hath happened to the
" child Horus ?

" ' Isis, pray thou to heaven so that the sailors of Ra may
" cease rowing, so that the Boat of Ra may not depart from the
" place where the child Horus is.' Then Isis sent forth a cry to
"heaven, and addressed her prayer to the Boat of Millions of
" Years and the Disk stood still, and moved not from the place
;

"where he was. And Thoth came, and he was provided with

MERSEKERT suckling HORUS.
 ISIS 211

" magical powers and possessed the great power which made [his]
" word to become Maat (i.e., Law), and he said :
'
Isis, thou
" goddess, thou glorious one, who hast knowledge how to use thy
" mouth, behold, no evil shall come upon the child Horus, for his
" protection cometh from the Boat of Ra. I have come
this day in
"the Boat of the Disk from the place where was yesterday.
it

"When the night cometh the light shall drive [it] away for the
" healing of Horus for the sake of his mother Isis, and every person
" who is under the knife [shall be healed] likewise.' ' In answer to
this speech Isis told Thoth that she was afraid he had come too late,
but she begged him, nevertheless, to come to the child and to bring
with him his magical powers which enabled him to give effect to

every command which he uttered. Thereupon Thoth besought

Isis not to fear, and Nephthys not to weep, for said he, "I have
" come from heaven in order to save the child for his mother," and
he straightway spake the words of power which restored Horus to
life, and served to protect him ever afterwards in heaven, and in

earth, and in the Underworld.

The region where all these things took place was situated in
the Delta, and the Island in the Papyrus Swamps, where Isis
brought forth her child and hid him, was near the famous double
city of Pe-Tep, which was commonly called Buto by the Greeks.
It is impossible to assign a date to the composition of the story
briefly narrated above, but it is, no doubt, as old as the legends

about the death and resurrection of must form an

Osiris, and it

integral portion of them, and date from the period when Libyan
gods and goddesses were worshipped in the Delta and in certain
parts of Upper Egypt before the great development of Sun-worship.
The chief importance of the story consists in the fact that it makes
Isis to be both woman and goddess, just as the story of Osiris

makes that deity to be both god and man, and it is quite con-
ceivable that in the predynastic times the sorrows of Isis, like those
of Osiris, formed the subject of miracle plays which were acted
annually in all the centres of the worship of Isis. Isis as the faithful
and loving wife, and as the tender and devoted mother won the
hearts of the Egyptians in all periods of their history, and we can
only regret that the narrative of the wanderings and sorrows of the
212 ISIS

goddess is not known to us in all its details. Her persecution by-

Set after her husband's death was a favourite theme of ancient

writers, who delighted in showing how the goddess outwitted her
terrible adversary ; thus on one occasion she was so hard pressed
by him that she changed her body into that of the cow-goddess

Heru-sekha, V^v —*- 7 \\ >jra ? and her son Horus into an Apis

Bull, ^ 5fc^ "^ »* an ^ wen * away with him to the Apis temple,

^ . in order that she might see his father Osiris, who was
therein.
Another great human element in the story of Isis which
appealed strongly to the Egyptians was the desire of the goddess
to be avenged on the murderer of her husband, and it is this which
is referred to in the words of Isis, who says, " I rejoiced over
him
" with exceedingly great joy, for I saw in him one who would make
"answer for his father." The manner in which Horus "made
" and avenged his father told in the Sallier Papyrus
answer for is

(translated by Chabas, Horus and Set fought

2
) where it is said that

together, standing on their feet, first men and next in the forms of

in the forms of two bears. For three days and for three nights the
fight between them raged, and Horus gained the victory over Set,
but when Isis saw that Set was being overpowered her heart was
touched on his account, and she cried out and ordered the weapons
which her son was wielding against her brother to fall down, and
they did so, and Set was released. When Horus saw that his
mother had taken his adversary's part he raged at her like a
panther of the south, and she fled before his wrath ; a fierce
struggle between Isis and Horus then took place, and Horus cut
off his mother's head. Thoth, by means of his words of power,
transformed her head into that of a cow which he attached to her
body straightway.
Isis, though > worshipped all over Egypt, was specially

venerated in certain cities, and the following are among the

commonest of her titles
3
:
— " The great lady, the God-mother, lady
1
Bmgsch, Aeg. ZeiL, 1879, p. 19. • Le Calendrier, p. 28.
3 See Lanzone, Dizionario, pp. 829, if.
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SHRINES OF ISIS 213

~ lad y of Sekhet lady

"of Re-a-nefer; Isis-Nebuut, ^~|), jj
;

" of Besitet ; Isis in Per Pakht, um tSr nrzi ; the queen of Mesen,

"flf
1 — H%; I sis <> f Ta-at-nehepet,
-^r^^©? Isis >

"dweller in Netru, ""j^^b©; Isis, lady of Hebet, §^ flfTl;

" Isis in P-she-Hert, ~ *~w^ C\ • Isis, lady of Khebt, © Ua W

" Usert-Isis,
] 1^ Jj^Jl? giver of life, lady of Abaton, lady of
" Philae, lady of the countries of the south," etc. From a list of
titles of the goddess collected by Dr. Brugsch, 1 it is clear that Isis

was called Usert, |

R <=> ^ , in Thebes, Aat, T^n J) , in Heliopolis,

Menkhet, ^^ ® A in Memphis, God-mother, ^ ^ \\ , in Coptos,

Hert, * ^^ * n Letopolis and " Hent," i.e., " Queen," in

! Pn ' ;

every nome ;
2
and another important list tells us that Isis was
* |\ nit null ^ _, ^_^ ^^
called Ament, l\
~*~« , in Thebes, Menhet, r^ Vn > m Heliopolis,

Renpet, ° J) , in Memphis, Sept, A , in Abydos, Hetet,

j

§
C= ^ 3

^P, in Behutet, Hurt, ^^^ A\, in Nekhen, Thenenet,

s=3l^lj in Hermonthis, Ant, ffl

^, in Dendera, Sesheta, T ,

in Hermopolis, Heqet, ^ ?, in Hibiu, Uatchit, TQQ^I/Iij m

Hipponus, Mernekhen, 5 f i
) , in Herakleopolis, Renpet,

3 , in Crocodilopolis, Neb-tept, ^z^7 ® , in Arsinoe, That,

°
l
s=s A <=>
p. , or Tchetut, J) , in Aphroditopolis, and Shetat,
^J
^, in Bubastis. Among her general titles may be mentioned

those of " the divine one, the only one, the greatest of the gods
" and goddesses, the queen of all gods, the female Ra, the female
" Horus, the eye of Ra, the crown of Ra-Heru, Sept, opener of the
" year, lady of the New Year, maker of the sunrise, lady of heaven,
" the light-giver of heaven, lady of the North Wind, queen of the
" earth, most mighty one, queen of the South and North, lady of
" the solid earth, lady of warmth and fire, benefactress of the Tuat,

1 Religion, p. 646. 2 Brugsch, Thesaurus, p. 773.

214 ISIS THE SORCERESS
" she who is greatly feared in the Tuat, the God-mother, the God-
" mother of Heru-ka-nekht, the mother of the Horus of gold, the
" lady of life, lady of green crops, the green goddess (Uatchet),
" lady of bread, lady of beer, lady of abundance, lady of joy and
" gladness, lady of love, the maker of kings, lady of the Great
" House, lady of the House of fire, the beautiful goddess, the lady
" of words of power, lady of the shuttle, daughter of Seb, daughter
" of Neb-er-tcher, the child of Nut, wife of Ra, wife of the lord
" of the abyss, wife of the lord of the Inundation, the creatrix of
" the Nile flood."

From a number of passages in the texts of various periods we

learn that Isis possessed great skill in the working of magic, and
several examples of the manner in which she employed it are well
known. Thus when she wished to make Ra reveal to her his
greatest and most secret name, she made a venomous reptile out of
dust mixed with the spittle of the god, and by uttering over it
certain words of power she made it to bite Ra as he passed. When
she had succeeded in obtaining from the god his most hidden name,
which he only revealed because he was on the point of death, she
uttered words which had the effect of driving the poison out of his
limbs,and Ra recovered. Now Isis not only used the words of
1

power, but she also had knowledge of the way in which to

pronounce them so that the beings or things to which they were
addressed would be compelled to listen to them and, having
listened, would be obliged to fulfil her behests. The Egyptians
believed that if the best effect was to be produced by words of
power they must be uttered in a certain tone of voice, and at a

certain rate, and at a certain time of the day or night, with appro-
priate gestures or ceremonies. In the Hymn to Osiris, of which
a rendering has already been given (see p. 150), it is said that Isis

was well skilled in the use of words of power, and it was by means
of these that she restored her husband to life, and obtained from
him an heir. It is not known what the words were which she
uttered on this occasion, but she appears to have obtained them
from Thoth, the " lord of divine words," and it was to him that

1
See the translation of the Legend of Ra and Isis given in vol. i., p. 372 ff.
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 ISIS-SEPT 215

she appealed for help to restore Horus to life after he had been
stung to death by a scorpion.
In the Theban Recension of the Booh of the Dead is found a
Chapter (No. clvi.) which was composed for the purpose of bestow-
ing upon the deceased some of the magical power of the o-oddess.
The Chapter was intended to be recited over an amulet called thet
^
I O made » of carnelian, which had to be steeped in water of
dnkhami flowers, and set in a

sycamore plinth, and if this

were laid on the neck of a dead

person it would place him under
the protection of the words of
power of Isis, and he would
be able to go wheresoever he
pleased in the Underworld. The
words of the Chapter were :—
"Let the blood (™™^ij of

"Isis, and the magical powers

" or of
(%* ®\l\ s
P irits )
" Isis, and the words of power

"(if ., ')
°f ^- s^s ' ^e m i& n ty
"to protect and keep safely
" this great god (i.e., the
" deceased), and to guard him
" from him that would do unto
" him anything which he abomi-
Rennufr, lady of Aat.
" nateth."

The symbol of Isis in the heavens was the star Sept, A*,
which was greatly beloved because its appearance marked not only
the beginning of a new year, but also announced the advance of
the Inundation of the Nile, which betokened renewed wealth and
prosperity of the country. As such Isis was regarded as
the companion of Osiris, whose soul dwelt in the star Sah,

|q]
^^ ? li * jjj,
i.e., Orion, and she was held to have brought
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216 FORMS OF ISIS

about the destruction of the fiend Apep, ^ Wi,

might of her words of power. As the
and of his hosts

of darkness by means of the

light-giver at this season of the year she was called Khut,

® ^ as the mighty earth-goddess her name was Usert,

J| J) ,

P
^^ $ as the Great Goddess of the Underworld she was
1 '

Thenenet, e^^, as the power which shot forth the Nile

flood she was Sati, ^ J, and Sept, as the embracer of the land

and producer of fertility by her waters she was Anqet,

_ Q /WW\A
^^$ ff\
>

as the producer and giver of ^ m q ^ ^ aslife she was Ankhet, ,

the goddess of cultivated lands and fields she was Sekhet, y J^ ||

goddess of the harvest she

as the ° was Renenet, ^^
/www
^ 11
VJ vU V.
, as the

goddess of food which was offered to the gods she was Tcheft, w| ^J
and lived in the Temple of Tchefau,
Q^ ^T|'^ ^' and ( as

the great lady of the Underworld, who assisted in transforming the

bodies of the blessed dead into those wherein they were to live in

the realm of Osiris, her name was Ament, (J ^ J) , i.e., the

1 A/WW\ \J ill
" hidden " goddess. In this last capacity she shared with Osiris
the attribute of " giver of life," and she provided food for the dead
as well as for the living ; as Ament also she was declared to be the

mother of Ra. In fact, at a comparatively early period in Egyptian

history Isis had absorbed the attributes of all the great primitive

goddesses, and of all the local goddesses such as Nekhebet, Uatchet,

Net, Bast, Hathor, etc., and she was even identified as the female

counterpart of the primeval abyss of water from which sprang all

life. From what has been said above it is manifestly impossible to
limit the attributes of Isis, for we have seen that she possesses the
powers of a water goddess, an earth goddess, a corn goddess, a
star goddess, a queen of the Underworld, and a woman, and that
she united in herself one or more of the attributes of all the

goddesses of Egypt known to us.

From the works of classical writers we know that her worship

spread from Egypt into several places in Western Europe, and

 WORSHIP OF ISIS 217

she was identified with Persephone, Tethys, Athene, etc., just as

Osiris was identified with Hades or Pluto, Dionysos-Bacchus, and
other foreign gods. According to Herr August Mau, 1 various
causes contributed to the rapid extension of the cult of Isis and
Serapis. " The worship of Isis, associated with Mysteries from an
" early period, was reorganized by the first Ptolemy with the help
" of Manetho an Egyptian and Timotheus, a Greek skilled
priest,

"in the Eleusinian Mysteries .... It had the charm of some-

" thing foreign and full of mystery. Its doctrine, supported by
" the prestige of immemorial antiquity, successfully opposed the
" mutually destructive opinions of the philosophers, while at the
" same time its conception of deity was by no means inconsistent
" with philosophic thought ; and it brought to the initiated that
" expectation of a future life to which the Eleusinian Mysteries
"owed their attractive power. The ascetic side of the worship
" too, with its fastings and abstinence from the pleasures of sense,
" that the soul might lose itself in the mystical contemplation of
" deity, had a fascination for natures that were religiously suscep-
" tible and the celebration of the Mysteries, the representation of
;

" the myth of Isis in pantomime with a musical accompaniment,

" appealed powerfully to the imagination." A college of the
servants of Isis, who were called Pastophori, was founded in Rome
in the time of Sulla, about B.C. 80 (Apuleius, Met. xi.), but after a
very few years the worship of Isis was proscribed by the authorities,

and the temples of the goddess were pulled down in the years
58, 53, 50, and 48. In B.C. 43, however, the triumvirs, seeing
that was the only way to win the affections of the people, built
it

temples in honour of Isis and Serapis, and publicly sanctioned

their worship, and in a short time several temples of these gods
were in existence outside the city all these were under the ;

control of the Government, which had frequently to be exercised

in a vigorous fashion on account of the orgies and debaucheries
which took place in connexion with the celebration of the festivals

of Isis. From the time of Vespasian, however, the worship of Isis

and Serapis grew and flourished until the general introduction of

1
Pompeii, its Life and Art, London, 1899, p. 162.
218 ISIS IN ROME
Christianity, and the festival of these gods was recognized in the
public Calendar.
The chief temple of Isis in Rome stood in the Campus Martius,
where the goddess was called "Isis Campensis"; and an inscription
of the year 105 B.C. found at Puteoli proves that a temple of
1
Serapis was then standing in that city. The important temple of
Isis at Pompeii appears to have been built soon after this date,
and an inscription over the door states that it was rebuilt by
Numerius Popidius Celsinus after the earthquake (that of the
year 63). It has architecturally nothing suggestive of the Egyp-
tian style, yet the plan presents a marked deviation from ordinary
types. In his Eleventh Book Apuleius gives a very interesting
description of the manner was worshipped in Rome in
in which Isis

the latter half of the second century a.d., and adds some curious
details about the attributes of the goddess herself. Thus in his prayer
2
to her he calls her "queen of heaven," regina coeli, and he identifies
her with Ceres, and Venus, and Proserpine, and refers to her in
her capacity as goddess of wheat and crops. At daybreak on the
day of the festival of the goddess the priest went into her temple,
and threw open the doors, leaving nothing but white linen curtains
across the doorway to screen the interior. When the courts were
filled with people, these curtains were drawn, and the worshippers
were permitted to gaze upon the image of the goddess ; to it at

once the people began to pray, and the women rattled their sistra,
and the prayers were followed by an interval, during which the
devout crowd engaged in silent prayer and contemplation of the
goddess. About one hour after daybreak, i.e., when the sun had
risen, the multitude sang a hymn to the newly risen god, and then
departed to their homes. In the afternoon another service was
held, at which sistra were shaken, and sacrifices were offered up,
and incense was burnt, and an elaborate ceremony in connexion
with the use of a vessel of holy Nile water was performed.
The holiest of all the sanctuaries of Isis known to the Greeks
3
was that at Tithorea, and Pausanias tells us that festivals were

"^37 D <=>
1
Mau, op. cit., p. 163. 2 The Egyptian
3 Book x., chap, xxxii., § 9 (J. G. Frazer's translation).
 ISIS IN TITHOREA 219

held there in honour of the goddess twice a year, one in sprino-

and one in autumn. He says, " Two days before each festival the
" persons who are free to enter the shrine clean it out in a certain
" secret way and whatever remains they find of the sacrificial
;

" victims which were cast in at the previous festival, they always
" carry them to the same spot and bury them there. The distance
" of this spot from the shrine we judged to be two furlongs. That
" is what they do to the sanctuary on this day. On the next day
" the hucksters set up booths of reeds and other improvised
" material ; and on the last of the three days they hold a fair for
" the sale of slaves and all kinds of cattle, also garments, and silver
" and gold. After noon they betake themselves to sacrificing.
" The richer people sacrifice oxen and deer, the poorer folk
" sacrifice geese and guinea fowl. But it is against the custom to
",use swine, sheep, and goats for this sacrifice. Those whose (duty
" it is) burn the victims, and bring them into the shrine ....
to
" must wrap the victims in bandages of linen, either common linen
" or fine linen ; the mode of dressing them is the Egyptian. All
" the animals sacrificed are led in procession ; some convey the
" victims into the shrine, others burn the booths in front of it and
" depart in haste. They say that once upon a time, when the pyre
" began to burn, a profane fellow who had no right to go down
" into the shrine rashly entered it out of curiosity. The whole
" place seemed to him full of spectres and scarcely had he ;

" returned to Tithorea and told what he had beheld when he gave
" up the ghost. I have heard a like story from a Phoenician man.
" He said that the Egyptians hold the festival of Isis at the time
" when they say she is mourning At that time the
for Osiris. Nile
" begins to rise, and it is a common saying among the natives that
"it is the tears of Isis that cause the river to rise and water the
" fields. Well, then, my informant said that at that season the
" Roman governor Egypt bribed a man to go down to the
of
" shrine of Isis at Coptos. The man who was thus sent in returned
" from the shrine but after he had told us all that he had beheld,
;

" he, too, I was informed, immediately expired. Thus it appears to

" be a true saying of Homer's that it is ill for mankind to see the
" gods in bodily shape."
220 ISIS AND THE VIRGIN MARY
Among the various peoples by whom Isis is venerated must
be mentioned those of Syria, who identified her with certain of

their local goddesses, and it is clear that the early Christians

bestowed some of her attributes upon the Virgin Mary. There
is little doubt that in her character of the loving and protecting
mother she appealed strongly to the imagination of all the Eastern
peoples among whom her cult came, and that the pictures and
sculptures wherein she is represented in the act of suckling her
child Horus formed the foundation for the Christian figures and
paintings of the Madonna and Child. Several of the incidents of
the wanderings of the Virgin with the Child in Egypt as recorded in
the Apocryphal Gospels reflect scenes in the life of Isis as described
in the texts found on the Metternich Stele, and many of the
attributes of Isis, the God-mother, the mother of Horus, and of
Neith, the goddess of Sais, are identical with those of Mary the
Mother of Christ. The writers of the Apocryphal Gospels intended
to pay additional honour to Mary the Virgin by ascribing to her
the attributes which up to the time of the advent of Christianity
they had regarded as the peculiar property of Isis and Neith and
other great indigenous goddesses, and if the parallels between the
mythological history ofIsis and Horus and the history of Mary

and the Child be considered, it is difficult to see how they could

possibly avoid perceiving in the teaching of Christianity reflections
of the best and most spiritual doctrines of the Egyptian religion.
The doctrine of partheno-genesis was well known in Egypt in
connexion with the goddess Neith of Sais centuries before the
birth of Christ ; and the belief in the conception of Horus by Isis

through the power given her by Thoth, the Intelligence or Mind

of the God of the universe, and in the resurrection of the body
and of everlasting life, is coeval with the beginnings of history
in Egypt. We may note too in passing the probability that many
of the heresies of the early Christian Church in Egypt were caused
by the survival of ideas and beliefs connected with the old native
gods which the converts to Christianity wished to adapt to their
new creed. Be this, however, as it may, the knowledge of the
ancient Egyptian religion which we now possess fully justifies the
assertions that the rapid growth and progress of Christianity in
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The Goddess MENQET

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Egypt were due mainly to the fact that the new religion, which
was preached there by Saint Mark and his immediate followers, in
all its essentials so closely resembled that which was the outcome
of the worship of Osiris, Isis, and Horus that popular opposition was
entirely disarmed. In certain places in the south of Egypt, e.g.,

Philae, the worship of Osiris and Isis maintained its own until the
beginning of the fifth century of our era, though this was in reality
due to the support which it received from the Nubians, but
speaking generally, at this period in all other parts of Egypt Mary
the Virgin and Christ had taken the^'places of Isis and Horus, and the
" God-mother," or " mother of the god," V\ , was no longer Isis,

but Mary whom the Monophysites styled ©eoro/co?.

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CHAPTER XIV

THE SORROWS OF ISIS 1

48. Q
nuk Ast per-hud
M em wa d£ ertd-nud
I am Isis. I came forth from the house placed me

& 1
send-d Set er-s as tchet-nd Tehuti ur
my brother Set in it. Behold, said to me Thoth, the great one,

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her tep Madt em pet ta madt
chief of Maat in heaven and earth, Come, thou Isis,

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netert nefer hher pu setem dnkh ua sems
goddess, good (it is) to possess obedience ; life (is to the) one (who is)
led

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hi seteka ert hher sa nelchen

(by) another. Hide thyself with the son child,

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will happen these things, his limbs (will) grow, he will grow
strong wholly,
1
See Golenischeff, Die Metternicltstele, Leipzig, 1877, pi. 3, 1. 48, ff.
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SORROWS OF ISIS 223

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Mep tat hetep-f her 7iest tef -

f netchet-nef
and he shall be upon the throne of his father, he will obtain
made to rest

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dat heq taui per-hid her trdt en

the dignity of prince of the two I came forth at the season of
lands."

mesher pert matet vii. Me?*i /i<7£-(i mad-sen

evening, and came seven scorpions before me, they continued
forth

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Tia « jTe/<m Befen ha-d sep sen Mestet

with me at Tefen and Befen were behind me, twice, Mestet and
my side.

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Mestetef kher mdt-d Petet Thetet Mnatet
Mestetef were near me, and Petet, and Thetet, and Maatet

her tcheser-nd uat hen-d en sen ur sep sen

showed to me the way. I cried out to them loudly, loudly,

\M K^ k
met-d sehhep em
f»rr,
diikhui-sen
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em rehh
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setem
my word entered into their ears, as in (those of) a obedience
wise man

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ushet tesher em sa sa
is praiseworthy, disobedience (is) as the mark of the son
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sa er netches lira-then em kher her uat

of a man of low estate, " Let your bent down on the way."
faces be

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The leader of the brought me to the swamps of Pasui,
company

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nut ent 2%eZrf hat a£

the city of the two Sandal- at the beginning of the Papyrus

goddesses Swamps.

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peh-iu sjoer-nd /&em ketut

Having arrived at Teb I came forth to the houses of the women

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of the governor. Had seen me the chief woman on the march,

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she closed her doors upon me, she was angry in her heart at

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those who were with me. They decreed about it (and) they placed

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their poison all at one time on the tail of Tefen. Opened to
me
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SORROWS OF ISIS 225

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tah
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a poor woman her door, (I) entered into her house. Cunningly

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Tefen entered under the leaves of the door, smote she

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sa usert Ichet pertu em pa usert

the son of the noble fire broke out in the house of the noble
lady, lady,
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not was water there to quench it, not did heaven let fall

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mu-s em pa usert an trdt dru

its rain in the house of the lady, not being it the season thereof.

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as pit terns un-nd dbs ant er

And behold, she who had not her heart (was) sad
opened to me,

an relch dn7ch-f serer-nes nuts

nk
em amem
not knowing if he lived. She went round her city with lamentation,
through
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dw ww i e/i hherus db-d ant en slier

not came [any] at her call. My heart was sad about the child
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hers er sednJch shu em bet - f nds-d

for her sake, (I wished) to (him that was) without I cried out
revive fault.

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wes her mad nd sep sen mak ret-d hher dnkh

to her, Come to me, twice. A charm is my word having life.

o
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nuh satet rekht em nuts ter bethet

I am a daughter known in her city, who driveth away evil

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em tep-res sba-nud dtf-d er relch nuh
by her utterance. Taught me my father to know. I am

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satet-f mer Jchat-f uah en Ast ddids her

the daughter beloved of his body. Laid Isis her hands upon

neJchen er sednJch entet em ha dhet met

the child to vivify that of which had closed the throat. poison

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Te/ew. mddt per her ta an sliaset an dqet
of Tefen, come, appear on the earth, not advance, not enter in.

met Befent mddt per her ta nuh Ast

poison of Befent, come, appear on the earth. I am Isis
 SORROWS OF ISIS 227

1 o IV IV
netert nebt heka an heka hhu
the goddess, lady of words of worker with words of mighty-
power, power,

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tchet kheru setem-nd re neb jpeshu hhert er kher

in utterance of Hearken mouth (which) biteth, fall downwards,

speech. to me, every

c
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met en Mestet an sekheset met en Mestetef
Poison of Mestet, not advance, poison of Mestetef

D
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an theset met Petet Thetet an dqet

not rise up. Poison of Petet and Thetet not enter.

60. ^ & D
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Motet kher kher re en pehes tchet en

Maatet fall down. Chapter of stinging (which) spake

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khent
m
neteru

Isis, the goddess, the great one of words of power, head of the gods.

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Had given to her Seb his powers to repulse poison from

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her form (?), 'repulsing, turning driving away poison at
away, back, back,
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ran
nehep er pet
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tchet
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smeii
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per
the dawn saying, " Ra-mer, the Egg of the Goose cometh
forth

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nehet mdku
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from the sycamore. A protection (are) her words spoken

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at the season of evening. I speak to you. lam in loneliness

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em seshen ur en naiu em-khet sept

and in sorrow greater than (that of) throughout the nomes,

the people

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em nek (?) qemu sliet qem ennu
(and I am) as a man feeble who hath to seek out and to look
ceased

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er sliepset em pau-sen hrd-ten em kher

upon women in their houses. Your face[s] downwards,

65.
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her td uat er pehu er amenu em Khebet

to make a way to the swamps, to the hidden in Khebet."
places

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liveth the boy, dieth the poison ; liveth Ra, dieth
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dhhem-tu pet hetepet her tep re en Ast

is extinguished, heaven is content at the utterance of Isis,

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dn-s-nd
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the goddess. The lady (who) came, (she who) had shut her house,
on me

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she seized the house of the poor woman because the poor woman

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had opened to me her door. Wherefore the lady was in pain

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tep - nes re-s
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peshu,
fa

and sorrow during night one, she tasted her speech. Was stung

sa-s dn-s khet-s em dsu en terns un-nd

her son, was closed her house in return for her not having opened
for her to me.
230 SORROWS OF ISIS

If
a tinkh nekhen
? V A^ -i
mil met lea
PTJ
senib

liveth the child, dieth the poison. Verily shall be sound

Horus through his mother Isis. Verily shall be sound he who is

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/c/ier metes neb mdtet an ta en beti

under the knife everyone likewise. Shall not bread of barley

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drive out poison ? It shall return all the limbs the flame of
through

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hetchet and drive out the fire from the members Isis. Twice.

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Come thou to Horus. Thou whose mouth come thou to
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thy son. " Hail," say the gods in her neighbourhood, like

73.
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one whom has stung the scorpion Tchart, whom hath pierced
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Behdt san nes Antesh per Asb em
Beh at, whom hath put to Antesh. Appeared Isis as
flight

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set her shebenet-s pet-nes ddui-s

one who was in her body. She stretched out her arms,
wounded

75.
II

mdk-d sep sen sa-d Heru em sent sep sen

I vill protect, twice, my son Horus. Fear not, twice,

sa khut-d an hheper Jchet neb tit erelc

son, my glory. Not shall happen thing any evil unto thee.

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mu dm-h en an unnet entek sa

Seed is in thee for making things which Thou art the son
are to be.
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her-db Mesqet per em Mil an mit-h em
within Mesqet, proceeding from Nu, not shalt thou die by

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ta na met entek Bennu da mes

the flame of the poison. Thou art the Bennu Great born

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her tep trd em Het-ser wr em Annu ruffle

on the incense trees in the House of great in Annu. Thou art

the Prince
232 SORROWS OF ISIS

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send en Abt ser klieper mentit

the brother of the Abt Fish, the disposer ofwhatistobe, nursed

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nu mdut em then en Ret Net Bert Eat
by the cat within the House of Net. Rert, and Hat,

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and Bes, protect thy limbs. Not shall fall thy head before

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dm-l: an shep
D
m
hdu-k
D
tai
tchat

him that is to thee. Not shall conquer thy limbs the fire

hostile

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en metu-k an hen-k her ta an

of thy poison. Not shalt thou fall on the ground, not

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khas-k her mu an sekhem re neb

shalt thou be in on water. Not shall have the reptile any

peril mastery

pesh dm-k an
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rehen
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stinging over thee. Not shall crush thee lion any

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sekhemet dm-k entek sa neter tchesert

(or) be master over thee. Thou art the son of a god holy
 SORROWS OF ISIS 233

per em Seb entek Heru an sekhem

proceeding from Seb. Thou art Horus, not shall have the
mastery

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mefw em hdu-k entek sa neter tchesert

the poison in thy limbs. Thou art the son of a god holy

per em Seb pa entet kher tern mdtet

proceeding from Seb. (With him) under the knife likewise (is it).

that is

IV,:
aw iv.
N-ar,*
shepset
=—vem sa en
n^;—
hdu-k

The four holy goddesses protect thy limbs

unk Ast duur-th em tcha-s baka-th em Heru

I am Isis, who conceived her male and was with Horus.
child, heavy

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we£er£ mes-nd Heru sa Asdr em khen sesh en

A goddess I bore Horus, son of Osiris, within a nest of

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d/e/t hdd-nd her-s ur sep sen her maa-nd
papyrus I rejoiced over it greatly, twice, because I saw (in him)
plants.

usheb her dt-f dmen-d su setek-d su

one who would answer for his father. I hid him, I concealed him
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234 SORROWS OF ISIS

a «* ~o*- «>i3 Ik® -fllll

Mer se«tf netep-f shema-d dm tud

having fear of his being I went to the city Am, (the people) saluted
bitten.

em sewi an ... ursh-d • feer /&e/& nekhen

according to custom. I spent the time in seeking for the boy

her dri kher -f hem net er sekhen Heru qem-nd

to make his food. I returned to embrace Horus, I found

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en nub nekhen
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him, Horus, the beautiful one of gold, the boy, the child,

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he was nothing. He had bedewed the ground with the water of

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maat-f em netet nu septi-f tchet-f urt

his eye, and with the foam of his lips ; his body was motionless,

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db-f betesh an pa metu nu hdu-f utu-nd

his heart still, not moved the muscles of his body. I sent forth

t-it
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nd
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sep sen neter mut neklien baq er tu en sen -
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Twice. The son of the mother safe from the evil of his brother,
of the god was

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ba dmen-tu an dq em hhefti

The plants were hidden, not could enter there an enemy

e r-es heka en Tern tef neteru

into them. The word of power of Tern father of the gods,

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who is in heaven, was as the maker of life, not entered

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Set into region this. not could he go about Kheb.

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Horus was smitten by the wickedness of his brother. Not had she
hidden

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those who were in his service many time[s] a day. These (said)

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/&er-/ #?iM JTer?^ en mut-f s em un-eref

concerning "Shall Horus for his mother?" they found where he
him, live was,
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and a Scorpion stung him, and the slayer hath stabbed him.
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ertd en Ast fent-s em re-f her rekh set dru

Placed Isis her nose in his mouth to know if had breath

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he who was in his coffin. She opened the wound of the heir

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hher
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met
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sekhen-s
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divine, she found it possessing poison. She embraced him hurriedly

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her 'peiyer -f hher md remu Jehad her tchd
and leaped about with him like a fish laid upon a fire

(saying,) Stung is Horus, Ra, stung is thy son. Stung is

Heru ad en du neb en Shu

Horus, heir of heir, lord of the [pillars ?] of Shu.

pesh Hern hun en Athet nelchen em

Stung is Horus, the child of the papyrus the child in
swamp,
238 SORROWS OF ISIS

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Het-ser pesh nekhen nefer en nub nu
Het-ser. Stung is the child beautiful of gold. The child,

sw& a£e£ -/ £>es/z/ Sent sa JJn-nefer

the babe, he is nothing. Stung is Horus, son of Un-nefer.

m ere/ Nebt-het her rem tdau-s rer

Then came Nephthys weeping, she cried, going about

dateh Serq her petrd sep sen nimd trd

the swamp, and Serqet (who said), What, twice, what then is

er sa Heru Ast tua ert er pet

to the child Horus, Isis ? pray thou therefore to heaven

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hheper aha qeti Bd dn nd uda

so that may a stop to the sailors of Ra, not will travel the boat
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of Ra from the son Horus from where he is. Sent forth

 SORROWS OF ISIS 239

io n - - -ji
Ast Jiheru-s er jpet sebeh-s er uda en

Isis her cry to heaven, her prayer (was) to Boat of

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Millions of Stood still the disk at her coming, not moved he
years.

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djper em
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on his seat. Tboth came provided with his magic power,

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I'her utu dat en maakheru peter sep sen Ast
possessing command great of mad-kheru. What, twice, Isis,

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netert hhut rekh re - s an tu

goddess, mighty one, understanding (with) her mouth, not evil

as er sa Hern sa-f en uda

behold shall be to the son Horus, his protection is from the boat

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of Ra. I have come to-day in the boat of the disk

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em dst -f en sef hek hlieper

from its place of yesterday. When the night cometh

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seshep ter er senb Heru en mut -
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the light driveth (it) away to heal Horus for his mother

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Isis (and) person every who is under the knife likewise.
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CHAPTER XIV

SETjp^fl^^OR SUTI,^^,AND NEPHTHYS

the Xr\B of Plutarch, and the god who was
SET,with Typhon in late times, was,
identified
according to the Helio-
politan system of mythology, the son of Seb and Nut, the brother
of Osiris, and Nephthys, the husband of Nephthys, and the
Isis,

father of Anubis the worship of the god is, however, very much
;

older than this system, and in primitive times the attributes of the
god were very different from those which are usually ascribed to
him in the late dynastic period. In the Pyramid Texts we find
Set associated very closely with Horus, and he always appears in
them in the character of a god who is a friend and helper of the
dead. It will be remembered that according to one myth the floor
of heaven was made of a vast, rectangular plate of iron, the four
corners of which rested upon four pillars which served to mark the
cardinal points. At certain places this iron plate was thought to
be so near the tops of the mountains that the deceased might easily
clamber on to it and so obtain admission into heaven, but at others
the distance between it and the earth was so great that he needed
help to reach it. A legend current in early times asserted that
Osiris experienced some difficulty in getting on to the iron plate,

and that he only succeeded in doing so by means of a ladder with

which Ra provided him. Even then Osiris appears to have found
some difficulty in mounting the ladder, and he was finally helped
to ascend it by Heru-ur and who were twin gods. Thus in
Set,
the text of Pepi I. (line 192), the deceased is made to say, " Homage
" to thee, divine Ladder Homage to thee,
! Ladder of Set
" Stand thou upright, divine Ladder ! Stand thou upright,
II R
242 SET AND HORUS
" Ladder of Set ! Stand thou upright, Ladder of Horus, whereby
" Osiris came forth into heaven." In the text of Unas (line

493) said, "Unas cometh forth upon the Ladder which his
it is

"father Ra hath made for him, and Horus and Set take the hand
" of Unas, and they lead him into the Tuat." On the other hand, x

in another passage Ra and Horus are said to set up the Ladder for
Osiris (line 579 ff.), but even so when the dead king " standeth up
"he is Horus, and when he sitteth down he is Set."
The association of Set with Horus in these and many other
passages well illustrates the antiquity of the cult of Set, and helps
us to understand his attributes. Here we find him regarded as the

equal in every respect of Heru-ur, i.e., " Horus the Elder," who
was admittedly one of the oldest gods in Egypt, and it was
considered necessary for the welfare of the deceased that Set should
be propitiated, and his favour secured. From other passages,
however, it is clear that there existed opposition and hostility
between Heru-ur and Set, and that the destruction of one god by
the other was only prevented by Thoth, who in his capacity as

regulator of the strife which existed between the two gods, was
called Ap-kehu, \J <=> | % , or Ap-rehui, \/ | ^ \\ , or
<==>
\f | \\ ^\ J\J\, i.e., "Judge of the two opponent gods," and
thus it is Empire Set
clear that even in the period of the Early
was regarded both as the enemy of Heru-ur and as a god who
could be of service to the dead in the Underworld, and who if he
were not a friend to him would certainly be a foe. From the fact
that Heru-ur and Set were thought to be always in opposition we
are justified in assuming that the attributes of the former god
were exactly contrary to those of the latter, and the assumption is
supported by the evidence of the hieroglyphic texts. Heru-ur, as
we have already was the god of the sky by day, and Set was
seen,
the god of the sky by night this fact is proved by the figures
;

o ft
<=> ^ s-j J^ ——o
( gj
j r,]
^ —P \ \ <=>
The dual God HORUS-SET.
 SET AND HORUS i>4:5

of the double god which are found in mythological scenes whereon

the head of Heru-ur and the head of Set are seen upon one body.
The Heru-ur changed somewhat in early dynastic
attributes of
times, but they were always the opposite of those of Set, whether
we regard the two gods as personifications of two powers of nature,
i.e.,Light and Darkness, Day and Night, or as Kosmos and Chaos,
or as Life and Death, or as Good and Evil.
The signification of the name of Set is not easy to determine.
Heru, or Horus, certainly means "he who is above," and by analogy
"
the name Set ought to mean something like " he who is below ;

and in proof of this Dr. Brugsch calls attention !

to the well-
known Coptic words, gp<M "above," and ecHT "below." The
hieroglyphic form of the name Set, U, or , has for its

determinative either a stone, ma (\ I

) , or the figure of an animal,

'Vj or , Kj (y & \A , or Ho >£_j) ; the former of these indicates

that the god was the personification of the stony or desert land and
the regions of death, but the signification of the latter is not so
easy to understand because the animal has not yet been identified.
The pictures of the animal which was supposed to be the incarnation
of Set represent it with a head something like that of a camel,
with curious, pricked ears, and a straight tail, bifurcated at the
end. In the absence of any facts on the subject we must assume
that the animal which was the symbol of Set was one that prowled
about by night in the deserts and in waste places of the towns and
cities, and that his disposition was hostile to man, and wicked
generally, and that owing to his evil reputation he was hunted and
slain with such diligence that he became extinct in comparatively
early times.
The region in which the Set animal lived appears to have
been situated in the South, and the god Set became, in consequence,
the god of the South, just as Heru-ur became the god of the
North, and as such he assisted at the coronation ceremonies of
2
kings. Thus a relief at Thebes represents Horus and Set standing
one on each side of Seti L, and each god is pouring out a libation

1
Beliijiou, p. 702. - Lanzoue, Dizionario, pi. 375.
244 SET AND HORUS
of " life " over the head of the king: ; and in another scene l Horus
and Set are represented in the act of placing the double crown of
the South and the North upon the head of Rameses II. Horus
says to the king, " I will give thee a life like unto that of Ra, and
years even as the years of Tern," and Set says, " I stablish the
" crown upon thy head even like the Disk (\\
'

[on the head of]

)

"
" Amen Ra, and I will give thee all life, and strength, and health ;

in his character of giver of life each god holds in his hand the
notched palm branch, :P, symbol of " years," which rests upon a
frog, *vN, and Q, the emblem of the Sun's path in the heavens
and of eternity. In yet another scene 2
we find Set teaching
Thothmes III. the use of the bow in connexion with the emblem of
the goddess Neith, whilst Horus instructs him how to wield some

weapon, which appears to be a staff. According to Dr. Brugsch, 3

Set was the god of the downward motion of the sun in the lower
hemisphere, in a southerly direction, and for this reason he was the
source of the destructive heat of summer and since the days ;

began to diminish after the summer solstice, it was declared that

he stole the light from Horus or Ra, and he was held to be the
cause of all the evil, both physical and moral, which resulted
therefrom. The light which Thoth brought with the new moon
was withdrawn by Set as soon as it was possible for him to obtain
power over that luminary, and he was, naturally, thought to be the
cause of clouds, mist, rain, thunder and lightning, hurricanes and
storms, earthquakes and eclipses, and in short of every thing which
tended to reverse the ordinary course of nature and of law and
order. From a moral point of view he was the personification of
sin and evil.

The mythological and religious texts of all periods contain

many allusions to the fight which Set waged against Horus, and
more than one version of the narrative is known. In the first and
simplest form the story merely records the natural opposition of
Day Night to Day, and the two Combatant gods were
to Night, or
Heru-ur, or Horus the Elder, and Set. In its second form the
two Combatant gods are Ra and Set, and the chief object of the
2 3 Religion, p. 703.
1 Lanzone, Dizionario, pi. 374. Ibid., pi. 376.
 SET AND HORUS 245

latter is to prevent Ra from appearing in the East daily. The

form which Set assumed on these occasions was that of a monster
serpent, and he took with him as helpers a large number of
small serpents and noxious creatures of various kinds. The name
of the serpent was Apep, TTl ibM or Afiapef, j\
,
a J^ J^_ ,

which is preserved in Coptic under the form <mt<juc|>, but he was also
called Rerek, <=> |®j[_ , and since he was identified with a long

series of serpent monsters he had as many names as Ra. The

weapons with which Apep fought were cloud, mist, rain, darkness,
etc., and Ra, his opponent, was armed with the burning and
destroying heat of the sun, and the darts and spears of light. The
result of the fight was always the same ; Apep was shrivelled and
burnt up by Ra, but he was able to renew himself daily, and
at the end of each night he collected his fiends, and waged war
against Ra with unabated vigour. In the third form of the story
the Combatant gods are Osiris and Set, and we have already seen
how Set slew his brother and persecuted his widow and child, and
how he escaped punishment because Osiris had, at the time of his
death, none to avenge his cause. In the fourth form of the story
the Combatant gods are Horus, the son of Osiris and Isis, and Set,

and the avowed intention of Horus is to slay him that slew his
father Osiris.
The two gods fought in the forms of men, and afterwards in
the forms of bears, and Horus would certainly have killed Set,
whom he had fettered, had not Isis taken pity upon her brother
and loosed his bonds and set him free. The fight between Horus,
son of Osiris and Isis, and Set, had a very important bearing on
the destinies of the dead, for to was attached the moral idea of
it

the victory of Good over Evil, and the deceased was believed to
conquer Set even as Osiris had done. Thus in the Book of the Dead
(ix. 3), he says, " I have come, I have seen my divine father Osiris.
" I have stabbed the heart of Suti " (i.e., Set) ; and from Chapter
xviii.H 1 ff., we may see that although the fiends of Set changed
themselves into wild beasts on the night of the breaking and
turning up of the earth in Tattu, Osiris, by the help of Thoth,
slew them, and mixed their blood with the sods. In Chapter
 ,

246 SET-TYPHON
xxiii. 2,we find the deceased praying that Thoth will come to him,
and will by means of his words of power loose the bandages where-
with Set has fettered his mouth and in Chapter xxxix. 15, we find ;

him declaring that he is Set who " letteth loose the storm-clouds
" and the thunder in the horizon of heaven, even as doth the god

" Netcheb-ab-f,
(^ J ^ ^ *— ) • Elsewhere (xl. 1 ff.) Apep is

called both Hai, [Tl

"Eater of the Ass," and he

iL N\ ^ ,
ancl Am-aau, a

declared to be a being
^ ~^^ 1^1

i.e., the is

abominable both to Osiris and to the god Haas, ^^ ^ ,

or

^F lb^ ® Q P H 5
^ ne -^ ss re ferre(l *° nere is
>
°f course, Ra ;
the

Ass was regarded in one aspect as a solar animal because of his

great virility. On the other hand, certain passages prove that
even in the XVIIIth Dynasty Set was regarded as a god who was
friendly towards the deceased, for we read (xvii. 131), "Tern hath
" built thy house,Shu and Tefnut have founded thy habitation; lo !

"drugs are brought, and Horus purifieth and Set strengthened,

" and Set purifieth and Horus strengthened." In the Chapter of
the deification of members, the backbone of the deceased is identified

with the backbone of Set (xlii. 12), and elsewhere the deceased
says (I.b 2) " Suti and the company of the gods have joined together
" my neck and my back strongly, and they are even as they were
" in the time that is past ; may nothing happen to break them
" apart." But in Chapter lxxxvi. 6, the deceased says, " Set, son

of Nut, [lieth] under the fetters which he had made for me;"
and elsewhere (cviii. 8), he is said "to depart, having the harpoon
" of iron in him," and to have thrown up everything which he had
eaten and to have been put in a place of restraint.
A statement in Plutarch's Be hide
Osiride (§ 62), informs et

us that Typhon was called Seth, and Bebo, and Smy, " all of them
" words of one common import, and expressing certain violent and
" forcible restraint and withholding, as likewise contrariety and
" subversion ; we are, moreover, informed by Manetho that the
" load-stone is by the Egyptians called the '
bone of Horus,' as
" iron is, the '
bone of Typho.' " This information is of con-
siderable interest, for it makes the identity of Set and
 SET AND BABA 247

Typhon 1
certain, and it is, moreover, supported by the evidence of

the inscriptions. The name Seth is, of course, Set, jj ; Bebo is

the Egyptian J^^^^^Baba, and Smy is

J^i)^,
Smai, the well-known Egyptian name for Set as the Arch-Fiend.

The associates of Set were called Smaiu, T lb. (10 i , and the

determinative —
s a, shows that the idea of " violence " was implied
in the name. was connected with Set or Typhon
That iron
2
is quite clear from the passage quoted by Dr. Brugsch in which

Thoth is said to have obtained from Set the knife with which he
cut up the bull.
It has been said above that the serpent and the Set animal
were the common symbols of Set, but instances are known in
which he is represented in the form of a man, wearing a beard and
a tail, and holding the usual symbols of divinity. In the example
3
figured by Lanzone the god is called "mighty-one of two-fold
strength," <x=>
f^f]
^—°, and is accompanied by Nephthys, who
wears upon her head a pair of horns and a disk. Now, as Set was
the personification of the powers of darkness, and of evil, and of
the forces of the waters which were supposed to resist light and
order, a number of beasts which dwelt in the waters, or at least
partly on land and partly in the water, were regarded as symbols
of him and as beings wherein he took up his habitation. Among
these were the serpent Apep, the fabulous beast, Akhekh, T"
which was a species of antelope with a bird's head surmounted by
three uraei, and a pair of wings, the hippopotamus, the crocodile,
the pig, the turtle, the ass, etc. These animals were, however, not
the only ones which were regarded as types of Set, for as Dr.

Brugsch has rightly observed, every creature which was snared or

caught in the waters or hunted in the desert, was treated as an
incarnation of Set ; and animals with red, or reddish-brown bail-

or skins, and even red-haired men were supposed to be especially

1
Tawfan, qUjId, or yVi^L, the Arabic word for "storm, deluge, inundation,
whirlwind," etc., appears to be derived from the name Typhon.
2 3
Religion, p. 707. Dizionario, pi. 377.
248 SET-ANIMALS
under the influence of Set. On the other hand, the animals which
were used by man in the chase, i.e., dogs, cheetas, etc., and certain
other animals, e.g., lions, cats, etc., were held to be sacred to the
gods, and according to Plutarch (De hide, § 72), " the gods,
" through a dread of Typho, metamorphosed themselves into these
" animals, concealing themselves as it were from his purpose in
" the bodies of ibises, dogs and hawks." The sacrifice of certain

animals associated with Set played a prominent part in the ritual

of the Egyptian religion, and at the seasons of the year when Set's

influence was supposed to be the greatest earnest attempts were

regularly made to propitiate him by means of offerings.
Thus in order to drive away Set from attacking the full moon
of the month Pachons an antelope was sacrificed, and a black pig
was hacked in pieces upon an altar made of sand, which was built
on the bank of the river. On the twenty-sixth day of the month
Choiak, which was the time of the winter solstice, an ass was slain,

and a model of the serpent-fiend was hewn in pieces. On the first

day of Mesore, which was the day of the great festival of Heru
Behutet, large numbers of birds and fish were caught, and those
which were considered to be of a Typhonic character were stamped
upon with the feet, and those who did this cried out, " Ye shall be
" cut in pieces, and your members shall be hacked asunder, and each
" of you shall consume the other thus doth Ra triumph over all his
;

" enemies, and thus doth Heru-Behutet, the great god, the lord of
" heaven, triumph over all his enemies." On such occasions, we learn
1
from Plutarch {Be hide, § 63), sistra were shaken in the temples,
" for, say they, the sound of these Sistra averts and drives away
" Typho ; meaning hereby, that as corruption clogs and puts a
1 The sistrum is thus described by Plutarch :
— " Now the outer surface of this
" instrument is of a convex figure, as within its circumference are contained those
" four chords or bars, which make such a rattling when they are shaken nor is —
" this without its meaning ; for that part of the universe which is subject to
" generation and corruption is contained within the sphere of the moon and ;

" whatever motions or changes may happen therein, they are all effected by the
" different combinations of the four elementary bodies, fire, earth, water, and air.
" Moreover, upon the upper part of the convex surface of the sistrum is carved the
" effigies of a Cat with a human visage, as on the lower edge of it, under those
" moving chords, is engraved on the one side the face of Isis, and on the other that
" of Nephthys," etc.
 KINGDOM OF SET 249

" stop to the regular course of nature, so generation, by the means

" of motion, loosens it again, and restores it to its former vigour."
The kingdom of Set was supposed to be placed in the northern
sky, andabode was one of the stars which formed the constella-
his

tion of Khepesh,
a
-j), or the "Thigh," which has been
,

identified with the Great Bear, and it was from this region that he
made use of his baleful influence to thwart the beneficent designs
c
of Osiris, whose abode was Sah or Orion, and of Isis,whose home
was Sept, or Sothis. A little consideration will show that the
northern sky was the natural domain of Set, for viewed from the
standpoint of an Egyptian in Upper Egypt the north was rightly
considered to be the place of darkness, cold, mist, and rain, each of
which was an attribute of Set ; and we may note in passing that
the Hebrews called the region of darkness, or the winter hemi-
sphere, Sephon, a name which
appears to be connected beyond
a doubt with Saphon, "North."
The chief opponent of Set was
the hippopotamus goddess Reret,

<=> jk ? who was believed to keep

this power of darkness securely The seven stars of the Great Bear.
fettered by a chain this goddess
;

is usually represented with the arms and hands of a woman which

are attached to the body of a hippopotamus, and in each she holds

Q Q
a knife. Her temple was called Het-Khaat, n . The

duty of the goddess was to keep in restraint the evil influence of

Set and to make clear a way in the sky for the birth of Heru-sma-
taui, whom Dr. Brugsch identified with the spring sun ;
the texts,
however, make it clear that Reret was nothing but a form of Isis.

From a passage in the Booh of the Dead (xvii. 89) we learn

that Set was accompanied by the four children of Horus, Mestha,
Hapi, Tuamutef, and Qebhsennuf, who were said to be "behind
the Thigh in the northern sky," and were believed to take part in
curbing the evil deeds of Set. They may be identified with the

four Af gods, ^ 9, rj) llll ?

" who are the four gods of the Followers
 ,

250 SET, NUBTI, SUTEKH

(/WWVA \

nn ^L-j ) ,
who is a mighty
" warrior," and it was»their duty to be with the sailors of the Boat of

Ra, that is to say, with the Akhemu-seku, (1

® i
—*— | ^T^ i

of the North, and with the four stars of the Meskheti,

H ^ <\\ c^-, or Great Bear. In the text from which these
details are quoted it is said definitely that the " Meskheti is the

Thigh of Set,"
times it is
| ~J~ ^ c^
tolerably certain that the worship of Set
° ™™ ^ * In early dynastic

was wide-
spread, and his cult seems to have nourished until the period which
lies between the Xllth and the XVIIIth Dynasties ; but about
B.C. 1700 a change came over his fortunes, and the Egyptians began

to show the greatest detestation for him. He had, of course,

always been connected with evil, but it appears that the popularity
of his cult suffered greatly at this period because he was associated
with the occupation of Northern Egypt by the Hyksos, who
identified him with certain Semitic, Syrian gods. At Kom Ombo
and in the south of Egypt a common name of Set was Nubti,
r 55 ^
^ 3-J or Set-Nubti,
/!

kl f^H J ^ © and as such he is

J > ,

usually represented with one body and two heads, one being that
of a hawk, and the other that of the remarkable animal which was
the symbol of the god. 2 In the North and South of Egypt Set was

called both Nubti and Sutekh, 1 %J^ >

°r
^^^ ^ '
ancl

there is no doubt whatsoever that he was endowed by the peoples

in the Delta with all the attributes of the Semitic god Baal,
b#3, whose name appears in Egyptian under the form Bar, or

That the name of Bar was common in Egypt, at all events

among settlers from Syria, is proved by its occurrence in proper
<== > aa^vx va\ vfo ^ anc[ Bari-Eumau,
n
^j _£as c — ^k ^> ^ ^e last being the equivalent of the Semitic

name Ba'al Ram, DT^JB. 8 In Middle Egypt the centre of the

1
Brugsch, Thesaurus, p. 122 ;
Religion, p. 712.
2
See Lanzone, op. cit., pi. 378.
3 See M tiller, Asien mid Europa, p. 309 ;
Recueil, torn. xii. 17.
 FIGURES OF SET 251

worship of Set was at Sept-Mert-et, tfff ^ , which is

commonly known as Oxyrhynchus, 1 and other prominent places of

his worship were one of the Oases, ^ ,
and Sennu, I 9 @>
and Unnu, ^^5? Hermopolis. In the Delta the centre of his

worship was the famous city Het-uart, or Avaris, where the

Hyksos king Apepa made him to be the greatest of all the gods of
his dominions, and at one time Set was to all intents and purposes
the national god of the Delta.
In the narratives of their prowess in battle which kings caused
to be inscribed on stelae and on the walls of their temples, they
delighted to have it Bar in the
stated that they were as terrible as
attacks which they made upon their foes. Under the XVIIIth
Dynasty we hear little of Set, for Amen, the god of the Upper
Country, had the pre-eminence, but the cult of Set appears to
have been revived under the XlXth Dynasty, for the second king-
thereof called himself Seti, after the name of the god, and this king

caused bas-reliefs to be set up in his temples wherein Set is repre-

sented in the act of performing the coronation ceremonies. Under
this Dynasty Ave have another king called after the name of the
god, i.e., Seti II., Menephthah, but after that period the figure
of Set appears in no cartouche, and his evil reputation increased.

To the XXth Dynasty probably belongs the very interesting

bronze figure of Set in the British Museum (No. 18,191), which
was worn and was originally plated with gold the
as a pendant, ;

god stands upright and wears the double crown of the South and
the North and a uraeus. When found the figure was bent double,
a position which it was made
by violence, probably by
to take

someone who detested the god, but the body has been straightened
out and it is now possible to examine the head of the Set animal,
which in this specimen is finely shaped. Another interesting-
figure of Set is No. 22,897, which is of good workmanship this, ;

like the preceding, was also gilded and worn as a pendant.

Belonging to a much later period we have the small wooden
figure of the Set animal (No. 30,460), and the upper part of a

1 Brugsch, Diet. Grog., p. 275.

252 SET AND THE ASS
two-headed bronze figure of Amen-Heru-pa-khart (No. 16,228).
The former stands on a pedestal on which is a sepulchral inscrip-
tion, addressed to Set, "the great god, lord of heaven," who is

asked to give "life, strength, and health" to him that had it made;
and the latter represents Amen under the form of a ram-headed
man, who wears on his head the plumes of Shu, the disk of Ra,
and a uraeus, and the head of Set, with characteristic ears. The
above four figures are when taken together of great interest, and,

as they all have been acquired by the Trustees of the British

Museum since Signor Lanzone issued the last part of his Dizionario,

they form a valuable addition to the examples registered by

him in it.

The ideas which were held by the Egyptians about Set in the

late times are well illustrated by the following extract from

Plutarch (De Iside, § 30), who says that it is evident from many of
their rites and ceremonies " that they hold him in the greatest
" contempt, and do all they can to vilify and affront him. Hence
"their ignominious treatment of those persons, whom from the
" redness of their complexions they imagine to bear a resemblance
" to him ; and hence likewise is derived the custom of the Coptites
" of throwing an Ass down a precipice ; because it is usually of
"this colour. Nay, the inhabitants of Busiris and Lycopolis
" carry their detestation of this animal so far, as never to make any
" use of trumpets, because of the similitude between their sound
" and the braying of the ass. In a word, this animal is in general
" regarded by them as unclean and impure, merely on account of
" the resemblance which they conceive it bears to Typho ;
and in
" consequence of this notion, those cakes which they offer with
" their sacrifices during the last
two months Paiini and Phaophi,
" have the impression of an Ass bound stamped upon them. For
" the same reason likewise, when they sacrifice to the Sun, they
" strictly enjoyn all those who approach to worship the God,
" neither to wear any gold about them, nor to give provender to
" any ass. It is moreover evident, say they, that even the
" Pythagoreans looked upon Typho to have been of the rank or
" order of Demons, as, according to them, '
he was produced in the
" even number fifty-six.' For as the power of the Triangle is
 SET AND THE ASS 253

" expressive of the nature of Pluto, Bacchus, and Mars, the

" properties of the Square of Rhea, Venus, Ceres, Vesta, and Juno ;

" of the Dodecagon of Jupiter ; so, as Ave are informed by Eudoxus

" is the figure of 56 angles expressive of the nature of Typho as :

" therefore all the others above-mentioned in the Pythagorean

" system are looked upon as so many Genii or Demons, so in like
" manner must this latter be regarded by them. 'Tis from this
" persuasion likewise of the red complexion of Typho, that the
" Egyptians make use of no other bullocks in their sacrifice but
" what are of this colour. Nay, so extremely curious are they in
" this respect, that if there be so much as one black or white hair
" in the beast, 'tis sufficient to render it improper for this service.
" For 'tis their opinion, that sacrifices ought not to be made of such
" things as are in themselves agreeable and well-pleasing to the
" Gods, but, on the contrary, rather of such creatures wherein the
" souls of wicked and unjust men have been confined during the
" course of their Hence sprang that custom,
transmigration.
" which was formerly observed by them, of pronouncing a solemn
" curse upon the head of the beast which was to be offered in
" sacrifice, and afterwards of cutting it off and throwing it into the
" Nile, though now they dispose of it to foreigners. No bullock
" therefore is permitted to be offered to the Gods, which has not
" the seal of the Sphragistae first stamped upon it, an order of
" priests peculiarly set apart for this purpose, from whence likewise
" they derive their name. Their impress, according to Castor, is

'"a man upon his knees with his hands tied behind him and a
" sword pointed at his throat.' Nor is it from his colour only that
"they maintain a resemblance between the Ass and Typho, but
" from the stupidity likewise and sensuality of his disposition ; and
" agreeably to this notion, having a more particular hatred to
" Ochus than to any other of the Persian monarchs who reigned
" over them, looking upon him as an exsecrable and abominable
" wretch, they gave him the nick-name of the Ass, which drew the
" following reply from that prince, But this ass shall dine upon
'

" your ox.' and accordingly he slew the Apis this story is thus :

"related by Dino. Now as to those who pretend that Typho

" escaped out of the battle upon an Ass after a flight of seven days,
254 NEPHTHYS
" and that, after he had got into a place of security, he begat two
" sons, Hierosolymus and Judaeus, 'tis obvious from the very face
" of the relation, that their design is to give an air of fable to
" [what] the Jewish history [relates] of the flight of Moses out of
" Egypt, and of the settlement of the Jews about Hierusalem and
"Judaea" (Squire's Translation).
As a proof of the correctness of Plutarch's statements may be
mentioned the figure of Set, which is reproduced from a Demotic
1
papyrus at Leyden by Signor Lanzone, and which represents the
srod as having the head of an ass ; on his breast, which is that of a
man, is inscribed the name CH-9-. We have now seen how the god
Set was the opponent first of Heru-ur, then of Ra, andfi nally of
Osiris and his son Horus, and that during the long period of
Egyptian history his attributes changed according to the various
modifications which took place in the beliefs concerning this god
in the minds of the Egyptians, and that from being a power of
nature, the darkness, he became the symbol and personification of
both physical and moral evil. We have now to consider briefly the
female counterpart of Set, that is to say the goddess Nephthys,
and to describe the part which she played in the Great Company
of the gods of Heliopolis.

Nebt-het Nephthys
YGc^J' or
TKSv '

Nebt-het, or Nephthys, was the daughter of Seb and Nut,

and the sister of Osiris, and Isis, and Set, and the wife of Set, and
the mother ofAnpu, or Anubis, either by Osiris or Set. The
name " Nebt-het
" means the " lady of the house," but by the word

"house" we must understand that portion of the sky which was

supposed to form the abode of the Sun-god Horus ; in fact "het"
in the name of Nebt-het is used in exactly the same sense as " het "
in the name "Het-Hert," or Hathor, i.e., the "house of Horus."
In the earliest times Nephthys was regarded as the female counter-
part of Set, and she was always associated with him ; nevertheless

1
Dizionario, pi. 378.
The Goddess NEBT-HET (Nephthys).
 NEPHTHVS 255

she always appears as the faithful sister and friend of Isis, and
helps the widowed goddess to collect the scattered limbs of Osiris

and to reconstitute his body. In the Pyramid Texts she appears

as a friend of the deceased, and she maintains that character
throughout every Recension of the Booh of the Dead ; indeed, she
seems to perform for him what as a nature goddess she did for the
gods in primeval times when she fashioned the " body " of the
" Company of the Gods," and when she obtained the name
Nebkhat, (i?=§ J)
1
i.e., " Lady of the body [of the Gods]."
j

The goddess is represented in the form of a woman who wears upon

her head a pair of horns and a disk which is surmounted by the
symbol of her name, TT or the symbol , only ; and her commonest
[J

titles are, " dweller within Senu," " lady of heaven," " mistress of

the gods," " great goddess, lady of life," " sister of the god, eye of
Ra, lady of heaven, mistress of the gods," " lady of heaven, mistress
of the two lands," " sister of the god, the creative goddess who liveth

within An," etc. The chief centres of her worship were Senu
„~©, Hebet. Qj ^ (Behbit), Per-mert, lz^u <=>, Re-nefert,
<===>
t=t T^^©, Het-sekhem, Het-Khas, Ta-kehset, and Diospolites.
In the vignettes of the Theban Recension of the Booh of the
Dead Ave find Nephthys playing a prominent part in connexion

with Isis, whose efforts it seems to be her duty to second and to

forward. She stands in the shrine behind Osiris when the hearts
of the dead are weighed in the Great Scales in the presence of the
god; she seen kneeling on fw"}, by the side of the Tet, from
is

which the disk of the Sun is thrust upwards by the " living Ra,"
*-^H , at sunrise ; she is one of the " great sovereign chiefs in Tettu,"
with Osiris, Isis, and Heru-netch-hra-f ; and she kneels at the

head of the bier of Osiris and assists him to arise. In the address
which she makes (Chap. cli.A), she says, " I go round about behind
" Osiris. I have come that I may protect thee, and my strength
" which protecteth shall be behind thee for ever and ever. The god
" Ra hearkeneth unto thy cry ; thou, son of Hathor, art made to

1
See Aeg. Zeitschn'ft, 1864, p. G5.
256 NEPHTHYS
"triumph, thy head shall never be taken away from thee, and
" thou shalt be made to rise up in peace." Like Isis, Nephthys
was believed to possess magical powers, and Urt-hekau,

<!=> 5 LJ 1^ ^ §0 '
f
* ,e "' " m io n ty one °f words of power," was as
much a title of the goddess as of her husband, Set-Nubti, the
great one of two-fold strength, ^=> T\f}^ Nephthys also, like •

Isis, has many forms, for she is one of the two Maat goddesses, and

she is one of the two Mert goddesses, and she is one of the two
plumes which ornamented the head of her father Ra. In her
birth-place in Upper Egypt, i.e., Bet-Sekhem, or "the house of
1

the Si strum," the goddess was identified with Hathor, the lady of
the sistrum, but the popular name of the city, "Het," i.e., the
" House," seems to apply to both goddesses. In the Serapeum
which belonged to the city, or the House of the Bennu, Osiris was
re-born under the form of Horus, and Nephthys was one of his
" nursing mothers." The form in which Osiris appeared here was
the Moon, and as such he represented the left eye of the Bennu or
Ra, and as he thus became closely associated with Khensu and
Thoth, to his female counterparts were ascribed the attributes of
Sesheta and Maat, who were the female counterparts of Thoth.
Nephthys, as the active creative power which protected Osiris, the
Moon-god, was called Menkhet, ^ {r, and in allusion to her
beneficent acts in connection with him the names of Benra-merit
and Kherseket were bestowed upon her, and the former appears
to belong to the goddess when she made herself manifest under the
form of a cat.

From Plutarch's treatise on Isis and Osiris we may gather

many curious facts about the Egyptian beliefs concerning
Nephthys. Thus he tells us (§38) that the Egyptians call the
" extreme limits of their country, their confines and sea-shores,
" Nephthys (and sometimes Teleute, a name expressly signifying
" the end of anything), whom they suppose likewise to be married
" to Typho. Now as the overflowings of the Nile are sometimes
" very great, and extend even to the remotest boundaries of the
" land, this gave occasion to that part of the story, which regards

1
Nephthys was born on the last of the five epagomenal days.
 s

NEPHTHYS 257

" the secret commerce between Osiris and Nephthys and as the ;

" natural consequence of so great an inundation would be perceived

"by the springing up of plants in those parts of the country, which
" were formerly barren, hence they supposed, that Typho was first
" made acquainted with the injury which had been clone his bed by
" means of a Mellilot-garland which fell from the head of Osiris
" during his commerce with his wife, and afterwards left behind
" him ; and thus, they say, may the legitimacy of Orus the son of
" Isis be accounted for, as likewise the spuriousness of Anubis,
" who was born of jNTephthys. So again, when they tell us, that
" it appears from the tables of the successions of their ancient
" kings, that Nephthys was married to Typho, and that she was at
" first barren, if this indeed is to be understood, not as spoken of a
" mortal woman, but of a goddess, then is there design to insinuate
" the utter infertility of the extreme parts of their land, occasioned
" by the hardness of the soil and its solidity." Plutarch tells us,
moreover, that " on the upper part of the convex surface of the
" sistrum is carved the effigies of a Cat with a human visage, as on
" the lower edge of it, under those moving chords, is engraved on

" the one side the face of Isis, and on the other that of Nephthys."
The face of Isis represents Generation, and that of Nephthys
Corruption, and Plutarch says (§ 63) that the Cat denotes the
moon, " its variety of colours, its activity in the night, and
" the peculiar circumstances which attend its fecundity making
"it a proper emblem of that body. For it is reported of
" this creature, that it at first brings forth one, then two, after-
" wards three, and so goes on adding one to each former birth till

" it comes to seven ; so that she brings forth twenty-eight in all,

" corresponding as it were to the several degrees of light, which

" appear during one of the moon's revolutions. But though this
" perhaps may appear to carry the air of fiction with it, yet may
" it be depended upon that the pupills of her eyes seem to fill up
" and to grow larger upon the full of the moon, and to decrease
" again and diminish in their brightness upon its warning — as to
" the human countenance with which this Cat is carved, this is

" designed to denote that the changes of the moon are regulated
" by understanding and wisdom."

II —
258 NEPHTHYS
From the above paragraphs it is clear that Nephthys is the
personification of darkness and of all that belongs to it, and that her
attributes were rather of a passive than active character. She was
the opposite of Isis in every respect Isis symbolized birth, growth,
;

development and vigour, but Nephthys was the type of death, decay,
diminution and immobility. Isis and Nephthys were, however,
associated inseparably with each other, even as were Horus and
Set, and in all the important matters which concern the welfare of
the deceased they acted together, and they appear together in
bas-reliefs and vignettes. Isis, according to Plutarch (§ 44),
represented the part of the world which is visible, whilst Nephthys
represents that which is invisible, and we may even regard Isis as

the day and Nephthys as the night. Isis and Nephthys represent
respectively the things which are and the things which are yet to
come into being, the beginning and the end, birth and death, and
life and death. We have, unfortunately, no means of knowing
1

what the primitive conception of the attributes of Nephthys was,

but it is most improbable that it included any of» the views on the
subject which were current in Plutarch's time. Nephthys is not
a goddess with well-defined characteristics, but she may, generally
speaking, be described as the goddess of the death which is not
eternal. In the Book of the Dead (Chap. xvii. 30), the deceased

is made to say, " I am the god Amsu (or, Min) in his coming
" forth ; may his two plumes be set upon my head for me." In
answer to the question, " Who then is this ? " the text goes on to
say, " Amsu is Horus, the avenger of his father, and his coming
" forth is his birth. The plumes upon his head are Isis and
" Nephthys when they go forth to set themselves there, even as his
" protectors, and they provide that which his head lacketh, or (as
" others say), they are the two exceeding great uraei which are
" upon the head of their father Tern, or (as others say), his two
" eyes are the two plumes which are upon his head."
This passage proves that Nephthys, although a goddess of
death, was associated with the coming into existence of the life

which springs from death, and that she was, like Isis, a female

counterpart of Amsu, the ithyphallic god, who was at once the type
1
Religion, p. 735.
 — ;

NEPHTHYS AND ISIS 259

and reproduction, and regeneration. Isis and Nephthys

of virility,
prepared the funeral bed for their brother Osiris, and together they
made the swathings wherewith body was swathed after death
his
they assisted at the rising of the Sun-god when he rose upon this
earth for the first time, they assisted at the resurrection of Osiris,
and similarly, in all ages, they together aided the deceased to rise to
the new by means of the words which they chanted over his bier.
life

In late dynastic times there grew up a class of literature which

is now represented by such works as the " Book of Respirations,"

the " Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys," the " Festival Songs
of Isis and Nephthys," the " Litanies of Seker," etc., works which
supply us with the very words which were addressed to Osiris and
who were his followers. The goddesses were personified
to all those
by two priestesses who were virgins and who were ceremonially
pure ; the hair of their limbs was to be shaved off, they were to
wear ram's wool garlands upon their heads, and to hold tambourines
in their hands on the arm of one of them was to be a fillet
;

inscribed " to Isis," and on the arm of the other was to be a fillet

inscribed "to Nephthys." On five days during the month of

December these women took their places in the temple of Abydos
and, assistedby the kher heb, or precentor, they sang a series
of groups of verses to the god, of which the following are
specimens :

" Hail, lord Osiris. Hail, lord Osiris. Hail, lord Osiris. Hail,
'lord Osiris. Hail, beautiful boy, come to thy temple straight-
'
way, for we see thee not. Hail, beautiful boy, come to thy
1
temple, and draw nigh after thy departure from us. Hail,
'
who leadest along the hour, who increasest except
beautiful boy,
'
Thou art the exalted image of thy father Tenen,
at his season.
'
thou art the hidden essence who comest forth from Atmu.
'thou lord, thou lord, how much greater art thou than thy
'
father, thou eldest son of thy mother's Avomb. Come thou
'
back again to us with that which belongeth unto thee, and we
'
will embrace thee ; depart not thou from us, thou beautiful
'
and greatly loved face, thou image of Tenen, thou virile one,
'
thou lord of love. Come thou in peace, and let us see thee,
'our lord, and the two sisters will join thy limbs together, and
260 NEPHTHYS AND ISIS

" thou shalt feel no pain, and they shall put an end unto all that

"hath afflicted thee, even as if it had never been Hail,

" Prince, who comest forth from the womb. Hail, Eldest son of
" primeval matter. Hail, Lord of multitudes of aspects and created
" forms. Hail, Circle of gold in the temples. Hail, Lord of time,
" and Bestower of years. Hail, Lord of life for all eternity. Hail,
" Lord of millions and myriads. Hail, thou who shinest both in
" rising and setting. Hail, thou who makest throats to be in good
" case. Hail, thou Lord of terror, thou mighty one of trembling.
" Hail, lord of multitudes of aspects, both male and female. Hail,
" thou who art crowned with the White Crown, thou lord of the
"Urerer Crown. Hail, thou holy Babe of Heru-hekennu. Hail,
"thou son of Ra, who sittest in the Boat of Millions of Years.
" Hail, thou Guide of rest, come thou to thy hidden places. Hail,
" thou lord of fear, who art self-produced. Hail, thou whose
" heart is still, come to thy city. Hail, thou who causest cries
" of joy, come to thy city. Hail, thou beloved one of the gods
" and goddesses. Hail, thou who dippest thyself [in Nu], come to
" thy temple. Hail, thou who art in the Tuat, come thou to thy
" offerings. . . . Hail, thou holy flower of the Great House. Hail,
" thou who bringest the holy cordage of the Sekti Boat. Hail,
"thou Lord of the Hennu Boat, who renewest thy youth in the
il
secret place. Hail, thou Perfect Soul in Neter-khert. Hail,
" thou holy Judge (?) of the South and of the North. Hail, thou
" hidden one, who art known to mankind. Hail, thou who dost
" shine upon him that is in the Tuat and dost show him the
" Disk. Hail, lord of the Atef Crown, thou mighty one in Suten-
"henen. Hail, mighty one of terror. Hail, thou who risest in
" Thebes, who dost flourish for ever. . . . Hail, thou living Soul
" of Osiris, who art diademed with the moon. Hail, thou who
" hidest thy body in the great coffin at Heliopolis."
 ( 261 )

CHAPTER XV

ANPU (jTTM, OR ANUBIS

has been said above that Nephthys gave birth to a son called
IT Anpu, or Annbis, and that his father was, according to some,
Osiris, and according to others, Set; from another point of view he
was the son of Ra. The animal which was at once the type and
symbol of the god was the jackal, and this fact seems to prove
that in primitive times Anubis was merely the jackal god, and
that he was associated with the dead because the jackal was
generally seen prowling about the tombs. His worship is very
ancient, and there is no doubt that even in the earliest times his

cult was general in Egypt ; it is probable that it is older than

that of Osiris. In the text of Unas (line 70) he is associated with
the Eye of Horus, and his duty as the guide of the dead in the
Underworld on their way to Osiris was well denned, even at the

remote period when this composition was written, for we read,

" Unas standeth with the Spirits, get thee onwards, Anubis, into
" Amenti (the Underworld), onwards, onwards to Osiris." In the
lines that follow we see that Anubis is mentioned in connexion

with Horus, Set, Thoth, Sep, and Khent-an-maati. From another

passage of the same text we find (line 207 ff.) that the hand, and
arms, and belly, and legs of the deceased are identified with Temu,

form of that of Anubis, ^ v< ^a

but his face is said to be in the .

The localities in which Anubis was specially worshipped are

Abt, the Papyrus Swamps, (1 c^ S ^ ieeei , Sep, "^C, Re-au,

< =>
Heru-ti, ^'^~^©, Ta-hetchet, = Saiut,
7 <ffffc®> ^j[@,
262 ANUBIS AND OSIRIS
-— 1^%v (111 ^T (Lycopolis), Sekhem, ~^|\ 1^© (Leto-

polis),
1
etc. In the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead he
plays some very prominent parts, the most important of all being
those which are connected with the judgment and the embalming
of the deceased. Tradition declared that Anubis embalmed the
body of Osiris, and that he swathed it in the linen swathings which
were woven by Isis and Nephthys for their brother and it was ;

believed that his work was so thoroughly well performed under

the direction of Horus and Isis and Nephthys, that it resisted the
influences of time and decay. In the vignette of the Funeral
Procession the mummy is received by Anubis, who stands by the
side of the tomb door and in the vignette to Chapter cli. of the
;

Booh of the Dead the god is seen standing by the side of the
mummy as it lies on its bier, and he lays his protecting hands upon
it. In the speech which is put into the mouth of Anubis, he says,
"I have come to protect Osiris." In the text of Unas (line 219)
the nose of the deceased is identified with the nose of Anubis, but

in the xliind Chapter of the Booh of the Dead the deceased declares,
" My lips are the lips of Anpu." From various passages it is clear

that in one part of Egypt at least Anubis was the great god of the

Underworld, and his rank and importance seem to have been as

great as those of Osiris. (See Chapter liii.)

In the Judgment Scene Anubis appears to act for Osiris, with

whom he is intimately connected, for it is he whose duty it is to

examine the tongue of the Great Balance, and to take care that
thebeam is exactly horizontal. Thoth acts on behalf of the Great
Company Anubis not only produces the heart of
of the gods, and
the deceased for judgment, but also takes care that the body which
has been committed to his charge shall not be handed over to the
"Eater of the Dead" by accident. The vignette of the xxvith
Chapter of the Booh of the Dead, as given in the Papyrus of Ani,
represents the deceased in the act of receiving a necklace and
pectoral from Anubis, who standsby grasping his sceptre in the ;

vignette of the Chapter in the Papyrus of Nebseni Anubis is seen

presenting the heart itself to the deceased, and in the text below

1
Lanzone, op. cit., p. 68.
ANUBIS, the God of the Dead.
 DUTIES OF ANUBIS 263

Nebseni prays, saying, " May Anubis make my thighs firm so that
" I may stand upon them." In allusion to his connexion with
the embalmment of Osiris the god Anubis is called Am Ut,
-I - C3 i.e., " Dweller in the chamber of embalmment "
as
J\ , ;

the watcher in the place of purification wherein rested the chest

containing the remains of Osiris he was called Kiient Sehet,

Y i.e., " Governor of the Hall of the God ;

" and one of his
"
names as the god of the funeral mountain was " Tep-tu-f

? emi
*^' i,e " '
lie wll ° is upon his hil1 -" In tlie cxlvtn Chapter
of the Booh of the Dead the deceased says, " I have washed myself
" in the water wherein the god Anpu washed when he had
" performed the office of embalmer and bandager and elsewhere ;
"

the deceased is told (clxx. 4) that "

Anpu, who is upon his hill,
" hath set thee in order, and he hath fastened for thee thy
"swathings, thy throat is the throat of Anubis (clxxii. 22), and
" thy face is like that of Anubis " (clxxxi. 9).

The duty of guiding the souls of the dead round about the
Underworld and into the kingdom of Osiris was shared by Anubis
with another god whose type and symbol was a jackal, and whose

name was Ap-uat, ^f^^? or

\/?j^^|> i- e -' tne "Opener
of the ways ;
" formerly Anubis and Ap-uat were considered to be
two names of one and the same god, but there is no longer any
reason for holding this view. In the vignette to the cxxxviiith
Chapter of the Booh of the Dead we find represented the scene of
setting up the standard which supports the box that held the
head of Osiris at Abydos. On each side of it are a standard with
a figure of a jackal upon it and a pylon, on the top of which lies a
jackal ; and as it is quite clear from the groups of objects on each
side of the standard that we are dealing with symbols either of the
South and the North, or of the East and the West, we are justified

in thinking that one jackal represents Ap-uat and the other

Anubis. Moreover, from the cxlvth Chapter we find that the
xxist Pylon of the House of Osiris was presided over by seven
gods, among whom were Ap-uat and Anpu, and 1
as in the xviiith

1
The others were Tcber or At, Hetep-mes, Mes-sep, Utch-re, and Beq.
264 ANUBIS
Chapter (F., G.) we have both gods mentioned, and each is depicted
in the form of a jackal-headed man, we may conclude that each
was a distinct god of the dead, although their identities are some-
times confused in the texts. The function of each god was to
" open the ways," and therefore each might be called Ap-uat, but,
strictly speaking,Anubis was the opener of the roads of the North,
and Ap-uat the opener of the roads of the South in fact, Anubis ;

was the personification of the Summer Solstice, and Ap-uat of the

Winter Solstice.
Anubis is called in the texts Sekhem em pet, and is often said
to be the son of Osiris, and Ap-uat bore the title Sekhem taui,

and was a form of Osiris himself. When, therefore, we find the

two jackals upon sepulchral stelae, we must understand that they
appear there in their character of openers of the ways of the
deceased in the kingdom of Osiris, and that they assure to the
deceased the services of guides in the northern and southern
parts of heaven ; when they appear with the two Utchats thus,

_£ ^a , they symbolize the four quarters of heaven and of earth,

and the four seasons of the year. On the subject of Anubis

Plutarch reports (§§ 44, 61) some interesting beliefs. After
referring to the view that Anubis Avas born of Nephthys, although
Isis was his reputed mother, he goes on to say, " By Anubis they
" understand the horizontal circle, which divides the invisible part
" of the world, which they call Nephthys, from the visible, to which
" they give the name of Isis ; and as this circle equally touches
" upon the confines of both light and darkness, it may be looked
" upon as common to them both — and from this circumstance arose
" that resemblance, which they imagine between Anubis and the Dog,
" it being observed of this animal, that he is equally watchful as

" well by day as night. In short, the Egyptian Anubis seems to

" be of much the same power and nature as the Grecian Hecate, a
" deity common both to the celestial and infernal regions. Others
" again are of opinion that by Anubis ismeant Time, and that his
" denomination of Kuon does not so much allude to any likeness,
" which he has to the dog, though this be the general rendering of
" the word, as to that other signification of the term taken from
 ANUBIS 265

" breeding ; because Time begets all things out of it self, bearing
" them within itself, womb. But this is one of those
as it were in a
" secret doctrines which are more fully made known to those who
" are initiated into the worship of Anubis. Thus much, however,
" is certain, that in ancient times the Egyptians paid the greatest
" reverence and honour to the Dog, though by reason of his devour-
" ing the Apis after Cambyses had slain him and thrown him out,
" when no other animal would taste or so much as come near him,
" he then lost the rank among the sacred animals which he had
first

" hitherto possessed." Referring to Osiris as the " common Reason

" which pervades both the superior and inferior regions of the

"universe," he says that it is, moreover, called "Anubis, and

" sometimes likewise Hermanubis (i.e., v\ |\ Lil, Heru-
" em-Anpu) ; the first of these names expressing the relation it has
" to the superior, as the latter, to the inferior world. And for
" this reason it is, they sacrifice to him two Cocks, the one white,
" as a proper emblem of the purity and brightness of things above,
" the other of a saffron colour, expressive of that mixture and
" variety which is to be found in those lower regions."
Strictly speaking, Anubis should be reckoned as the last
member of the Great Company of the gods of Heliopolis, but as a
matter of fact his place is usually taken by Horus, the son of Isis

and of Osiris, who generally completes the divine paut; it is

probable that the fusion of Horus with Anubis was a political

expedient on the part of the priesthood who, finding no room in
their system for the old god of the dead, identified him with a
form of Horus, just as they had done with his father Set, and
then mingled the attributes of the two Horus and Anubis £<xls.

thus became in the new theology a duplicate of the Horus and Set
in the old, and the double god possessed two distinct and opposite
aspects ; as the guide of heaven and the leader of souls to Osiris

he was a beneficent god, but as the personification of death and

decay he was a being who inspired terror. From an interesting
passage in the "Golden Ass" of Apuleius (Book xi.) we find that
the double character of Anubis was maintained by his votaries in
Rome even in the second century of our era, and in describing the
2(56 ANUBIS
Procession of Isis lie says, " Immediately after these came the
" Deities, condescending to walk npon human feet, the foremost
" among them rearing terrifically on high his dog's head and
"neck — that messenger between heaven and hell displaying
" alternately a face black as night, and golden as the day ; in his
" left the caduceus, in his right waving aloft the green palm
" branch. His steps were closely followed by a cow, raised into
" an upright posture —the cow being the fruitful emblem of the
" Universal Parent, the goddess herself, which one of the happy
"train carried with majestic steps, supported on his shoulders.
" By another was borne the coffin containing the sacred things,
" and closely concealing the deep secrets of the holy religion."

This extract shows that even in the second century at Rome

the principal actors in the old Egyptian Osiris ceremonial were
represented with scrupulous care, and that its chief characteristics
were preserved. The cow was, of course, nothing less than the
symbol of Isis, " the mother of the god," and the coffin containing

the " sacred things " was the symbol of the sarcophagus of Osiris
which contained his relics. Before these fitly inarched Anubis in
his two-fold character, and thus we have types of Osiris and his

mysteries, and of Isis who revivified him, and of Anubis who

embalmed him. Had Apuleius understood the old Egyptian
ceremonies connected with the Osiris legend and had he been able
to identify all the characters who passed before him in the Isis

procession, 4ie would probably have seen that Nephthys and Horus
and several other gods of the funeral company of Osiris were duly
represented therein. On the alleged connexion of Anubis with
Christ in the Gnostic system the reader is referred to the interest-
ing work of Mr. C. W. King, Gnostics and their Remains, Second
Edition, London, 1887, pp. 230, 279.
 ;

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CHAPTER XVI

CIPPI OF HORUS
connexion with the god Horus and his forms as the god of
IN the sun and the symbol and
rising personification of Light
must be mentioned a comparatively numerous class of small
rounded stelae on convex bases, on the front of which are sculptured
in relief figures of the god Horus standing upon two crocodiles.
These curious and interesting objects are made of basalt and other
kinds of hard stone, and of calcareous stone, and they vary in
height from 3 ins. to 20 ins. ; they were used as" talismans by the
Egyptians, who placed them in their houses and gardens, and even
buried them in the ground to protect themselves and their

property from the attacks of noxious beasts, and reptiles, and

insects of every kind. In addition to the figures of Horus and of
the animals over which he gained the victory, and the sceptres,
emblems, etc., which are sculptured upon cippi of Horus, the
backs, sides, and bases are usually covered Avith magical texts.
The ideas suggested by the figures and the texts are extremely old,
but the grouping and arrangement of them which are found on the
stelae under consideration are not older than the XXVIth Dynasty
it is doubtful if this class of objects came into general use very

much earlier than the end of the period of the Persian occupation
of Egypt. The various museums of Europe contain several
examples of cippi, but the largest, and finest, and most important,
is undoubtedly that which is commonly known as the " Metternich
"
Stele ;
l
it was found in the year 1828 during the building of a
cistern in a Franciscan monastery in Alexandria, and was pre-
sented by Pasha to Prince Metternich. We are,
Muhammad 'Ali
fortunately, enabled to date the stele, for the name of Nectanebus I.,

1
See Mettemichstele, ed. Golenischeff, Leipzig, 1877, pi. 3, 1. 48 fE.
 —

268 METTERNICH STELE

the last but one of the native kings
of Egypt, who reigned from B.C. 378
to B.C. 360, occurs on it, and it is clear
from several considerations that such a
monument could have been produced
only about this period. On the front
of the stele (see page 271) we have the
following figures and scenes :

1. The solar disk wherein is seated

the four-fold god Khnemu, who re-

presents the gods of the four elements,

earth, air, fire, and water, resting
between LJ, which is supported on a
lake of water ; on each side of it stand
four apes, with their paws stretched
out in adoration. No names are given
to the apes here, but we may find
1
them in a text at Edfu where they
are called : — 1. Aaan,

2. Bentet, 3. Hetet-

Sept, ^ ID
>
*^. 4. Qeften,

5. Ap 6. As-
D X J3

TEN, V) Kehkeh,

8. Utennu,
o ©
The Bentet apes praised the morning
sun, and the Utennu apes praised the
evening sun, and the Sun-god was
pleased both with their words and
with their voices. On the right

hand side is a figure of king Nec-

tanebus kneeling before a lotus

standard, with plumes and mendts,

and on the left is the figure of

1
Duemiclien, Tempelinschriften, i., 26.
Side of the Stele.
 METTEHNICH STELE 269

the god Thoth holding a palette in

his left hand.
2. In this register we have (a)

Ptah-Seker-Asar standing on croco-

diles, the gods Amsu and Khepera
standing on /=d pedestals, Khas,
a lion -headed god, Thoth, Serqet
and Hathor grouped round a god
who is provided with the heads of
seven birds and animals, and four
wings, and two horns surmounted by
four uraei and four knives, and who
stands upon two crocodiles, (b) Ta-
by a chain or
urt holding a crocodile
rope which a hawk-headed god is
about to spear in the presence of
Isis, Nephthys, and four other deities,

etc.

3. Isis holding Horus in her

outstretched right hand, and stand-
ins: on a crocodile. Thoth. Standard
of Nekhebet. Horus, with a human
phallus, and a lion, on a lake (?)

containing two crocodiles. Seven

halls or lakes, each guarded by a
o-od. A lion treading on a crocodile,
which lies on its back, four gods,
a lion standing on the back of a
crocodile, a vulture, a god embrac-
ing a goddess, and three goddesses.
4. Horus spearing a crocodile
which is led captive by Ta-urt. The
four children of Horus. Neith and
the two crocodile gods. Harpocrates
seated upon a crocodile under a
serpent. A two scorpions and
lion,

an oryx, symbols of Set. Seven Side of the Stele.

270 METT'ERNICH STELE
by arrows or darts. A king
serpents having their tails pierced
drawn by the fabulous Akhekh animal which gallops
in a chariot
over two crocodiles. Horus standing on the back of the oryx,
emblem of Set.
5. A miscellaneous group of gods, nearly all of whom are

forms of the Sun-god and are gods of reproduction and

regeneration.
6. A hawk god, with dwarf's legs, and holding bows and
arrows. Horus standing on an oryx (Set). A cat on a pedestal.
An-her spearing an animal. Uraeus on the top of a staircase. The
ape of Thoth on a pylon. Two Utchats, the solar disk, and a
crocodile. Ptah-Seker-Asar. The Horus of gold. Serpent with
a disk on his head. A group of solar gods followed by Ta-urt
and Bes.
7. In this large scene Horus stands with his feetupon the
backs of two crocodiles, and he grasps in his hands the reptiles and
animals which are the emblems of the foes of light and of the
powers of evil. He wears the lock of youth, and above his head is

the head of the old god Bes, who here symbolizes the Sun-god at
eventide. The canopy under which he stands is held up by Thoth
and Isis, whom stands upon a coiled up serpent, which has
each of
a knife stuck in his forehead. Above the canopy are the two
Utchats, with human hands and arms attached, and within it by
the sides of the god are: —
1. Horus-Ra standing on a coiled up

serpent. 2. A lotus standard, with plumes and mendts. 3. A

papyrus standard surmounted by a figure of a hawk wearing the
y>l Crown.
On the back of the Stele we have a figure of the aged Sun-god
in the form of a man-hawk, and he has above his head the heads of
a number of animals, e.g., the oryx and the crocodile, and a pair
of horns upon which rest W , and eight knives. He has four
human arms, to two of which wings are attached, and in each hand
he grasps two serpents, 11, two knives, ^^^^, and "life," ¥•,
i
' stability," u, and "power," j; and numbers of figures of gods.
His two other human arms are not attached to wings, and in one
hand he holds the symbol of " life," and in the other a sceptre.
 METTERNICH STELE 271

From the head of the god proceed jets of fire, 1

1 , and on each side

of him is an Utchat, which is provided with human hands and

f^mmmmAMmikkkk
The Metternich Stele (Obverse).

arms. The god stands upon an oval, within which are figures of a
lion, two serpents, a jackal, a crocodile, a scorpion, a hippopotamus,
272 METTERNICH STELE
and a turtle. Below this relief are five rows of figures of gods aud
mythological scenes, many of which are taken from the vignettes
of the Booh of the Dead. The gods and goddesses are for the
most part solar deities who were believed to be occupied at all times

in overcoming the powers of darkness, and they were sculptured

on the Stele that the sight of them might terrify the fiends and
prevent them from coining nigh unto the place where it was set up.
There is not a god of any importance whose figure is not on it, and
there is not a demon, or evil animal, or reptile who is not depicted
upon it in a vanquished state.
The texts inscribed upon the Stele are as interesting as the
figures of the s;ods, and relate to events which were believed to
have taken place in the lives of Isis, Horus, etc. The first compo-
called the " Chapter of the incantation of the Cat,"
1
sition is and
contains an address to Ra, who is besought to come to his daughter,
for she has been bitten by a scorpion ; the second composition,
which is called simply " another Chapter," has contents somewhat
similar to those of the The third text is addressed to the
first.

" Old Man who becometh young in his season, the Aged One who
" maketh himself a child again." The fourth and following texts
contain a narrative of the troubles of Isis which were caused by
the malice of Set, and of her wanderings from city to city in the
Delta, in the neighbourhood of the Papyrus Swamps. The
principal incident is the death of her son Horus, which took place
whilst she was absent in a neighbouring city, and was caused by
the bite of a scorpion ; in spite of all the care which Isis took in
hiding her son, a scorpion managed to make its way into the presence

of the boy, and it stung him until he died. came When Isis

back and found her child's dead body she was distraught and
frantic with grief, and was inconsolable until Nephthys came and
advised her to appeal to Thoth, the lord of words of power. She
did so straightway, and Thoth stopped the Boat of Millions of Years
in which Ra, the Sun-god, sailed, and came down to earth in
answer to her cry Thoth had already provided her with the words
;

of power which enabled her to raise up Osiris from the dead, and

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METTEHNICH STELE 27;

he now bestowed upon her the means of restoring Horus to life, by

supplying her with a series of incantations of irresistible might.

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The Metternicli Stele (Reverse).

These Isis recited with due care, and in the proper tone of voice,
and the poison was made to go forth from the body of Horus, and
his strength was renewed, his heart once more occupied its throne,
II —
274 METTERNICH STELE
and all was well with him. Heaven and earth rejoiced at the sight

of the restoration of the heir of Osiris, and the gods were filled
with peace and content.
The Avhole Stele on which these texts and figures are found is

nothing but a talisman, or a gigantic amulet engraved with magical

forms of gods and words of power, and it was, undoubtedly, placed
in some conspicuous place in a courtyard or in a house to protect
the building and its inmates from the attacks of hostile beings, both
visible and invisible, power was believed to be invincible.
and its

The person who had been stung or bitten by a scorpion or any

noxious beast or reptile was supposed to recite the incantations
which Thoth had given to Isis, and which had produced such
excellent results, and the Egyptians believed that because these
words had on one occasion restored the dead to life, they would,
whensoever they were uttered in a suitable tone of voice, and with
appropriate gestures and ceremonies, never fail to produce a like
effect. A
knowledge of the gods and of the magical texts on the
Stele was thought to make its possessor master of all the powers of
heaven, and of earth, and of the Underworld.
 ( 275 )

CHAPTER XVIII

FOREIGN GODS

we consider for a moment it will at once be apparent from

IF the geographical position of Egypt that her people must
have been brought in contact with a large number of foreign gods,
and that in certain places a few must have become more or less

identified with Egytian gods of similar attributes and characteristics.

As a rule Orientals have always been exceedingly tolerant of alien
gods, and the Egyptians formed no exception to the rule ; there is,

moreover, in the Egyptian inscriptions, no evidence that they ever

tried to suppress the gods of the races they conquered, though we
may assume that they never failed, whenever it was possible, to

carry off the images of foreign gods, because in so doing they

displayed the superior power of the gods of Egypt, and destroyed
the religious and political importance of the cities and towns
wherein the shrines of the foreign gods were situated. It is not at
present possible to decide which gods were indigenous to the
Valley of the Nile, and which were of Libyan origin, but there is

no doubt that a number of Libyan gods were adopted by the

dwellers in the Western Delta, in predynastic times, and that they
had become to all intents and purposes Egyptian gods under the
rule of the kings of the 1st Dynasty. Among such deities may be
mentioned Net, or Neith, of Sal's, Bast of Bubastis, and it is very
probable that Osiris and his cycle of gods, though perhaps under
different names, were also of Libyan origin. Under the IV th and
Vth Dynasties the cult of Ra, the Sun-god, spread with great
rapidity in the Delta and in the neighbourhood of Heliopolis, and
his priests, as we have seen, obtained almost kingly influence in the
276 QETESH AND ANTHAT
country. There is no reason for doubting that the Sun was
worshipped in the earliest times in Egypt, but the form of his
worship, as approved and promulgated by the priests of Heliopolis,
appears to have differed from that which was current in other
parts of the country, and it is probable that it possessed something
of an Asiatic character. The foreign gods who succeeded in

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The goddess Qetesh standing on a lion between Min and Keshpu.

obtaining a place in the affections of the Egyptians were of Libyan

and Semitic origin, and there is no evidence that they borrowed
any deity, except Bes, from Nubia, or the country still further to
the south of Egypt.
First among the foreign deities who are made known to us
 ANT HAT 277

by the Egyptian inscriptions is Anthat,

d
1 (]
^ f)n
]
a sroddess
,

who is called the lady of heaven, and the mistress of the gods, and
who was said to conceive offspring but not to bring them to the
birth ; she is declared to have been produced by Set, but it is

probable that this origin was assigned to her only after her cult
was well established in Egypt. She is depicted in the form of a
woman seated on a throne or standing upright ; in the former
position she grasps a shield and spear in her right hand and wields

Anthat.

a club in her left, and in the latter she wears a panther skin and
"
holds a papyrus sceptre in the right hand and the emblem of " life

in her left. She wears the White Crown with feathers attached,
and sometimes this has a pair of horns at the base. Anthat was,
undoubtedly, a war goddess, and her cult seems to have extended
throughout Northern and Southern Syria, where certain cities and

1
Variant forms of her name are Annutliat, /v
^y
vN
^\ A (I IX ,
and Antit,
278 'ASHTORETH
~* ^^ n^v^ and Qarth-Anthu,
towns, e.g., Bath-Anth, J A^? ,

|~zil "%\ "^"^ s=> 1 , were dedicated to her worship. 1 The

\J>

worship of the goddess Anthat appears to have made its way into

Egypt soon after the Egyptians began to form their Asiatic

Empire, and from an inscription published by Virey 2 we learn that
a shrine was built in her honour at Thebes in the reign of Thothmes
III. This, however, is only what might be expected, for Thothmes
III. must have brought large numbers of Syrians with him into
Egypt, and them undoubtedly found a home at Thebes.
many of
The goddess was honoured by Rameses II. of the XlXth Dynasty,
and this monarch went so far as to call one of his daughters Banth-
Anth, ("fe?, |Jsl» *- e *' daughter of Anth. Finally we may
|

note in passing that a goddess called Anthretha, gg^ | (j

jJL ,

ismentioned with Sutekh in the great treaty between the Kheta

and the Egyptians, and it is probable that she and Anthat are one
and the same goddess.
In connexion with Anthat the goddess Astharthet,
>°
=^ (j
<

J) t
i.e., Ashtoreth, is sometimes mentioned in

Egyptian texts, and she is called " mistress of horses, lady of the

chariot, dweller in Apollinopolis Magna" (Edfu),

| £ ^rz^rz^ ^ j

^-^^^nfj ° ^% s=5 il^. 3

Conformably to this description

the goddess is represented in the form of a woman with the head

of a lioness, which is surmounted by a disk, and she stands in a
chariotdrawn by four horses and drives over her prostrate
foes. The cult of ilstharthet was comparatively widespread in
Egypt at the time when the priest-kings began to reign, and it
nourished in the Delta, at least, until Christian times. It cannot,

however, have been introduced into Egypt much earlier than the
beginning of the XVIIIth Dynasty, and it was probably not well
established until the reign of Amen-hetep III. In a letter from

1
See Miiller, W. M., Asien unci Europa, p. 195.
2 Tombeau cle Khem {Memoir es Miss. Arch. Fr., torn, v., p. 368).
3
See Aeg. Zeitschrift, 1869, p. 3 ff. ; Naville, Mythe cVHorus, pi. 4.
 'ASHTORETH 279

Tushratta, king of Mitani, to this king he refers to the going down

of "Ishtar of Nineveh (i.e., Ashtoreth, or Astharthet), lady of the
world," into Egypt, both during his own reign and that of his
1
father, and he seems to indicate that her worship in Egypt had
declined, and begs Amen-hetep to make it to increase tenfold.
From this it would appear that the Egyptians adopted the worship
of the Syrian goddess at or about the time when Thothmes III.

was engaged in conquering Ruthennu and Palestine and Syria.

In Egypt Astharthet, or
Ashtoreth, or Ishtar, was
identified with one of the
forms of Hathor, or Isis-

Hathor, early in the

XVIIIth Dynasty, and
she was regarded both
as a Moon-goddess, and
as a terrible and destroy-
ing goddess of war. As
a war-goddess she was the
driver of the rampant
war-maddened horses and
the guide of the rushing
chariot on the field of
battle, and this considera-

tion shows that as a god-

dess of horses she was
unknown in Egypt be-
fore the XVI Ilth Dynasty.
'Ashtoreth.
The Egyptians learned
to employ the horse in war from the Semites of the Eastern Desert,
and their knowledge of the value of that animal for charging and
fordrawing war-chariots is not older than about B.C. 1800.
*~*
Closely akin to Astharthet was the goddess Qetesh, (X ," \

who was also called the " mistress of all the gods, the eye of Ra,

1
The Tell el-Amarna Tablets in the British Museum, p. xlii.

Variant,
r~rc~i ^H' QetETSHU.
280 AASITH
without a second," o $G\
^ A ^ 111 I I I I I I ^ I I WAAA O
She, like Astharthet, was regarded in Egypt as a form of Hathor,
the goddess of love and beauty, and as a Moon-goddess. She is

represented in the form of an absolutely naked woman, Avho stands

upon a lion ; on her head she wears a crescent and disk, O, which
prove her connexion with the Moon. The later representations

of Qetesh depict her in the same attitude, but they give her the
peculiar headdress of Hathor, and she wears a deep necklace or
collar and a tight-fitting garment which is held up on her shoulders
by two straps, and which extends to her ankles. In her right
hand she holds lotus flowers and
a mirror (?), and in her left two
serpents. It is important to
note that, like Bes, she is always
represented On a stele
full face.

in the British Museum (No. 191),

we see the goddess, who is here

called "Kent (^™Pn)> lady of

heaven," standing on a lion

between
^f~,
or Min, Amsu,
and Reshpu, and with these gods
she appears to form a Semitic
triad, but it is not clear which of
these two gods was her son, and
which was her husband. In any
case, Qetesh must have been wor-
Qetash.
shipped as a nature goddess, and
itwas probably the licentiousness of her worship, at all events in
Syria, which gave to the Hebrew word nvfij) the meaning which

it bears in the Bible. 1

Another foreign goddess of interest is Aasith, w
m.
who is represented in the form of a woman, armed with shield and
2
club, riding a horse into the battle field. In her Midler sees a

1
Gen. xxxviii. 21, 22 Dent, ; xxiii. 18 ; Numbers xxv. ] ; Hosea iv. 14.
2 Asien unci Europa, p. 316.
 BAR-BAAL 281

female form of the hunter Esau, wy, who, under the form Usoos,
was regarded as a god who wore skins and was appeased by means
of blood offerings. That she was a goddess of war and of the
desert is clear from a relief, which is found on a stele near the
building beside the temple set up by Seti I. at Redesiyeh in the
Eastern Desert, on the road to the gold mines of Mount Zabara.
The greatest of all the Syrian gods known to the Egyptians

was Bar, J TsJ, or Pa-Bar, AK J

p^l, i.e., Baal, the

^tf?j of the Hebrews. Bar appears to have been a god of the

mountain and the desert, and his worship was introduced into
Egypt under the XVIIIth Dynasty. Like most of the Semitic
gods and goddesses he was primarily a god of war and battle, and
he may have been a personification of the burning and destroying
heat of the sun and blazing desert wind. To the Egyptians of the
Delta he soon became familiar, and as he was supposed to be the
god who supported their foes the Syrians in many a hard-fought
battle they regarded him with a certain awe and reverence. Of
his form and worship we know nothing, but the Egyptians placed
after their transliterations of his name a figure of the fabulous
animal in which the god Set became incarnate, and it is clear

that they must have believed Bar and Set to have qualities
and attributes in common. Rameses II. boasts in his triumphal
inscriptions that when he put on his panoply of war, and mounted
his chariot, and set out to attack the Kheta soldiery he was like
the god Bar, and we are justified in assuming from this and similar
passages that the king of Egypt was proud to compare himself to
the mighty Syrian war-god. Bar was worshipped in the Delta,
chiefly in the neighbourhood of Tanis, where Rameses II. carried
out such extensive building operations, and where a temple of the
god existed.
Here for the sake of convenience may be mentioned the

goddess Bairtha, Ba'alath, or Beltis, of

J'^llQrfj! i- e< >

Tchapuna, ^\ p °V 1 $ in >
ful1 Bairtha Tchapuna or Ba'alath-
J

Sephon, who may be regarded as the female counterpart of the

Ba'al-Seph6n of the Hebrew Scriptures, but not as the wife of Bar.
282 RESHPU
The city here referred to is on the borders of Egypt (see Exodus
xiv. 2). Another city or district of the same name was situated in
" Northern Phoenicia," * and is mentioned in an inscription of
Tiglath-Pileser II. under the form Ba-'-li Sa-pu-na ^ *^zj 4fc*-*f-
>- fc:£E=
y<| ^ ^>— ^^T- ^- n a fragmentary inscription of Esarhaddon
(Kuyunjik fragment, No. 3500, col. iv., line 10) the god Ba'al-
Sephon is mentioned, together with other Phoenician gods, in a
series of curses, and these are invoked to bring down upon the
ships an evil wind which shall destroy both them and their rigging.
In this fragment allusion is also
made to Baal Sameme (&£& ^?)
and -Baal Malagi, and all three are
said to be the " gods across the
river," w-J Jw^ tfl &£%E ]} £?,
2
Hani ebir ndri.
On the stele in the British
Museum, No. 191, as has already
been said, we meet with another
Syrian god called Reshpu,

D y^cjjj hi s cu ^ enjoyed a wide

popularity in Syria, where he was
regarded as a god of war. Signor
Lanzone compares him to the Apollo
Amyclaeus of the Greeks. 3 In the
Egyptian texts he is described as
the " great god, the lord of eternity,
" the prince of everlastingness, the
Reshpu.
" lord of two-fold strength among
the company of the gods great god, lord of heaven, governor of

= ^o\
;

c
"the gods,
|
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© D o
o III
1 1:
I I c Mill The chief centre of his wor

1
Miiller, Asien mid Eur op a, p. 315.
2
I owe this reference to Mr. R. C. Thompson of the British Museum.
3 Dizionario, p. 483.
 ,

SUTEKH-GODS 283

ship was at Het-Reshp, J r^n Jn, in the Delta, but it is very

probable that he was specially worshipped at many small provincial
shrines on the eastern frontier of Egypt. He is represented in the
form of a warrior who holds a shield and spear in his left hand, and
a club in his right ; on his head he wears the White Crown, round
the base of which is bound a turban. Above his forehead, project-
ing from his turban, is the head of a gazelle, which appears to be a
very ancient symbol of the god, and to indicate his sovereignty
over the desert. Reshpu is connected with the god who was
known to the Phoenicians under the name of =!#"}, and was, no
doubt, a god of burning and destructive fire, and of the lightning.
Opinions differ as to the pronunciation of the name *)$?, some
reading " Reshef," i.e., "lightning," and others " RashsMf," i.e.,

" he who shoots out fire and lightning " ; the Egyptian transcrip-
tion Reshpu supports the first opinion, and from every point of
view it seems to be the correct one.
The existence of yet another Syrian god has been pointed out

by Midler, who in the Egyptian Atuma,

1
n ^ v\ a , or Athuma,
j\ (l v\ , sees the equivalent of the D7N of the Hebrew
Scriptures ; the female counterpart of the god appears under the

form of Atuma, (j
gA ^ -Jbva 3 . Finally, among the Western
Syrians Miiller has quoted the existence of two goddesses called
< >
Ennukaru, 5^^=^^ 7 ^ ancl Amait, ^^I](l\^-
In the list of the gods whose names are found at the end of
the copy of the treaty which Rameses II. made with Kheta-sar,

the prince of the Kheta, are found a number of Sutekh, 1 v\ „ Hj

gods of various cities, among them being Sutekh of Arenna, Sutekh

of Thapu-Arenuta, Sutekh of Paireqa, Sutekh of Khisasapa, Sutekh
of Saresu, Sutekh of Khirepu (Aleppo), Sutekh of Rekhasua, and
Sutekh of Mukhipaina. In the paragraphs on the god Set it has
been shown that for all practical purposes Sutekh and Set were
one and the same god in the eyes of the Egyptians, and the
fabulous Set animal was as much a symbol of Sutekh as he was of

1
Asien und'Europa, p. 316.
 ;

284 BES
Set. Sutekh was supposed to be, more or less, a god of evil, but
the Egyptians attempted to obtain his favour, even as they did
that of Set, by means of offerings and prayers.
Among the foreign gods known to the Egyptians is usually

mentioned Bes, J
I 5 , who according to some is of Semitic, and

according to others of African origin

1
we may note, however,
that the name of the god appears to be Egyptian, and it seems to
have been bestowed upon him in very early times because of the
animal's skin which he wore; the animal itself was called "Besa"
or " Basu." 2
He is usually de-
picted in the form of a dwarf with
a huge bearded head, protruding
tongue, flat nose, shaggy eye-
brows and hair, large projecting

ears, long but thick arms, and

bowed legs ; round his body he
wears the skin of an animal of the
panther tribe, and its tail hangs
down and usually touches the
ground behind him ; on his head
he wears a tiara of feathers,
which suggests a savage or semi-
savage origin. He is sometimes
drawn in profile, like the other
Egyptian gods, but usually he
appears full face, like the god-

Bes.
dess Qetesh. As a god of music
and the dance he is sometimes
3
represented playing upon a harp ;
as a god of war and slaughter,
and as a destroying force of nature he carries two knives
in his hands ; as a warrior he appears in a short military
tunic, which is fastened round his body by a belt, and he

1
Mtiller, Asien und Europa, p. 310 ; Wiedemann, Religion of the Ancient

Egyptians, p. 159.

2
J ^Ci B ES '
J \^v\ 1> Basu = Felis Cynailurus; see Aeg. Zeit. ii. 10.

3 Lanzone, Dizionario, pll. 76, 77.

 BES 285

holds in his left hand a shield and a short sword in his rierht.

Figures of Bes are found carved upon the handles of mirrors, on

Jeohl vessels, and on pillows, all of which indicate that in one aspect
at least he was associated with joy, and pleasure. From
rest, and
anumber of scenes on the walls of the temples and from bas-reliefs
we see that Bes was supposed to be present in the chambers and
places wherein children were born, and he seems to have been
regarded as a protector of children and youths, and a god who
studied to findthem pleasure and amusement.
According to Midler, two figures of the god were found at
1

Kahun, and, if these really belong to the period when that city was
nourishing, Bes must have been honoured there as early as the
Xllth Dynasty. Taken by itself, however, this evidence is not
worth a great deal, because the
figures may have been placed in the
tombs Kahun during burials of a
at
much later date. One of the oldest
representations of Bes, as Prof.
Wiedemann has pointed out, is

found in a relief in the famous

temple of Hatshepset at Der al-

Bahari, where he appears in the

chamber wherein the birth of the
great queen is supposed to be
Bes
taking place. In this chamber -

Meskhent, the goddess of birth, presides, and we see the goddesses

who act as midwives to the queen of Thothmes L, and those who
are nurses, and the gods of the four quarters of the earth, etc,
waiting to minister to Hatshepset and to her Ka, or double, which
was, of course, born when she was. By the side of the couch stand
Bes and Ta-ukt, the former with his well-known attributes, and
the latter represented in the form of a hippopotamus standing on
her hind legs, and leaning with her fore legs upon the emblem of
magical protection, ^ . What Bes and Ta-urt were to do for the
princess is not apparent, but as we find one or both of these deities

1
Lanzone, Dizionario, p. 310.
286 BES
represented in the lying-in rooms of Egyptian queens, it is clear
that their presence was considered to be of great importance both
to mother and child. In the Heliopolitan and Theban Recensions
of the Book of the Dead the name of Bes does not occur, but in one
of the vignettes to the cxlvth Chapter (§ xxi.) of the Saite
Recension this god is seen guarding one of the pylons of the house
of Osiris in the Underworld. At some period under the New
Empire the original attributes of Bes were modified, and he
assumed the character of a solar god and became identified with
Horus the Child, or Harpocrates little by little he was merged in
;

other forms of the Sun-god, until at length he absorbed the

characteristics of Horus, Ra, and Temu. As Horus, or Harpocrates,
he wore the lock of hair, which is symbolic of youth, on the right
side of his head, and as Ra-Temu he was given the withered cheeks
and attributes of an old man. On the Metternich Stele we see the
head of the " Old Man who renews his youth, and the Aged One
" who maketh himself once again a boy," placed above that of
Horus, the god of renewed life and of the rising sun, to show that
the two heads represent, after all, only phases of one and the same
god.
After the XXVIth Dynasty and during the Ptolemaic period
we find from certain bronze numerous examples of which
figures,

are found in the various Museums of Europe, that Bes was merged
wholly in Horus, and that the Egyptians bestowed upon him the
body and wings of a hawk united to the body of a vigorous young
man, who, however, had the head of a very aged man surmounted
by the group of heads with which we are familiar from the Cippi of
Horus. On the Metternich Stele (see above, p. 273) we see him
wearing the plumes of Shu and of the other gods of light and air,

and the horns of Amen or of the Ram of Mendes, and above these
are eight knives and the emblem of million of years, and he holds
in his hands all the emblems of sovereignty and dominion which
Osiris holds, besides serpents, which he crushes in his grasp. He
stands upon an oval wherein are grouped specimens of all the
Typhonic beasts, and we may gather from his attitude that he is

lord of them all. In the vignette to the xxviiith Chapter of the

Book of the Dead a monster, who somewhat resembles Bes, is
The God BES.
 BES 287

seen standing before the deceased, though apparently not in a

threatening attitude ; he holds a knife close to his breast in his
right hand, and he clasps the root of his tail with his left. There
is no indication in the text to show who this monster is, but it

seems very probable that it is Bes. In the vignette under con-

sideration the creature has a huge head with long and shaggy
hair, but, although his body is large and his limbs massive, he is

not represented as a dwarf; he has, apparently, come with his

knife to cut out the heart of the deceased, and to carry it away
from him. The papyrus in which it is found, viz., that of Nefer-
uben-f, which is preserved in Paris, probably dates from the
XVIIIth Dynasty, and if the monster be really Bes, or some such
form of him as Hit, | M
ofl, it is important to note that he had
found a place in the Theban Recension of the Booh of the Dead at
that early period of its history.
It understand the change of view on the part of
is difficult to
the Egyptians which turned the god of mirth, and laughter, and
pleasure into an avenging deity, but it may be explained by
assuming that he only exhibited his terror and ferocity to the
wicked, while to the good in the Underworld he was a true friend
and merry companion. In the texts, especially those of the late
period, sometimes mentioned in connexion with Neter Ta,
Bes is

or the " Divine Land," or " Land of the God," i.e., Arabia, and as
this name is also used in connexion with Punt, and is applied to
the adjacent lands, attempts have been made to prove that the
god is of Arabian origin. This is, however, extremely improbable,
for his characteristics are much more those of an African than
Asiatic deity. The figure of Bes suggests that his home was a
place where the dwarf and pygmy were held in esteem, whilst his
head-dress resembles those head-dresses which were, and still are,

worn by the tribes of Equatorial Africa, and this would lead us to

place his home in that portion of it which lies a few degrees to the
north of the Equator. The knowledge of the god, and perhaps
figures of him, were brought from this region, which the Egyptians
called the " Land of the Spirits," to Egypt in the early dynastic
period, when kings of Egypt loved to keep a pygmy at their
courts. The earthly kinsmen of the god who lived to the soutli
288 MERUL
of Egypt were, no doubt, well known even to the predynastic

Egyptians, and as the dynastic Egyptians were at all times familiar

with the figure of Bes those of the late period may be forgiven for
connecting him with the "Land of the God," or Punt, whence,
according to tradition, came the early people who invaded the Nile
Valley from the east, or south-east, and settled in Egypt at no
great distance from the modern city of Kena. Bes wears an
animal's tail, which is a striking characteristic of the early men of
Punt, but so does every Egyptian god, and every god, when once
he had been included among the gods of Egypt, whether originally
Libyan, or Syrian, or Nubian, was endowed with an animal's tail

and a plaited beard, which are the traditional attributes of the

people of Punt. In his original conception Bes is certainly
African, and his cult in Egypt is coeval with dynastic civilization ;

the name of the god continued in use long after he himself was
forgotten, and some famous Copts bore it, among them being
Besa, the disciple of the great monk Shenuti, cyertoY+.
A Nubian god of interest and of some local importance is

Merul or Meril, *<^l v\ _2^, or ?\ <=> M _£=&, who was the

son of Horus and Isis ; he was the third member of the tfiad of

the city of Termes, or Telmes, ©, a city the site of

which is marked by the modern village of Kalabsheh in Nubia,

situated about thirty-five miles to the north of Syene. At Dabod
also he was the third member of the local triad, which consisted of
Seb, Nut, and Merul. In the figures of the god reproduced by
Lanzone 1
he is depicted in the form of a man, with or without a
beard, and he wears the White Crown with plumes, or the triple
crown with horns and uraei, or a crown composed of a pair of
horns, with two plumes and a solar disk between them, and uraei.
His titles are :
—
" Great god, governor (or dweller in) the White

Mountain," i|^Q^£]i^; "son of Horus, great god, lord of

Telmes," "^\ '

^\ 1'

t ^37 ^== ;
" Great Sekhem, governor of

the two lands of the West," ^l^^fl^fe^^;" Beautiful

1 Dizlonario, pll. 122, 123.
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FOREIGX GODS 289

Q c
bov who proceedeth from the son of Isis," 8 ^§*> fa f j;^^ /
J
A /WWW (i J ^ JJ O
and "holy child of the son of Osiris," a
4^- jp) ^ /wwa ^ ^H^. A
l
text quoted by Brugsch speaks of Merul as coming from Ta-neter,

i,e *' the on botl1 sides of tne southern end of the

i "s I
o©'
Red Sea, and the coast of Africa which is further to the south.
Thus it seems that Merul is not of Egyptian origin, and it is
probable that the worship of the god is very ancient. The
name 1= K t=
t=x <===> c
variant forms of his are: *"
i. or "
®^

uter
^ _£s& (|(|

from the
5o^, and ^ <=> ^
two of these was formed the
', i.e., Menruil, Menlil, and Mer-

; first classical name of

the god — Mandulis. The centres of the worship of the god were
at Telmes and Philae ; at the former place the temple of Merul
was rebuilt by Augustus on the site of an earlier building, but the
ruins of the little shrine of the god at Philae, which stood behind
the colonnade of the Temple of Ari-hes-nefer, suggests that the
building was the work of one of the early Ptolemies, perhaps of
Philadelphus.
In connexion with the question of the cult of foreign gods in
Egypt, and of the gods of Egypt in foreign lands, reference may
here be made to a theory which has recently been put forward 2 to
the effect that several of the gods of Egypt were worshipped as
idols by the Arabs of the pre-Islamic times. According to this

the Egyptian god Tern,

Tehuti (Thoth), ^%, =

^^
Ta'ut, -^u=
^j
,

;
= the
Iusaas, J\
Arabic idol Tim, r*
"

Ya'uth, 4>j*£ ; Reret,

< _> % =
, Lat, win ; Uatchit,

'Azza, ^\ = Men at, SU* Meteni, f\ ^^ Q

; Menat, l\ , ; fl

Medan, WM Hap-re,
| § ^ ^,
= Habal, J*; Bes,
;

J ^ (1
*\

Buss, y-j Bennu,

J Q ^ ^g& = Bctwanat, &^ Bar, J
; *a ,
5

Ba'al, J» ; and so on. The theory is of interest, but bevond a

1
See Brugsch, Geographic, p. 954.
2
See Ahmed-Bey Kamal, Les Uoles Arabes et les Divinites Egyptiennez
(Recueil, xxiv., p. 11 ft\).

II —
290 FOREIGN GODS
certain similarity between the Egyptian and Arabic names little

proof has been brought forward in support of it. It is, of course,

quite possible that the knowledge of several of the gods and
goddesses of Egypt should have found its way into Arabia in early
times ; indeed this is only what is to be expected. We know that
already in the Illrd Dynasty the turquoise mines of Sinai were
worked for the benefit of the kings of Egypt, and that the goddess
Hathor was especially worshipped in the Peninsula of Sinai long
Vlth Dynasty. From Sinai the knowledge
before the close of the
of Hathor, and Sept, and of other Egyptian gods worshipped at
Sarbiit al-Khadem and other mining centres would spread to the
north and south, and it is tolerably certain that it would reach
every place where the caravans carried torquoises for barter.
Under the Middle and New Empires this knowledge would become
very widespread, and might have reached the tribes in the extreme
south of the Arabian Peninsula. On the other hand, we have no
proof that the pre-Islamic Arabs adopted Egyptian gods, or that
they even attempted to understand their attributes and cult.

Before the theory already referred to can be accepted it must be

shown that the Egyptian and Arabian gods whose names are
quoted above are really identical, and that it has more to rest
upon than similarities of names. The pre-Islamic gods were pro-
bably indigenous, and the pre-Islamic tribes being Semitic, their
gods would be, naturally, of a character quite different from that
of the gods of Egypt, and the attributes of the Semitic gods would
be entirely different from those of the Egyptian gods. Whatsoever
borrowing of gods took place under the early dynasties was from
Egypt by Arabia and not from Arabia by Egypt, and this is true
for all periods of Egyptian history, with the exception of the late

Ptolemaic period, when a few local and unimportant Arabian gods

appear to have been adopted at certain places in Egypt. The
pre-Islamic Arabs were worshippers of stocks and stones, and it is

exceedingly doubtful if they were sufficiently developed, either

mentally or spiritually, before the period of the XXVIth Dynasty
to understand the gods of Egypt and their attributes, or to adopt
their cult to their spiritual needs which, after all, can only have
been those of nomadic desert tribes.
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CHAPTER XIX

MISCELLANEOUS GODS

L- -The Gods of the Twenty-eight finger-breadths of the

Royal Cubit

1. Ra, O 16. Sep, ^L.

2. Shu, p.
17. Heq, j^.
3. KHENT, £3.

4. Seb, <^.
18. Armaua,
=f|^.
-C2>- <^>
19. Maa-en-tef.
5. Xut, O^.

6. Asar, .
20. Ar-ren-f-tchesef,
j]

7. Ast, r .

8. Set, 3-J. 21. Hak (?) _£>.

9. Xebt-het, Tj 22. Septu,

.

(\\§^-
10. Heru, v\, . 23. Seb, *.

11. Mest, —h— .

24. An-Her, ^ F=q.

12. Hap. 25. Her-aua, v\ \~^\-

13. tuamatef, ^ a d
26. Sheps, ^sL

14. Qebhsennu-f 27. Amsu (or Min), ^,

Tehuti
15. 28. Uu, ^^.
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292 MISCELLANEOUS GODS

II. The Gods and Goddesses of the Days of the Month.

1. . 1st hour of the 1st day of the Moon : Shu, (J £^ .

Q
2. Ilnd Ilnd Heru-sa-Ast, v^
„ II o
3. IUrd Illrd AST, j|°.
„

IVth IVth Sekhet, fy • .

4. „ I ^ VJ

5. Vth Vth Uatchit, |(j(j ^.

„

6. Vlth n n Vlth Menhit

Ur-heket,
X _£^
7. Vllth „ Vllth => To'
8. VHIth VHIth Aa[x],
~
11 11

9. IXth 11 11
IXth MV
10. Xth 11 11
Xth

11. Xlth Xlth Hetet, ^

11 11

12. Xllth Xllth Ba-neb

11 11
Tettu, 3&
1 . 1st hour of the night of the XHIth day of the Moon : Shu,
^ .

p
2. Ilnd XlVth „ „ [Tefnut,

°ol
3. Illrd XVth Seb (Qeb),

IVth XVIth Nut, °

4.
I
Vth XVIIth Anpet,
5. (j ^o
6. Vlth XVIIIth Khent,
^ 0"

III. The Gods and Goddesses of the Months of the Year.

Month Deity

TiM ° Goddess Tekhi

1

1. eouoYT . \\

1
Yar., ^ ^L? 5
Tekh-heb.
 MISCELLANEOUS GODS 293

Month

2. n*om =
3. <\eujp =
4. x ot * K —
5. tujKi =
6. ute^'P =
7. cpAJutertuje =

8. c|>ApuioYei =
9. n^x cjurf =
10. n<\uum =
11. ennn =
12. jmecuupH =
294 MISCELLANEOUS GODS
3.
 —
MISCELLANEOUS GODS 295

VII. The Gods and G-oddesses who watch before and

BEHIND OSIRIS-SERAPIS DURING THE TWELVE HOURS
of the Day and of the Night.

By Day
 —
296 MISCELLANEOUS GODS
2. The South Wind was called Shehbui, "^ J XN
2^3 or

m^\-
/YVT\

jE H^ A

South Wind. West Wind.

3. The Bast Wind was called Henehisesui, ^® [Ifl

4 2
^ or

4. The West Wind was called Hutchaiui, 8 ® J [](j ^y 2 \\'

or

East Wind. East Wind.

IX. The Gods of the Senses.

1. Saa, n*^^\ d^a^j), the god of the sense of Touch or

Feeling and of knowledge and understanding, is depicted in the

 MISCELLANEOUS GODS 297

ordinary form of a man-god, and he has upon his head the sign

^m, which is the symbol of his name. One of the earliest

mentions of this god occurs in the text of Unas (line 439), where it

is said that the dead king has " taken possession of Hu and hath
gained the mastery over Saa," s^p '
8 ^\ Jk. [HJ ® f\
*mm In the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead,
P (] j^ j^. .

Saa, or Saa, appears in the Judgment Scene among the gods who
watch the weighing of the heart of the deceased in the Great
Balance, and he is mentioned in the xviith Chapter as one of the
gods who came into being from the drops of blood which fell from
Ra when he mutilated himself. From the same Chapter we learn
that it was he who made the pun on the name of Ra, the Cat,

God of God of the God of God of

Touch. Intelligence. Seeing. Hearing.

The gods of the Senses.

which he declared to be " Mail," because it was " like

(man, U tj y> -
) that which he made. Saa with Thoth, and Sheta,
and Tem formed the " souls of Khemennu " (Hermopolis), 1 and Saa
had a place in the Boat of Ra (cxxxvi.B 12), with Hu and other
gods. In Chapter clxix. (line 19), Saa is declared to protect the

members of the deceased by his magical powers, (1 v\ ^m Jj v\

•
Q ^^j although what he was exactly supposed to do
for him is unknown ; in this passage he is mentioned in connexion
with the goddess Sesheta, the " lady of writing," and one of the
female counterparts of Thoth. In Chapter clxxiv. (line 2), Saa is said

to have been begotten by Seb, and to have been brought forth by

1
See Chapter cxvii.
298 MISCELLANEOUS GODS
the company of the gods, and this statement supplies us with the
reason why he is grouped among the gods of the cycle of Osiris.

The texts make it clear that Saa was the personification of the
intelligence, whether of a god or of a human being, and the
deceased coveted the mastery over this god because he could give
him the power to perceive, and to feel, and to understand. At the
end of the clxxivth Chapter (lines 16, 17), a " Great Intelligence,"

Ptf Saau-ur, and an " Intelligence of the

*"
Amenti of Ra," 1 1 (1 ^\ s^m ft ""ffl , Saa- Amenti-Ra, are

mentioned.
= =
2. Hu, 8 "v\ j\, or J), the god of the sense of
Taste is depicted in the ordinary form of a man-god, and he also
has upon his head the sign *=, which is the symbol of his name.
He is mentioned in the text of Unas with Saa, and he appears
with him in the Judgment Scene, and he was present together
with Amen, Thoth, Nekhebet, Uatchet, and Saa, when Isis brought
forth her son Horus in the papyrus swamps of the Delta. Like
Saa, the god Hu
came into existence from a drop of blood which
fell from Ra when he mutilated himself. Hu was, however, not
only the personification of the sense of taste in god and man, but
also became the personification of the divine food upon which the

gods and the beatified saints lived in heaven. Thus in the

lxxxth Chapter of the Booh of the Bead the deceased says, " I
" have taken possession of Hu in my city, for I found him therein,"

and in Chapter clxix. (line 22) it is said to the deceased, " Hu is

in thy mouth." In some passages it is difficult to decide whether
the hu mentioned in the texts refers to the god of the sense of
Taste, or to the divine food hu.

3. Maa, "~~J 3, the god of the sense of Sight, is depicted in

the ordinary form of a man-god, who has upon his head an eye,
<s>-, which is both the emblem of his chief attribute and the
symbol of his name.
4. Setem, ^ T , the god of the sense of Hearing, is depicted

in the ordinary form of a man-god, who has upon his head an ear,
^ ,
which is both the emblem of his chief attribute and the symbol
 —
MISCELLANEOUS GODS 299

of his name. The gods of the Four Senses appear together in a

relief which was made for Ptolemy IV. at Edfu. In this we have
the Sun's disk on the horizon placed in a boat wherein are the
gods Heru-merti, Ap-uat, Shu, Hathor, Thoth, Neith, and Heru-
khent-khathet ; the king stands in front of the boat and is offering

Maat, \ft, to the god. Behind him are the gods of the senses of
Taste and Touch, and behind the boat stand the gods of the senses
of Sight and Hearing. An interestino- variant form of the god
Setem is reproduced by Signor Lanzone, from which we see that
he sometimes had the head of a bull with the body of a man ; the
text which accompanies the figure describes the god as " the

dweller in Pa-Shu" (i.e., Dendera), and calls him the "bull, lord
*
of strength."

X. The Soul-God.

The mvthoWical and religious texts contain indications that

the Egyptians believed in what may be described as a " "World-

Soul," which they called Ba, Jsk J|; its symbol was a bearded
man-headed hawk, and it was identified with more than one god,
2
for therewas a Soul of Ra, a Soul of Shu, a Soul of Seb, a Soul of
Tefnut, a Soul of Osiris, and " the Soul of the Great Body which
is in Sa'is, [i.e.,] Neith." In the Booh of the Dead (xvii. 109 ff.)
we find that the Soul of Ra and the Soul of Osiris together
form the double divine soul which inhabited the Tchafi,

(fe? *vT~ "^^W w w\ '

wno dwelt m T e tt u -
The existence of a

World-Soul presupposed the existence of a World-Body, which

is of course the material universe ; and the type of this was,

according to the priests of Heliopolis, the body of Osiris, and

according to the priests of Sa'is, the goddess Xeith ;
in other cities

the priests, no doubt, identified the World-Body with their local

gods. Men and gods were supposed to contain the same component

parts. Man possessed:— 1. A physical body (^1^, hhat). 2. A

1 Dizionario, pi. 384, No. 2. 3 Brugscli, Diet. G< :

o<j., p. 77G.
 "

300 MISCELLANEOUS GODS

soul ffefc, or J\ , ba). 3. A heart (® , db). 4. A double (U,

ha). 5. An intelligence
f^^, Ichu). 6. Power (y , sekhem).

7. A shadow (|, hhaibit). 8. A spiritual body Ml a 8 Q, sdh).

9. A name ( ,
ren) ; and the gods possessed divine counter-
parts of Thus Khepera was " strong in his heart
all these.
l

when he began to create the world, and according to one version

of the Egyptian legend of Creation this god was united to his
shadow. A god had only one heart and one shadow, etc., but he
might possess several souls and " doubles," and we know that the
souls of Ka were seven in number, and his doubles fourteen.
The names of these last were: 1. Heq, v^ "intelligence." — ;

2. Nekht, U=4, "strength." 3. Khu, m, "splendour." 4. Usr,

"
, "power." 5. Uatch, J,
"vigour." 6. Tchefa, <|v, "abund-

ance." 7. Sheps, ijJ, "wealth." 8. Senem, ^, "interment."

9. Sept, ^, "provision." 10. Tet, jj,

"stability." 11. Maa,-<e>-,

"sight." 12. Setem, 4), "hearing." 13. Sa, <mm, "intelligence."

14. Hu, *=, "taste." Similarly the texts show that the
Egyptians believed in the existence of a divine Khu, and of a
divine Sekhem, etc.

XL Goddesses and Gods of the Twelve Hours of the

Night.

Goddesses.

Hour ^p£frS^* Nebt-thehent.

*
I.
^ * o Villi
.

II.
A~° Sakset.

O o o
„ III. Seher-tut.

IV.
30 <=> O * .
Aa-sheft.

I
 >
MISCELLANEOUS GODS 301

Goddesses.

Hour V. ^7 K*- Neb-ankhet.

VI. w [
* tcheser-shetat.

VII. V&QA.ZA * Her-tep-aha-her-neb-s.

Mert.

IX. ^! — eP>*.
<=> w
Neb-senti.

X. 5k mut- neb-set.
^ o
XL 4. * Khesef-khemt.

D wwa 11

XII * Par-neferu-en-xeb-set.
II ^ Q

Gods.

Hour I. $<=>(), Khepera.

11

III.
f J^ Ab-em-tu-f.

Neb-xeteru.

IV. An-mut-f.

] w
V. * .
Bapi-f.

VI. (D*^ Heru-sbati.

VII. * Seker.

VIII. Hertt-her-kiiet.
*
IX. ->^*
— a 1
~ Maa-hra.

D
X.
1 s 1
! * Pesh-hetep-f.

XL ^ZZZ* Ka-taui.

Ka-khu.
 — —
302 MISCELLANEOUS GODS
XII. The Goddesses and Gods of the Twelve Hours
of the Day.

Hour. Goddesses. Gods.

L
II.
81 o . . NuNUT.

Semt.
M .
.

.
Shu.

Hu.
<=> Q
III. Mak-nebt-s. el . Sau.
O
IV. D
^ . . Seshetat. y^.ASBKT.
V. ^ —— J
. Xesbet.

TTT M X7 ^ t -
VL I ©o • '
A?ABIT - . . . Tehuti.

vii. ^_^ ©inn Nekiu - <Tt) i Heru-em-au-ab.

(](] •
o u
•

VIII. M ~
(2 O
. • Kheperu.
O l«1 . . Khensu.

W
IX.

x.
t;h;-
1=3=3
o
.

sa ™
Tcheser-shetat

Senb-eheperu.
t -
iQ
=*.
^V\
. . AST.

Heq-ur.

Maa-ennu-am-
xi.
p§ © UAA.
H

XII. D\^ o * Hap-tcheserts. AA-AM-KHEKH.

1
XIII. The Planets and their Gods.

1. Jupiter, the "star of the South," ^c JLv, was called

under the XlXth and XXth Dynasties Heru-ap-sheta-taui,

=
, and in the Graeco-Roman period Heru-ap-sheta,
~^~'
D ^^ *, or Heru-pe-sheta, ^ 3 Q
l

*. This planet

was without a god.

2. Saturn, the " star of the West which traverseth heaven,"
is ° ^, " Heru-ka-pet,"
*
U
*H was called i.e.

1 See Brugsch, Thesaurus, p. 65 ff. ;

Aegyptologie, p. 336.
 MISCELLANEOUS GODS $03

" Horus, Bull of heaven," under the XlXth and XXth Dynasties,
and in the Graeco-Roman period Heru-p-ka and Heru-ka,

^ D ^[ , and
^ ^j x . The god of this planet

*
was Horus.

Mars, the "star of the East of heaven," D

3. x ~|
°, which
is described as the "[star] which journeyeth backwards in travelling,"
s
1 1
\ ^j U&L J^ ^Z~^Z~ -^> was called " Heru-khuti," ^\ , under
the XlXth and XXth Dynasties, and in the Graeco-Roman period

" Heru-tesher," ^ ' * <^, i.e., "the Red Horus." The god of I

this planet was Ra, G.

Ven lis. Mercury Mars. Saturn. Jupiter.

4. Mercury was called Sebku, [1

J]
ZS % x, under the XlXth I

and XXth Dynasties, and Sebek, P

J S, or Sebek, P j ^T^,
1
in the
q
Graeco-Roman period. The god of this planet was Set, H x •

I i 1

5. Venus was called the " star of the ship of the Bennu-

Asar, j
I

Jx | ^ ^ni
J JjjJ)' under the XlXth and
XXth Dynasties, and " Pi-neter-Tuau," i.e., the "god of the
morning," in the Graeco-Roman period. The god of this planet
was Osiris. As an evening star Venus was called Sbat uatitha,
X <^

^[^^H^*-
 — — 1

304 MISCELLANEOUS GODS

XIV. The Dekans and their Gods. 1

The Dekans. Ptolemaic Variants. 2

f~K— 5^ 3
1. Tepa-Kenmut . .
*"

1. Tepa-Kenmut. 2. Kemnut.

2. Kenmut *.
*

3. Kher-khept-Kenmut ^ f^ 141 AA/WV\ S^ ,

3. Kher-khept-Kenmut. 4. Ha-tchat.

4. Ha-tchat . . .
f
__g)
* -=S A*

5. Pehui-tchat _££ *
w & ~k w &

5. Pehui-tchat. 6. Themat-hert.

6. Themat-hert . .
a <o
*. _J> *•

1 See Lepsins, Chronologie, p. 69 ; Brugsch, Thesaurus, p. 137 ff. ; Aegtjpt-

ologie, p. 340.
2 The Greek transcriptions are as follows :

3 CIT 4
XNOYMIC 5
XAPXNOYMIC
6
HTHT 7
<J>OYTHT 8
TOJM
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MISCELLANEOUS GODS 305

The Dekans. Ptolemaic Variants.
7. Themat-khert .
*
<=> <=>

* n#

7. Themat-khert. 8. Ustha.

8. USTHA 02
H^]1* 1i
9. Beeatha . . . .
/nf) *.

9. Bekatha. 10. Tepa-Khentet.

10. Tepa-khentet .
® l

(!*•*
[fflu*
11. Khentet-hert .

ttlh rilh
*

11. Khentet-hert. 12. Khentet-khert.

ffl
12. Khentet-khert . r]Tk *
Themes-en-khentet
13. s==
1 ill*
tf -55-
*
* tf

13. Themes-en-khentet.

14. Sapt-khennu . .
^ '-'

^ >
OY€CT€— BIKOJTI A<t>OCO COYXWC 3

1
TnHXONTI XONTAP€ XONTAXP€ G

CnTXN€ 8

n —
306 MISCELLANEOUS GODS
The Dekans. Ptolemaic Variants.

15. Her-ab-uaa . . .
®
* <0> s^* 9O s^^c.

15. Her-ab-uaa. 16. Shesmu.

— /wv^m
16. Shesmu . .
TXWkM m
/WW\A
/WVWA
>1( ,
2

17. Kenmu . . * *
* . tfr

18. Semtet .

19. Tepa-semt

19. Tepa-semt. 20. Sert.

20. Sert *.

21. S AS A- SERT . . . *
&<t

21. Sasa-Sert. 22. Kher-khept-sert.

22. Kher-khept-sert . A» l^*! Ci *

1
PHOYOJ 2
C€CM€, CIC€CM€ 3
KONIM€ * CMAT
8
s c
CPC0 r
CICPOJ
 MISCELLANEOUS GODS 307

The Dekans. Ptolemaic Variants.

23. Khukhu *.
•I**

23. Khukhu. 2-i. Baba.

24. Baba . . .

|V*'
Khent-heru 9 ®
25. .

1 *. *

25. Khent-heru. 26. Her-ab-khentu.

26. Her-ab-khentu .

Stl*]-'
.

Khent-kheru m *
27. . .

li 1 * •

* *

27. Khent-kheru. 28. Qet.

Qet m
28. . . .

\o* li<^»*
29. Sasaqet . .

29. Sasaqet. 30. Art.

30. Art
* »'*
1
TnHXY 2
XY TnHBlOY
3 4
BIOY, TniBlOY
5
XONTAP6 XONTAXP6
6 7
CIK€T 8
XGJOY
308 MISCELLANEOUS GODS
The Dekans. Ptolemaic Variants.

31. Khau X i;-

31. Khau. 32. Remen-heru-an-Sah.

32. Remen-heru-an-Sah ""*

AAA/W <^>
* % h %%
Jl ill IS X
/^--&

C
.

X-
2

33. Mestcher-Sah . .
| ^ ffs ^ l^ x X

33. Mestcher-Sah. 3-4. Remeu-kher-Sah

34. Remen-eher-Sah "^ J^ Jj. x

.

fl o X'
35. A-Sah x flUx

35. A-Sah. 36. Sah.

36. Sah |^ x
5
37. Septet . . . . A ^ .

* a

37. Septet.

1
€P(0, APOY 2
P€M€NAAP€ 3
0OCOAK
4
OYAP€ 5
CGOGIC
 . .

MISCELLANEOUS GODS 309

The Gods of the Dekans.

1. See, 1k J J **, or Hapi-Asmat, %,%v (j

fl ^ °°°

o ,
or

Hapi-Mestha.

2. Ba, 5^£, or Isis.

3. Khentet-khast, '

(1 ^ , or Isis, or the Children of Horus.

4. Ast (Isis), r °, or Tuamutef, or the Children of Horus.

5. Nebt-tep-ahet, ® 5r53>
or ^ ne Children of Horus.

6. Mestha-Hapi,
" = "|(1 §(1(1, or Tuamutef.

7. Qebh-sennuf, KB' '

', or Tuamutef.

8. Tuamutef, * \\ ° •

9. Tuamutef, Qebhsennuf, or Hapi.

10. Tuamutef, Hapi.

11. Heru, ^ ***.

12. Set, [1~***.
13. Heru, ^ *** .

14. Ast Nebt-het, n^ |T

15. Set, [i , or Ur,

'
I era'

16. Heru, v\ ,
or Ur
Qebhsennuf, ~
17. Mestha, Hapi, Tuamutef,
J(|
-^ ^ rs; n i i i ***

18. Heru, ^*.

19. Hapi,
^^ (| D (](] ^ ***)
20. Ast, jj-

21. Tuamutef, Qebhsennuf.

22. Qebhsennuf.
 —

310 MISCELLANEOUS GODS

23.

24. tljamutef, qebhsennuf.

25. Mestha, Hapi.

26. Heru, vj

27. Heru, V\ I

I
oooo
28. Heru,

***** o
29.
**** x
30. Mestha, Hapi, Qebhsennuf, Tuamutef, Qebhsennuf, Hapi.
31. Hapi.
32. Mestha.
33. Tuamutef, Qebhsennuf.

34. Maat-Heru, Heru,

35. Maat-Heru, Heru

36. Maat-Heru

37. Maat-Heru Ast,

I]

XV. The Star-gods behind Sothis and Orion.

1. Shethu,
a 1§><I|§=x, or Shetu,
c:s
^
,

w.
AMAM
2. Nesru, —"— _£=£ **
3. Shepet, ^ D
x.

4. Apsetch, x-

5. Sebshes, H
J x •

c
6. Uash-neter, 1 £) ,

1 Variant for Nos. 29 and 30,

j| o —W fft fr
variant of

No. 29,
^
aaaaaa ******; variant of No. 30, Hapi, Qebhsennuf.
I AAAAAA 7C7C A"7C
~
M a
a
P «
is 9

^ a 2
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312 MISCELLANEOUS GODS

XVI. The Star-gods of the Southern and Northern Heavens.
(Seep. 313.)

1. The hippopotamus Hesamut, 8 r 1

^ juNj or Reret, ^^j
up the back of which climbs a crocodile without name ; Dr. Brugsch
identifies this representation with Draco. In a list of the hours
the various parts of the body and members of the hippopotamus

goddess are mentioned, e.g., 1. ***** <=>. 2. ^ il £.

_f _f

2. The bull Meskheti, ffj ® ^J this was the Egyptian

equivalent of our Great Bear.
3. Horus the Warrior An, , who holds in his hand a
AAAAAA

weapon with which he is attacking the Great Bear.

4. A man standing upright and wearing a disk on his head
without name.
5. A man standing upright; he holds a sjDear which he is

driving into a crocodile. This figure is without name.

6. A hawk ; without name.

7. The goddess Serqet, I

, in the form of a woman.
. |\ n r—l O- .« /WW\A n MVWS\
8. The lion Am (?), Q-y--2», or
^ , oXN -fl- n '
with
eighteen stars.
<~:>
9. The crocodile Serisa, R ^ <=ss^
XVII. —From the famous circular representation of the
heavens, commonly known as the " Zodiac of Dendera," which was
formerly in the second room of the Temple Roof at Dendera, but
which is now preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris,
we learn that the Egyptians had a knowledge of the Twelve Signs
of the Zodiac. It is wrong, however, to conclude from this, as
some have done, that the Egyptians were the inventors of the
Zodiac, for they borrowed their knowledge of the Signs of the
Zodiac, together with much else, from the Greeks, who had
derived a great deal of their astronomical lore from the Baby-
lonians ; this is certainly so in the matter of the Zodiac. It is at
MISCELLANEOUS GODS 313
314 THE ZODIAC
present a subject for conjecture at what period the Babylonians
first divided the heavens into sections by means of the constella-
tions of the Zodiac, but we are fully justified in assuming that the
earliest forms of the Zodiac date from an exceedingly primitive
time. The early dwellers in Babylonia who observed the heavens
systematically wove stories about the constellations which they
beheld, and even went so far as to introduce them into their
national religious literature, for Babylonian astrology and theology
are very closely connected. Thus in the Creation Legend the
brood of monsters which were spawned by Tiamat and were
intended by her to help her in the fight which she was about to
wage against Marduk, the champion of the gods, possessed astro-
logical as well as mythological attributes, and some of them at
least are to be identified with Zodiacal constellations. This view
has been long held by Assyriologists, but additional proof of its
accuracy has recently been furnished by Mr. L. W. King in his
"Seven Tablets of Creation," 1
wherein he has published an
interesting Babylonian text of an astrological character, from which
it is clear that Tiamat, under the form of a constellation in the
neighbourhood of the Ecliptic, is associated with a number of
Zodiacal constellations in such a manner that they may be identified
with members of her mythical monster brood. The tablet in the
British Museum from which Mr. King has obtained this text is not

older than the Persian period ; but there is little doubt that the
beliefs embodied in it were formulated at a far earlier time. That
certain forms of the Creation Legends existed as early as B.C. 2300
there is satisfactory evidence to show, and the origins of the
systematized Zodiac as used by the later Babylonians and by the
Greeks are probably as old ; whether the Babylonians were them-
selves the inventors of such origins, or whether they are to be

attributed to the earlier, non-Semitic, Sumerian inhabitants of the

country cannot be said. It is, however, quite certain that the
Greeks borrowed the Zodiac from the Babylonians, and that they
introduced it into Egypt, probably during the Ptolemaic period.
The following are the forms of the Signs of the Zodiac as given at
Dendera.
1
Vol. I., page 204.
 SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC 315

1. Aries.

4. Cancer.

6. Virgo. 7. Libra. 8. Scorpio.

9. Sagittarius. 10. Capricornns.

^VWVSA/WVW>
WWWWVW

11. Aquarius;. 12. Pisces.

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316 SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC

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 .

MISCELLANEOUS GODS 317

XVIII. — In the Second Corridor of the Tomb of Seti I.

are the following names of gods, with figures: 1

— 1. Temtemtch,
cS|\
JS^
c^ J$^
f\ 1.
{
2. KHENTI - QERER, '
rf[k
11111 o \\
& <=>
<=> . 3.

Netch-baiu,
ct
-^ T ^ (^ i . 4. Nef-em-baiu, ^w^ Xp. |\

^^|. 5. Senki, ™(j(]o. 6 - Ba-Ra, c^^'S.

oa($^.
7. Tem,
£s '=. 8. Shu, 9- Seb,
"|^J.
10. 1st,

jo. ll. Heru, ^. 12. Remi, 13. Aatiu,

^I^Jtjfff.
- a 11(1 v\. 14. Entuti, y\ . 15. Ament, (1 """* rx/v°-

16. Aakebi, l^^^ J M ^.

(1 17. Khenti-Amenti, ,|Tk
w
. 18. Madti, ^ ~ 19. \i Tebati, <^ <t^ ~ 20. Shai,

]L
11
21. Amen-khat, (]™|
1AA/W^ Q^ U
^ !.
I
22. Tuati,7 *°
CTZ1
u
.

23. Tchemtch-hat,
^ j^ ^ ^ | j
• 24 * VpER
-~
( ?)
" TA >

3^. 25.Thenti, ™^\ • Sekheper-

—
26. Khepi,. (]().
27.

>
Pfl^kiS: ».^™, Ol- 29. Aax,

30. Mau-aa, 31. Metu-khut-f, <*

() (](].
I^'^jI- J

^©^_. 32. Auai,

AA/VA\ £^ »
i]^^()(]. 33. Senk-hra,
o s ->. -\
^© *,
|\

34. Antheti, IL <S 35. Theta-enen, Li.. 36 Besi-

Semaahut, fl^f^^.
shemti,
JP^™^. 37. 38.

Kheperi, S M. 39. Ka-Ateni,

<=> © ° M Sekhem- h . 10.
V*3 1 1 H I 1 AAA/W\ I

42. Sehetch-khatu,
^
(1 i 8 ^ ^ %^ ° AAftAAA
. 43. Khepera, 6| <=>
^prf
(1

TIT
44. Nut, . 45. Tefnut, . 46. Nebt-het, <a,

47. Nu, ^\ 48. Huaaiti,

| f] ^^ (]()"• 49. Nethert,

1
See Lefebure, ics Hypog^es Boyaux de Thebes, Paris, 1886, pt. i., pi. 15 it.
 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
1.

10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.

19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27.

\r^\

28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37.
 46. 45. 44. 43. 42. 41. 40. 39. 38.
I

55. 54. 53. 52. 51. 50. 49. 48. 47.

r\ r^

v^ w
s 65. 64. 63. 62. 61. 60. 59. 58. 57. 56.

74. 73. 72. 71. 70. 69. 68. 67. 66.

 —
320 MISCELLANEOUS GODS
<= A <=* w
50. Seraa, 51. Qererti,
1
52. Amen-ha, 53. Kheprer, S . 54. Aaai,
4* - AWM
f
e
=0). 55. Serqi, z 56. Sekhen-ba,

fc^gj. 57. Reehi, ^|f)f[. 58. Shepi, ffiDlji). 59.

Seshetai, ™()(j. 60. Hai, ^ o M 3 . 61. Maa-uat, ^ :

^ in
62. Hetchuti, \\^ • 63. Uben, ^J^X- 64

Then - aru, 65. Her-ba, ^ £^£ ^

V\A/vAA Mi-
~~
66. Qa - ba, a 67. Netchesti, 7 /W

68. Amam-ta, 69. Ketuiti,

w

70. Urshiu, . 71. Aana-tuati, AAAAM * w

. 72. Nehi,
rrr~i

|(][j. 73. Neb-baitt, 74. Neb-senku,

XIX. The Names of the Days op the Month and their Gods.

Heb-enti-paut, or
©O^E7 Day of Thoth.
1.
^ w
T^^ 7 -

2. , ^^7 - Heb-abet. Day of Heru-netch-tef-f.

3. /hng<37. Heb-mesper. Day of Osiris.

4. * ^P, Heb-per-setem. Day of Amset.

Heb-khet-her-khau. Day of Hapi.

5-!TT^
6. ^£7 Heb-en-sas. Day of Tuamutef.

Day
o p ^SP Heb-teoa. of Qeblisennuf.

8 ®Q '
Heb-tep-[abet] Day of Maa-tef-f.
'
I ^SP'
D Heb-kep. Dayof Ari-tchet-f,
9. ^5
 Y

II —
 . . j .

322 MISCELLANEOUS GODS

10. PQq/^. Heb-saf. Day of Ari-ren-f-tcliesef,

CZDi ~T~

11. Heb-satu. Day of Netchti-ur.^J 5

*Y I '^_J. J^
£
^2' ^-
C=ffi
12. Heb-Heru-en- Day of Netch-an (?), "^ j£l.

STy~~~>- '""ft* J f^\ /^ /VWVNA

13- Mq m'^2^7 - Heb-maa-set. Day of Teken-en-Ra,^^ ^ .

14. -^^i ~^X ^~^7. Heb-sa. Day of Hen-en-ba, y I

15 fl ^c
AAAAAA ^2^
^ Heb-ent-met-tua. Day of Armauai,

16. jtj5^^E7. Heb-mesper-sen. Dayof Shet-f-met-f,

6
*^ I *

Day of Heru-her-uatch-f,
17. I[g]^3[7. Heb-sa. *x

18. l\
I (j
^7. Heb-aah. Day of Ahi,

19. ^ Jl
i . Heb-setem-metu-f. Day of An-mut-f,

20. *Z£?. Heb-anep. Day of Ap-uat, \f a £^5.

21. A _^. Heb-aper Day of Anpu (Anubis).

22. _S> (\^ • Heb-peh-Sept. Day of Nai, g (](]

^
X
23. ^[1 JL,. Heb-tenat. Day of Na-ur, ° |j$jl
^£7.

Z
°T^7.
'

24. Heb-qenh. Day of Na-tesher,

25.
^S^ 7 * Heb-setu. Day of Shem,
™
26. ^ ^E? Heb-pert. Day of Ma-tef-f, °^ *fL
27. ^nnj^. Heb-usheb. Day of Tun-abui, ^S \\.
28.
J^ ® oy v
- Heb-set-ent-pet. Day of Khnemu.
d <^ ^
29. *W Heb-ari-sekhem(?) Day of Utet-tef-f, <©.
I

30. <<£? 9
„ c
— ,. Heb-nu-pet.
Day
__
of Heru-netch-tef-f or
,
/
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, '

Nehes fD
 .

GODS OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD :5i>:

XX. The gods and mythological beings who are mentioned in

the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead. 1

Arethi-ka-sa-thika
vr $
Aseb .

Mi-
Ashu . rrr~i
\i-
Ashbu o l\i- /VSAA/v\
t rr 1

Asher <dl^> MAAM

Akeru

Atef-nr ^>- ^
Ates-hra-she ^>~
'~-2>
?i- &
Aahet rn

Aakhabit
o
Aaqetqet
o i o
Aah .

Asar .

Ast .

i;

Aukert

Aukert-khentet-ast-s
m
v

Abu-ur

Ap-uat
D X ^ I

V
Ap-uat-nieht-sekhem-pet
&ztv~&-
Ap-uat-resu -sekhem- taui V~
*3=S|II ?
1
The passages in which these names occur are given in the Vocabulary to my
edition of the Book of theDead. (Chapters of Coming Forth by Day, London, 1898.)
324 GODS OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
Ap-si Q_LIU
Ap-skat-taui

Am-beseku .

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328 GODS OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD

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330 GODS OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD

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332 GODS OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
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334 GODS OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD

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Hu-kheru .

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w
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340 GODS OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD

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CHAPTER XX

SACRED ANIMALS AND BIRDS, ETC.

THE Egyptian texts prove beyond all

Egyptians worshipped individual animals, and birds, and

doubt that the

reptiles from the earliest to the latest times, and in spite of the
statements to the contrary which are often made this custom must
be regarded as a survival of one of the most popular forms of the
religion of the predynastic peoples of the Nile Valley. At first

animals were worshipped for their strength and power, and because
man was afraid of them, but at a later period the Egyptians
developed the idea that individual animals were the abodes of gods,
and they believed that certain deities were incarnate in them.

This idea is extremely ancient, and the Egyptian saw no absurdity

in it, because at a very early period he had made up his mind that

a god was always incarnate in the king of Egypt, and if this were
so there was no reason why the gods should not become incarnate
in animals. Animals which formed the abodes of gods, or were
beloved by them, were treated with especial reverence and care,
and apartments for their use were specially constructed in the
temples throughout the country. When a sacred animal, i.e., the
abode of a god, died, he was buried with great ceremony and
honour, and, in dynastic times at least, his body was mummified
with as much care as that of a human being. Immediately after
the death of a sacred animal in a temple another beast was chosen
and, having been led into the temple and duly installed there, the
homage and worship of his predecessor were transferred to him.
The new animal was a reincarnation of the god, i.e., a new
manifestation and reappearance of the deity of the temple, and as
such he was the visible symbol of a god. Of the manner in which
346 SACRED ANIMALS
sacred animals were thought to make known the will of the gods
who were incarnate in them little can be said, but the priests of
each animal must have formulated some system which Avould satisfy
the devout, and they must have had some means of making the
animals move in such a way that the beholder would be made to
think that the will of the god incarnate was being revealed to him.
We may assume, too, that when sacred animals became too old and
infirm to perform their duties they were put to death either by
the priests or at their command, and also that care was taken, so

keep in reserve an animal which could take the

far as possible, to
place of that which was in the temple in the event of its sudden
death. The monuments of the predynastic and archaic periods of
Egyptian history which have been discovered during the last few
years prove that Neith, Hathor, and Osiris were worshipped in the
earliest times, and the traditions recorded by Greek and Roman
writers supplement this first-hand evidence by a series of statements
about the cult of animal gods in Egypt which is of the greatest
importance for our purpose here.
One of the oldest animal cults in Egypt was that of Hap,

n ^f^ ' wnom ^ ne Greeks call Apis, and whose Avorship is coeval

with Egyptian civilization. Apis was, however, one of many bulls

which were worshipped by the Egyptians throughout the Nile

Valley, and it is greatly to be regretted that the circumstances
which led up to his occupation of such an exalted position among
the animal gods of Egypt are unknown. According to JElian, 1
Hapi, or Apis, was held in the greatest honour in the time of
2
Mena, the first historical king of Egypt, but Manetho says that it

was under Kaiekhos, i.e., Ka-kau, M c

i =v), a kins: of the Hnd
Dynasty, that Apis was appointed to be a god. Herodotus (iii. 28)
and jElian call Apis "Eua^o^, and the former describes him as the
" calf of a cow which is incapable of conceiving another offspring ;

" and the Egyptians say that lightning descends upon the cow from

Ae'yet oe tis to>i> Trpo<pr]Tojv Aoyos ov 7racriv eKnvcrTOS, on apa [M?)cis] o tujv

ALyv7TTiwv (3ao-L\ev<; (.Trevoqcn. £u>oj/ wore ae/Sew €fJ.(f>v^ov, etra /xevTOi npoeiXero ravpuv,
a.7rdvT(A)v uypaiorarov etvai avrov 7re77-io-Teu/cajs. Dc Nat. Animal, xi. 10.
3 See Cory's Ancient Fragments.
 APIS BULL 347

" heaven, and that from thence it brings forth Apis. This calf,

" which is called Apis, has the following marks : it is black, and
" has a square spot of white on the forehead ; and on the back the
" figure of an eagle : and in the tail double hairs : and on the
" tongue a beetle." Pliny relates (viii. 72) that the Apis Bull
was distinguished by a conspicuous white spot on the right side,
in the form of a crescent, and he adds that when the animal had
lived a certain number of years, it was destroyed by being drowned
in the fountain of the priests. A general mourning ensued upon
this, and the priests and others went with their heads shaven until

they found a successor ; this, however, Pliny says, did not take
long,and we may therefore assume that an Apis was generally
kept in reserve. As soon as the animal was found, he was brought
to Memphis, where there were two Thalami set apart for him ;
to

these bed-chambers the people were wont to resort to learn the

auguries, and according as Apis entered the one or the other of
augury was deemed favourable or unfavourable.
these places, the
He gave answers to its devotees by taking food from the hands of
those who consulted him. Usually Apis was kept in seclusion, but
whensoever he appeared in public he was attended by a crowd of
boys who sang hymns Once a year a cow was presented
to him.
to him, but it is said that she was always killed the same day that
they found her. The birthday of Apis was commemorated by an
annual festival which lasted seven days, and during this period no
man was ever attacked by a crocodile. In front of the sanctuary
of Apis was a courtyard which contained another sanctuary for the
dam of the god, and it was here that he was turned loose in order
that he might be exhibited to his worshippers (Strabo, xvii. 31).
Diodorus tells us (i. 85) that Apis, Mnevis, the Ram of Mendes,
the crocodile of Lake Moeris, and the lion of Leontopolis were kept
at very considerable cost, for their food consisted of cakes made of

the finest Avheat flour mixed with honey, boiled or roasted geese,
and live birds of certain kinds.

The sacred animals were also washed in hot baths, and their
bodies were anointed with precious unguents, and perfumed with
the sweetest odours ; rich beds were also provided for them to
lie upon. When any of them died the Egyptians were as much
348 APIS BULL
concerned as if they had lost their own children, and they were wont
to spend largely in burying them ; when Apis died at Memphis of
old age in the reign of Ptolemy Lagus his keeper not only spent
everything he had in burying him, but also borrowed fifty talents

of silver from the king because his own means were insufficient.
Continuing his account of Apis Diodorus says, " After the splendid
" funeral of Apis is over, those priests that have charge of the
" business seek out another calf as like the former as possibly they
" can find ; and when they have found one, an end is put to all

"further mourning and lamentation, and such priests as are

" appointed for that purpose, lead the young ox through the city
" of Nile, and feed him forty days. Then they put him into a
" barge, wherein is a golden cabin, and so transport him as a god
" to Memphis, and place him in Vulcan's grove. During the forty
" days before mentioned, none but women are admitted to see him,
" who being placed full in his view, pluck up their coats and
" expose their persons. Afterwards they are forbidden to come
" into the sight of this new god. For the adoration of this ox,
" they give this reason. They say that the soul of Osiris passed
" into an ox ; and therefore, whenever the ox is dedicated, to this
" very day, the spirit of Osiris
is infused into one ox after another,

" to posterity. But some say, that the members of Osiris (who
" was killed by Typhon) were thrown by Isis into an ox made of
" wood, covered with ox-hides, and from thence the city Busiris
" was called."

In his account of Apis (xi. 10) iElian states that Apis was
recognized by twenty-nine distinct marks, which were known to

the priests, and that when it was known that he had appeared
they went to the place of his birth and built there a house towards
the East, and the sacred animal was fed therein for four months.
new moon, the priests made ready
After this period, at the time of
a barge and conveyed the new Apis to Memphis, where fine
chambers were set apart for him, and spacious courts for him to
walk about in, and where moreover, a number of carefully chosen
cows were kept for him. At Memphis a special well of water
was provided for Apis and he was not allowed to drink of the
waters of the Nile because they were supposed to be too fattening.
 APIS BULL 349

Curiously enough the animals which were sacrificed to Apis were

oxen, and according to Herodotus (ii. 38, 41) if a single black hair
was found upon any one of them the beast was declared to be
unclean. " And one of the priests appointed for this purpose
" makes this examination, both when the animal is standing up
" and lying down ; and he draws out the tongue, to see if it is pure
" as to the prescribed marks He also looks at the hairs of
" his tail, to see whether they grow naturally. If the beast is

" found pure in all these respects, he marks it by rolling a piece of

" byblus round the horns, and then having put on it some sealing
" earth, he impresses it Avith his signet : and so they drive him
" away. Anyone who sacrifices an unmarked animal is punished
" with death." When an ox of this class was to be offered up to
Apis it was led to the altar and was slain after a libation of wine
had been poured out ; its head was next cut off and its body was
flayed. If the was thrown into the river and
head was not sold it

the following words were said over it " If any evil be about to :
—
" befal either those who now sacrifice, or Egypt in general, may

"it be averted on this head." Plutarch (De hide, §50) and

Ammianus Marcellinus (xxii. 14, 7) agree in stating that Apis was
only allowed to live a certain number of years, which was probably
twenty-five, and it seems that if he did not die before the end of
this period he was killed and buried in a sacred well, the situation
of which was known to a few privileged persons only.
The Egyptians connected Apis, both living and dead, with
Osiris, and their beliefs concerning the two gods were very closely
associated. The soul of Apis was thought to go to heaven after
the death of the body in which had been incarnate, and to join
it

itself to Osiris, when it formed with him the dual god Asar-Hapi
or Osiris- Apis. Early in the Ptolemaic period the Greeks ascribed
toAsar-Hapi the attributes of their god Hades, and Graecized the
Egyptian name under the form " Serapis " both Egyptians and ;

Greeks accepted Serapis as the principal object of their worship,

and after about B.C. 250 this god was commonly regarded as the
male counterpart of Isis. It has already been said that the cult
of Hapi or Apis is very ancient, and there seems to be no doubt
that in one place or another the bull was always worshipped
 350 APIS BULL
in Egypt as the personification of strength and virility and of
might in battle. Osiris, as a Avater god, poured the Nile over the
land, and Hapi provided the strength which enabled the Egyptians
to plough it up ; when theological systems began to be made in
Egypt this ancient god was incorporated in them, and at Memphis
we find that he was regarded as the " second life of Ptah,"
T // V K '
anc a ^ s0 as
^ ^
e son °^ sn^ s From scenes on coffins,
-

stelae, etc., we know that he possessed the attributes of Osiris the

great god of the Underworld, especially after the XXVIth Dynasty,
for he is often represented bearing a mummy upon his back, and
" Bull of Amenti " is a common name of Osiris. Egyptian bronze
figures of the Apis Bull represent the god as a very powerful
beast, with massive limbs and body. A triangular piece of silver
is fixed in the forehead, a disk and a uraeus are placed between
the horns, above the fore and hind legs are cut in outline figures
of vultures with outstretched wings, and on the back, also cut in
outline, is a representation of a rectangular cloth with an orna-
mental diamond pattern. Herodotus (iii. 28) says that the patch of
white on the forehead of Apis was square, Xevkov TeTpayuvov, and
that the figure of an eagle was on the back, eVi Se rod vanov, alerbv
eiKao-fxevov ; of the beetle which he says was on the tongue of Apis
and the double hairs in the tail the bronze figures naturally show
no traces.

Of the tombs in which the Apis bulls were buried under the
Early and Middle Empires nothing is known, but the discovery of
the famous Serapeum at Sakkara, called by Strabo (xvii. 1, § 33)
the " temple of Sarapis," which, he says, was " situated in a very
" sandy spot, where the sand is accumulated in masses by the
" wind," revealed the fact that so far back as the XVIIIth Dynasty
the bodies of the Apis bulls were mummified with great care, and
that each was buried in a rock-hewn tomb, above which was a
small chapel. In the reign of Rameses II. a son of this king,
called Kha-em-Uast, made a subterranean gallery in the rock at

Sakkara, with a large number of chambers, and as each of these

was occupied by the mummied Apis in his coffin its entrance was
walled up, and the remains of the sacred animals were thus
preserved for a very long period. Psammetichus I. hewed a
 SERAPEUM OF SAKKAliA 351

similar gallery in the rock, and its side-chambers were prepared

with great care and thought ; the two galleries taken together are
about 1200 feet long, 18 feet high, and 10 feet wide. Above
these galleries stood the great Temple of the Serapeum, and
close by was another temple which was dedicated to Apis by
Nectanebus IT., the last native king of Egypt. In the Serapeum
of Kha-em-Uast and Psammetichus I. a number of Egyptian holy
men lived a stern, ascetic life, and it appears that they were
specially appointed to perform services in connexion with the
commemorative festivals of the dead Apis bulls. Details of the
rules of the order are wanting, but it is probable that the scheme
of life which they lived there closely resembled that of the followers
of Pythagoras, many of whom were celibates, and that they
abstained from animal food, and had all things in common. 1 It is

interesting to note the existence of the monks of the Serapeum,

because they form a connecting link between the Egyptian priests
and the Christian ascetics and monks who filled Egypt in the

early centuries of our era. The worship of Apis continued in

Egypt until the downfall of paganism, which resulted from the
adoption of Christianity by Constantine the Great and from the
edicts of theEmperor Theodosius.
As Apis was the sacred Bull of Memphis and symbolized the
Moon, so Mnevis was the sacred Bull of Heliopolis and typified
the Sun, of which he was held to be the incarnation. The ancient
Egyptians called the Bull of Heliopolis Ur-mer, ^^ LP y^,
and described him as the " life of "
Ra ; he is usually depicted in
the form of a bull with a disk and uraeus between his horns, but
sometimes he appears as a man with the head of a bull. According
toManetho, the worship of Mnevis was established in the reign of
Ka-kau, a king of the Ilnd Dynasty, together with that of Apis
and the Ram of Mendes, but there is no doubt that it is coeval
with Egyptian civilization, and that it was only a portion of the
great system of adoration of the bull and cow as agricultural gods

throughout Egypt. Strabo mentions (xvii. 1, § 22) that the people

1
See Zeller, History of Greek Philosophy, London, 1881, vol. i., pp. 306-352 ;

Hitter and Preller, Historic Phil-Qraece el Rontanae, 1878.

352 MNEVIS BULL
of Momemphis kept a sacred cow in their city just as Apis was
maintained at Memphis, and Mnevis at Heliopolis, and adds,
" these animals are regarded as gods, but there are other places,
" and these are numerous, both in the Delta and beyond it, in
" which a bull or a cow is maintained, which are not regarded as
" gods, but only as sacred." Mnevis, like Apis, was consecrated
to Osiris, and both Bulls were " reputed as gods generally by all

the Egyptians " Diodorus explains by pointing

; (i. 24, 9) this fact
out that the bull was of all creatures the " most extraordinarily
" serviceable to the "first inventors of husbandry, both as to the
u sowing of corn, and other advantages concerning tillage, of which
" all reaped the benefit." The cult of Mnevis was neither so
widespread nor so popular as that of Apis, and Ammianus
Marcellinus says (xxii. 14, 6) that there is nothing remarkable
related about him. A curious story is related by iElian (De Nat.
Animal, xii. 11) to the effect that king Bocchoris once brought
in a wild bull to fight against Mnevis, and that the savage
creature in attempting to gore the sacred animal miscalculated his
distance, and having entangled his horns in the branches of a
persea tree, fell an easy victim to Mnevis, and was slain by him.
The Egyptians regarded this impious act with great disfavour, and
probably hated him as they hated Cambyses for stabbing Apis.
Among the Egyptians another sacred bull was that of
Hermonthis (Strabo, xvii. 1, 47) which, according to Macrobius
(Saturn, i. 26) was called Bacchis (or Bacis, or Basis, or Pacis),

and according to iElian (xii. 11) Onuphis ;

the latter name is

probably a corruption of some Egyptian name of Osiris Un-nefer.

This bull was black in colour, and its hair turned a contrary way
from that of all other animals, olvtlcli 8e avrco rpt^e? yj-rrep ovv toIs
d\Xot? eiaiv ; it was said to change its colour every hour of the
day, and was regarded as an image of the sun shining on the other
side of the world, i.e., the Underworld. The Egyptian equivalent
of the name Bacis, or Bacchis, is Bakha, J **-=» ^rrj , and this

bull is styled the " living soul of Ra," ^? T W Wi aQ d the " bull
" of the Mountain of the Sunrise (Bakhau), and the lion of the
" Mountain of the Sunset." He wears between his horns a disk.
 —
RAM OF MENDES 353

from which rise plumes, and a uraeus ; over his hindquarters is

the sacred symbol of a vulture with outspread wings. 1

At several places in the Delta, e.g., Hermopolis, Lycopolis,
and Mendes, the god Pan and a goat were worshipped ; Strabo,
quoting (xvii. 1, 19) Pindar, says that in these places goats had
intercourse with women, and Herodotus (ii. 46) instances a case
which was said to have taken place in the open day. The
Mendesians, according to this last writer, paid reverence to all

goats, and more to the males than to the females, and particularly
to one he-goat, on the death of which public mourning is observed
throughout the whole Mendesian district ; they call both Pan and
the goat Mendes, and both were worshipped as gods of generation
and fecundity. Diodorus (i. 88) compares the cult of the goat of
Mendes with that of Priapus, and groups the god with the Pans
and the Satyrs. The goat referred to by all these writers is the
famous Mendean Ram, or Ram of Mendes, the cult of which was,
according to Manetho, established by Kakau, a king of the Ilnd
Dynasty.
In the hieroglyphic texts he is called Ba-neb-Tet, ^^ ^^
u ^ , from which name the Greek Mendes is derived, and he is

depicted in the form of a ram with flat, branching horns which are
surmounted by a uraeus ;
pictures of the god of this kind are, of
and since goats of the species of the Ram of
course, traditional,
Mendes are not found on Egyptian Monuments after the period
of the Ancient Empire, we can only conclude that they were
originally copied from representations of the Ram Avhich were in
use before about B.C. 3500. Ba-neb-Tet, or Mendes, was declared
to be the " soul of Rii," but allowance must be made for the
possibility that the Egyptians did not really believe this statement,
which may only have resulted from a play upon the words ba
" ram," and ba " soul." The Mendes was of
cult of the Ram of
more than local importance, and his priesthood was a powerful
body. The ram which was adored at Mendes was distinguished by
certain marks, even as was Apis, and was sought for throughout
the country with great diligence when the animal was found he
;

1
See Lanzone, Diztonarto, pi. 70.

ii a a
354 THE CROCODILE
was led to the city of Mendes, and a procession of priests and of
the notables of the city having been formed he was escorted to the
temple and enthroned therein with great honour. From the Stele
of Mendes l
we learn that Ptolemy II. , Philadelphus, rebuilt the
temple of Mendes, and that he assisted at the enthronement of two
Rams, and in a relief on the upper portion of it two Ptolemies and
an Arsinoe are seen making offerings to the Ram, and to a ram-
headed god, and his female counterpart Hatmehit. The cult of
the Ram Mendes until the decay of the city, after which
lasted at
for a short period it was maintained at Thmuis, a neighbouring
city, which increased in importance as Mendes decreased. In
primitive times the Ram of Mendes was a merely local animal god,
or perhaps only a sacred animal, but as the chief city of its cult

increased in importance the god was identified, first, with the great
indigenous god Osiris, secondly, with the Sun-god Ra, and thirdly,
with the great Ram-god of the South and of Elephantine, i.e.,

Khnemu.
Among the animals which were worshipped devoutly as a
result of abject fear must be mentioned the crocodile, which the
Egyptians deified under the name of Sebek, I

J
^z^> gg^ , or

Sebeq, I
a J |§\, and which was called Souchos, Hov^os, by the
Greeks. In primitive when the canals dried up this
times
destructive beast was able to wander about the fields at will, and
to eat and kill whatsoever came into its way, and the Egyptians
naturally regarded it as the personification of the powers of evil

and of death, and the prince of all the powers of darkness, and the
associate of Set, or Typhon. According to Herodotus (ii. 69),
crocodiles were sacred in some parts of Egypt, but were diligently
killed in others. At Thebes and near lake Moeris they were held
to be sacred, and when tame the people put crystal and gold ear-
rings into their ears, and bracelets on their fore paws, and they fed
them regularly with good food after death their bodies were
;

embalmed and then buried in sacred vaults. Herodotus says they

were called ^a/xi/zon, a word which is, clearly, a transliteration of

1 Mariette, Monuments Divers, pi. 42; Aeg. Zeit., 1871, pp. 81-85; 1875,
p. 33.
SEBEK-RA.
 THE CROCODILE 355

the Egyptian word emsehiu. Strabo gives an

_|^Pf()()^j>
interesting account of his visit to the famous city of Crocodilopolis,
which in his day was known by the name Arsinoe, and was the
centre of crocodile worship; and tells us (xvii. 1, §38), that the
sacred crocodile there " was kept ajDart by himself in a lake it is ;

" tame, and gentle to the priests, and is called Zoi>xos. It is fed
" with bread, flesh, and wine, which strangers who come to see
" it always present. Our host, a distinguished person, who was
" our guide in examining what was curious, accompanied us to the
" lake, and brought from the supper table a small cake, dressed
" meat, and a small vessel containing a mixture of honey and milk.
' ;
We found the animal lying on the edge of the lake. The priests
" went up to it ; some of them opened its mouth, another put the
" cake into it, then the meat, and afterwards poured down the
" honey and milk. The animal then leaped into the lake, and
" crossed to the other side. When another stranger arrived with
" his offering, the priests took it, and running round the lake,
" caught the crocodile, and gave him what was brought in the
" same manner as before."
In their pictures and reliefs the Egyptians represented the
god Sebek in the form of a crocodile-headed man who wore either
a solar disk encircled with a uraeus, or a pair of horns surmounted
by a disk and a pair of plumes ; sometimes a small pair of horns
appears above the large ram's horns. Frequently the god is

depicted simply in the form of the animal which was sacred to

him, i.e., as a crocodile. What exactly were the attributes of
Sebek in early dynastic times we have no means of knowing, but
it is probable that they were those of an evil and destructive

animal ; Vlth Dynasty, however, he was

before the end of the
identified with Ra, the Sun -god, and with the form of Ra who
was the son of Xeith, and with Set the opponent and murderer of
Osiris. According to the late Dr. Brugsch, Sebek was a four-fold
deity who represented the four elemental gods, Ra, Shu, Seb, and
Osiris, and this view receives support from the fact that in the
vignettes to the xxxist and xxxiind Chapters of the Book of the
Dead, the deceased is seen repulsing four crocodiles. The same
scholar thought that the name of the god was derived from a root
356 THE CROCODILE
which signifies " to collect, to bring together," and that he was
called " because he was believed to gather together that
Sebek "

which had been separated by the evil power of Set, and to give
a new constitution and life to the elements which had been severed
by death. 1 This view may be correct, but it certainly cannot be
very old, and it cannot represent the opinions which the pre-
dynastic Egyptians held concerning the god. That, however,

Sebek was believed god who was good to the dead is clear,
to be a

and it was held that he would do for them that which he had done
in primitive times for Horus.
From the cviiith Chapter of the Booh of the Dead, we learn

that Sebek, Temu, and Hathor were the Spirits of the West, and
that Sebek dwelt in a temple which was built on the Mount of the
Sunrise, and that he assisted Horus to be re-born daily. In the
Pyramid Texts, Sebek is made to restore the eyes to the deceased,
and to make firm his mouth, and to give him the use of his head,
and to bring Tsis and Nephthys to him, and to assist in the over-
throw of Set, the enemy of ev<ery " Osiris." He opened the doors
of heaven to the deceased, and led him along the bypaths and
ways of heaven and, in short, assisted the dead to rise to the new
life, even as he had helped the child Horus to take his seat upon
the throne of his father Osiris. The centre of the cult of Sebek

was Ombos, p^i M 'Z, Nubit, where he was held to be the father

of Heru-ur, and was identified with Seb, and was called, "Father
" of the gods, the mighty one among the gods and goddesses, the
"great king, the prince of the Nine Bow Barbarians." As Sebek-
Ra-Temu he was the power of the sun which created the world,
and he is styled, " the beautiful green disk which shineth ever, the
" creator of whatsoever is and of whatsoever shall be, who proceeded
" from Nu, and who possesses many colours and many forms." 2
Other important seats of the cult of Sebek were :
— 1. Silsila (Khennu,
Nip v\ @) , where he was adored with Tern, Nu, Heru-ur, and
Heru-Behutet ; 2. Pa-khent ( Asf r|TK ), where he was wor-
shipped with Amen-Ra ; 3. Latopolis, where he was identified

1 2
Religion und Mythohxjie, p. 5S8. Brugscli, Religion, p. 591.
The God AN-HERU.
 CROCODILE AND HYDRUS 357

with Heqa, the son of Shu-Khnemu-Ra and Tefhut-Nebuut-Sekket-

Neith; 4. Smen ( 1 ©), where he was merged in Ra and was
\ I AAAAAA /

held to be the father of Horus ; 5. Pa- Sebek, near Hermonthis,

where he formed the chief member of the Nut- triad of Sebek-Seb,
Hathor, and Khensu ; 6. Hermonthis, where he was merged in
Menthu, and Sebek-Seb became the counterpart of Menthu-Ra
as
and Amen-Ra, and the head of the company of the gods of
Hermonthis and Thebes ; at Tuphium, near Thebes, where he was
worshipped under the form of a crocodile, with a sun-disk and the
feathers of Amen upon his head 7. Krokodilonpolis-Arsinoe, ;

the Shetet,
c
^^ , and Ta-Shetet, , of the hieroglyphic

texts, which was situated near Lake Moeris, and was called the
" city of Sebek "
par excellence. In the north of Egypt the chief
sanctuaries of Sebek were Prosopis, Sai's, Metelis, Onuphis, and
the city of Apis, which was situated in the Libyan nome in this ;
x

last-named place Osiris was worshipped under the form of a

crocodile, aud Isis under the usual form of Isis.

From the statements made about the crocodile by classical

writers, it is easy to see that several fantastic notions were current
about the animal in the later period of dynastic history. Thus
Ammianus Marcellinus, after describing the strength of the
crocodile (xxii. 15) says, "savage as these monsters are at all
" other times, yet as if they had concluded an armistice, they are
" always quiet, laying aside all their ferocity, during the seven
" days of festival on which the priests at Memphis celebrate the
" birthday of Apis." Herodotus (ii. 68) and Diodorus (i. 35), like
Aristotle, declare that the crocodile has no tongue, an error which
was wide-spread in ancient times, and which was commonly
believed even in the Middle Ages ; it was also thought to eat no
food during the coldest months of the year, and to be blind in the
water. Many crocodiles were killed by an animal called the
" hydrus " in the following manner. It is related that a little

bird called the trochilus was in the habit of entering the mouth of
the crocodile as it lay asleep with its jaws open " towards the

west," and of picking out the leeches which clung to its teeth and

1
For a list of Sebek shrines see Lanzone. Dizionario, pp. 1033-1036.
358 CROCODILE
gums. The hydrus, or ichneumon, perceiving this, would also
enter the crocodile's mouth, and crawl along through the throat
into its stomach, and having devoured its entrails, would crawl
back again ; the hydrus also is declared to have been in the habit
of searching for the eggs of the crocodile, which were always laid

in the sand, and of breaking the shell of every one which it found.
Notwithstanding the reverence in which the crocodiles were held
in many parts of Egypt numbers of people made a living by
catching them and killing them. According to Herodotus (ii. 70)
and other writers, a hook baited with the chine of a pig was let
down by the fishermen into the river, while a young pig was held
on the bank and beaten until it squealed ; the crocodile, hearing
the noise, made its way towards the sound of the little pig's cries,

and coming across the bait on the hook, straightway swallowed it.

Then the men hauled in the line and the crocodile was soon landed,
and its eyes having been plastered up, it was slain. Crocodiles
at one time were regarded as the protectors of Egypt, and
Diodorus held the view (i. 35) that but for them the robbers from
Arabia and Africa would swim across the Nile and pillage the
country in all directions.

The crocodile played a prominent part in Egyptian mythology,

in which it appears both as the friend and foe of Osiris; one
legend tells how the creature carried the dead body of Osiris upon
its back safely to land, and another relates that Isis was obliged to
make the little ark in which she placed her son Horus of papyrus
plants, because only by
means could she protect her son from
this

the attack of the crocodile god Sebek. The later Egyptian

astrologers always considered the animal to be a symbol of the
Sun, and it is probable that to its connexion with the Sun-god
the statements of iElian (x. 21) are due. This writer remarks
that the female crocodile carried her eggs for sixty days before she
laid them, that the number of the eggs was sixty, that they took
sixty days to hatch, that a crocodile had sixty vertebrae in its
spine, and sixty nerves, and sixty teeth in its mouth, that its life

was sixty years, and that its annual period of fasting was sixty
days. Among other curious but mistaken views about the
crocodile, Plutarch (De hide, §75) mentions that the animal was
 HIPPOPOTAMUS, LION 359

looked upon as the image of God, and he explains the supposed

absence of a tongue by saying that "divine reason needeth not
speech." He credits the animal with great wisdom and fore-
knowledge, in proof of which he declares that in whatsoever part
of the country the female lays her eggs, so far will be the extent
of the inundation for that season. All the above mentioned views
are interesting as showing how legends of the animal gods and
their powers grew up in the later period of dynastic history, and
how mythological ideas were modified in the course of the
centuries which witnessed the decay of the old religion of Egypt.
Like the crocodile, the Hippopotamus was worshipped by the
primitive Egyptians, and the hippopotamus goddess was called
Rert, or Rertu, <z>I^L, and Ta-urt, ^ "v\ ^§Dn , Apet,

i W, Sheput, , etc., and was, practically, identified as a

form of every great goddess of Egypt, irrespective of the probability

of her being so. In predynastic times the hippopotamus was
probably common in the Delta, and the red and yellow breccia
statue of the animal which was made in the archaic period, and is

now preserved in the British Museum (No. 35,700), proves that its

cult is coeval with Egyptian civilization. According to certain

theological systems the hippopotamus goddess was the female
counterpart of Set, and the mother of the Sun-god, or of An-her,
whom she brought into the world at Ombos ; for this reason that

city was called the " Meskhenet," ffl

[' r— 1» or " birth-house,"

of Apet. On the whole, the hippopotamus goddess was a

beneficent creature, and she appears in the last vignette of the
Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead as a deity of the
Underworld, and a kindly guardian of the dead. She holds in her
right forepaw an object which has not yet been satisfactorily
explained, and her left rests upon the emblem of " protective,

magical power," V ; on the other hand, the monster Am-mit, which

appears in the Judgment Scene, has the hindquarters of a hippo-
potamus, a fact which reminds us that the destructive power of
the animal was not forgotten by the Egyptian theologians.
The cult of the Lion was also very ancient in Egypt, and it
 ;

360 THE LION

seems to have been tolerably widespread in early dynastic times
the animal was worshipped on account of his great strength and
courage, and was usually associated with the Sun-god, Horus or
Ra, and with deities of a solar character. Under the New Empire
the chief centre of the cult of the lion was the city of Leontopolis
in the Northern Delta, but it is quite certain that sacred lions
were kept in the temples at many places throughout Egypt.
iElian mentions (xii. 7) that lions were kept in the temple at
Heliopolis, and goes on to say that in the Lion City (Leontopolis)
the sacred lions were fed upon the bodies of slaughtered animals,
and that from time to time a calf was introduced into the lion's den
so that he might enjoy the pleasure of killing prey for himself;
whilst he was devouring his food the priests, or men set apart for the
purpose, sang songs to him. The original home of the lion in Egypt
was the Delta, where he lived under conditions similar to those
which existed in Southern Nubia and in the jungles of the rivers
Atbara and Blue Nile ; the deserts on each side of the Nile
between Khartum and the Mediterranean Sea of course also
contained lions, but probably not in very large numbers. In
Egyptian mythology the lion plays a comparatively prominent
part, and one of the oldest known Lion-gods is Aker,
who was supposed to guard the gate of the dawn through which
the Sun-god passed each morning ; Aker is mentioned in the
Pyramid Texts (e.g., Unas, lines 498, 614), and from the
j)assages in which his name occurs it is clear that his position and
attributes were even under the Early Empire well defined. In
later days the Egyptian mythologists believed that during the
night the sun passed through a kind of tunnel which existed in
the earth, and that his disappearance therein caused the night,
and his emerging therefrom caused the day ; each end of this
tunnel was guarded by a Lion-god, and the two gods were called

Akeeu (or

Theban Recension
Akerui) "^ ^ I , or "|\

of the Book of the Dead (Chapter xvii.) we

^^ %> s^a A ! . In the

find the Akeru gods represented by two lions which are seated
back to back, and support between them the horizon with the
sun's disk on it, cQd; in the later theology they are called Sef and
 THE SPHINX :3<51

Tuau, i.e., " Yesterday " and " To-day " respectively. Because
the Egyptians believed that the gates of morning and evening
were guarded by Lion-gods, they placed statues of lions at the
doors of their palaces and tombs to guard both the living and the
dead, and to keep evil spirits and fleshly foes from entering into
the gates to do harm to those who were inside them. To such
lion guardians they sometimes gave the heads of men and women,
and these are familiar to us under the name which was given to
them by the Greeks, i.e., " Sphinxes."

The oldest and finest human-headed lion statue is the famous

"Sphinx" at Gizeh (in Egyptian Hu, 8 \\ _2s&), which was

regarded as the symbol of the Sun-god Ra-Temu-Khepera-Heru-

khuti, and was made to keep away evil spirits from the tombs
which were round about it. The age of this marvellous statue is

unknown, but it existed in the time of Khephren, the builder of

the Second Pyramid, and was, most probably, very old even at
"
that early period. It may be noted in passing that the " Sphinx
at Gizeh was intended to be a guardian and protector of the dead
and of their tombs, and nothing else, and the idea of Plutarch and
others that it typified the enigmatical wisdom of the Egyptians
and strength and wisdom is purely fanciful. The men who made
the Sphinx believed they were providing a colossal abode for the
spirit of theSun-god which they expected to dwell therein and
to protect their dead it faced the rising sun, of which it was a
;

mighty symbol. The original idea of the man-headed lion statue

has no connexion with the views which the Greeks held about their
monstrous being the Sphinx, who is declared to have been a
daughter of Orthus, or Typhon, and Chimaera, or of Typhon and
Echidna ; moreover, Greek sphinxes are winged, and their heads
and breasts are always those of a woman, whilst Egyptian
lion statues have sometimes the heads of men, and some-
times the heads of sheep or rams. The " Sphinx " at Gizeh is

probably the product of the beliefs of a school of theologians which

existed when the cult of the lion was common in the Delta or
"
Northern Egypt, but tradition perpetuated the idea of " protection
which was connected with it, and the architectural conservatism
362 LION-HEADED GODS
of the Egyptians caused reproductions of it to be made for all the

great temples in the country in all periods of its history.

It is a moot point whether the lion was generally hunted in
Egypt or not, but it is improbable on the other hand Ave find ;

that Amen-hetep III. boasts of having shot with his own bow one
hundred and two lions during the first ten years of his reign, but
these were undoubtedly lions of Mitanni and not of Egypt. The
bas-reliefs and texts prove that Rameses II. and Rameses III. each

possessed a tame lion which not only accompanied them into battle,

but also attacked the enemy ; it is probable, however, that these

kings valued their pet lions more as symbols of the Sun-god and of
his protective power, than as effective combatants. In the Theban
Book of the Dead the double lion-god who is so often mentioned
under the name <sflj}\ i is, of course, Shu and Tefnut
or two gods who were identified with them. Other lion-gods bore
the names Ari-hes-nefer, n -o>- Oil iJj, Nefer-Tem, T ^ Jn

Hebi, rDAflfj, Heru-neb-Mesen, ?sj -^7 , Ma-hes

y §y '-^-j etc.; lioness-goddesses were Pakheth, .Bsa

Sekhet, fly ® J), Menat, a*ww^ ?

Renenet, S^^IA, Sebqet

f
1 A
JOI ' UET-HEEAU,

and a form of Hathor, and another of Nekhebet.

lg I
U ^, ASTHERTET, ^^^
The destroying
power of the Lion-god is alluded to in the figure of the monster
Am-niit, which was part crocodile, part lion, and part hippo-

potamus. The vignettes to the cxlvith and cxlviith Chapters of

the Book of the Dead show that lion-headed deities guarded certain
of the halls and pylons of the Underworld, and some connexion of
the Lion-god with the dead is certainly indicated by the fact that
the head of the bier is always made in the form of the head of a
lion, and that the foot of it is frequently ornamented with a repre-
sentation of a lion's For an account of Bast, the great
tail.

goddess of Bubastis, who was depicted with the head either of

a lioness, or of a cat, the reader is referred to the section on the
subject.
In connexion with the lion must be mentioned the Lynx
The Goddess URT-HEKAU.
 LYNX AND CAT 363

and Cat, for each of these animals played an interesting part in

Egyptian mythology. The lynx was called in Egyptian Maftet,
<

^g^ c±p or Jp j^ c^p y^iK the former spelling being that of the
,
.
;

Pyramid Texts, and the latter that in use in the Theban Recension
of the Book of the Dead. The animal is like a large cat and has
a small patch of hair on the tip of each ear, and its disposition is,

on the whole, benevolent. In the text of Unas (line 548) allusion

is made to its attack upon the serpents An-ta-f, h A ™~* A

and Tcheser-tep, ^ W II
7
® |^ , and it is evident from this that

the Lynx-god was a friend of the dead. In the Theban Recension

of the Book of the Dead, Maftet takes part with the gods, including
Serqet and Maat, in overthrowing the fiend Apep (Chaps, xxxiv.,
xxxix., cxlix. § 7), and we must therefore assume that the lynx
was a destroyer of serpents, and that the Lynx-god was supposed
to ward off the attacks of serpents from the dead.
The Cat was sacred to Bast, the goddess of Bubastis, and was
regarded as her incarnation its cult is very ancient, and as a
;

personification of the Sun-god the animal played a prominent part

in Egyptian mythology. Thus in the xviith Chapter of the Book of
tltf Dead mention is made of a Cat which took up its position by the
Persea tree in Heliopolis on the night when the foes of Osiris were
destroyed, and in the commentary which follows it is stated that
this " male Cat " was Ra himself, and that he was called " Mau,"

y (1 v\ ISy , by the god Sa, and the vignette depicts the Cat in the

act of cutting off the head of the serpent of darkness. In the

cxxvth Chapter the deceased says (line 11) in the usually received
text, " I have heard the mighty word which the Ass spake unto
" the Cat in theHouse of Hapt-re," but what that word was is not
stated. The Ass and the Cat are forms of the Sun-god, and it is
probable that the deceased learned from them the words which
would enable him, like them, to vanquish the powers of darkness.
From a stele reproduced by Signor Lanzone,
1
we find that prayers
were offered to by thetiro cats dedicated it, but two women who
whether these represented two forms of the Cat-god, or two pet

1 Biziouario, pi. 107.

364 DOG-HEADED APE
animals only is not clear. The cat is here called Mait, | (](j
d^,
1
instead of "Mau," as is usual. Another stele contains reliefs

in which worship is offered to a swallow and a cat, and the

monuments and inscriptions contain abundant evidence that the
greatest reverence was paid to the cat throughout Egypt, even
as classical writers say. According to Diodorus (i. 83) the
Egyptians fed their cats on bread and milk and slices of Nile fish,
and they called the animals to their meals by special sounds. When
a cat died its master had it placed in a linen sheet and taken to
the embalmers, who treated the body with spices and drugs, and
then laid it in a specially Whosoever killed a cat,
prepared case.

wittingly or unwittingly, was condemned to die, and an instance is

cited by Diodorus in which a certain Roman who had killed a cat
was attacked in his house by the infuriated populace and was slain.
Herodotus narrates (ii. 68) that "When a conflagration
" takes place a supernatural impulse seizes on the cats. For the
" Egyptians, standing at a distance, take care of the cats, and
" neglect to put out the fire but the cats making their escape,
;

" and leaping over the men, throw themselves into the fire ; and
" when this happens great lamentations are made among the
" Egyptians. In whatsoever house a cat dies of a natural death,
" all the family shave their eyebrows only ; but if a dog die, they
" shave the whole body and the head. All cats that die are

"carried to certain sacred houses, where being first embalmed,

" they are buried in the city of Bubastis."

Among Apes were regarded as

the Egyptians several kinds of
sacred animals, but the most revered of was that which was all

the companion of Thoth, and which is commonly known as the

Dog-headed Ape. This animal seems to have been brought in
old, as in modern, times from the country far to the south of
Nubia, but whether this be so or not it is certain that the Cyno-
cephalus ape found its way into Egyptian mythology at a very
early period. In the Judgment Scene he sits upon the standard
of the Great Scales,and his duty was to report to his associate

Thoth when the pointer marked the middle of the beam. Classical

1
Dizionario, pi. 118.
 ;

ELEPHANT AND BEAR 365

writers rightly discuss this ape in connexion with the moon, and
we know that sacred cynocephali were kept in many temples
which were dedicated to lunar gods, e.g., of Khensu at Thebes
certain classes of apes were regarded as the spirits of the dawn
which, having sung hymns of praise whilst the sun was rising,
turned into apes as soon as he had risen. The cult of the ape is
very ancient, and probably pre-dynastic, in which period dead
is

apes were embalmed with great care and buried.

In dynastic times the Elephant could not have been a sacred
animal in Egypt because he had long before withdrawn himself
to the swamps and lands of the reaches of the White and Blue
Niles. The Island opposite Syene was not called " Elephantine "
because the elephant was worshipped there, but probably because
it resembled the animal in shape, just as the city on the tongue of
land at the junction of the White and Blue Niles was called
"Khartum," i.e., "elephant's trunk" on account of its resemblance
in shape to that portion of an elephant's body. It is, however,
quite certain that great reverence must have been paid to the
elephant in predynastic times, because on the top of one of the
standards painted on predynastic pottery x
we find the figure of
an elephant, a fact which indicates that it was the god either of
some great family or district.

The existence of the Bear Egypt has not been satisfactorily

in
proved, and it is unlikely that this animal was indigenous. In a
3
passage in the Fourth Sallier Papyrus, which was translated by
Chabas, it is said that when Horus and Set fought together they
did so first in the form of two men, and that they then changed
themselves into two bears (ils se frapperent l'un l'autre etant sur la
plante de leurs pieds, sous la forme de deux hommes ils se ;

changerent en deux ours, etc.). Now the word rendered "bears"

by Chabas is tell, <=^>
J (](]
V, which he compared with the well-

known Hebrew word, nil, " bear ; but he appears to have for-
"
gotten the Hebrew word 2X], " wolf," with which tebi is most
1
See J. de Morgan, Recherches sur les Oriyines, Paris, 1897, p. 93. A carnelian
elephant amulet is preserved in the British Museum (4th Eg. Room, Table Case P,
No. 626 [14,608]).
2 Chabas, Le Calendrier, p. 28.
366 DOG AND WOLF
]3robably connected, and which provides a more reasonable sugges-
tion for translating the Egyptian text correctly. That bears did
exist in Egypt in the Predynastic and Archaic Periods is proved
by the green slate or schist model of a bear which is preserved in
the British Museum (3rd Eg. Room, Table-case L, No. 29,416).
According to Herodotus (ii. 67) there were bears in Egypt, though
he says they were few, ra<> 8e ap/crou<?, iovcras, cnraviaq, and as he
mentions them with wolves it is probable that the animals to which
he refers were not bears but a species of wolf.
The Dog, though a very favourite animal of the Egyptians,
ajopears never to have been regarded as a god, although great
respect was paid to the animal in the city of Cynopolis ; on the
other hand Herodotus tells us (ii. 66) that in " whatsoever house a
" cat dies of a natural death, all the family shave their eyebrows
" only ; but if a dog die, they shave the whole body and head ....
" All persons bury their clogs in sacred vaults within their own
" city." If any wine, or corn, or any other necessary of life

happened to be in a house when a dog died its use was prohibited :

and when the body had been embalmed it was buried in a tomb
amid the greatest manifestations of grief by those to whom it

belonged. If we accept the statement of Diodorus (i. 85) that a

dog was the guardian of the bodies of Osiris and Isis, and that
dogs guided Isis in her search for the body of Osiris, and protected
her from savage beasts, we should be obliged to admit that the dog
played a part in Egyptian mythology ; but there is no reason for

doing so, because it is clear that Diodorus, like many modern

writers, confounded the dog with the jackal. The dog, like the
jackal, may have been sacred to Anubis, but the mythological and
religious texts of all periods prove that it was the jackal-god who
ministered to Osiris, and who acted as guide not only to him but
to every other Osiris in the Underworld.
Like the dog, the Wolf enjoyed considerable respect in

certain parts of Egypt, e.g., the Wolf-city, Lycopolis, but there is

reason for thinking that ancient writers confounded the wolf with
the jackal. Thus Herodotus tells us (ii. 122) of a festival which
was celebrated in connexion with the descent of Rhampsinitus into
the Underworld, and says that on a certain day " the priests
 JACKAL AND ASS 367

" having woven a cloak, blind the eyes of one of their number
" with a scarf and having conducted him with the cloak on him to
" the way that leads to the temple of Ceres, they then return ;

" upon which, they say, this priest with his eyes bound is led by
" two wolves to the temple of Ceres, twenty stades distant from
" the city, and afterwards the wolves lead him back to the same

"place." The two wolves here referred to can be nothing but

representatives of the jackal-gods Anpu and Ap-uat, who played
very prominent parts in connexion with the dead. Another
legend recorded by Diodorus (i. 88) declares that when Horus was
making ready to do battle with Set, his father's murderer, Osiris
returned from the Underworld in the form of a wolf to assist him
in the fight. It is important to note here the statement of
Macrobius, who says (Saturn, i. 19) that Apollo, i.e., Horus, and
the wolf were worshipped at Lycopolis with equal reverence, for
it connects the wolf with Horus and Set, and indicates that these
gods fought each other in the forms of wolves and not of bears.
Legends of this kind prove that the Egyptians did not carefully
distinguish between the wolf, jackal, and dog.
At a very early period the Jackal was associated with the
dead and their tombs, because he lived in the mountains and
deserts wherein the Egyptians loved to be buried. The principal
jackal-gods were Anpu (Anubis) and Ap-uat ; for accounts of
these the reader is referred to the sections which describe their
history and attributes.
The Ass, like many animals, was regarded by the Egyptians
both as a god and a devil. In a hymn to Ra as found in the
Papyrus of Ani (sheet 1, line 14), the deceased says, "May I
"journey forth upon earth, may I smite the Ass, may I crush the
" serpent-fiend Sebau may I destroy Apep in his hour," a passage
;

which proves that the animal was associated with Apep, and Set,
and the other gods of darkness and evil. On the other hand, the
xlth Chapter of the Book of the Dead is entitled the " Chapter of
driving back the Eater of the Ass," and its vignette shows us the
deceased in the act of spearing a monster serpent which has
fastened its jaws in the back of an ass. Here the ass is certainly
a form of the Sun-god, and the serpent is Hai, a form of Apep,
368 THE PIG
and it is clear from this that the ass was at one period held to be
a god. In the cxxvth Chapter we are told that the Ass held a
conversation with the Cat, and the passage in which the statement
occurs affords additional proof that the ass was a symbol of the
Sun-god. The probable explanation of the existence of these two
opposite views about the ass is that Egyptian opinion changed
about the animal, and that the later form of it held the ass to be
a devil and not a god as in the oldest times. Plutarch records a
legend (De hide, § 31) to the effect that Typhon, i.e., Set, escaped
from out of the battle with Horus on the back of an ass, and that
after he had got into a place of safety he begat two sons, Hiero-
solymus and Judaeus ; but no reliance can be placed on a state-
ment which is so absurd on the face of it.
The Pig possessed a reputation for evil in Egypt, as in many
other countries of the East, and the Egyptians always associated
the animal with Set or Typhon. The cxiith Chapter of the Booh
of the Dead why it was held in such
supplies us with the reason
abomination, and tells us that Ra said to Horus one day, " Let me
" see what is coming to pass in thine eye," and having looked, he

said to Horus, " Look at that black pig." Thereupon Horus

looked, and he immediately felt that a great injury was done to
his eye, and he said to Ra, " Verily, my eye seemeth as if it were
" an eye upon which Suti had inflicted a blow." The text goes on
to say that the black pig was no other than Suti, who had trans-
formed himself into a black pig, and had aimed the blow which
had damaged the eye of Horus. As the result of this the god Ra
ordered his companion gods to regard the pig as an abominable
animal in future. According to Herodotus (ii. 47), if an Egyptian
had only garment touched by a pig he would go straightway
his
to the Nile and plunge into it to cleanse himself from pollution.
The same writer tells us that swineherds were the only men who
were not allowed to enter any of the temples, and that the
Egyptians sacrificed the pig to the moon and Bacchus only. The
poor, through want of means, used to make pigs of dough, and
having baked them, they would offer them up as sacrifices, but
the wealthy, having seen the tip of the tail of the animal and its
spleen, and caul, and fat from the belly burnt in the fire, would
 SHREW-MOUSE, HEDGEHOG 369

eat the flesh at the period of full moon, but at no other time,
Horapollo (ii. 37) says that the hog was the symbol of a filthy
man, and iElian, in his account of the pig (De Natura Auiunilium,
x. 16), after stating that it eats human flesh, goes on to say that
the Egyptians abominated it more than any other animal. On the
other hand, they kept pigs and did not sacrifice them too
abundantly, because they employed them to tread the grain into
the ground with their According to the Rubric to the
feet.

cxxvth Chapter of the Booh of the Dead, the vignette was to be

drawn upon " a new tile moulded from earth upon which
in colour
" neither a pig nor any other animal hath trodden." Why, how-
ever, the pig should be especially mentioned is hard to say. From
one point of view the pig was a sacrosanct animal, and it is clear
that the idea of its being holy arose from its connexion with Osiris ;

the texts, unfortunately, do not explain its exact connexion with

this god, and it is doubtful if the Egyptians of the dynastic period
themselves possessed any definite information on the subject.
Though representations of the Bat, called in the texts setcha-

l-hemu, H
J
'^ e |\ ^ , and taki c^> "%\ S (1(1 , have been found

in Egyptian tombs, proof is wanting that it was worshipped by

the Egyptians of the dynastic period ; a green slate model of a
bat was, however, found with other predynastic remains in Upper
Egypt, and it seems that it must have been regarded at least as a

sacred creature.
Among small animals the Shrew-mouse and the Hedgehog
were considered to be sacred, but the texts afford no informa-
tion about the parts which they played in Egyptian mythology ;

figures of both animals in porcelain and bronze have been

found in the tombs. According to Herodotus (ii. 67) the shrew-
mouse was sacred to the goddess Buto, i.e., Uatchit, and all

mummies of the animal were buried in her city ; one legend about
it declared that Uatchit took the form of the shrew-mouse that she
might be the better able to escape from Typhon, who was seeking
to destroy Horus, the son of Osiris, after he had been committed
to her charge. Curiously enough, the shrew-mouse was thought
by the Egyptians to be a blind animal, and Plutarch declares
ii —b b
 ;

370 ICHNEUMON
(Symp. iv. 5) that it was held to be the proper symbol of darkness
in connexion with this it is interesting to note that the inscriptions
on the bronze figures of the animal identify it with Heru-khent-
an-maa, i.e., the " Blind Horus," or, " Horus who dwelleth in
darkness."
The Ichneumon, in Egyptian Jchatru, T "v\ ° "v\ , in Coptic

cy<^eoY?\, as a destroyer of snakes and the eggs of crocodiles, has

formed the subject of many curious legends which have been
preserved by classical writers. 1
Pliny says that " it plunges itself
" repeatedly into the mud, and then dries itself in the sun : as soon
" as, by these means, it has armed itself with a sufficient number
" of coatings, it proceeds to the combat. Raising its tail, and
"turning its back to the serpent, it receives its stings, which are
" inflicted to no purpose, until at last, turning its head sideways,
" and viewing its enemy, it seizes it by the throat." The
ichneumon was said to destroy not only the eggs of the crocodile,
but also the animal itself. According to Strabo, their habit was
to lie in wait for the crocodiles, when the latter were basking in
the sun with their mouths wide open ; they then dropped into
their jaws, and eating through their intestines and belly issued
forth from the dead body. Diodorus declares that the ichneumon
only breaks the eggs with the idea of rendering a service to man,
and thinks that the creature derives no benefit itself from its act,
and he goes on to say that but for the ichneumon the number of
crocodiles would be so great that no one would be able to approach
the Nile. Several figures of the iclmeumon in bronze have been
found in the tombs, but the texts supply no information about the
beliefs which the Egyptians entertained about this remarkable

animal. Modern naturalists have shown that there is no truth in

the statement that it is immune from the effects 'of snake-bite, or
that having been bitten it has recourse to the root of a certain
plant as an antidote ; the fact is that its great agility and quickness
of eye enable it to avoid the fangs of the serpent, and to take the
first opportunity of fixing its own teeth in the back of the reptile's

1 Herodotus, ii. 67; Diodorus, i. 87; Strabo, xvii., i. 39; Plutarch, Be

Iside, § 74 ; iElian, vi. 38 ; Aristotle, Hist. Anim., ix. 6 ; Pliny, viii. 36.
 —

HARE, PHOENIX 371

neck. It is very fond of eggs, and for this reason seeks out those
of the crocodile with great avidity, but it loves equally well the
eggs of poultry, and in consequence it sometimes bears an evil
reputation among the keepers of hens, turkeys, etc.
The Hare was worshipped as a deity, and in the vignette of
the Elysian Fields we see a hare-headed god, and a snake-headed
god, and a bull-headed god sitting side by side ; a hare-headed
god also guards one of the Seven Halls in the Underworld. The
Hare-god was probably called Unnu. 1

Among the birds which were worshipped by the Egyptians,

or held to be sacred, the following were the most important :

1. The Bennu, ^^, a bird of the heron species which was

identified with the Phoenix. This bird is said to have created
and to have come into being from out of the fire which
itself,

burned on the top of the sacred Persea Tree of Heliopolis it ;

was essentially a Sun-bird, and was a symbol both of the risino-

sun and of the dead Sun-god Osiris, from whom it sprang, and
to whom it was sacred. The Bennu not only typified the new
birth of the sun each morning, but in the earliest period of
dynastic history became the symbol of the resurrection of
it

mankind, for a man's spiritual body was believed to sprint

from the dead physical body, just as the living sun of to-day had
its origin in the dead sun of yesterday. The Bennu sprang from
the heart of Osiris, and was, in consequence, a most holy bird ; in
a picture reproduced by Signor Lanzone, 2 it is represented sitting
on the branches of a tree which grows by the side of a sepulchral
chamber. In the lxxxiiird Chapter of the Booh of the Dead,
which provides the formula for enabling the deceased to take the
form of the Bennu, this bird says, " I came into being from unformed
" matter. I came into existence like the god Khepera. I am the
" germs of every god," ° c
^^ ^37* According
° J ° 7
^^^ Vvft
A ^=^"
$>± III
|

I
°
to Herodotus (ii. 77), the phoenix only made its appearance once in

1
" Unnut, lady of Unnut," -^> O ^ ^37 ^> @ , is the female form
, «...',*«
oee Lanzone, JJizumario, o2. pi.
@ Q "^ ^ ©
- D!;:iortarto, pi. 70.
372 VULTURE, HAWK
five hundred years ; hisplumage was partly golden-coloured and
partly red, and in size and form he resembled an eagle. He came
from Arabia, and brought with him the body of his father, which
he had enclosed in an egg of myrrh, to the temple of the sun, and
buried him there. Pliny says (x. 3) that when the phoenix
became old he built a nest of cassia and sprigs of incense, and that
having filled it with perfumes he lay down and died. From his

bones and marrow there sprang a small worm which in process of

time changed into a little bird, which, having buried the remains
of its predecessor, carried off the nest to the City of the Sun.
2. The Vultuee was the symbol of the goddesses Nekhebet,
Mut, Neith, and others who were identified with Nekhebet ; the
cult of the vulture is extremely ancient in Egypt, and dates
probably from predynastic times, for one of the oldest titles of the
Pharaohs of Egypt is " Lord of the city of the Vulture (Nekhebet,

or Eileithyiapolis), lord of the city of the Uraeus" (Uatchet, or

Buto), and it is found engraved on monuments of the late pre-

dynastic and early archaic periods. iElian, in describing the

vultures (ii. 46), says that they hover about the dead and dying,
and eat human flesh, and that they follow men to battle as if

knowing that they would be slain. According to this writer, all

vultures are females, and no male vulture was ever known ; to

obtain young they turn their backs to the south, or south-east

wind, which fecundates them, and they bring forth young after
three years.
3. The Hawk
was sacred to Horus, Ra, Osiris, Seker, and to
other cognate gods, and its worship was universal throughout Egypt
in predynastic times the centre of the cult of the Hawk-god was
;

Hieraconpolis, or the " Hawk City." The hawk was not only a
Sun-bird but, when represented with a human head, was symbolic
of the human soul. According to Herodotus (ii. 65), death was
the punishment of the man who
hawk or an ibis, and
killed a
Diodorus records (i. hawks were maintained
83) that the sacred
at the public expense, and that they would come to their keepers
when called, and would catch the pieces of raw meat which they
threw to them in full flight. The Egyptians venerated two
species, i.e., the golden hawk, h ^^* ^tQ /ww^ f^H^ an(j ^he
j]
 ;

HERON, SWALLOAV 37:3

sacred hawk,
J
(1 ^z^> vv 1 <=> 3 ; from the lxxviith Chapter of
the Book of the Dead it may be gathered that the former was
supposed to be four cubits wide, and that it was identified with
the Bennu, or Phoenix, is proved by the words in the texts which
are put into the mouth of the deceased, " I have risen, and I have
" gathered myself together like the beautiful hawk of gold, which
" hath the head of a Bennu, and Ra entereth in day by day to
" hearken unto my words." The divine hawk was, as we learn
from the lxxviiith Chapter, the offspring of Tern, and the symbol of
the One God, and of Horus as the successor of his father Osiris, to
whom " millions of years minister, and whom millions of years
" hold in fear ; for him the gods labour, and for him the gods toil

" millions of years."

4. The Heron, x ^, was certainly a sacred bird, and that

AA/WVA \\

its body was regarded as a possible home for a human soul is

proved by the lxxxivth Chapter of the Book of the Dead, which
was composed with the view of helping a man to effect a trans-
formation into a heron.
5. The Swallow also was a bird wherein the human soul
might reincarnate and the object of the lxxxvith Chapter of
itself,

the Book of theDead was to enable it to do so the Rubric of the ;

Chapter declares that if it be known by the deceased, " he shall

" come forth by day, and he shall not be turned back at any gate
" in the Underworld, and that he shall make his transformations
" into a swallow regularly and continually." In the opening
words the deceased is made to say, " I am a swallow, I am a
" swallow, I am the Scorpion, the daughter of Ra," a fact which
seems to show that the swallow was connected with the Scorpion-
goddess [Serqet.From a tablet at Turin, which is published by
Signor Lanzone, we see that offerings were made to the swallow
1

the bird is seen perched upon a pylon-shaped building, before

which stands a table loaded with offerings, and above are a few
short lines of text in which it is called the " beautiful swallow,"

^, T ^fe . According to Plutarch, the goddess Isis

1
Bizionario, pi. 118.
 — "

374 GOOSE
took upon herself the form of a swallow when she was lamenting
the death of Osiris.
The Goose, or at least one species of it, was sacred to
6.

Amen-Ra, a fact which is hard to explain. In a drawing

o-iven by Signor Lanzone
l
we have a vase of flowers resting
upon the ends of two pylon-shaped buildings, and on each of
these stands a goose with its shadoAv, T, behind it, or by its

side the five lines of the text above read, " Amen-Ra, the beautiful
;

Goose," and " the beautiful Goose of Amen-Ra." In another scene

2
which is likewise reproduced by Lanzone, is depicted a goose with
its shadow standing on a building as before, and opposite to it
is seated Amen-Ra before the god and the goose is a table of
;

offerings. The words above the god read, " Amen-Ra, the hearer
of entreaty," and those over the goose are " the beautiful Goose,

greatly beloved," Q
= °^^Mi,^P = r^~= T'
In the earliest time the goose, or rather gander, was associated

with Seb the erpdt, a , of the gods, who is called in the Boole

of the Dead "the Great Cackler" (Chapters liv., lv.). The goose
was a favourite article of food in Egypt, and was greatly in
request for offerings in the temples ; according to Herodotus
(ii. 37) a portion of the daily food of the priests consisted of goose
flesh. The goose is said to have been sacred to Isis, and the centre
of the great trade in the bird was X-iqvo^oaKiov, or XrjvofiocrKia
(Chenoboscium or Chenoboscia), i.e., the " Goose pen," a town in
Upper Egypt, which was situated in the nome Diospolites, and was
quite near to the marshes wherein large numbers of geese were
fattened systematically. The Copts gave the name of " Sheneset
to the town, and this has been identified with the Egyptian

Isn^ r| ,
" Het-sa-Ast," by Brugsch; 3 on the other hand
M. Amelineau thinks that the Greek name Chenoboskion is derived

from the words y TqTqT ^j\ * D /wwvv lbs, '

n^> which, he says,
are equivalent in meaning to " the place where the geese are
"
fattened." The meaning of the goose as a hieroglyphic is " child

1
Dizionario, pi. 22. = Ibid., pi. 361. s Diet. Geog., p. 659.
 IBIS 375

or "son," and Horapollo goes so far as to say (i. 53) that it was
chosen to denote a son from its love to its young, being always
ready to give up to the hunter
itself if only they might be pre-
served, and that owing to this trait in its character the Egyptians
revered it.

7. The
was universally venerated throughout Egypt, and
Ibis
the centre of its cult in very early times was the city of Khemennu,
or Hermopolis, where the bird was associated with the Moon
1
and with Thoth, the scribe of the gods. It seems to have been

worshipped in the first instance because it killed snakes and

reptiles in general in large numbers, and it was thought to destroy
the winged serpents, which, it was declared, were brought over
into Egypt from the deserts of Libya by the west wind. Herodotus
tells us that he once went to a certain place in Arabia, almost
exactly opposite the city of Buto, to make inquiries concerning
the winged serpents. On his arrival he " saw the back-bones and
'
ribs of serpents in such numbers as it is impossible to describe ;

•
of the ribs there were a multitude of heaps, some great, some
'small, The place where the bones lie is at
some middle-sized.
'
the entrance of a narrow gorge between steep mountains, which
'
there open upon a spacious plain communicating with the great
'
plain of The story goes, that with the spring, the
Egypt.
'
winged snakes come flying from Arabia towards Egypt, but
'
are met in this gorge by the birds called ibises, who forbid their
'
entrance and destroy them all. The Arabians assert, and the
'
Egyptians also admit, that it is on account of the service thus
'
rendered that the Egyptians hold the ibis in so much reverence.
'
The ibis is a bird of a deep black colour, with legs like a crane ;

'its beak is strongly hooked, and its size is about that of the
'
landrail. This is a description of the black ibis which contends
'
with the serpents. The commoner sort, for there are two quite
'
distinct species, has the head and the whole throat bare of
'
feathers ; its general plumage is white, but the head and neck
'
are jet black, as also are the tips of the wings and the extremity
'
of the tail ; in its beak and legs it resembles the other species.

1
See /Elian, Be Nat. Annual., x.29; Horapollo, i. 10, 36; Herodotus ii.,

p. 75 ; Diodorus, i. 83 ; Plutarch, Be Iside, § 75 etc. ;

376 TORTOISE, SERPENT
•'
The winged serpent is shaped like the water-snake. Its wings
l
•'
are not feathered, but resemble very closely those of the bat."
Among the reptiles which were deified by the Egyptians,
or were regarded as sacred creatures, may be mentioned the
folio win or :
—
The Tortoise or Turtle, which probably came
1.

from Nubia, and was worshipped or revered through fear. The

Tortoise-god Apesh, C) c
|£§>, was associated with the powers of
darkness, and night, and and a place was assigned to him in
evil,

the heavens with their representatives. In the clxist Chapter of

the Book of the Dead mention is made of the Tortoise, or Turtle,

in such a way, as to suggest that he was an enemy of Ra, and the

formula " Ra liveth, the Tortoise dieth," is given four times, once
in connexion with each of the four winds of heaven. The tortoise

Sheta,
°a '^^^j is also mentioned in the lxxxiiird Chapter,
wherein the deceased is made to declare that he has germinated
like the things which germinate, and has clothed himself like

the tortoise.
2. Of the Serpent and Snake many varieties were worshipped
by the Egyptians for the sake of the good qualities which
they possessed, and many were revered through fear only. In
predynastic times Egypt was overrun with serpents and snakes
of all kinds, and the Pyramid Texts prove that her inhabitants
were terribly afraid of them ; the formulae which are found in the
pyramid of Unas against snakes are probably older than dynastic
times, and their large numbers suggest that the serpent tribes were
man's chief enemies. The cult of the uraeus, or asp, is extremely
ancient, and its centre was the city of Per-Uatchet, or Buto, where
a temple was built in honour of the Uraeus-goddess Uatchet,

U (J 14^, in early dynastic times. This city enjoyed with that

|J

of Nekhebet a position of peculiar importance among the

Egyptians, and one of the oldest royal titles is " Lord of Nekhebet,
lord of Uatchet," i.e., lord of the Vulture-city, lord of the Uraeus-
city. The cities of Nekhebet and Uatchet were in fact the
ecclesiastical centres of the Southern and Northern kingdoms of

1
Rawlinson's Herodotus, vol. ii., pp. 12-i, 125.
%
The Goddess SERQET.
 SCORPION 377

Egypt, and they were first founded in primitive times when the
vulture and the uraeus were especially worshipped. The great
enemy of Horus, and Ra, and Osiris, and also of the deceased in
the Underworld was the monster serpent Apep, or Apophis, which
directed the attacks on gods and men of numbers of serpent broods,
and which was held to be the personification of all evil ; on the
other hand the uraeus was the symbol of divinity and royalty, for
the walls of the abode of Osiris were surmounted by "living uraei,"
and the god Ra wore two uraei upon his forehead, and every king
is represented with a uraeus upon his forehead. In primitive times,
when man coveted the powers of various birds and reptiles, and
when he appears to have wished to be able to assume their forms
after death, the priests provided a number of formulae which would

enable him to do this, and among them was one which gave the

deceased the power of becoming the serpent Sata, 1^ "

, and
which read, " I am the serpent Sata whose years are many. I die
" and I am born again each day. I am the serpent Sata which
" dwelleth in the uttermost parts of the earth. I die and I am
" born again, and I renew myself, and I grow young each day." l

In religious texts the uraeus is associated with Isis and Nephthys,

but this is due to the fact that in comparatively late times these
goddesses were identified with Uatchet, the uraeus-goddess, who
was at one time or another absorbed into all the great goddesses,
many of whom were regarded as benevolent and beneficent deities

and the protectors of a man's house, and land and crops, and
children.
3. The Scorpion was venerated in Egypt at a very early
period, and the scorpion-goddess Serqet or Selqet was in some
of her aspects associated with the powers of evil, and in others
with the goddess Isis. In the xxxiind Chapter of the Booh of the
Dead she appears as a friend of the deceased, and in the xliind
Chapter his teeth are identified with those of the goddess. From
the legend of Isis which is told on the Metternich Stele we learn
that this goddess was accompanied on her journey by Seven
Scorpions, and that the child Horus was stung by a scorpion which
1
Booh of the Bead, Chapter Ixxxvii.
 ;

378 APSHAIT, BEBAIT

made its way to him in spite of all the precautions which the
goddess had taken. According to iElian (x. 19), the scorpions of

Coptos were of a most formidable character, and whosoever was

bitten by one of them died of a certainty; in spite of this, however,
they respected Isis so much that they never stung the women
who went to the temple of the goddess to pray, even though they
walked with their feet bare or prostrated themselves on the
ground. This statement is useful as showing that the scorpion
was sacred to Isis.
4. The xxxvith Chapter of the Book of the Dead mentions
a kind of beetle called Apshait, n ToTqT 'yx (](] ^> which was
supposed to gnaw the bodies of the dead. In one vignette of the
Chapter the deceased is seen threatening it with a knife, and in
the other the creature is represented in the form of an ordinary
scarabaeus which is being speared by him. The Apshait is

probably the beetle which is often found crushed between the

bandages of poorly made mummies, or even inside the body itself,

where it has forced its way in search of food.

5. In the lxxvi th and civth Chapters of the Book of the Bead an

insect called Abit,

is mentioned which
^ J
is
(]()
- "^ , or Bebait,

said to lead the deceased into the "

JJ %^ \\
- »&,
House of
the King," and to bring him "to see the great gods who are in
the Underworld " ; this creature is probably to be identified with
the praying Mantis (mantis religiosa) about which so many legends
are current.
6. The Frog appears to have been worshipped in primitive
times as the symbol of generation, birth, and fertility in general

the Frog-goddess Heqet,

| JN, or Heqtit, |
flfl^Jj? was
identified with Hathor, and was originally the female counterpart
of Khnemu, by whom she became the mother of Heru-ur. The
great antiquity of the cult of the frog is proved by the fact that
each of the four primeval gods Heh, Kek, Nau, and Amen is

depicted with the head of a frog, while his female counterpart has
the head of a serpent. The cult of the frog is one of the oldest in
Egypt, and the Frog-god and the Frog-goddess were believed to
have played very prominent parts in the creation of the world.
 GRASSHOPPER, BEETLE 379

According to Horapollo (i. 25), the frog typified an imperfectly

formed man, j4.7rXo.aTou Se dvOpcunov ypd(f)OVT€<$ fidrpayov ^ojypcufxiv-
<Tiv, because it was generated from the slime of the river, whence
it occasionally happens that it is seen with one part of a frog, and
the remainder formed of slime, so that should the river fall, the
animal would be left imperfect ; the half-formed creatures referred
to by Diodorus (i. 10) seem to have been frogs. JElian also
declares (ii. 5G) that in a shower which once fell upon him there
were half- formed frogs, and that whilst their fore parts were
provided with two feet their hind parts were shapeless !

7. With the Grasshopper ideas of religious enjoyment seem

to have been associated, for in the Book of the Dead (Chap, cxxv.)
"
the deceased says, " I have rested in the Field of the Grasshoppers

(MA ^
^*= ^ vv y^) Sekhet-Saxehemu), wherein was
situated the " northern city ;
" it lay to the south of Sekhet-hetep.
The grasshopper is mentioned as early as the VTth Dynasty, and
in the text of Pepi II. (line 860) the king is said to " arrive in

heaven like the grasshopper of Ra," | j\ ^^ (a '111 v°J u ]

8. Chief among insects in importance was the Beetle, or

Scarabaeus, which was called by the Egyptians kheprerd,

{trf h^£' anc^ was ^ie svmD °l °f Khepera, 0<cr>n,jj, the

great god of creation and resurrection. The Beetle-god is repre-
sented at times with a beetle upon his head, and at others with a
beetle for a head ; as Khepera' s attributes have already been fully
described we need only repeat here that he was the " father of the
gods," and the creator of all things in heaven and earth, that he
was self-besrotten and self-born, and that he was identified with the
rising sun, and new birth generally. The beetle or scarabaeus
which was modelled by the Egyptians in such large numbers
belongs to the family called Scarahaeidae (Coprophagi), of which
the Scarabaeus saner is the type. These insects compose a very
numerous group of dung-feeding Lamellicorns, of which, however,
the majority are inhabitants of tropical countries. A remarkable
peculiarity exists in the structure and situation of the hind legs,
380 BEETLE
which are placed so near the extremity of the body, and so far

from each other as to give the insect a most extraordinary

appearance when walking.
This peculiar formation is, nevertheless, particularly serviceable

to its possessors in rolling the balls of excrementitious matter in

which they enclose their eggs ; wherefore these insects were
named by the first naturalists Pilulariae. These balls are at first

irregular and soft, but, by degrees, and during the process of

rolling along, become rounded and harder they are propelled by ;

means of the hind legs. Sometimes these balls are an inch and a

half, or two inches in diameter, and in rolling them along the

beetles stand almost upon their heads, with the heads turned from
the balls. These manoeuvres have for their object the burying of
the balls in holes, which the insects have previously dug for their
reception ; and it is upon the dung thus deposited that the larvae
feed. It does not appear that these beetles have the instinct to
distinguish their own balls, as they will seize upon those belonging
to another, in case they have lost their own ; and, indeed, it is said

that several of them occasionally assist in rolling the same ball.

The males as well as the females assist in rolling the pellets. They
fly during the hottest part of the day. 1
From the above extract it

is clear that the scarabaeus is in the habit of laying its eggs in dung,
which is to serve as food for its larvae, and that the larvae are
hatched by the heat of the sun's rays. The ball of matter contain-
ing potential was compared to the sun's globe, which contained
life

the germs of all life, and the beetle, with its ball of matter and
eggs, was regarded as the symbol of the great god Khepera who
rolled the globe of the sun across the sky. Now, the god Khepera
also represented inert but living matter, which was about to begin
a course of existence for the first time, or to enjoy a renewal of
life, and he was thus not only the creator of life but also the
restorer or renewer of life, and so at a very early period became
associated by the Egyptians, first with the idea of the new birth
of the sun daily, and secondly, with the resurrection of man. And
since the scarabaeus was identified with him that insect became at
1
J. 0. Westwood, An Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects,
London, 1839, vol. i., p. 204 ff.
 BEETLE 381

once the symbol of the god and of the Resurrection. Now the dead
human body, from one aspect, contained the germ of life, that is

to say, the germ of the spiritual body, which was called into being
by means of the prayers that were recited and the ceremonies that
were performed on the day of the funeral ; from this point of view
the egg-ball of the scarabaeus and the dead body were identical.
Moreover, as the scarabaeus had given potential life to its eggs in
the ball, so, it was thought, would a model of the scarab, itself the
symbol of the god of new life and resurrection, also give potential

life to the dead body upon which it was placed, and keep life in
the living body, always provided that the proper words of power
"
were first said over it or written upon it. The idea of " life

appears to have been associated with the scarab from time

immemorial in Egypt and the Eastern Sudan, for to this day the
insect is dried, pounded, and mixed with water, and then drunk
by women, who believe it to be an unfailing specific for the
production of large families.
That the scarab was associated with the sun is clear from
a passage in the text of Unas (line 477), where it is said, "This
" Unas flieth like a bird, and alighteth like a beetle ; he flieth like
" a bird and he alighteth like a beetle upon the throne which is

" empty in thy boat, Ra," Q %? (^HJlfl

D ^
I D/j*i n n

klSPfc =^ O . In the text of Teta

and Pepi I. is declared to be " the son of the scarab which is born
" in Hetepet under the hair of Iusaas the Northern, and the issue

" ^ *• brow of Seb," ^ M & f5S *

g ffi (ft P >!>
-^ ^ P
1
° <=>
Ik P ® ^ ^ ^V J 1&* *
Amon o classical

writers the opinion prevailed that female scarabs did not exist,
and Latreille thinks that this belief arose from the fact that the

females are exceedingly like the males, and that both sexes appear

1 J31ian, x. 15 ; Horapollo, i. x. ; Porphyry, Be Abstinentia, iv. 9.

382 BEETLE
to divide the care of their offspring equally between them.
According to Horapollo, a scarabaeus denotes an " only -begotten,
generation, father, world, and man." It represents an "only-
begotten " because the scarabaeus is a creature self-produced, being
unconceived by a female. The male, when desirous of procreating,

takes some ox-dung, and shapes it into a spherical form like the

world. He next rolls it from east to west, looking himself towards

the east. Having dug a hole, he buries it in it for twenty-eight

days ; on the twenty-ninth day he opens the ball, and throws it

into the water, and from it the scarabaei come forth. The idea
of " generation " arises from its supposed The scarabaeus
acts.

denotes a "father" because it is engendered by a father only, and

" world " because in its generation it is fashioned in the form of
the world, and " man " because there is no female race among
them. Every scarabaeus was also supposed to have thirty toes,

corresponding with the thirty clays' duration of the month. For

accounts of the use of scarabs as amulets the reader is referred to
1
other works.
Concerning the cult of Fish among the Egyptians but little

can be said, because the hieroglyphic texts afford us little informa-

tion on the subject. According to Strabo (xvii. 2, 4), there were
" in the Nile fish in great quantity and of different kinds, having
" a peculiar and indigenous character. The best known are the
" Oxyrhynchus, and the Lepidotus, the Latus, the Alabes, the
" Coracinus, the Choerus, and the Phagrorius, called also the
" Phagrus. Besides these are the Silurus, the Citharus, the
" Thrissa, the Cestreus, the Lychnus, the Physa, the Bous, or ox,
" and large shell-fish which emit a sound like that of wailing."
Among these were chiefly worshipped the Oxyrhynchus, the
Phagrus, the Latus, and the Lepidotus. The chief seat of the cult
of the Oxyrhynchus Fish was the city of Oxyrhynchus, where it

was held in the greatest reverence ; this fish was supposed to have
swallowed the phallus of Osiris 2 when Set was hacking the body of
this god in pieces, and for this reason was sacred not only in the

nome of the Oxyrhynchites and its metropolis, but all over Egypt.

1
See my Mummy, p. 233 ff. ; Magic, p. 35 ff. - Plutarch, Be Iside, § 18.
 FISHES 383

In certain places the Egyptians would not eat it. The Phagrus,
or eel, was worshipped in Upper Egypt, and mummied eels have
been found in small, sepulchral boxes. Of the Lepidotus Fish no
legends have been preserved ; the Latus was worshipped at Esneh.
The fish with the very wide and large mouth which is seen on the

head of the goddess Hatmehit, -=^ °<==^ 8 ^ has not yet been
flfl J) ,

identified. In the Booh of the Dead two mythological fish are

mentioned, the Abtu, ¥

J
££ v\<e=<, and the Ant, (j/wwvv<o<;

these fish were supposed to swim, one on each side of the bows of the
boat of the Sun-god, and to drive away from it every evil being or
thing in the waters which had a mind to attack it. The identifica-
tion of Nile fish is at present a difficult matter, but it is to be
hoped that when the Egyptian Government monograph issues the

on the fish of Egypt and the Delta, and of Nubia and the Sudan
it may be possible to name correctly the various bronze and

wooden fish which exist in the many collections of Egyptian

antiquities in Egypt and Europe.
 INDEX

A = Thoth, i. 402 Aarer, i. 455 Abata, ii. 326

Aa-ab, ii. 127 Aaru, ii. 120 ; Lake of, Abaton, ii. 213
Aaai, i. 342 i. 2t)7 Ab-em-tu-f, ii. 301
Aaai, ii. 320 Aa-sekhemu, i. 178 Abesh, i. 198
Aa-am-khekh, ii. 302 Aa-shefit, i. Ill ; ii. 58 Abet-neterus, i. 248
Aaan. ii. 268 Aa-sheft, ii. 300 Abit, ii. :
:
!7s

Aaapef, ii. 245 Aasith, ii. 280 Abrabam, i. 277

Aah, ii. 323 Aatiu, ii. 317 Ab sceptre, i. 162 ; ii. 8
Aahet. ii. 323 Aat (Isis), ii. 213 Ab-sha-am-Tuat, i. 236
Aahmes II., i. 458 Aatof Seb, ii. 95 Abshek, i. 429
Aah-Tehuti, i. 41-2, 413 Aat of Tefnut, ii. 93 Ab-siu, ii. 316
Aai, i. 345 ii. 317 ;
Aats of Osiris, the Fifteen, Abt (nonie), i. 97
Aai, ass-headed man, i. i. 177 Abt, ii. 261
196 Aat-aat, i. 492 Ab-ta, i. 194
Aai gods, i. 196 Aat-aatet, i. 214 Abtiti, temple of, i. 405
Aaiu-f-em-kha-nef, i. 254 Aa-ta (nonie), i. 97 Abt-tesi-rut-en-neter, ii.

Aakebi, i. 240, 342 Aat-ab, i. 473, V. '2 326

Aakebi, ii. 317 Aa-tcba-Mutet, i. 401 Abtu (Abydos), i, 97,
Aakhabit, ii.323 Aat-en-sliet, ii. 60 410, 492
Aakhbu, i. 259 Aat-hehu, i. 472 Abtu Fish, i. 324; ii.

Aa-kheperu-mes-aru, i. Aati, 419; ii.

i. 327 209, 383
246 Aati, 157ii. Ab-tut (Abydos), i. 97

Aa-kheru, i. 177 ; ii. Aat-khu, i. 178 Abu, i. 96, 365, 463 ; ii.

326 Aat-klm. i. 2H 49, 51, 56

Aaniu, i. 188, 304 Aat of Ra, i. 471 Abu Simbel, ii. 22
A an. ii. 2 'J 2 Aat-setekau, i. 241 Abu-ur, ii. 323
Anna, i. 211 Aat-sbatet, i. 481 Abydos, i/97, 103, 104,
Aana-tuati, ii. 320 Aat-shefsbeft, i. 194 101 ; ii. 118, 14s
Aapef, 326ii. Aat-tchamutet, i. 421 Abydos, the goal of souls,

Aarjetct. i. 494 Aat-Tchetemit, i. 484 i. 175

Aaqetqet, ii. 323 Aat-Tefnut, i. 517 Abyssinia, ii. 108
Aar. ii. 63 Aatu, i. 341 Adam, i. 6
A.a rat her ab neter het, A an. i. 186 A don, ii. 7 1

ii. 185 Ab, i. 211 Aeeiouo, i. 280

II — c c
 ;

386 INDEX
Aelian, ii. 346, 352, 369, Akau, ii. 325 Alabastronpolis, i. 98,
370, 372, 379, 381 Akebiu, i. 201 102, 432
JElian, ii. 358, 360; Akeneh, 23 i. Alabes fish, ii. 382
quoted,! 63, 356, 402; Akent, 433 i. Al-A'raf, i. 171
ii. 93 Aken-tau-k-ha-kheru, i, Al-Basra, i. 6
Af, the dead Sun-God, i. 176 ii. 325
;
Ale, i.*178

206,257,505; his new Akenti, i. 177 Aleppo, ii. 283

i. 260
birth, Akenu, i. 433 ii. 325 ; Alexander the Great, i.

Af, i. 274 Aker, i. 33, 45, 79, 325 ;

293, 489 ; his son, i.

Afa beings, i. 160 ii. 34 293

Af-Asar, i. 234 Aker, Lion-god, ii. 360, Alexandria, i. 332 ; ii,

Afau, i. 211 361 _ 197

Affi, i. 241 Akert, i. 194, 246; ii. Alkat, i. 433
Af-Ea, i. 226 153, 154, 302 Al-Kharga, ii, 22
Af-Tem, i. 234 Akertet, ii. 20 Allah, i. 141
Afu gods, i. 83, 84 Akert - khent - ast - s, ii, Al-lul, ii. 316
Afu on his staircase, i. 325 Am, i. 326
211 Akeru, ii. 323, 360 Am, ii. 312
Afu, the dead Kkepera, Akeru gods, ii. 98 Ama, i. 250
i. 226 Akerui, ii. 360 Ama, i. 346
Ah (Aah), ii. 325 Akesi, i. 178 Ama-Amta, i. 346
Aha, i. 31, 453 ;
plaque Aket of Set, i. 411 Am-aau, ii. 246, 326
of, i. 24 Akhan-niaati, i. 191 Ainait, ii. 283
Aha-aaui, ii. 326 Akhekh, ii. 247 Amam, i. 326
Aha-an-urt-nef, ii. 327 Akhekh, ii. 270 Amain, ii. 326
Aha-en-urt-nef, i. 238 Akkekhi, i. 203 Amam-maat, ii. 326
Aha-netern, i. 220 Akkekhu, ii. 327 Amam-mitu, i. 211
Ahabit, ii. 302 xikhem-hemi-f, i. 242 Amam-ta, ii. 320
Ahat, i. 248 Akhem - khemes - f, i. Amanei - tou - ouranou, i.

Aliat, ii. 19 242 280

Ahau-hrau, ii. 326 Akhem-sek-f, i. 242 Am-xinnu, i. 90
Ahet, i. 161 Akhemu-Betesli, ii. 120 Am-Antchet, i. 90
Aheti, ii. 325 Akhem-urt-f, i. 242 Am-ara-q^ih-f, i. 182
Ahi, i. 228, 469, 495; Akhemu-Seku, i. 198; Ama-ta, i. 346
ii. 322, 325 ii. 120, 250 Am-beseku, i. 419 ; ii.

Ahibit, ii. 325 Akhenm-Sesh- email, ii, 324

Ahi-mu (?), i. 419 _120 Amelineau, i. 269 ; ii.

Ahit, ii. 184 Akhen-maati-f, ii. 327 374

Ahiu, ii. 325 Akhet-nen-tha, i. 79 Amemet, ii. 144, 326
Ahu, i. 79 Akhmim, ii. 188 Amemt, i. 443
Ai, i. 196 Akhmiu, i. 196 Amen, i., 23, 79, 88; ii.

Ai (king), ii. 84 Akhpa, 344 i. 1-16, 324

•'Ain Shems, ii. 108 Akhrokhar, i. 266 Amen, a serpent, i, 218
Aion, i. 285 Akhsesef, ii. 325 Amen, city of, i. 366
Air, i. 288 Akizzi, ii. 23 ii. 12
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Amen, derivations of the Amen-Ra, Hymn to, ii. Amesu sceptre, ii. 8
name, ii. 2 5 Amet-tcheru, i. 211
Amen-ha, ii. 320 Amen-Ea, incarnation of, Am - hauatu - eut - pehui-f,
Amen-hau, i. 342 i. 330 j spread of his ii. 324

Amen - heri - ab, i. 401 cult, ii. 22 Am-heh, ii. 326

ii. 57 Amen-Ra of Sma-Behu- Am-hent-f, i. 441
Ainen-Heru-pa-kkart, ii. tet, i. 100 Am-henth-f, i. 79
252 Amen-Ra of Xoi's, i. 99 Am-Hetch-pafir, i. 90
Amen-hetep, ii. 30 Amen - Ra- Horns - Osiris, Ani-Het-Serqet-Ra-hete-
Amen-hetep III., i. 329 ;
ii. 21 pet, i. 90
ii. 23, 68, 69, 70, 279, Amen-Ea Mut - Khensu,
- Am-Het-ur-Ra, i. 90
362 ;
presented to i. 114 Am-huat-ent-peh-tf, i.

Amen-Ra, ii. 4 Amen-Ea-Tem, ii. 16, 17 176

Amen-hetep IV., i. 104; Amen -Ra-Temu-Khe- Ami-hemf, i. 25
ii. 23, 68, 70, 71-84 pera- Heru-khuti, i. Amit, goddess, i. 366
Amen-hetep, son of Hapu, 447 Am-kehuu, i. 38, 49
i. 525 Anient, ii. 317 Am-khaibetu, i. 419
Ameni, ii. 317 Ament, i. 79 Circle of, ; Am-khent (nome), i. 100 ,

Ameni, name of Ra, 345 i. i. 220; Circles of, i. 444

Amen-khat, i. 198, 343 ;
340 Amkhiu nu Asar, ii. 185
ii. 317 Ament, counterpart of Am-khu, i. 228
Arnen-kheperutet, i. 499 Amen, i. 287; ii. 1. 2 Ammehet,i. 178, 190, 216
Amen-na-an-ka-entek - Ament (goddess), ii. 29, Ammet, i. 432
share, ii. 324 30, 55 Ammianus Marcellinus,
Amen-nain-an-ka-entek- Ament (Isis), ii. 213, 216 ii. 349, 352, 357
share, ii. 20 Ament (nome), i. 99 Ammi-seshet, i. 519
Amen-Nathekerethi- Ament of Apt, i. 465 Arn-mit, i. 60, 218 ; ii.

Amen, ii. 20 Ament (pant of Thoth), 362

Amen nathek - - ret hi- i. 113 Ammiu gods, ii. 100
Amen, ii. 324 Ament-nefert, 210 i. Ammi-uaui-f, i. 200
Amen of Sapi-res, i. 99 Ament-Ra, i. 465 Am-Neter-het, i. 90
Amen [paid of Thoth), i. Ament-semu-set, i. 226 Am-net-f, i. 200
113 Ameut-sthau, i. 216 Am-Nit, i. 179
Amen, quarrel of priests Amentet, i. 172, 263 ; ii. Am-Pehu (nome), i. 100
of, with Amen-hetep 154 Am-Sah, i. 90
IV., ii. 74-84 Amentet, i.e., Under- Am-senf, i. 419
Amen the Elder, i. 468 world, ii. 201 Am-sepa-f, i. 79, 441
Amen-Ra, i. 97, 172; ii. Amentet, Bull of, ii. 15s : Amset, i. 79, 491, 492
324 Mountain of, ii. 153; Amset = South, i. 158
Amen-Ra, brotherhood souls of, i. 196 Amseth, i. 456 ; ii. 184,
of, i. 175 Amentet-nefert, i. 178 324
Amen-Ea, company of, Amenthes, ii. 201 Amseti-Aah, i. 470
ii. 2 Amenthet (goddess), i. Am-snef, ii. 324
Amen-Ra- Heru-khuti, ii. 431 Amsu, i. 79, 97, 496,
324 Amen-ur, i. 468 507 ; ii. 20
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Arnsu (nome), i. 97 Aneb-hetch (nome), i. 99, Ani (city), i. 439
512 Ani (Esneh), i. 452
Arnsu, god of Panopolis,
i. 97; 258, 280, ii. Aneb-rest-f, i. 514 Ani, form of Sun-god, ii,

291, 293, 324 Anebu, 513i. 9, 10, 11

Amsu-Amen, ii. 8 Anemph, i. 281 Animals, reason why
Amsu-Heru, ii. 324 Aneniu, ii. 324 adored, i. 22
Anisu-Heru-ka-nekht, ii. Anep, i. 437 Animals, the abodes of

139 An-erta-nef-bes-f-khenti- gods, i. 2

Amsu-Ra, ii. 36 heh'-f, i. 324494 ; ii. Anit, i. 427, 431, 469;

Anisu suten Heru-nekht, An-erta-nef-nebat, ii. 294 ii. 61, 65

ii. 183 Auetch, ii. 176 Ankh, i. 79

Anita i. 343 An-f-em-hru-seksek, ii, Ankh-aapau, i. 222
Am-ta, i. 346 129 Ankh-aru-tchefau, i. 234
Aui-Tep, i. 90 Angel of the two gods, i. Ankh-em-fentu, i. 176 ;

Am-tet, ii. 129 83 ii. 327

Amu, i. 250 Angel of Death, i. 19 Ankhet (Isis), ii. 216
Amu-aa, i. 211 Angel of the Lord, i. 19 Ankhet - pu - ent- Sebek -
Amulets in the Sudan, i. Angels, i. 6 neb-Bakhau, ii. 327
16 Angels, functions of in Ankhet, scorpion goddess,
Am-Unnu-Meht, i 90 Kur'an, i. 5 i. 220
Am-Unnu-Resu, i. 90 Angels, mortal and im- Ankhet-kheperu, i. 216
Am ut (Anubis), ii. 263 mortal, i. 6 Ankh-f-en-Khensu, i. 460
An, ii. 324 Angels of service, i. 21 Ankh-hra, i.228
An, a form of Osiris, i. Angels of Thoth, ii. 119 Ankhi, ii. 326
446 Anhai, Papyrus of, i. 507 Ankhi (serpent), i. 200
An, a god, ii. 20 An-hat, 482i. Ankhiu, i. 161
An, city of, i. 427 An-hefta, i. 194 Ankh = Osiris, ii. 139
An (city), ii. 31, 32 An-her, i. 172, 173, 402 ;
Ankh-s-en-Aten, ii, 83
An in Antes, ii. 154 ii. 184, 325, 359 Ankh- s -en- pa- A ten, ii.

An, of millions of years, An-heri-ertit-sa, ii. 324 83

ii. 154 An-hetep-f, ii. 325 Ankh-ta, i. 246
An, the warrior, ii. 312 An-Her, i. 97, 103, 115; Ankh-taui, i. 513
Ana, i. 79 i. 456 ; ii. 118, 291 Ankh-tauit, i. 433
An-aarere-tef, i. 495 An-her of Sebennytus, i. Ankhti, ii. 326
An-a-f, i. 145, 419, 521 100 Ankhtith, i. 234

ii. 324 Anhetep, 222 i. Anku, i. 234

An-aret-f, 495 i. An-hetep-f, i. 419 An-mut-f, i. 79 ; ii. 183,
An-atef-f, 324 ii. An-hra, i. 176 ii. 325 ; 301, 322, 324
Anau gods, i. 202 Anhur, i. 103 Annu, 100, 354, 471
i.

Andrew, St., i. 280 Animals, sacred, ii. 345 ft. 148

ii. 4,

Andrews, Dr. C. W., i. Ani, Papyrus of, i. 335, Annu, crops of, ii. 121
11 360, 427 Annu Meht, i. 328
Aneb, i. 514 Ani (scribe), ii. 69 Annu, North, ii. 25
Aneb-abt, 514 i. Ani, the scribe, ii. 141- Annu, paut of gods of, i.

Aneb-athi, i. 514 146 88

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Annu, priests of, i, 78 An-tebu, ii. 325 Apep, Book of overthrow-

Annu-Rest, ii. 24 xin-temt, ii. 324 ing, i. 325
Annu Resu, i. 328 Ant-en-Nut, ii. 103 Apepi, i. 306
Annu, Souls of, i. 109 Antes, ii. 154 Aper-hra-neb-tchetla, i.

Annu, South, ii. 25 Antet, 433

i. 252
Annu, Two Companies of Antetu, i. 346 Aper-pehui, i. 516

gods of, i. 91 Anthat, i. 431, 432 ; ii. Aper-ta, i. 344

Annut hat, ii. 277 277 Aper-ta, ii. 317
Ano-Menthu, i. 433 Antheth, 228 i. Apes, the, i. 346, 347
An = Osiris, ii. 139 Antheti, ii. 317 Apes of the East, i. 21
Anpet, i. 432 Anthretha, ii. 278 Apes, the four, i. 196
Anpet, i. 496; ii. 292 Anti, ii. 327 Apes, the Seven, ii. 268
Anpu, i. 79, 210, 340 ;
Antit, ii, 277 Apes, the singing, i. 207
ii. 261-266, 322,
95, Antiu, i. 198 Apesh, ii. 376
324, 367 Antuf, i. 524 Apet, ii. 29, 29, 30, 359
Anpu (norne), i. 98 Ajm^Avo?, i. 289 Apet (goddess), ii. 109
Anpu, god of Anpu, i. 98 Anu (the heavens), i. 359 Aphoso, ii. 305
Anpu, god of Het-suten, Anubis, i. 9, 418, 425, Aphrodite, i. 435 ; ii.

i.98 454 ; ii. 85, 129, 261- 187

Anpu am Uhet, ii. 185 266, 366 Aphroditopolis, i. 97, 98,
Anpu-Horus, i. 493 Anubis, Path of, i. 513 431, 432, 446
Anpu khent neter seh, ii. Anubis-Horus, i. 493 Aphroditopolites, i. 96
184 Anubis = Osiris, ii. 139 Api, i. 79; ii. 30, 109
Anpu khent neter seh em Anu-Ea-Bel, i. 290 Apis, ii. 353
ren-f neb, ii. 185 Anunu, 454
i. Apis, incarnation of
Anqet, i. 431 ; ii. 50, Anuqet, ii. 53 Osiris, i. 330
57 ff. Aoi, i. 280 Apis Bull, i. 26, 27 ; ii.

Anqet (Isis), 216 ii. Ap, ii. 268, 292 195-201, 212; signs
Anqet Nephthys, ii. 57 Apa-ankh, i. 454 of, described, ii. 350
An-rut-f,i. 352,410,482; 'A-rraaSov, i. 289 Apis (city), i. 99
ii. 60 ;
155 Ape = Amen, ii. 2 Apis-Osiris, ii. 195-201
Anshar, i. 289, 291 Ape, a form of Thoth, i, Apit, goddess, i. 127
Ant, i. 161 403 Apollinopolis Magna, i.

Ant (city), i. 493, 515 Ape and pig, i. 190 431 ; ii. 93, 95, 278

Ant (country), i. 517 Ape, worship of, i. 2 ; the Apollinopolis Parva, i.

Ant (Dendera), i. 472 sacred, ii. 364 431, 467

Ant Fish, i. 324; ii. 383 Ape-god in Tuat, i. 347 Apollo, i.486 ii. 187 ;

Ant (Tsis), ii. 213 Ape -gods, the four, i. Apollo Amyclaeus, ii.

Antaeopolis, i. 97 202 2S2

Antaeopolis of Tu-f i. 98 Apep, i. 11,61,180,2(12, Apollopolites, i. 96
Antaeopolites, i. 96 269 ff., 277, 324, 436, Apdph, ii. 245
Antaf, i. 23 447, 489 ; ii. 79, 107, Apostles, i. 5
An-ta-f, ii. 363 216, 245, 326 ; soul of, Ap-rehu, ii. 242
An-tcher-f, i.79 i. 371 Ap-rehui, i. 427 ; ii. 142,
Antchet, i. 88 Apepa, ii. 251 242
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Ap-senui, ii. 142 Aq-her-amrni-unnut-f, i. Arkharokk, 266 i.

Apsetch, ii. 310 494 Arkheokh, 266 i.

Apsli, ii. 25 Aq - her am - unnut -

- f, ii. Armaua, ii. 291
Apshait, ii. 378 129 Armauai, ii. 322
Ap-shat-taui, ii. 324 Aq-her-ami-unnut-f, ii, Armani, ii. 129
Apsi, ii. 324 oil Aroeris, i. 467
Apsit, ii. 92 Arab angels, i. 6 Arou, 308
ii.

Apt, ii. 293 Arabia, i. 353, 498 Aroueris, ii. 187

Apt, city of, i. 427 Arabian influence on Arq-heh, ii. 128
Apt (Thebes), ii. 3 Egyptian religion, i. Ar-ren-f-tchesef, ii. 129,
Apt, goddess of the xith 291
month, i. 444 Arabian nome, i. 96 Arrows, i. 85
Apt, goddess of Thebes, Arabs, i. 41, 119, 401 Arsaphes, ii, 58
ii. 3 Aranbfi, i. 241 Arsiel, 275 i.

Apt-en-khet, i. 178 Ar-ast-neter, i. 211 Arsinoe, town of, ii. 355

Apt-en-qahu, i. 178 Archaic Period, gods of Arsinoites, i. 96
Aptet, ii. 25 i. 78 ff. Art, ii. 307
Apt-hent, ii. 293 Archangels, i. 5, 6 A-Sah, ii. 308
Apt-net, i. 178 Archemachus, ii. 199 Asar, 323
ii,

Apt-renpit, ii. 293 Arenna, ii, 283 Asar Aa am Annu, ii. 182
Apts, the, ii. 6, 7, 9, 10 Arethi-kasatki-ka, ii. 20 Asar Aheti, ii. 183
Apt-taui, 254 i. Arethi-ka-sa-thika,, ii, Asar Athi her ab Abtu,
Apu, i. 97, 470 ii. 188 ;
323 ii. 183

Apu, a god, i, 194 Ar gods, ii. 249 Asar Athi her ab Shetat,
Apu (serpent), i. 230 Ar-hes-nefer, i. 464 ii. 183

Ap-uat, i. 79, 102, 109, Ari-ankh, i. 511 Asar-am-ab-neteru, i. 228

206, 210, 454, 493 ;
Arians, i. 69 Asar Ankhi, ii. 179
ii. 26, 43, 119, 156, Ari-em-ab-f, i. 419 ; ii. Asar-Ankhti, ii. 176
263, 322, 323, 367 325 Asar Ap-shat-taui, ii. 179

Ap-uat of Lycopolis, i, Ari-en-ab-f, ii. 325 Asar-Asti 214 i.

98 Ari-hes, i. 446 Asar Athi, ii. 178

Ap-uat meht sekheni pet, Ari-hes-nefer,ii.289, 362 Asar Ba her-.ib Qemt, ii.
ii. 183, 323 Ari-Maat, ii. 325 183
Ap-uat rest sekheni taui, Ari - maat - f - tchesef, ii, Asar baiu-tef-f, ii. 182
ii. 183 129 Asar Ba sheps em Tattu,
Ap-uat-resu-sekhem - pet, Ari-nef Nebat, ii. 294 ii. 179

ii. 323 Ari-ren-f-tchesef, ii.322 Asar-Ba-Tettet, i. 371

Apuleius, ii. 217, 218, Ari- si, ii. 325 Asar-bati (?), i. 214
265, 266 Aristotle, ii. 357, 370 ;
Asar Bati-er pit, ii. 176
Apzu, i. 291 quoted, i. 62 Asar em Aat-urt, ii. 181
Apzu-rishtu, i. 288, 289 Arit, city, i. 433 Asar em ahat-f em ta
Aqan, ii. 327 Arit (a pylon), i. 186 Meht, ii. 185
Aqebi, i. 182 Aritatheth, i. 248 Asar em ahat-f nebu, ii.

Aqeh, ii. 325 Ariti, i. 244 185

Aqen, ii. 325 Arits, the, i. 427 Asar em Akesh, ii. 182
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Asar em ankh em Ptah- Asar em khau-f-nebu, ii. Asar em Sau Khert, ii.

het-Ra, ii. 183 185 180

Asar em Annu, ii. 182 Asar em Maati, ii. 178, Asar em seh-f nebu, ii.

Asar-em-An-rut-f, ii. 180 182 185

Asar em Aper,ii. 177,180 Asar - em - Mehenet. ii. Asar-em-Sehtet, ii. 177
Asar em Apert, ii. 181 176, 17D Asar em Sek, ii. 178
Asar em Asher, ii. 182 Asar em Mena, ii. 182 Asar em Seker, ii. 181
Asar em-ast-f-ainu-Re- Asar em Nepert, 178
ii. Asar em Sekri, ii. 180
stau, ii. 177 Asar em nest, ii. 181 Asar em Sektet, ii. 181
Asar em - ast - f - amu - ta- Asar em Netchefet, ii. Asar em Seshet, ii. 181
niL'h, ii. 177 177 Asar eDi Shau, ii. 178,
Asar em ast-f em ta rest, Asar em Netchet, ii. 180 182
ii. 185 Asar em Netebit, ii. 178 Asar em Shennu, ii. 178,
Asar em ast-f neb meri Asar em Neteru, ii. 177 181
ka-f rim, ii. 185 Asar em Netit, ii. 180 Asar em Sunnu, ii. 177,
Asar em ast-f nebu, ii. Asar em Netra, ii. 180 180
185 Asar em Nif-ur, ii. 180 Asar em ta, ii. 181
Asar em Atef-ur, ii. 181 Asar em Pe, ii. 177, 180 Asar em Ta-sekri, ii. 178
Asar em Aten, ii. 178 Asar em Pe Nu, ii. 182 Asar em Tai, ii. 182
Asar em Atet, ii. 179 Asar em Pekes, ii. 180 Asar em taiu nebu, ii. 182
Asar-ern-Ati, ii. 176 Asar em Pesek-re, ii. 177 Asar em Tauenenet, ii.
Asar em Baket, ii. 177 Asar em pet, ii. 177, 181 178
Asar em Bakui, ii. 180 Asar em Petet, ii. 180 Asar em Tchatchat, ii.

Asar em Bener, ii. 182 Asar em Qefennu, ii. 180 180

Asar em Betesk, ii. 178 Asar em qemau-f nebu, ii. Asar em Tept, ii. 180

Asar em Fat-Hern, ii. 185 Asar em Tepu, ii. 178

178 Asar em Renen, ii. 180 Asar em Teslier, ii. 181
Asar em Hekennut, ii. Asar em Rehenenet, ii. Asar em Uhet niekt, ii.
181 177 181
Asar em Hemak, ii. 182 Asar em ren-f nebu, ii. Asar em Uhet-resu, ii.

Asar em Hena, ii. 178 185 181

Asar em Henket, ii. 178 Asar em Rertu-nifu, ii. Asar em Uu-pek, ii. 182
Asar em Hest, ii. 179 181 Asar Fa Heru, ii. 182
Asar em Het-aat, ii. 182 Asar-em-Resenet, ii, 176, Asar-Hap, i. 513
Asar em Het Benbenet, 179 Asar-Hapi, ii. 3-19
ii. 182 Asar em-Re-stau, ii. 178 Asar-Hapi (Serapis), ii.

Asar em het-f am ta Asar em Resu, ii. 177, 195-201

Meht, ii. 181 180 Asar Henti, ii. 180
Asar em het-f am Asar em Sa, ii. ] S Asar Jleq
-

ta _! taiu her ab
Reset, ii. 181 Asar em Sati.ii. 178, 182 Tattu, ii. 179
Asar em-Het-f em Re- Asar em Sail ii. 180 Asar heq tchetta em
stau, ii. 180 Asar em Sau-heri, ii. 178 Annu, ii. 181
Asar em Kakheru-f nebu, Asar em Sail hert, ii. 180 Asar Her-ab-set, ii. 176
_
ii. 185 Asar em Sau-klu-ri, ii. Asar Her-ab-set (semt),
Asar em ker-f neb, ii. 185 177 ii. 179
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Asar-her-khen-f, 214 i. Asar neb Tattu, ii. 183 Ashet, 136ii.

Asar Her-shai, ii. 178 Asar neb-tchetta, ii. 178, Ashet, i. 432
Asar her shai-f, ii. 182 181 Ash-hrau, i. 226
Asar Heru-khuti, ii. 183 Asar Netchesti, ii. 177 'Ashtoreth, ii. 278
Asar-ka-Amenti, i. 214 Asar-nub-heh, ii, 176 Ashu, ii. 323
Asar khent Arnentet, ii. Asar (Osiris), i. 79 Ashur-bani-pal, i. 290
185 As-ar (Osiris),113 ii. Asken, i. 79
Asar Khentet Nepra, ii. Asar Ptah-neb-ankh, ii, Asmus, i. 136
179 176, 179 As-neteru, i. 240
Asar Khentet Un, ii. 179 Asar Qeftennu, ii. 117 Aso, queen of Ethiopia,
Asar-khenti-. . . ., ii. 176 Asar-Saa, ii. 176 ii. 188
Asar - Kb enti - Amenti, i. Asar sa Erpeti, ii. 179 Ass, 253
ii.

214 Asar Sah, ii. 176, 179 Ass, Eater of the, i. 208,
Asar Khenti nut-f, ii. Asar Sahu, i. 214 210, 491 ; ii. 246, 367
177, 180 Asar seh, ii. 183 Ass, the, ii. 367
Asar-khenti-peru, ii. 176 Asar Seker em shet at, ii. Ass, the speaking, i. 19
Asar Khenti-Ee-stau, ii. 181 Asset, i. 178
176 Asar -sekhem- neteru, i. 'Aacrcopos, i, 289
Asar Khenti -seh-hemt, 214 Assyrians, i. 18, 62
ii.178 Asar Sekhri, ii. 177 As-t (Isis), ii. 114
Asar Khenti Thenenet, Asar Sekri em Pet-she, Ast (Isis), i. 79

ii. 179 ii. 177 Ast, ii. 202, 292, 302,

Asar Khent Ka-Ast, ii. Asar Seps-baiu-Annu, ii. 317, 323
183 179 Astabet, i. 482
Asar Khent Re-stau, ii. Asar Smam-ur, ii. 117 Ast-amhit, i. 228

179 Asar Taiti, ii. 178 Astarte, ii. 190

Asar Khent sehet kauit-f, Asar-Tet, ii. 134 Asten, i. 402, 516; ii.

ii. 182 Asar-thet-heh, i. 214 268

Asar Khent shet aa-perti, Asar Tua, ii. 177 Astennn, ii. 325

ii. 182 Asar-Unnefer, ii. 176 Astes, 457 i.

Asar-neb- Amenti, i. 214 Asar Un-nefer, ii. 179 Astes, ii. 325
Asar Neb-ankh, ii. 176, Asar Utet, ii. 181 Asthertet, ii. 362
179 Asbet, ii. 302 Astharthet, ii. 278, 279
Asar Neb-ankh em Abtu, Asbet, a goddess, ii, 204 Asthertet, i. 478
ii. 182 Asbu, ii. 129 Asti, i. 370
Asar Neb-er-tcher, ii. Aseb, ii. 323 Asti-neter, 244 i.

176, 179 Asert Tree, ii. 42, 119 Asti-paut, i. 244

Asar Neb-heh, ii. 179, Ashbu, ii. 323 Ast-Net, i. 452
181 Ashebu, i. 176 Ast-Netchet, i. 211
Asar neb pehtet petpet Ashem of Aru, i. 83 Ast netert em ren-s nebu,
Seba, ii. 183 Ashem, i. 38, 40, 41 ii. 184

Asar Neb ta ankhtet, ii. Ashemu, i. 38, 40, 41 Ast-Qerbet, i. 353

180 Ashemu, the, i. 159 Ast-sen-ari-tcher, ii. 129
Asar neb taiu suten Asher, ii. 323 Ast-Sept, ii. 55
neteru, ii. 182 Ashet Tree, ii. 61 Aswan, i. 11
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Asyut, ii. 43 Athpi, i. 2.30 Ba (Irou-god), ii. 328
At, ii. 263 Athribis, i. 100, 432; Ba (Set), i. 4s 1

A tare - am -teller - qenitu - ii. 127 Ba, Soul, i. 39

remiu-par-slieta, i, 519 Athribites, i. 96 Ba = World Soul, ii. 299
. \ t ure - am - tcher - qemtu- Athroni, i. 281 Baabu, i. 80, 110
ren-par-sheta, ii. 326 Athn, 124 ii. Baal, ii. 250, 28
At bar a, 360 ii. Athuma, ii. 283 Ba'al, ii. 289
Atch-ur, ii. 327 Athyr, ii. 188 Ba'al Bam, ii. 250
Ateb, i. 470 Ati (nome), i. 99 Baal Samame, ii. 282

Atebui, tlie two, ii. 155 Atmu, ii. 10, 11 Ba'al Sephon, ii. 281,
Atef crown, ii. 131, 144 Atru - she-en-nesert-f-em- 282
Atef-khent (20tli nome), shet, i. 178 Ba'alath, ii. 281
i. 98 Atu, i. 178 Ba-ashem-f, i. 80 ; ii. 26
Atef-pehu (21st nome), Atuma, 283 ii. Baba, i. 80
i. 98 Aturti Best Meht, ii. 185 Baba,ii. 91,92,247,307,
Atef-nr, ii. 323 Au-a, ii. 326 329
Ateh, ii. 206, 261 Auai, ii. 317 Babai, ii. 91
Atek - tan - kehaq -kheru, Auain, i. 346 Babat, i. 370
ii. 326 Auer, i. 281 Babi, i. 80
Atem, ii. 326 Aukert,i. 145, 338; ii. 9, Babua, i. 80
Aternet, ii. 65 323 Babylon, ii. 22
Aten, i. 104 ; ii. 16, 326 Aukert (goddess) ii. 116 Babylonia, i. 277
Aten, high, priest of, ii. Aukert-khentet-ast-s, ii. Babylonians, i. 18, 62,

73 323 273
Aten, hymns to, ii. 75-79 Aunaauif, i. 254 Bacchis Bull, ii. 352
Aten-merit, ii. 82 Aurau-aaqer - sa - anq - re- Bacchus, ii. 199, 217, 253

Aten-neferu, ii. 70 bathi, ii. 326 Back = Heqet, i. 110

Aten, worship of, ii. 68- Aurnab, ii. 210 Backbone = Sma, i. 110
70, ff. Anrt, ii. 134 Backbone of Osiris, i.
Atennu, ii. 14 Aura, i. 259 496 ii. 122
;

Ater-asfet, i. 79 Ausares, (Osiris), i. 300; Bah, i. 401,437; ii. 26,

Atert, i. 203 ii. 113 329

Aterui-qerna, ii. 128 A van's, ii. 251 Bahtet, i. 513
Ates-hra-she, ii. 323 Axe = god, i. 64 Bahut, i. 421
Atet (goddess), ii. 61 Axe, the flint, antiquity Bai, 344 ii. 154
i. ;

Atet Boat, i. 206, 338; of, i. 64 ; the double, Bai (Ram-god), ii. 329
ii. 11, 104, 105, 159 i. 65 Bai (Soul-god), ii. 328
Ateuchus Aegyptiorum, Azrael, i. 5 Bairast, i. 450
356 'Azza, ii. 289 Baireqai, ii. 21
i.

At ha, i. 481 F.airtha, ii. 281

Athenais, ii. 190 Bain amu Tuat, i. 220

Athene, i. 458, 461 ; ii. Ba, i. sn, if,:; Bak, i. 492

217 Ba, a god, i. 180; ii. 26 Bak, i. 516
Athep, i. 259 Ba (god of Xlth Hour), Baka, i. 493
name 148 200 Bakha, the Bull, ii. 352
Athi, of, ii. i.
394 INDEX
Bakhau, i. 24, 79, 470 ;
Bast - Sekhet - Eenpit, i. Behutet (goddess), i. 431
ii. 101, 352 432 Behutit, 427 i.

Bakrawiyeh, i. 15 Basu, ii. 284 Bekatha, ii. 305

Balaam, i. 19 Bat, the, ii. 369 Bekennu, ii. 20
Balance, i. 521 Bath, 194
i. Bekhen, ii. 31
Balance, the Great, i, Bath-Anth, ii. 278 Bekhennu, ii. 20
358 Bati, ii. 328 Bekhent, ii. 34
Balu, ii, 250 Bati-erpit, ii. 328 Bekhkhi, i. 192
Bandage of Hathor, i. Ban, ii. 329 Bekhten, ii. 37
437; of Nekkebet, i. Beads, nse of, i. 14 Bekhten, Princess of, ii.

441 Bear, the, ii. 365 38 ff.

Ba-neb-Tattu, i. 100, Beautiful Face (Ptah), i. Bekhti-menti-neb - Maati,

103, 114; ii. 64 101 ii. 159
Banebtattu -Hatmehit- Beautiful Face, i. 125, Bel, 305
i.

Herupa-kkart, i. 114 501 ; ii. 7 Bel and the Dragon, i.

Ba-neb-Tet, ii. 353, Beba, ii. 66 327

354, ff. Bebait, ii. 378 BelbSs, i. 450
Ba-neb-Tetet, i. 496 Bebi, ii. 91, 92 ; ii. 329 Belly = Nut, i. 110
Ba-neb-Tettet, ii. 329 Bebo, ii. 246, 247 Beltis, ii. 281
Ba-neb-Tettu, ii. 292 Bebon, ii. 92 Benben, ii. 71
Ba-neteru, i. 240 Bebro, i. 281 Benben-house, i. 347
Bant, i. 198 Bedeyat Arabs, i. 17 Benbenit, the obelisk
Banth-Anth, ii. 278 Beer,' ii. 122 god, 348 i.

Bapi-f, ii. 301 Beer of eternity, i. 165 Bene Elohim, i. 7

Baqet, ii. 62 Beer of everlastingness, Benen, i. 192
Bar, ii. 27, 250, 251, 281 ii. 118 Benha, i. 17
Ba-Pta, 317 ii. Beer of Ka, i. 365 Beni Hasan, i. 517
Bare-Ast, i. 446 Bees, i. 238 Beiinu, ii. 96 ; ii. 116,
Barekathatchaua, ii. 329 Beetle-god, ii. 130 289, 329
Bari-Menthu, ii. 250 Beetle in boat of Ka, i.
Bennu-Asar, 303
ii.

Bari-Euman, ii. 250 356 Bennu = Ra and Osiris,

Barkal, i, 16 Beetle of Khepera, ii, ii. 97
Barley, i. 165 379 Bennu, the, ii. 371
Bartholomew, i. 280 Beetle, the, ii. 378 Bennu, the Great, ii. 59
Baru, i. 79 Beetle, the living, i. 246 60, 160, 209
Bashu, i. 515 Beetles used in medicine, Benra-merit, ii. 256
Basilisk serpent, i. 279 i. 17 Bentet, ii. 268
Bast, i. 100, 432, 444, Befen, 487 ii. 206
i.
Benth, i. 211
;

ff., 514; ii. 28, 29, Befent, 207 Benti-ar-aht-f, i. 228

63, 275, 329, 362 Behbit, ii. 255 Bent-Eeshet, ii. 38
Bast, identifications of, Behen, i. 492 Benutch, ii. 25
i. 446 Behutet, i. 84, 85, 92, Beq, i. 177 ; ii. 263
Bastet, i. 80, 110 102, 427; ii. 25, 35, Bergmann, i, 363 ; ii. 90
Basti, i. 419, 445; ii. 133 Berimon, i. 281
329 Behutet (city), i. 476 Berosus, i. 305,
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INDEX 395

Berua, i. 15 Book of Breathings, i. Bull Apis, i. 26

Bes, i. 498 ; ii. 136, 209, 409 Bull, Assyrian man-
270, 276, 280, 284 ff. Book of Coming Forth headed, i. 62
Besa, ii, 284 by Day, i. 175 Bull, early worship of, i.

Besa, ii, 288 Book of leu, i. 267 25

Besabes-uaa, i. 211 Book of Knowing Evolu- Bull-god, i. 427
Bes-aru, i, 242 tions of Ra, i. 294, 295 Bull Mnevis, i. 27, 330
Bes-Harpocrates, ii. 286 Book of Overthrowing Bull of Arnentet, i. 26 ;

Bes-Horus, ii. 286 Apep, i. 293, 294 ii. Ion

Besi, i. 198, 347 Book of Proverbs, i. 122 Bull of Amenti, ii. 350
Besi-Shemti, ii. 317 Book of the Dead, quoted, Bull of heaven, i. 31
Besitet, 213iii. i. 23 Bull of Nut, ii. 100
Bes-Ea-Temii, ii.[286 Book of the Gates, i. 328 Bull of the Nine. i. 109
Bestet, 445i. Book of the Pylons, i. Bull of the Underworld,
Beteslm, 326 i. 174, 175, 304 i. 26
Betet, i. 272 Book of the Underworld Bull of the West. ii. 196
Biggeh, ii. 51 described, i. 204 ff. Bull Osiris, ii. 31
Biou, ii. 307 Book of Wisdom, i. 122 Bull-Scarab, ii. 19
Birch, Dr. S., i. 63, 136, Books of Thoth, i. 414 Bull, the young, ii. 14,

204, 208, 407, 434 Bouriant, M., ii. 74 15

Birds, sacred, ii. 345 Bous fish, ii. 382 Bulls, hoofs of, i. 58
Birth, the second, ii. 116 Bramble, i. 19 Bunau, i. 259
Black Land, i. 304 Bread, ii. 122 Bushes = clouds, i. 306
Blacksmiths, i. 85, 476, Bread of eternity, i. 165 Busiris, i. \)o, 99, 103,
478, 485 ii. 118 115, 191, 469, 432; ii.

Blind Horus,i. 299,470; Breast = Baabu, i. 110 122, 14s. 252, 348
ii. 370 Breasted, Mr., ii. 74 Busirites, i. 96
Bine Nile, i. 17 ii. 360 ; Bringers of doubles, i. Buss, ii. 289
Boat of Isis, i. 210 184 Buto, i. 24, 100, 115,
Boat of Millions of Years, Brittany, i. 64 438; ii. 208, 211
i. 333, 303, 488, 518 Brugsch, Dr. H.,i. 63,67, Butos, ii. 192
ii. 210, 260, 272 89, 224,284,285,291, Buttocks = two boats, i.

Boat of Nepr, i. 210 363, 367, 402 ff. 110

Boat of Osiris, i. 210 Bua-tep, i. 343 Bums, ii. 22
Boat of 770 cubits, i. 85 Bubastis, i. 100, 432, Buwanat, ii. 289
Boat of the Earth, i. 208, 438, 444 Byblos, ii. 74, 124, 189,

210 Bubastis, described by 190

Boats, the 34 papyrus, ii. Herodotus, i. 449
129 Bubastis, festivals of, i.

Boechoris, ii. 352 448 Cabasites, i. 96

Boes, i. 268 Bubastis of the South, i. Cabasus, i. 100
Boethus, i. 445 446 Cackler, the Great, ii.

Bone of Horus, ii. 246 Bubastis, triad of, i. 450 96, 107, 108
Bone of Typho, ii. 246 Bubastites, i. 96, 444 Caesarion, i. 101
Bonomi, i. 178, 304 Bull = Amen-Ra, ii. 11 Cailliaud, i. •"-•">(
 ;

196 INDEX
Cakes, i. 178 Citharus fish, ii. 382 Cusae, i. 98, 432 ; ii. 22;
Cambyses, i. 458; ii. 352 Civitas Lucinae, i. 439 Hathon of, i. 434
Campus Martins, ii, 218 Clemens Alexandrinus, i. Cyclopes, ii. 100
Canis Major, i. 488 414 Cynocephalus Ape, i. 17 ;

Cannibalism, i. 28 Cleopatra VII., i. 161, ii. 364

Canopic jars, i. 456 329 Cynocephalus Ape in the
Canopus, i. 432 ii. 199 ; ;
Cognizance, the, i. 25 Judgment, i. 20, 21
Stele of, i. 448 Combatants, the Two, i. Cyuopolis, i. 98, 102,
Cardinal points, i. 210 410, 475 432
gods of, i. 158 Constantine the Great, Cynopolites, i. 96
Cat, ii. 248 ii. 351
Cat and the Ass, ii. 368 Coprophagi, i. 294, 355 ;

Cat, Chapter of, ii. 272 ii. 379 Dadianus, i. 268

Cat, god and goddess, ii. Coptites, i. 96 ; ii. 252 AaX ih i. 289
363 Coptos, i. 97, 431 ; ii. Aa X os, i. 289
Cat of Neb, ii. 209 22, 189, 219, 378 Dakhel, ii. 22
Cat=Ka, ii. 61, 297 Copts, i. 106, 143 ; hell DamasciuB, i. 289, 290
Cat, the Great =Ka, i. of, i. 265 Darius II., i. 113, 464
345 ; ii. 107 Cord-bearers, the Twelve, Darkness, i. 202 the ;

Cataract, First, ii. 25, 43 i. 186 outer, 266 i.

Cataract, Sixth, i. 305 Cord of Law, i. 188 Day of Judgment, i. 5, 6

Cerberus, ii. 199 Corrcinus fish, ii. 382 Day -sky, ii. 102, 105
Ceres, ii. 218, 253, 367 Cory, Anc. Frag, quoted, Days, Epagomenal, ii,
Cestrins fish, ii. 3«2 I 35 109 lucky and un-
;

Chabas, i. 126, 136 ; ii. Coukhos, ii. 305 lucky, ii. 109 gods of, ;

146, 162, 365 Cow, early worship of, i. ii. 293

Chaos, ii. 243 25 '

Days of the month, gods
Charmosyna, ii. 200 Cow-goddess, ii. 19 of, ii. 320, 322

Chemmis, i. 442 ; ii. 188 Creation, Heliopolitan Dekans, the 36, ii. 304-
Chemres, 442 i. account of, i. 307,308- 308
Chenoboscinm, ii. 374 321; order of events Delos, i. 453
Cheops, i, 426 of, i. 300 Delta, i. 24, 31, 93, 103 ;

Cherubim, i. 6 Creation Legend, i. 18 ii. 31

Cherubim, i. 7 Creation Series, i. 279 Delta, kingdom of Osiris
Chimaera, ii. 361 Creation, Seven Tablets in, ii. 121
Chin — Khert-khent- sek- of, i. 288, 290 Demi-gods, i. 3
hem, i, 110 Crocodile, early worship Dendera, i. 93, 97, 421,
Choenus fish, ii. 382 of, i. 24 ; worship of, 426, 429, 446, 464,
Chosroes, i. 289 i. 2 484 ; ii. 24, 55, 93, 95,
Cicero, i. 2 Crocodilopolis, i. 95, 98, 108, 299
Circle, Hidden, i. 339, 488 ; ii. 355 Dendera, Hathor of, i.

340 Crusher of Bones, ii. 435

Circle of Amentet, i. 216 59 Dendera, Osiris scenes at,
Circles of the Tuat, i. Cubit, gods of the, ii. ii. 131
238 29] Deraarai Hapaon, i. 280
 INDEX 397

Der al-Bahari, i. 329 ; ii. Ea, i. 289, 359, 360 Enen, i. 81. 89

13, 285 Earth, 288 i. Enenet, i. 81

Der al-Medina, i. 437 Earth, Boat of, i. 208 Enenet-hemset, i. 289
Der al-Medinet, i. 126 Earth-gods, i. 116 Enen-retui, i. 230
De Rouge, E., i. 68, 69, East, Gate of, i. 353 Enkht honin, i. 266
East, souls 107, 351 En-me-shar-ra, ii. 316
100, 126, 136, 411 of, i.

Desert gods, i. 116 Eater of the Ass, i. 208, Ennead, i. 114

Deus, i. 69 209, 491 ; ii. 246 Ennit, i. 286, 289, 291
Eater of the dead, 20, Ennukaru. ii. 2 s ".
Deva, i. 69 i.

Devourer of Amenti, i.
60 Ennutchi. the Nine, i.

Ecclesiasticus, i. 123 lss

60
Diana, i. 448 Edfu, i. 85, 92, 470, 477, Entair, i. 281
Dieisbalmerikh, i. 281 499 ; ii. 27824, Eututi, ii. 317
Dilgan, ii. 316 Egg, i. 182; ii. 110 Euzu, ii. 316
Diodorus, i. 96,444,493; Egg-ball of beetle, i. 357 Lone, i. 281

ii. 347, 352, 357, 364, Egg of Seb, ii. 95 Eoureph, i. 281

366, 370, 375 quoted, Egg, the Great, ii. 107 Epagomenal days, ii. L09
;

62 Eight gods of Hermopolis, Epaphos, ii. 346

i.

Diouysius sent to Sinope, i. 519 Ephesus, Council of. ii.

a 199 Eileithyia, i. 97 66
Epping, 316
Dionysos, 217 ii.
Eileithyiapolis, '
ii. 155, J., ii.

Diopolites, i. 96 372 Erebos, i. 285

Diospolis, i. 432 ii. 22 Eileithyiaspolis, i. 24, Erelim. i. 7
;

Diospolis Magna, i. 100 431, 437 Erinnyes, ii. 100

Diospolis Parva, i. 97, Eisenmenger, i. 171, 275, Erman, Dr., quoted, i.

431 ii. 53 278 ;

quoted, i. 7, 21 329
;

Diospolites, ii. 31 El, i. 66, 67 Ermen-hert, i. 98

Disk, ii. 15 Elements, the four, i. 288 Erment, i. 161, 32'.'
Disk, House of the, i. Elephant, i. 31 ; ii. 365 Ermen-ta, i. 194

513 Elephant in predynastic Ermenu, i. 250, 259

336, 338; times, i. 22 Ermenui, i. 248
Disk, the, i.

340 the Elephantine, 95, 96, Eros, i. 285

the Great, i. ;
i.

winged, 481, 483 107,286,365,431,463; Erpat = Seb, ii. 95

171 ii. 43, 44, 51, 52, 53, Erta- hen-er - reqau, i.
Dives, i.

125 91, 148, 354, 365 177

Divine Providence, i.

Elephantine, triad of, ii. Erta-nei-nebt. ii. 129

Do-decagon of Jupiter,
49 Ertat-Sebanqa, i. 177
ii. 253
ft.

El-Kab, 439, Hi7 Esau, ii. 281

Dog, the, ii. 366 i.

Elolnm, 133, 141 Eshmtinen, i. 401

Dogs, howl before a death, i.

19' Elves, i. L2 Esna, i. 97 ; ii. 66

i.

Elysian Fields, i. 103, Esneh, i. 452, 463, 461

Door= Nut, ii. 106
168 ii. 62, 63 Eteoph, i. 281
Draco, ii. 312 ;

Embalmment, Ritual of, Eternity, bread and beer

Dumah, i. 274
516 i. 454
of, i. 165
Dumichen, i. 34, 99,
Dung-beetle, 356 Em-khent-maati, i. 80 Etet. ii. 304
i.
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Eudoxus, ii. 253 Farafra, ii. 22 Fountain of the Sun, i.

Euphrates, i. 277 Father of fathers, ii. 51 328 ii. 108

;

Eusebius quoted, i, 35 Fa-trau, i. 211 Frazer, Mr. G., quoted,

Euthari, i. 281 Fayyiim, the home of i. 43
Eve, i. 19 huge serpents, i. 11 Fringes, i. 14
Evening, Hatlior of, i. Feather of Maat, i. 20 Frog, the, ii. 378
107 Feka, i. 433
Evil Eye, i. 13, 14 Fentet-ankh, ii. 139
Eye, name of Ea, 3-40, Fenti, i. 419 Gabriel, i. 5, 278
342 Fetish, i. 28 Gabriel and his 600
Eye of Flame, i. 447 Field of Grasshoppers, i. wings, i. 5
Eye ofHorus,i. 109,165, 344, 420 Gate of Osiris, i. 230
202, 248, 363, 457, 467 Field of Hetep, i. 367 Geb, ii. 94
Eye of Nu, i. 306 Field of Peace, i. 58,334; Gebelen, 435
i.

Eye of Nu = the Moon, ii. 120 Gehenna, i. 273

i, 299 Field of Plants, ii. 121 Gehenna, chambers of, i.

Eye of Nu = the Sun, i. Field of Eeeds, i. 334; 275
298 ii. 121 Gehenna, river of, i. 275
Eye of Ea, i. 364, 365, Fields of Siri, i. 35, 36 Gehenna, size of, i. 274
446, 516, 517; ii. 8, Fields of the spirits, i. Ge Hinnom, i. 273
161 186 George of Cappadocia, i.
Eye of Ea = Meh-urt, i. Fiery Lake, i. 35 268
422 Figs, i. 58 George, Saint, i. 489
Eye of Tern, i. 158, 305, Figs in heaven, ii. 118 Gir-tab, ii. 316
*446 Fig tree of heaven, i. Gizeh, ii. 361
Eye, the Black = Aah, 165 Gizeh, Pyramids of, i.
i. 413 Fig tree speaks, i. 19 471
Eye, the White = Ea, i, Fingers, the two, i. 85 Gnomes, i. 12
413 Fire, i. 288 Goblins, i. 12
Eyes, cure for sore, i. 17 Fishes, mythological, i. God, One, i. 131, 132,
Eyes =
Hathor, i. 109 324 133
Eyes of Ptah-Tenen, i. Fish-god, i. 303 God, conception of, i. 57
510 Fish-gods, ii. 382 God on the staircase, i.

Ezekiel, i. 62 Fish, worship of, i. 2 191

Flame 184
(uraeus), i. God, self produced, i. 134
Flesh of i. 234
Osiris, Gods, mortal, i. 6

Fa, i. 250 Flesh of Ea, i. 226, 273 Gods of archaic Period,

Fa-a, ii. 17 Flesh of Tern, i. 234 i. 78
Fa-akh, i. 178 Flint cow-goddess, i. 25 Gods of Egypt, the
Face = Ap-uat, i. 109 Followers of Horus,i. 84, foreign, ii. 275-290
Faces, god of four, i. 85 491, 158 " Gods," the, conception

Faket,ii. 128 Food, celestial, i, 164 of, i. 57

Famine, the seven years', Forty-two Assessors, i. Gods, the Eighteen, i. 86
ii. 54 418, 153 ; ii. 62 Gods, the forty-two, ii.

Fa-pet, i. 178 ; ii. 330 Forty-two Judges, i, 38 159

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Gods = The names of EJa-hra, ii. 336 I.Iapti-ta-f, i. 242

God, i. 134 Hai, ii. 245 I.I apt-re, ii. 336, 363
Gods, the oldest company Hai, i. 334; ii. 320, 336 I Ifip-ur, ii. 52
of, i. 282 ff. Hai, Serpent-god, ii. 367 Haqa - haka - 11a - lira, ii.

Gods, the Twenty-seven, Hair, i. 100 336

i. 83, 87 Hair of Children of Haq-p-khart, i. t69
God-mother, ii. 221 Horus, i. 210 Hare-god, i. 427 ii. 371 ;

God-Soul, i. 148, 302 Hair of Horus i. 157, Hare, nome of, i. 28

Goldziher, qnoted, i. 278 466 Harepukahasharesha-
Golenischeff, ii. '205 Hak, ii. 2'. il baiu, i. 511)

Good and Evil, ii. '243 Haker, ii. 335 IJarethi, ii. 336
Goose of Amen-Ra, ii. Haker festival, i. 410 Harmachis, i. 470; ii. 10,
374 Ha-kheru, ii. 335 75
Goose = Seb, ii. 04 Hall of Judgment, i. 153 Harpocrates, i. 285, 468,
Goshen, i. 100 Hall of Maati, i. 38 ; ii. 469, 495; ii. L06
Grapes in heaven, ii. 118 62 Harpocrates gods, i. 464
Grasshopper, ii. 370 Hall of Meh-urt, i. 423 Harpocrates, origin of, ii.

Grasshopper of Ea, i. 445 Ha-mehit (city), i. 406 194

Grasshoppers, i. 421 Hammonian nome, i, 96 Harpukakashareshabain,
'

Grasshoppers, Field of, Ha-nebu, i. 370 ; ii. 151 ii. 336

ii. 120 Hap, i. 110 Hartmann, i. 136

Great Balance, ii. 262 Hap (Apis), Bull, the, i. Ha-sert, i. 178
Great Bear, ii. 240, 250 26 ii. ; 346 Hashmalim, i. 7
Great Cackler, ii, 374 Hap, city of, ii. 133 Hat, i. 401 ; ii. 209
Great Green Sea, i, 480, Hap, Hapi, the Nile-god, Ha-tchat, 304 ii.
'

511 i. 178 ii. 42, 43 ff.

;
Hat-chetchn, i. 211
Great Scales, i. 36, 153, Hap = north, i. 158 Hatet, i. 255
100 Hap, son of Horus, i. Hathor, i. 78, 03. 338,
Grebaut, ii. 6 491, 492 428-437 ; ii. 2, 36, 93
Green Crown, ii. 26 Hapi, i. 198, 45i; ; ii. 103, 136
Griffith, Mr. F. L., i. 64 77, 129, 145, 184 Hathor- Aphrodite, i. 415
Gu-an-na, ii. 316 Hapi (Nile), i. 286, 335 Hathor destroys man-
Gud-an-na, ii. 316 ii. 4, 155, 336 kind, i. 365
Gvnaecopolites, i. 06; ii. Hapi (Nile-god), i. 146, Hathor, flint symbol of,
'31 147 i. 25

Hapi (son of Horus), ii. Hathor of Aphxodito-

"

336 97, 98
polis, i.

Haas, ii. 24ii Hapi-Asmat, ii. 309 Hathor of Cusae. i. 98

Habal, 289
ii. Hapi-Khuemu, ii. 45 Hathor of Dendera, i. 97
Hab-em-atu, ii. 335 Hapi-Ptah, ii. 45 Hathor of Diospolis
Hades, i. 263 ii. 197 ;
Hapi-Nu, ii. 47 Parva, i. 97
Hades, the god, ii. 108, Hapiu (
Apis), ii. 336 Hathor of Nut-ent-I.Iap,
349 Hap-re, ii. 289 i. 98
Haggi Kandil, ii. 72 Hap-semu-8, i. 241 Hathors, the Seven, i.

Ha-hetep, ii. 335 I.Iap-tcheserts, ii. 302 433, 434

400 INDEX
Hathors, the Twelve, i. Hebs, 244
i. Heliopolis, sycamore of,

434 Hebset, i. 241 ii. 107

Hat-mehit, i. 114, 432 ;
Hebt, i. 492 Heliopolis visited by
'
ii. 65, 354, 383 Heb-tep, ii. 293 Piankhi, i. 331
Hat-mehit, norne of, ii. Hebt-re-f, ii. 336 Heliopolitan doctrine, i.
'
64 Hedgehog, ii. 369 333
Hatshepset, i. 160, 329 ;
Heels = souls of Annu, Heliopolites, i. 96
'
285
ii. i. 110 Helios, ii. 93, 124, 186,
Hau, i. 23 Heglik-tree, i. 17 187
Hau-hra, i. 326 Heh, 289 Hell, i. 171 ff., 263 ff.

Hauna-ara-her-hra, i. Heh, central support of Hell, prototype of, i. 12

272 heaven, i. 157 Hell. Seven Mansions of,

Hawk, antiquity of Heh, Lake of, ii. 60 i. 278

worship of, i. 9 Hehet, ii. 2 Hellanicus, ii. 92
Hawk-god, ii. 372 Hehi, ii. 116, 337 Hem, i. 81
Hawk; nome of, i. 27, 28 Hehu, i. 113, 257, 258, Hemaka, ii. 116, 117
Hawk, the Great, ii. 11 283, 284 Hememet, ii. 154
Hawks as abodes of dis- Hehui, ii. 2 Hemen, i. 81; ii. 336
embodied spirits, i. 16 Hehut, i. 113, 257, 258, Hemhemet, i. 481
Head = hawk, i. 109 283, 285, 289 Hemhemti, i. 326
Hearing, god 298 of, ii. Heka, i. 23 Hem-nu, ii. 336
Heart =
Bastet, i. 110 Heka, i. 82, 180; ii. Hemt, i. 228
Heart, Chapters of, i. 42 131 Hem-taiu, i. 326
Heaven, i. 156 ff. Hekau, i. 40 ii. 4 ;
Hemth, i. 23
Heaven of Osiris, the, ii. Hekemt, i. 220 Hemti, ii. 336
119 Hekennnt, i. 513 Henbi, ii. 63, 336
Heb-Antet, ii. 293 Hekenth, i. 234 Heneb, ii. 63
Heb-api-hent-s ii. 293 Hekret, i. 23 Henena, i. 81
Heb-apt, ii. 293 Heliopolis, i. 92, 100, Hen-en-ba, ii. 322
Heben, i. 480, 492 282, 328, 471 ; ii. 4, Henen-su, ii. 58, 98, 59,
Hebenu, i. 486 5, 22, 95, 96, 97, 141 131
Hebennrj, i. 98, 494 Heliopolis and At en Henhenith, i. 228
Hebes-ka, i. 100 worship, ii. 68 Hen-Heru, i. 211
Hebet, i. 113; ii. 213, Heliopolis, Bull of, ii, Henkhisesui (East wind),
255 351, 352 ii. 296
Hebi, ii. 362 Heliopolis, company of Henmemet, i. 84, 159,
'

Heb-Kert, ii. 128 gods of, ii. 85 ff. 160 ii. 151
;

Hebrews, i. 41, 119 ; ii. Heliopolis, lions of, ii. Hennu Boat, i. 505, 506;
'

73 360 ii. 117, 260

Hebrews, Heaven of, i. Heliopolis, Mnevis god Henotheism, i. 136
166 of, i. 26 Hen-pesetchi, i. 81
Hebrews, Hell of, i. 171, Heliopolis, paut of gods Hensek, ii. 336
265 of, i. 88 Hent, i. 81
Hebrews, their system of Heliopolis, souls of, i. Hent (Isis), ii. 213
Angels, i. 6 ff. 107 Hentch-hentch, ii. 294
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INDEX 401

Henti, ii. 337 Herert, i. 186 Her-sha-s, i. 256

Henti (Osiris), i. 457 Her-hepes, i. 81 ; ii. 85 Her-she-f, ii. 58
Henti-requ, i, 177 ; ii. Her-hequi, i. 222 Her-shefi, i. 98
337 Heri-akeba-f, ii. 337 Her-sheft, ii. 58 ff.

Hentiu, i. 198, 259 Heri-sep-f, ii. 60, 337 Her-she-taiu, 248 i.

Hent-neteru, 254 i. Heri-seru, i. 419 Her-she-tuati, i. 244

Hent-nut-s, 244 i. Herit, i. 202 Her-ta, ii. 337
Hent-she, ii. 337 Heri-uru, 337 ii. Her-taui, ii. 337
Hep, i. 81; ii. 42 Her-ka, 463 i. Her-tep-aha-her-neb-s,
Hep (Nile) 81 i. Her-khu, i. 222 ii. 301

Hep-Meht, ii. 43 Hermanubis, i. 493 ; ii. Her-tept, ii. 134

Hep-Eeset, ii. 43 265 Hert-ermen, i. 246
Hep-ur, i. 81 Hermes, i. 402, 414 ; ii. Her-tesu-f, i. 232
Hepa, i. 254 124, 187, 193 Hert-rmntua, i. 255
Hepath, i. 81 Hernionthis, i. 328, 431, Her-thertu, i. 38, 49 ; ii.

Hephaistos, i. 461, 501 469; ii. 22, 24, 352, 34

Heptanomis, i. 96 357 Hertit, i. 325
Heptet, ii. 131 Herinonthites, i. 96 Hertit-an, 337 ii.

Hept-seshet, 336 ii. Hermopolis, i. 95, 98, 149, Hert-ketit-s, 255 i.

Hept-shet, i. 419 332, 400, 405, 432; Hert-nekenit, i. 256

Hept-ta, i. 192 ii. 30, 92, 107, 149, Hert-nemmat-set, i. 256
Heq, ii. 291 353, 375 Hert-sefu-s, i. 256
Heq, ka of Ka, ii. 300 Hermopolis, Eight gods Her-tuaiu, i. 211
Heqa, ii. 357 of, i. 292 Heru (Horus), i. 78, 81
Heq-at (nome), i, 100 Hermopolis Magna, ii. 22, ii. 317, 337
Heqes, ii. 129 51 Heru-ai, ii. 337
Heqet, i. 82, 110, 329, Hermopolis of North, i. Heru, an official, ii. 63
431 ; ii. 61, 109, 136, 427 Heru-aa-abu, i.498
137, 213, 378 Hermopolis of South, i. Heru-aah, i. 81, 497
Heqtit, ii. 184, 338, 378 427 Heru-ahai, i. 498

Heq-ur, 302 ii. Hermopolis, Souls of, i. Heru-am-henu, i. 81

Her-ab-Khentu, ii. 307 107 Heru-am-hennu, i. 497
Her-ab-uaa, ii. 306 Hermopolites, i. 96 Heru - ami - abu-her-ab -
Heracleopolites, i. 96 Herodotus, quoted or ami-khat, i. 498
Heraclides, ii. 199 referred to, i. 1, 444, Heru-ami-atken, i. 498
Heraclitus, ii. 199, 200 448, 452, 514 ; ii. 96, Heru-an-mut-f, i. 470
Her-a-f, ii. 129 208, 346, 353, 357, Ileru-ap-shata, ii. 139
Herakleopolis Magna, i. 358,364,366,369,370- Heru-ap-sheta-taui, ii.
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98, 354, 365, 472 ; ii. 372, 375 302

5,22,58,59,148,155, Heron, the, ii. 373 Heru-behutet,i. 96,473;
'
159 Heroopolis, i. 354; ii. 31 248
ii.

Her-aua, ii.291 Heroopolites, i. 353 Heru-behutet and Set, i.

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Her-ba, i. 345 ii. 320 ; Her-pest, i. 480 489

Hercules, ii. 199, 200 Her-qenbet-f, i. 188 Heru-em-au-ab, ii. 3u2
Herent, i. 492 Her-sha-f, ii. 58 \[ eru-em-heb, ii. 84
ii —d d
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Heru-ein-ket-Aa, i. 413 Heru-kkuti-Ra, i. 352 Heru-sku-p-kkart, i, 469
Heru-ein-kkebit, i. 498 Heru-kkuti-Tem, i. 470 Heru-sma-taui, i, 354,
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Heru-em-kkent-an-inaati, Heru-kkuti - Temu - Heru 472 ; ii. 249

'

337 ii. Kkepera, i. 357 Heru-Tat, i. 81

Heru-kebenu, i. 486 Heru - kkuti - Ra - Temu - Heru-ta-ta-f, i. 358, 426,
Heru-kekennu, i. 473 ;
Kkepera, i. 472 524
ii. 260 Heru-kkuttka, i. 81 Heru-Tekuti, i. 414 ; ii.
'

Heru-kekenu, i. 206, 450 Heru-ma- taui - pa kkart - 184

'

Heru-kennu, 469 i. i. 495 Heru-tema, i. 468

Heru-ker-kket, ii. 301 Heru-merti, i. 469 f. Heru-tesker, ii. 303
Heru-ker-neferu, i. 498 ii. 299 Heru-tesker-maati, i. 81
Heru-ker-uatck-f, ii. 322 Heru-neb-Mesen, ii, 362 Heru, tke Hawk-god, i.

Herui (Horus-Set), ii. Heru-neb-ureret, i. 498 322

337 Heru-netck-kra-tef-f, i. Heru, tke oldest god, i.
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Herui (nome), i. 97 495 ; ii. 337 466

Herui-senui, ii. 337 Heru-netck-tef-f, i. 488 Heru-tkema, i, 486
Heru-ka, ii. 303 ii. 135, 322 Heru-ti, ii. 261
Heru-ka-nekkt, 214 ii. Heru-netck-tef-f em ren- Heru-Tuat, i. 211
Heru-ka-pet, ii. 302 f neb, ii. 185 Heru-tuati, i. 196
Heru-kkabit, i. 211 Heru-nub, i. 470, 426 Her-uatck-f, i. 497
Heru-kkart, i. 81 Heru-pa-kkart, i. 469 Heru-ur (Aroeris), i. 9,
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Heru-kkent-an-maati, i. ff. ; ii. 35 78, 102, 467 ff. ; ii.

299, 468 Heru-pa-kkart, son of 109, 183, 241, 337,

Heru- kkentet - an - maati, Hat-Mekit, ii. 65 356, 378
'

ii. 183 Heru-pa-kkart, son of Heru-ur and Set, i. 489 ;

Heru-kkent-kek, i. 498 Osiris, 495, 496 i. ii. 243

Heru-kkenti-aket-f ; i, Heru-pe-sketa, ii. 302 Heru-ur of Sekkem, i.
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228 Heru-p-ka, ii. 303 99

Heru-kkenti-an-Maati, i. Heru-p-kkart of Busiris, Heru-ur, god of tke Nortk,
470 i. 469 i. 468 ii. 243 ;

Heru-kkenti-kkat, i. 470 Heru-Ra-p-kkart, i. 469 Heru-ur of tke Soutk, i,

Heru - kkenti - maati, i. Heru-sa-Ast,ii.l83,292, 467

494 337 i. 256
Her-ut-f,
Heru-kkent-kkattki, ii. Heru-sa-Ast-sa-Asar, i. Hes, 433 i.
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184 486 Hesamut, ii. 312

Heru-kkent-kkatitk, ii. Heru-sbati (?), ii. 301 Hesat, i. 82
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293 Heru-sekka, ii. 212 Hesentet, ii. 181

Heru-kkent-peru, i. 81, Heru-sekkai, i. 498 ; ii. Hesepti, i. 358, 506
497 183 Hesert, i. 401
Heru-kkesbetck-maati, i. Heru-sept, i. 81, 498, Hes-kra, i. 519 ; ii. 337
81 499 Hesmennu, i. 82
Heru-kkuti, i. 336, 349, Heru-skefi = Osiris, ii. Hes-nefer-Sebek, i. 464
470 ff, ii. 4, 293, 337 139 Hespu, tke, i. 95-100
Heru-kkuti-Kkepera, i. Heru-skemsku, i, 490 Hes-tckefetck, ii, 19, 338
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470 Heru-sket-kra, i. 498 Het, i, 97

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Het, i. 161 Hetetet, 338

ii. Hidden-Souls, i. 212, 213,
Het-aa, 513
i. Hetet-Sept, ii. 268 215
Het-Abtit, i. 405 Het-her-ateb, ii. 128 Hidden symbols, i. 222
Het-a-nekkt, i. 478 Het-Hert (Hathor), i. 82, Hierakonpolis, i. 431,
Het- Ant, i, 492 428-437; ii. 293 476 ; ii. 372
Het-baiut, i. 496 Het-Heru, i. 78 Hierosolymus, ii. 254
Het-Benben, ii. 66, 73, Het-ka-kknem-neteru, i. 368
97 51 High priest of Memphis,
Het-Benbenet, i. 331 Het-ka-Ptah, i. 502, 512, i. 101
Het-Bennu, ii. 128 522 ii. i54
; High priest of Thebes,
Heteh-a, i. 211 Het-ka-Ptah (see Mem- title of, i. 101
Hetch-abehu, i, 419 ; ii. phis), ii. 157 Hi-mu, ii. 336

338 Het-khaat, ii. 249 Hinnom, i. 273

Hetchhetch, i. 81 Het-khas, ii. 255 Hinu-en-Shu-nefer, ii.

Hetchiu, 344 i. Het-khat, i. 515 93

Hetch-met, i. 222 Het-khebit, i. 452, 464 Hipponon, i. 98, 494

Hetch-nau, i. 218 Het-maa-kheru, ii. 128 Hippopotamus of Set, i.

Hetch-nefer-Sebeq, i.457, Het-Mut, ii. 30 478, 480
464 Het-nefert-Tem, i. 473 Hippopotamus, the, i. 24;
Hetch-paar, i. 88 Het-neh, 492
i. ii. 359
Hetch-re, 338 Het-Net, 452
i. Hit, ii. 287, 336
Hetch-re-pest-tep, ii. 338 Het-Nut, ii. 103 Hobgoblins, i. 12
Hetchuti, ii. 320 Het-Keshp, ii. 283 Hokhmah, i. 296
Hetemet, ii. 338 Het-sa-Ast, ii. 374 Holy fathers, i. 101
Hetemet-baiu, i. 178 Het - sekhem, ii. 255, Homer, ii. 219
Hetemet-kkeiniu, i.241 256 Horapollo,i. 62, 234,284,
Hetemet-khu, i. 244 Het-ser, ii. 210 356, 402, 461, 462;
Hetemitet, 232 i. Het-Serqet, i. 88 ii. 369, 375, 379, 381,
Het-ennut, i. 469 Het-Seshesh, ii. 108 382
Hetep, ii. 338 Het-stau-kker-aha-Ra, i. Horn of the West, i.

Hetep (city), i. 161 228 205

Hetepet, city 429 of, i. Het-suten, i. 492 Horse and Ox, Fable of,

ii. 381 scarab of, i. 85

; Het-ta-her-ab, i. 100 i. 18
Hetep-ka, ii. 338 Het-teft, ii. 64 Horus,i. 78, 145, 146,

Hetep - khenti - Tuat, i. Het-temtet-Ra, i. 228 180, 304, 341; ii.

228 Hettenuut, i. 81 129
Hetep-mes, ii. 263 Het-tua-Ra, i. 228 Horus and Set, i. 484 ;

Hetep-sekket, i. 367 Het-uart, ii. 251 ii. 244; double-

31, 62,
Hetep-sekkus, i. 495 ii, ;
Het-ur-ka, i. 88 head, i. 194; fight
338 Het-urt, ii. 51 between, i. 117 fight ;

Hetep-taui, ii. 338 Het-utet, 513i. of, i. 405, 475, 488 ;

Heteptiu, i. 226 Hidden-Face, i. 343 hold the ladder, i. 167 ;

Hetep-uaa, i. 242 Hidden-House, ii. 154 their fight, ii. 212

Hetepui, i. 230 Hidden-Name, i. 48 Horus as Advocate in the
Hetet, ii. 213, 292 Hidden One, ii. 21 Judgment, i. 490
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Horus, battle of, with Horus the Child, i. 469 Hypselis,i. 431 ; ii. 51
Set, ii. 125 Horus the Elder, i. 188, Hyvernat quoted, i. 269
Horns-brethren, the two, 467, 496
i. 410 Horus, two Blue Eyes of,
Horns, Cippi of, ii. 267- i. 497 Iai, i. 280
274 Hours, gods and god- lad, i. 280
Horus cuts off head of desses of, ii. 300, 301 Ibis = Thoth, i. 403
Isis, i. 405 House of Osiris, i. 103 Ibis-god, i. 401
Horus = To-day, i. 487 House of Shu, ii. 93 Ibis, the, ii. 375
Horus, Followers of, i. House of the Net, i. 405, Ibis, worship of, i. 2
196 407 Ibiu,i. 432

Horus, four Children of, Hra-f-ha-f, i. 81, 419; ii. Ibrahim Ruskdi, i. 17
i. 210, 228, 456, 497 ;
121, 337 Ichneumon, ii. 370
ii. 106, 145, 249 Hra-nefer, ii. 337 Ieana Menaman, i. 280
Horus, four Children of Hra-ua, ii. 337 I-em-hetep, i. 14, 126,
as gods of Dekans, ii. Hu, i. 81, 99, 203, 206, 522, 523 ; ii. 52
309, 310 215, 472 ; ii. 89, 297, I-en-her-pes, i. 80
Horus-gods, the, i. 466 ff. 299, 302, 336 Ieou, 280 i.

Horus, ka of, i. 163 Hu (city), i. 492 Illahat, i. 15

Ladder of, ii. 242 Hu (the Sphinx), ii. 361 Immortality, i. 144, 151
Horus-name, the, i. 25 Hu, ka of Ea, ii. 300 Imouthes, i. 522
Horus of Antaeopolis, i. Huaaiti, i.341 ; ii. 317 Incarnation of Ainen-Ra,
97 Hui, ii. 336 i. 330
Horus of Athribis, i. 100 Huit, god of Sphinx, i. Incarnation of Osiris, i.

Horus of Behutet, i. 84 348 330

Horus of Behutet and Hu-kheru, i. 176; ii. Incarnation of Temu, i.

Set, i. 405 336 330

Horus of Edfu, i. 92 Human sacrifice, i. 234 Incense, ii. 80
Horus stung by a scor- Hun, i. 211 Incense trees, ii. 209
pion, ii. 208, 272 Hunefer, Papyrus of, i. India, 200 ii.

Horus of Hipponon, i. 98 131, 335,410,489; ii. Ink-pot, i. 411

Horus of Tanis, i. 100 5, 6, 68 Inundation (of Nile), i.

Horus of the East, ii. 10 Hunger, ii. 118 10, 11, 44, 63, 123
Horus of the Papyrus Hunt, i. 81 Iouo, i. 280
swamps, i. 442 Huntheth, i. 248 Ireqai, ii.328
Horus of Tu-f, i. 98 Hur i. 166
al-'uyun, Iron, ii. 241
Horus Pakht, i. 518 Hurt, 213ii. Iron floor of heaven, i.

Horus, two Eed Eyes of, Hut, i. 492 167, 491

i. 497 Hutchaiui (West wind), Iron knife, ii. 92
Horus Seker, ii. 145 ii. 296 Iron sky, i. 156 ff.

Horus Sept, i. 166, 200 Hu-tepa, i. 177 ii. 336 ; Iron throne, i. 58, 158
ii. 145 Hydrus, the, ii. 358, 359 Isaeacus, ii. 200
Horus-Set, i. 200, 211 Hyksos,i. 104 ii. 4, 69, ;
Ishim, i. 7
Horus the Aged, i. 84 250 Ishtar, i. 273 ; ii. 279
Horus the Blind, i. 299 Hypsele, i. 97 Isis, i. 58, 151,166,230,
 INDEX 405

231,341,431; ii. 29, Iubau, i. 326 Kaarik, ii. 342

85,108,109,124,125, Iukasa, ii. 20 Ka-ari-ka, ii. 20
126, 129, 186, 187, Iusaas, i. 85 Kadesh, ii. 27
202 Iusaas, ii. 289 Ka-en-Ankh-neteru, i.
Isis and her Seven Scor- Iusaas[et], city of, ii. 257
pions, i. 487 381 Kaharesapusaremk a h e r-
Isis and Neplithys, La- Iusaaset, i, 354, 432, 441, remt, ii. 342
mentations of, i, 293 446 ; ii. 29, 88 Ka-hemhem, i. 228
Isis and the Virgin Mary, Iusaaset-Nebthetep, i, Ka-her-ka-heb, ii. 293

ii. 220, 221 354 Ka-heseb (nome), i. 100

Isis as enchantress, ii. Ka-hetep, ii. 139, 156,
207 342
Isis, blood of, ii. 215 Jackal, 367 ii. Ka-hetep (Osiris), ii. 61
Isis Campensis, 218 ii. Jahannam, 273 i. Kahun, ii. 285
Isis, Festival Songs of, James, Saint, i. 280 Kai, i. 230
i. 294 Jebel Barkal, i. 14, 15, Kaiekhos, ii. 346
Isis, forms of, ii. 213 16 Kait, goddess, i. 286
Isis and Ra, Legend of, Jequier, quoted, i. 178 Kakaa, i. 329
i. 360 ff. Jerusalem, i. 273, 278 Ka-kau, ii. 346, 351, 353
Isis, mysteries 217;
of, ii. Jews, i. 19 Ka-khu, ii. 301
sorrows Egyptian
of, Jinn, i. 133
14, Kalabsheh, ii. 288
text, ii. 222-240 wan- ; John, Saint, i. 144 Ka-qem, i. 492
derings and troubles of, Judaeus, ii. 254, 368 Ka-qem (nome), i. 100
ii. 206 ff. Judges, Book of, i. 19 Kaqemna, i. 122, 138
Isis of Cabasus, i. 100 Judgment Scene, ii. 142 Karau-Anememti, i, 326
Isis of Sapi-res, i. 99 ff. Karnak, ii. 22
Isis of Tithorea, ii. 218- Julius Africanus, i. 445 Kasa, i. 98
220 Juno, ii. 253 Kasaika, ii. 20, 342
Isis-Athene, 459 i. Jupiter, ii. 186,253,302, Ka-set (nome), i. 99
Isis-Hathor, 55 ii. 303 Ka-Shu, i. 206
Isis-Nebuut, ii. 213 Jupiter Ammon, ii. 22 Kasut, i. 83
Isis-Net, i. 452 Justinian, i. 289 Ka-taui, ii. 301
Isis-Sati, ii. 57 Juvenal, i. 28, 36; Katna, ii. 23
Isis-Sothis, ii. 55 quoted, i. 1, 2 Kan i. 34
of Ra,

Island of Ateh, ii.209 Keb, 369

i.

Isokhobortha, i. 281 Keb-ur, i. 259

Israel, Children of, i. 19 Ka, or " double," i. 34, Kefi, i. 198
Israelites, i. 136, 137 39 Kehkeh, ii. 268
Israfel, i, 5 Ka of Osiris, i. 149 Kehkehet, ii. 342
Israi, 280
i. Ka, son of Meh-urt, i. Kek, i. 371
It (city), i. 492 516 Keket, ii. 2
Ithyphallic god, ii. 17, Ka, the god, i. 286 Kekiu, i. 113
18 Kaa, ii. 342 Kekiut, i. 113
Iuaa, ii. 69 Ka-Ament, i. 198 Keku, i. 241
Iubani, i. 326 Ka-Amentet, i. 240 Kekui, i. 283, 285;ii.2
406 INDEX
Kemkem, ii. 342 Khas, ii. 31, 269 Khensu (nome), i. 99
Kenat, 248
i. Khas(?)-en-Sept, i. 499 Khensu-Behutet, ii. 36
Kenememti, i. 326 Khasut (Xo'is), i. 99 Khensu-Hunnu, 35 ii.

Kenemet, ii. 22 Khat, i. 492 Khensu-Nefer-hetep, ii.

Kenemti, i. 419 Khat (city), i. 496 34 ff., 39 ff.

Kenken-ur, ii, 96 Khatat, i. 473 Khensu - nefer - hetep-Te -

Kemnu, ii. 306 Khati, i. 344 huti, ii. 37
Keninut, ii. 304 Khati gods, i. 457 Khensu-pa-khart, ii. 35,
Kennu, i. 433 Khatra, i. 215 36
Kenset, i. 85, 433, 492 ;
Khatri, i. 241 Khensu-Ea, ii. 35
ii. 42 Khau, ii. 308 Khensu-Sept, i. 82
Kent, ii. 280 Khauit, i. 433 Khensu- Shu, ii. 35
Kenur, i. 83 Khau-tchet-f, i. 177 Khensu-Tehuti, ii. 35
Ken-ur, ii. 343 Khebent, ii. 338 Khensu the chronogra-
Kepenut, 433 i. Khebet, city of, ii. 208 pher, ii. 37
Kep-hra, ii. 342 Khebetch, i. 82 Khens-ur, i.109
Ker, ii. 342 Khebit, Island of, i. 442 Khent (goddess), ii. 292
Kereh, 113
i. Khebkheb, ii. 139 Khent-abt (nome), i. 100
Kerehet, i. 113 Khebs-ta, 241 ii. 63
i. ; Khent-Abtet, i. 431, 432
Kerh, i. 283, 286, 289, Khebset-urt, i, 455 Khent-Amenti, i. 82,
371 Khebt, ii. 213 439 ; ii. 138
Kerhet, 283, 286, 289
i. Kheft-hra-en-neb-s, i. 437 Khent-an-maati, ii. 261
Kesem, i. 499 Khekh, i. 516 Khent-em-meht-akeba, i.

Keset, i. 433 Khekhsit, 432 i. 455

Ketuit-gods, i. 346 Kkekhuit, i. 433 Khent-Heru, i. 246; ii.
Ketuiti, ii. 320 Khem, i. 97, 470 ; ii. 17 307
Ketuit-ten-ba, i, 211 Khem (god), i. 97 Khent-Het-Anes, ii. 129
Kka (?) (nome), i. 100 Khem (nome), i. 97 Kkent-Kheru, ii. 307
Kha-gods, i. 39, 43 Khema, i. 274 Khent-maati, i. 82, 85;
Kha, Lake of, i. 158 Khembis, 208
ii. ii. 86
Kha-a, i. 246 Khemennu, i. 98, 332, Khent-Sehet, 263 ii.

Khaata, i. 82 353, 358, 400, 401, Khentet-hert, 305 ii.

Khabesu, the, ii. 154 457 ; ii. 149, 297, 338 Khentet-Khast, ii. 309
Kha-em-Uast, ii. 350, Khemennu, Eight gods Khentet-khert, ii. 305
351 of, i. 113, 292 Khenthi, ii. 293
Kha-f-Ra, 445, 472 i. Khemi, i. 419 ii. 338 ;
Khenti = Thoth, i. 402
Khak-ab, 326 i. Khemit, i. 222 Khenti Amentet, i. 172,
Khakhat, i. 433 Khemmis, ii. 208, 210, 173 ; ii. 339
Kka-nefer, i. 512 Khemmis, Island of, ii. 22 Khenti-Amenti, i. 198,
Khan-ru- ., i. 326
. . . Khenememti, ii. 338 342; 117,317
ii.

Kharakhar, i. 266 Khennu, ii. 356 Khenti-ast-f, i. 248

Kharkhnoumis, ii. 304 Khensu, i. 39, 49, 82, Khenti-Aukert, i. 215
Kkarsatha, ii. 338 447, 448, 464 ; ii. 33, Khenti-heh-f, ii. 129
Khartum, ii. 360, 365 35, 36, 97, 293, 302, Khenti-khas, i. Ill
Kharubu, i. 326 339 Khenti-Khatthi, ii. 339
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Khenti-ment, i. 248 Khermuti, 326 i. Khnemu of Ermen-hert,

Khenti-qerer, ii. 317 Kher-sebu, 200 i. i. 98
Khenti- Tuat = Thoth, Khersekhet, i. 432 Khnemu of Shas-hetep,
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i.226 Khersek-Shu, ii. 339 i. 97

Khenu, i, 242 ii. 25 ;
Kherserau, ii. 339 Khnemu -Osiris, ii. 51,
Khen-unnut-f, i. 242 Khesef-at, 339 ii. 57, 58
Kheper, i. 78 Khesef- haa-heseq-Neha- Khnemu-qenbeti, i. 211
Khepera, 257,
i. 203, hra, i. 230 Khnemu-Ba, ii. 45, 51,
294, 295, 297, 306, Khesef-hra, i. 326 131
308-321, 336, 340, Khesef-hra-ash-kkeru, i. Khnemu-Seb, ii. 51
349, 470 ii. 4, 14, 15,
; 176 ii. 339
; Khnemu-Shu, ii. 51, 66
97, 301, 317, 338, 371, Khesef- hra-khemiu, i. Khnemu, the seven forms
380 177 ; ii. 339 of, ii, 54, 55
Khepera kheper tchesef, Khesef-kheniiu, ii, 339 Khnemu-ut-em-ankh, ii.

i. 355 Khesef-kkeint, ii. 301 139

Khepera-Ba-Tem, i. 352 Khesfu, i. 246 Khnoumis, ii. 304
Khepera-Ea-Temu, i, 363 Kheta-Sar, ii. 283 Khoiak, ii. 128, 130
Kheperi, ii. 317 Kheti i. 192
(a serpent), Khokhar, i. 267
Kheper-ta, i. 511 Khirepu, ii. 283 Khokhe, i. 281
Khepert-kekui-kkaat- Khirie, i. 281 Khokheteoph, i. 281
mest, 257
i. Khisasapa, ii. 283 Khontakhre, ii. 305, 307
Khepera, ii. 302 Khnemet-ankh, i, 435 Khontare, ii. 305, 307
Khepesh, ii. 338 Khnemet-ankhet, ii. 108 Khoou, ii. 307
Khepesh, constellation, Khnemet - em - ankh - an - Khremaor, i. 267
ii. 249 nuit, 338 ii. Khu, i. 163
Khephren, i. 471 ; ii. 361 Khnemiu, 201 i. Khu (a Dekan), ii. 307
Khepi, ii. 317 Khnem-renit, i. 254 Khu, god of Light, i. 370
Kheprer, i. 78, 342 ; ii. Khnemu, i. 78, 82, 95, Khu, ka of Ea, ii. 300
25, 130, 320 96,107,180,200,254, Khu, spirit, i. 39
Khepri, i. 196 286, 329, 463, 464, Khufu, i. 426, 445, 524
Kher, ii. 25, 339 472,502,513;ii,49ff., Khui, i. 211
Kkera, i. 107 ; ii. 339 91, 268, 322, 338, 354, Khuit, i. 432
Kher-aha, i. Ill, 178, 379 Khu-kheper-ur, ii. 338
425; ii. 11, 154, 157 Khnemu Ba-neb-Tet, ii, Khu-tchet-f, i. 177; ii.

Kher-heb priest, i, 331 64, 65 338

Kherp-hu-khefti, i. 211 Khnemu- Ba-neb - Tettet, Khukhu, ii. 307
Kherseket, 256 ii. i. 354 Khusrau, i. 289

Khersek-Shu, 418 i. Khnemu-Hapi, i. 146 Khut, ii. 338

Kkert-khent-Sekhem, i. Khnemu - Her - shef ii. Khut, goddess, i. 306,
110 58 ff. 323
Kheri-beq-f, i. 494 Khnemu Heru-hetep, ii. Khut (Isis), ii. 216
Kker-khept-Kenrnut, ii. 183 Khut = magical cere-

304 Khnemu -Heru-shefit, i. mony, i. 296

Kher-khept-sert, ii. 306 354 Khut-Aten, city of, ii.

Kher-khu, i. 200 Khnemu-Nu, ii, 52 72 ff.

408 INDEX
Khut-Nebat, i, 447 Lake Victoria, i. 11 Libationers, i. 101
Khut-taui, i. 512 Lakes of Jackals, ii, 120 Libyans, 188 i. ; ii. 13
Khuti, a god, I, 182 Lakes of the Tuat, ii. 120 Liddon, Canon, i. 144
King, L. W., i. 406; Lakhamu, i. 289, 291 Lieblein, i. 68, 69, 71
quoted, i, 13, 273 ff., Lakhmu, i. 289, 291 Life and Death, ii. 243
288, 289 ; ii, 314 Lamb, worship of, i, 2 Life, everlasting, i. 412
Kings, incarnations of Lamellicorns, ii. 379 Life, plant of, i. 165
gods, i. 3 Lamkhamor, i. 266 Light and Darkness, ii,

Kingu, i. 327 Land of the Spirits, ii. 343

Kishar, i. 289, 291 287 Light-bearers, i. 200
Kiaaapi], i. 289 Lanzone, i. 204,284,285, Linen, ii. 118

Knitousokhreoph, i. 281 328, 354, 402 ff. Linen garments, i. 165

Kohl, i. 17 Laraokh, i, 266 Lion = Amen, ii, 2
Kom Ombo, ii, 109 Lat, ii. 289 Lion, the, ii. 359-361
Konime, ii. 306 Latopolis, i. 431, 463, sacred, ii. 347 ; wor-
Kosmos, ii, 243 468; ii. 50, 51, 66, ship, i, 24
Koukiamin Miai, i. 280 92, 356 Lion-god, ii. 15
Krokodilonpolis-Arsinoe, Latopolites, i. 96 Lion-gods, the Twin, ii.

ii. 357 Latreille, i. 356 ; ii. 381 88

Kronos, 467 i. ; ii. 100, Latus Fish, ii. 382 Lion gods and goddesses,
124, 186, 187 Lazarus, i. 171 ii. 362

Krophi, ii. 44 Ledrain, ii. 162 Lips of deceased, i, 109

Kur'an, quoted, i. 5 Leek, worship of, i. 2 Lizard with human head,
Kuresh, i. 142 Lefebure, M. B., i. 180 i. 210
ff., 205, 319, 349, 360, Aoyo?, the, i. 407
363 Loins = Pautti, i, 110
Labyrinth, i. 96 Legge, Mr. F., quoted, i, Longperier, Adrien M.
Ladder of heaven, i. 167, 64 de, 64
i.

168, 490 Legs = twin soul -gods, i, Lonkhar, i. 266

Ladder of Shu, ii. 92 110 Lords (angels), i. 6
Ladder, the Divine, ii, Lelet al-Nukta, ii. 47 Lotus, i. 521, 522
241 Leo, sign of, i. 464 Lucian, ii. 96
Ladder-bearers, i. 188 Leontopolis, ii. 347, 361 Luxor, i. 329 ; ii. 22
Lady of the boat, i. 207 . Leontopolites, i. 96 Lychnus Fish, ii. 382
Lake Moeris, ii. 58, 347, Leopard with human Lycopolis, i. 98, 426,
357 head, i. 61 432, 434 ; ii. 252, 262,
Lake of Aaru, i. 297 Leopard with serpent's 353, 367
Lake of Battle, i. 481 head, i. 59 Lycopolites, i. 96
Lake of Fire, i. 35 Lepidotus fish, ii. 192, Lynx, i. 24, 324 ; ii. 362,
Lake of Flame, i. 34 382 363
Lake of Kha, i. 158 Lepsius, i. 34
Lake of Life, ii, 184 Letasashaka, ii. 21
Lake of Testes, i. 335, Letopolis, i. 99, 432 ; ii. Maa, i. 254, 309
339 148, 157 Maa, ka of Ba, ii. 300
Lake of Uraei, i, 184 Leviathan, i. 278, 279 Maa, Sight-god, ii. 298
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INDEX 409

Maa-ab, i. 189 Maati (city), i. 433 Manu, i. 351, 417, 470,

Maa-ab-kkenti-aht-f, i. Maati, Hall of, i. 38, 516; ii. 25, 101
228 153 Maraeotis, i. 96
Maa-an f, 419
i. Maati-f-em-sbet, ii. 330 Marakhakhtba, i. 280
Maa-anuf, ii. 330 Maati-f-em-tes, i. 419 Marawi, i. 16
Maa-atef-f, i. 494 ii. 330 Marduk, i. 277, 278, 279,
Maa-atef-f- kkeri-beq-f, Maatuf-her-a, ii. 330 305, 327 ii. 314 ;

ii. 330 Maau-taui, ii. 330 Marduk and Tiamat, fight

Maa-ein-kerh, ii. 129 Mabi, ii. 37 of, i. 406, 407
Maa-em-kerh-an-nef-em- Macarius of Antiocb, i. Marei, i. 280
bru, i. 494 ii. 330 ; 268 Marie, i. 280
Maa-ennu-am-uaa, ii. 302 Macedonians, i. 272 Mariette,i. 126,139,204;
Maa-en-tef, ii. 291 Macrobius, ii. 352, 367 ii. 6, 23, 196, 354
Maa-ha-f, ii. 380 Mafek, 430
i. Marinus, i. 289
Maa-heh-en renpit, ii. Maftet, i. 324 ; ii. 363 Mark, Saint, ii. 221
330 Maftet (Lynx), i. 85 Markhour, i. 266
Maa = Hokhmah, i. 296 Magic, Antiquity of in Marniarakhtka, i. 280
Maa-hra, ii. 301 Egypt, i. 13 Marne, i. 64
Maaiu-su, ii. 330 Ma-bes, ii. 362 Marqatha, ii. 21, 330,
Maakheru, ii. 146 Mahlufas, i. 14 Mars, ii. 253, 303
Maa-kheru, i. 408, 409 Mainmari, i. 280 Marua, i, 15
Maam, i. 492 Mait, ii. 363 Mary, the Virgin, i. 108,
Maa-nefert-Ra, i. 257 Makba-taiu, i. 513 328 ii. 107
;

Maa-tet-f, ii. 129 Makhenut, i. 467 Mashkhith, i. 274

Maa-tbet-f,i.l78;ii. 330 Makbi, i. 211 Maspero, Prof. G., i. 23,
Mafi-uat, i. 320, 344 Makbiar, ii. 293 67, 71, 117, 142, 205,
Maat,i. 20, 80, 153, 323, Mak-nebs, ii. 302 224, 404, 445, 486;
338,339,346,352,370, Malachim, i. 7 ii. 13, 102
416-420, 432, 433, 501, Mallet, i. 459 Mastaba, i. 330
502; ii. 5, 10, 11, 13, Mallet, M. D., quoted, i. Master of the back, i. 194
19, 26, 75, 145, 184, 93, 454 Master of the front, i. 194
256, 330 Mandrakes, i. 365 Masturbation, i. 116,297

Maat, boat of, i. 109 Mandulis, ii. 289 Matariyeh, 328 i.

Maat, featber of, ii. 143 Maneros, ii. 191 Mat Boat, i. 110
Maat goddesses, ii. 92 Manes, i. 3 Matchat, i. 457
Maat, lords of, ii. 150 ;
Manetbo,tbe priest quoted Miitchau, the, ii. 6, 7,

assessors of, ii. 150 or referred to, i. 332, 10

Maat, the pedestal of, i. 445, 524 ; ii. 199, 217, Matchet, i. 433 ; ii. 294
416 246, 346 Ma-tef-f, ii. 322
Maat-Heru, ii. 310 Man-god, the, i. 333 Maten (nome), i. 98
Maat-Heru-Ast, ii. 310 Mankind, destruction of, Matenu, i. 31
Maat-Kknenm, i. 80 Egyptian text of, i. Mater, ii. 52, 53
Maatet, ii. 206, 207 388, 399 Mates, ii. 60
Maati, i. 189, 418; ii. Mantis, ii. 378 Mfites-sma-ta, i. 218
330 Mantit Boat, i. 257 Matet, i. 488
410 INDEX
Matet Boat, i. 323, 331, Melcarthus, ii. 190 Menelaites, i.96
332, 369 ; ii. 104, 204 Members, deification of, Menenui, i. 248
Mati, cat-headed goddess, i. 109, 110 Menes, i. 24
i. 201 Memnon, i. 1 Menhet, i. 426, 446 ; ii.
50'
Mati = Sun-god, i. 342 Memokh, i. 281
Matter, primeval, i. 288 Memphis (see Het-ka- Menhet (Isis), ii. 213
Mail, ii. 297 Ptah), ii. 157 Menhi, i. 241
Mau (Ra), ii. 61 Memphis, i. 27, 95, 99, Menhit, i. 431, 463 ; ii.

Mau-aa, ii. 317 126,218,433,502,504; 66, 92, 292

Mau, Dr. A., ii. 217 ii. 5, 22, 70, 92, 148, Meni-ret, i. 230
Maui, ii. 139 154, 347 Men-kau-Heru, i. 330
Mauit,i.80,167; ii. 32, Memphis, Apis god of, i. Men-kau-Ra, i. 358; ii.

47 26 110
Mauonbi, i. 281 Memphis, captured by Menkert, i. 248
Mau-taui, i. 420 Piankki, i. 331 Menkh, ii. 330

Mauti, ii. 317 Memphis, great triad of, Menkhet, i. 244 ii. 213, ;

Maxims of Ani, i. 126 ; i. 500 ff. 256, 293

of Khensu-hetep, i. 126 Memphis, high-priest of, Menlil, ii. 289
Medan, ii. 289 i. 101, 505 Menmemu, i, 220
Meh, i. 482 Memphis, high-priest and Men-nefer, i. 512
Meh-mahetch (nome), i. high-priestess of, i. 101 Men-nefert, i. 99
98 Memphis, triad of, i. 114 Mennipos, i. 281
Meh-ta-f, ii. 127 Memphites, i. 96 Menqet, ii. 331
Meh-urit, i. 511 Men and women, creation Menruil, ii. 289
Meh-urt, i. 422, 432; of, i. 312 Men-sheta, i. 191
ii. 19, 61, 331 Men, destruction of, ii. Ment (?) i. 437
Meli-urt, Seven wise ones 93 Ment, i. 80 ; ii. 330, 331
516
of, i. Men, origin of, i. 304 Mentchat, i. 457
Mehanuti-Ra, ii. 331 Mena,i.24,453;ii.346 Mentef, i. 80
Mehen, i. 180, 232, 234, Men-a, i. 244 Menth, i. 437
2*38 ii. 8, 331
; Menat, i. 430, 432, 498 Menthu, ii. 23, 24 ff.,
;

Mehenet, i. 452, 464, 515 ii. 130 331

Mehenit, 462 ii. 331
i. ; Menat, ii. 289, 362 Menthu-Ra, ii. 24
Mehet, ii. 128 Menat, goddess, ii. 55, Menti, i. 498
Mehi,i.402,491; ii. 331 289 Mer, ii. 331
Mehit-Tefnut-khut-Men - Mendes, i. 100, 101, 115, Mer of the North, 507 i.

hit, i. 431 148, 191, 354, 403, Mer of the^South, 507 i.

Mehiu, ii. 331 496 ; ii. 22, 64, 65, 66, Mercury, i. 449 ii. 303 ;

Mehni, i. 252 116, 129, 153, 353 Mer-en-aaui-f, i. 254

Meht, ii. 331 Mendes, Earn of, i. 27; Mer-en-Ra, i. 440, 441;
Meht-khebit - sah - neter, ii. 51, 347, 354 ii. 25

ii. 331 Mendes, Stele of, ii. 354 Mer-en-Ra- Mehti-em-sa-

Meht-urt, i. 80, 362, 455 Mendes, triad of, i. 114 f, i. 77
Mekes sceptre, ii. 8 Mendesian Ram, i. 103 Meril, ii. 288
Meket, i. 40 Mendesium, i, 96 Meris, ii. 331
 INDEX 411

Mer-Nit, i. 31 Mestet, i. 487; ii. 206, Mitanni,ii. 363

Mer-Ra, ii. 207 207 M'Lennan, Mr. J. F., i.

Meroe, i. 15 ; ii. 22 Mestetef, i. 488 ; ii. 206, 29

Mersekhen, ii. 213 207 Mnenor, i. 281
Merseklient, i. 432; ii. Mestha, ii. 129 ; ii. 145, Mnevis, ii. 347, 351 ff.

61 331 Mnevis Bull, i. 26

Mert, ii. 301 Mesu-nifu, i. 202 Mnevis, incarnation of

Mert goddesses, ii. 256 Metchetat, i. 80 Ra gods, i. 330

Mertet, sea of, i. 480 Metchet-nebt-Tuatiu, i, Moeris, ii. 354
Merti, ii. 25, 331 226 Moloch, i. 273
Merul, ii. 288 ; titles of, Metchet-qat-utebu,i. 246 Momemphis, ii. 352
ii. 289 Metelis, ii. 22, 357 Monophysites, 221
Mer-ur (Mnevis), i. 26; Metelites, i. 96 Monotheism, i. 120, 144

ii. 331, 351 Met-en-Asar, i. 211 Month, i. 80

Meruter, ii. 289 Meteni, ii. 289 Month, gods of days of,
Mesen, i. 473 ; ii. 213 Metes, 200 i. ii. 292

Meskha, i. 80 Met-hra, i. 228 Month = Khens-ur, i.

Meskhaat, i. 80 Metes-hra-ari-she,i. 176; 109

Mesklien Aat, 184 ii. ii. 331 Months, gods of, ii. 292,
Meskhen Ment, ii. 181 Metes-mau-at, i. 218 293
Mesklien Nefert, ii. 184 Metes-neheh, i. 218 Monthiour, i. 281

Mesklien Seqebet, ii. 184 Metes-sen, i. 177 ; ii. Moon, creation of, i. 370
Mesklien, the, ii. 144 331 Moon-god, i. 412, 413
Meskhenet, i. 329; ii. Methyer, i. 422 Moon on a pedestal, i.
144, 359 Metternichj Prince, ii. 210
Meskhenet of Isis, ii. 108 205 Mophi, ii. 44
Meskhent, ii. 285 Metternich, Stele, ii. 205, Morgan, J. de, i. 22 ; ii.

Meskheti, ii. 250, 312 220, 267-274 365

Meskhti, 254 i. Metu-khut-f, i. 345; ii. Morning Star, i. 107 ; ii.

Mesnet, i. 476 317 97, 156

Mesniu, i. 84, 476 Metu-ta-f, ii. 331 Moses, ii. 254

Mesore, ii. 248 Meyer, Herr, quoted, i. Mother of Mothers, ii. 51
Mes-peh, i. 177 ii. 331 ; 100 Mother, reverence for the,
Mesperit-arat-maatu, i. Michael, i. 5 i. 127

224 Miii, i. 79, 97, 470, 496, Mother, the universal, ii.

Mes-Ptah, i. 177 507; ii. 17, 20, 36, 28

Mesqet, ii. 209 280, 293 McaGfiK, i. 288
Mesqet chamber, i. 494 Min, god of Panopolis, i. Mountain of Sunrise,' i.

Mes-sep, ii. 263 97 470 ; ii. 101

Mes-sepekk, ii. 331 Min (nonie), i. 97 Mountain of Sunset, :i.

Mest, i. 198 Min- Amen, ii. 8 351, 470 ; ii. 101

Mest (Amset), 291 ii. Minerva, 453 i. Mountain of the West, i.

Mestcker-Sah, 308 ii. Minionor, 284 i. 179

Mest-tcheses, i. 211 Mi-sheps, ii. 330 Mouth, Opening of the,

Mest-en-Asar, i. 211 Mitani, ii. 279 i. 358

412 INDEX
Mtesa, i. 142 Naam, 26ii. 308, 491 ; ii. 61, 123,
Muhammad, i. 5, 141, Naarerf, 351 i. 150, 153, 214, 332
142 Naarik, ii. 332 Neb-hrau, 419 i. ; ii. 332
Muhammad 'Ali, ii. 205, Na-ari-ka, ii. 20 Neb-khat, 255 ii.

267 Na-ateh, i. 442 Neb-Maat, i. 419

Muhammadans, i. 5, 6, Na-tesher, ii. 322 Neb-Maat-heri-tep -retui-
14, 19 Na-ur, ii. 322 f, i. 418 ; ii. 332
Muhammadans, heaven Naau, 332 Neb-neteru, ii. 301
of, i. 166 Naau-tchetta, i. 437 Neb-pat, i. 244
Muhammadans, hell of, Nai, i. 326 ii. 322
23, ; Neb - pehte t - petpet- seba,
i. 171 Nak, i. 324, 335 ii. 8, ; ii. 332
Muhammad wad-Ibrahim, 11, 79, 332 Neb -pehti thes-menment,
i.15 Nak, ii. 332 ii. 332
Mu-Hapi, ii. 44 Nakada, i. 31 Neb-pehti-thesu-menme-
Muit, i. 80 32, 47 ; ii. Nakith, i. 232 net, i. 418
Mukhipaina, 283 ii. Nakiu-Menat, ii. 317 Neb-s, ii. 332
Miiller, Right Hon. Prof. Name, use and impor- Neb-sekert, ii. 122
F. Max, i. 135 tance of, i. 10, 301 Neb-Senku, i. 348; ii.

Miiller, W. M., ii. 250, Nana'i, i. 281 320

278, 283, 285 Napata, i. 14 ; ii. 22, 23, Neb-senti, ii. 301
Mummu-Tiamat, i. 288, 40 Neb-tept (Isis), ii. 213
289 Nareref, ii. 60 Neb-Tesheru, i. 516
Mut, i. 80,88,431,518; Nart, ii. 149, 332 Neba, ii. 332
ii. 28 ff., 47, 159 Nasaqbubu, ii. 332 Neba-per-em-khetkhet, i.

Mut-Bast-Isis, 447 i. Nasaqebubu, ii. 21 419

Mut-hetep, Papyrus of, i. Nastasenen, ii. 40 Nebes Tree, i. 468
351 Nathkerthi, ii. 332 Nebiui, i. 443
Muti-khenti-Tuat, i. 244 Natho, i. 442 Nebseni, ii. 262
Mut-neb-set, ii. 301 Natura, i. 68 Nebseni, Papyrus of, i.

Mut-nu, ii. 32 Nau, i. 267 ii. 62 ; 419

Mut of Asheru, i. 446 Nau, i. 80; ii. 1, 101, Nebt, i. 352
Mut -Sekhet- Bast -Men- 102 Nebt, a god, i. 425
hit, ii. 29 Naucratites, i. 96 Nebt-aha, i. 189
Mut Temt, ii. 29 Nau-shesma, 267 i. Nebt-ankh, ii, 11
Mut-Uatchet-Bast, ii. 29 Naut, ii. 101, 102 Nebt-au-khent-Tuat, i.

Mycerinus, i. 358; ii. Naville, i. 348, 353, 363, 244

110 444, 445, 476, 498; ii. Nebt-het, i. 80 ; ii. 317,
Mysteries of Isis, ii. 217 278 332
Mysteries of Osiris, i. Neb, House 209 of, ii. Nebt-hetep, i. 432
453 Neb-abui, i. 419 ii. 332 ;
Nebt-hetep, i. 441
Mysteries, the Eleusinian, Neb-ankhet, ii. 301 Nebt-hetep, counterpart
ii. 217 Neb-Aqet, i. 248 of Tern, i. 354
Myth of Pta, and Isis, i, Neb-aut-ab, i. 450 Nebt-Hetepet, i. 438
352 Neb-baiu, i. 348 ii. 320 ; Nebti, i. 244
Mythical animals, i. 59 Neb-er-tcher, i. 294, 305, Nebt-khu, i. 254
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Nebt-mat, i. 244 Nehaha, i. 480 Nekhben, i. 81

Nebt-semu-nefu, i. 240 Neha-hau, i. 419 ; ii. Nekhebet, Nekhebit, i.

Nebt-setau, i. 244 333 24, 81, 92, 95, 97, 329,

Nebt-shiit, i. 244 Neha-hra, i. 231, 232, 431, 438 ff., 479, 483
Nebt-shefshefet, 244 i. 246 ; ii. 333 ii. 8, 25, 47, 48, 71,
Nebt-s-tchefau, i. 184 Nehata, i. 244 104, 269, 333, 372
Nebt-tep-Ahet, ii. 309 Nehbet sceptre, ii. 8 Nekhebet Fakit, 440 i.

Nebt-Thehent, ii. 300 Nehebet sceptre, i, 162 Nekhebet-Isis,i. 440

Nebt-unnut,i,336;ii.332 Neheb-ka, ii. 333 Nekhekh, i. 83 ii. 102 ;

Nebt-usha, i, 236 Neheb-kau, i. 81, 220; Nekhekh (star), i. 498

Nebuchadnezzar II., i. ii. 62 Nekhen, i. 84, 492, 497 ;

278 Neheb-kau (an assessor), ii. 155, 333

Nebui, 211 i. 419 Nekhen (an assessor), i.

Nebuut, i. 431, 463 ; ii. Neheb-nefert, i. 419 ; ii. 419

67, 213 333 Nekhen, Souls of, i. 107
Nectanebus 267 I., ii. Nehebu-kau, i. 455; ii. watchers of, i. 161
Nectanebus II., ii. 351 63 Nekhent, i. 439
Nef-em-baiu, ii. 317 Neheh, i. 371 Nekht ii. 26
(god),
Nefer-Abt, i. 353 Nehemauait, i. 427, 432 Nekht, ka of Ra, ii. 300
Nefer-Ament (nome of), Nehemauit, i. 421 ii. ; Nekht, Papyrus of,i. 335,
i. 441 92 435
Nefer-hat, ii. 129 Neheru, ii. 38 Nekht (scribe), ii. 69
Nefer-hati, i. 516 Nehes, ii. 322 Nekiu, ii. 302
Nefer-hetep (god), ii. 34 Nehesiu, 333 ii. Nem, ii. 333
Nefer-shuu, i. 515 Nehesu, 304 i. Nemanoun (Nehemauit),
Nefert,i. 85 ; ii. 332 Nehet, Hathor of, i. 434 ii. 190

Nefer-Tem, i. 80, 450, Nehet-rest, i. 516 Nem-hra, ii. 333

491 ii. 362
; Nehi, i. 347 ii. 320 ;
Nemi, i. 196
Nefer-Tem (an assessor), Nehr, i. 211 Nemmes crown, ii. 8
i. 419 Neht, 81
i. Nemu, i. 521 ; ii. 333
Nefer-Temu, i. 520 ii. ; Nehui, i. 258 Nen, ii. 1
332 Neith, i. 30, 32, 78, 92, Nenha, i. 180
Nefer-Temu-khu-taui, i. 93, 95, 103, 161, 246, Nentcha, i. 436 ; ii. 333
520 450-465; ii. 220, Nenu, 113, 286
i.

Nefer - Temu - khu - taui - 244, 269, 275; early Nenuerbasta, i. 184
iinkk-rekhit, i. 520 cult of, i. 31 ; and Nenuit, i. 286
Nefer-tutu, i. 101 crocodiles, i. 32 ; four Nen-unser, ii. 333
Nefer-uben-f, ii. 287 forms of, i. 252 Nenut, 113 i.

Nefert-iti, ii.75 Neith of Sais, i. 99 Nenutu-hru, ii. 333

Neferus, i. 433 Neka, ii. 333 Neolithic Period in
Negative Confession, i. Nekau, i. 177, 520; ii. Egypt, i. 8
38, 49, 145, 418 330, 333 Nepen, i. 211
Negroes, i. 188, 519 Nekheb, i. 92, 95, 97 Nepera, ii. 332
Negroes, created by Nekek-ur, ii. 333 Nephismaoth, i. 280
masturbation, i. 304 Nekeuu, i. 246 Nephthomaoth, i. 280
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Nephthys,i.341,488;ii. Netcheb-ab-f, i. 436 ; ii. Neti (Bati), ii. 333
85, 106, 109, 129, 246,334 Neti-bra-f-emma-mast - f,
156, 186, 187, 254- Netcbeh-netcbeb, i. 494 ii. 334
260 ii. 129, 334 Neti-sbe-f, ii. 334
Nepmeh, i. 180 Netcbefet, ii. 334 Netit, ii. 334
Nepr, i. 210, 211 Netchern, ii. 334 Net-neb-ua-kbeper - autu,
Nepra, ii. 45, 151 Netcbemtcbenit, i. 161 i. 214
Nepsiomaoth, i. 280 Netebeses, i. 177 Netru, i. 250 ; ii. 213
Ner, ii, 333 Netcbesti, ii. 320, 334 Netuti, i. 342
Nerau, i, 177 ; ii. 333 Netcb-pautti, i. 228 Neunbeit, i. 89
Nerau-ta, ii. 333 Netcbses, ii. 334 Newman, Cardinal, i. 144
Neri, i. 177 ; ii. 333 Netebti-ur, ii. 322 Ni, i. 258, 286, 289, 291
Nert, i. 254 Neteqa-bra-kbesef-atu, i. Nice, Council of, ii. 66
Nerta, 254i. 176 ; ii. 334 Nifu-ur, ii. 155
Nes-Amsu, i. 293, 325 Neter, i. 41, 108 Nigbt of tbe Drop, ii. 47
Nesbet, ii. 302 Neter, examples of mean- Night-Sky, ii. 102, 105
Nesert, i. 81, 432, 454, ing of, i. 63, 72-74 Nike, ii. 187
456, 515 Neter-bah, ii. 129 Nile, i. 361, 362
Neshmet neb tcbetta, ii. Neter-kkaita, i. 484 Nile, tbe celestial, i. 107,
184 Neter-kbertet, i, 73; ii. 174
Nesht, i. 326 20 Nile-god, ii. 40 ff.

Nesi-Anisu, papyrus of, Neter-neteru, i. 242 Nile-goddesses, ii. 47

i. 271 Neter-ta, i. 443 ii. ; 7, Nile, Inundation of, i.

Nesi-Khensu, papyrus of, 287 435

ii. 13 Netert, i. 41, 473 Nile = Osiris, ii. 123
Nesruekhef, i. 258 Netert (city), i. 450 ; ii. Nine Bows, ii. 356
Nes-Min, i. 293 128 Nine cbiefs, tbe, i. 182
Nesru, ii. 310 Netert-en-khentet-Ea, i. Nine gods, tbe, i, 85 ff.,
Nesti-kkenti-Tuat, i. 244 244 182
Net, i. 78 ; ii. 19, 20, Netetthaab, i. 455 Nine Ennutcbi, i. 188
26, 61, 62, 63, 184 Netetthab, i. 81 ; ii. 63 Nineveh, i. 19 ii. 279 ;

Net, fisbing, ii. 120 Neteru, i. 41 Ni-ni, i. 465

Net, House of tbe, i. 405, Neteru ent Neter-kbent Nit, i. 30, 92, 110, 431,
407 ent amu Tuat, ii. 185 443
Net (Neitb),i. 450-465; Neteru neterit amu Abtu, Nit (not Neitb), i. 286
ii. 333 ii. 185 Nit-hetep, i. 31
Net of tbe Four Winds, Neteru, Qerti, ii. 185 Nit-tep-Ament, i. 211
i. 407 Neteru semu Tuat, ii. No-Amon, ii. 12, 31
Net-Asar, i. 212 185 Nome gods, i. 95 ff.

Net-hetep, i. 453, 454 Neteru, tbe, i. 4 Nome-perch, i. 28

Net-Ea, i. 207 Neterui (nome), i. 97 Nome standards, i. 30
Net-Menbit, i. 403 Netbert, i. 341 ; ii. 317 Nomes, number of, i. 96
Netch-an, ii. 322 Netbetb, i. 248 Nomes of Egypt, i. 27
Netch-atef, i. 228 Netbmamaotb, i. 280 Nopsiter, i. 280
Netcb-baiu, ii. 317 Neti, i. 81 Nu, i. 78, 109,113,134,
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INDEX 415

200, 257, 283, 284, Oases, ii. 22, 251 his Cycle, i. 77; as a
291, 309, 341, 367, Oasis, the Great, i. 464 Water- god, 122, ii.

456 ; ii. 2, 14, 15, 25, ii. 22 123; as God, i. 121;

44, 317, 332; battle Oasis, Minor, ii. 22 as god of the dead, i.
of, i. 241 ; Eye of, i. Oasis of Kharga, i. 113 150 as the god of the
;

306 ; milk of, i. 331 Oasites, two nomes of, i. Kesurrection, ii. 139
the aged, i. 511 96 ff. Eye of Ea, i. 236
;
;

Nu, Papyrus of, i. 357, Obelisk-god, i. 348 Four earthly forms of,
427; ii. 62, 102 Obelisk, House of, ii. 66, i. 230 Four souls of,
;

Nubia, i. 274, 304, 483 97 i. 232 Four tombs of,

;

ii, 12, 17, 22, 40, 57, Ogdoad, i. 404 i. 232; head of, ii. 118;
92 Oia, i. 280 his nine forms, 214 i.

Nubia, civilization of, Oil in heaven, ii. 118 his sixteen members,
Egyptian origin, i. 14 Oimenephtah, i. 178 ii. 127; history of, ii.

Nubia, Lower, ii. 51 Oimenepthah, i. 304 124 ff. ; history of, by

upper, ii. 51 Olive tree, i. 165 ; ii. Plutarch, ii. 187 ff.

Nubia, tree worship in, 62 hymn to, 148 ff ; hymn

i. 17 Olive tree speaks, i. 19 to, hieroglyphic text of,

Nubians, ii. 23 Olympus, ii. 62 ii. 162 ff ; Hymns to,

Nubit, ii. 35, 356 Ombites, i. 96 from Book of the Dead,

Nubit (goddess), ii. 36 Ombos, i. 431, 468, 492 ii. 153 Khenti-Amen- ;

Nubt, i. 80 ii. 35, 356 ti, ii. 118; names of, ii.

Nubt (goddess), ii. 108 On, i. 100, 328; ii. 176 ff. ; scenes of his
Nubt (Hathor), i. 437 148 burial and resurrection,
Nubti, i. 468; ii. 250, One=Amen-Ea, ii. 9, 10, ii. 131-138; shrines of,

332 11 ii. 127 ; soul of, ii. 65,

Nubti (Ombos), i. 492 One Alone, i. 132 159 soul of in an ox,
;

Nudimmud, i. 289 One, name of Neith, i, ii. 348 the Man-god, ;

Nun-shame, ii. 316 458 i. 13; theTuat,i. 203;

Nunut, ii. 302 Oneness of gods, i. 131 ff. Un-nefer, ii. 136, 153,
Nut, i. 113, 120, 172, Onion, worship of, i. 2 155, 352
200, 201, 257, 283, Onuphis, 357 ii. Osiris - Bast - Heru-Heke-
284, 291, 338, 339, Onuphites, i. 96 nu, i. 450
341,367,369; ii. 2, Onuphris, ii. 352 Osiris = Christ, ii. 220,
20, 62, 100-112, 184, Oouskhous, i. 281 221
317, 332 Ophannim, i. 7 Osiris = Pluto, ii. 199
Nut, a Lake, i. 222 Opsither, i. 280 Osiris = Water, ii. 98

Nut, five children of, ii. Orion, i. 39, 41, 88; ii. Osiris = Yesterday, 487 i.

109 215, 249 Osiris-Aah, i. 414

Nut, Sycamore of, ii. 107 Orthus, ii. 361 Osiris -An - JBast - Temt-
Nut-en-bak, i. 98 Orus, ii. 187, 192, 193 Ari-hes, i. 450
Nut-ent-Hap, i. 99 Oryges, i. 190 Osiris-Apis, ii. 47, 195-
Nut-Hathor, ii. 357 Osiris, 103, 171; ii.
i. 201, 349
Nut-Ta-Sebeq-hra, i. 241 16, 85, 109, 113 ff. Osiris-Isis-Horus, i. 114,
Nuth, i. 258 Amulets, ii. 126; and 240
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Osiris-Ra, i. 334 Pan, ii. 353 Paut of eleven gods, i.

Osiris-Ra in Tattu, i. Pa-nemma-nernma, i. 519 88

148 Panic Terrors, ii. 188 Paut of twelve gods, i.

Osiris-Seker, i. 218, 417 P-ankki, i. 246 88

Osiris-Tet, ii. 131 Panopolis, i. 97, 431, Paut of the Tuat, i. 91
Ostrich feather, i. 416 470 ; ii. 22, 188 Pauti of gods, i. 87
Ouare, ii. 308 Panopolites, i. 96 Pe, i. 84, 410, 492, 497 ;

Ouestre-Bikoti, ii. 305 Pans, 188

ii. ii. 25, 107, 117
Oxyrhynchites, i. 96 ; ii. Paophi, ii. 252 Pe, Souls of, i. 107
382 Pa-paut-netera, ii. 128 Pe, Watchers of, i. 161
Oxyrhynchus fish,ii. 192, Pa-penat,i. 513 Peace, Field of, ii. 118
382 Papyrus plant, ii. 125 Pehreri, ii. 329
Oxyrynchus, i. 98, 432 Papyrus Swamps, ii. 190, Pehu, ii. 156
206 Pehui, ii. 304
Pa-Qerhet, i. 353 Pekh, 517i.

Pa-ait, 468
i. Par, ii. 19, 20 Pekhat, i. 518 ; ii. 329
Pa-atemt, i. 353 Paradise, Egyptian, i. Pekhet, i. 517
Pa-Bar, ii. 281 165, 166 Pekheth, i. 517
Pa-Bast, i. 444 Parehaqa-kheperu, i. 518 Pekhit, i. 517
Pa-bil-sag, ii. 316 ii. 329 Pekht (city), i. 517
Pachons, ii. 248 Par-neferu-en-neb-set, ii. Pelusium, ii. 128
Pagoure, i. 280 301 Pelusius, ii. 191
Pai, i. 203 Pa-Sebek, ii.357 Pent, i. 80
Paireqa, ii. 283 Pasemis, i. 437 Penter, i. 200
Pa-khen-Arnent, ii. 31 Pashakasa, i. 518; ii, 329 Penti, ii. 329
Pa-khen-en-Arnen, i. 100 Pasht, 517i. Pepi I., i. 72, 77, 297,

Pa-kkent, ii. 356 Pa-Shu, 299 ii. 445

Pakheth, 362 ii. Pastophori, ii. 217 Pepi II., i. 77, 445
Pakht, i. 517, 518 Pa-sui, ii. 206 Per-aa, 242 i.

Pakhth, i. 432 Pa-Tern, i. 432 Per-ab, i. 401

Palace of Shu, ii. 93 Pa-Thuhen, ii. 127 Per-aha, i. 481

Palaces, the 7 of Ge- Paiini, ii. 252 Per-Asar,i. 99, 103

henna, i. 274 Pausanias, quoted, ii. Per-Asar- neb -Tettu, ii.

Palaeolithic Period in 218 122

Egypt, i.
8^
Paut, meaning of, i. 89 Per-Atem, i. 99
Palaestinus, ii. 191 Paut of earth, i. 91 Per-ba-neb-Tattu, i. 100
Palestine, i. 142, 276; Paut of gods, the Great, Per-Bast, i. 100, 444
ii. 4, 83 i. 86 Per-em-hru, i. 174
Palette, i. 411, 427 Paut of gods, the Little, Per-em-khet-khet, ii. 129
Palettes (shields), i. 25 i. 86 Perer-amu-pet, i. 51
Pallas, 458
i. Paut of heaven, i. 91 Pergamos, Church of, i.

Pa-mer, ii, 57 Paut of Heliopolis, ii. 301

Pa-mertet, i. 515 85 Per-Heru-nubt, i. 470
Pamyles, ii. 186 Paut of Horus, i. 86 Perit, i. 244

Pamylia, ii. 186 Paut of ten gods, i. 87 Periu, i. 200

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Per-Kheniennu, i. 421 Petet, i. 488; ii. 206, Pi-tep, i. 442

Per-khet, ii, 65 207 Pithom, i. 99, 353, 432
Per-Khut, i. 496 Peti, 329
ii. Planets, gods of, ii. 302

Per-Matchet, i. 98 Petra, 252 329

i. ; Plato, i. 332, 407
Per-Menat, i. 443 Peukher, i. 281 Pleyte,Dr.,i.360;ii.91;
Per-mert, ii. 255 Phagrorius fish, ii. 382 quoted, i. 99
Per-mest-en-Nut, ii. 103 Phagrus, ii. 382 Pliny, i. 96, 441, 444 ii. ;

Per-netchem, 492 i. Phagrus fish, ii. 192 96, 347, 370, 372;
Per - net - mut - kheper - Phallephoria, ii, 186 quoted, i. 62
hetch, i. 452 Phallus = Hap, i. 110 Plutarch, i. 150, 353, 422,
Per-netch - Shu - ma-Nut, Phallus of Osiris, i. 496 ;
448, 458, 459, 467,
ii. 103 ii. 65, 128, 193, 382 489, 493 ; ii. 58, 123,
Per-Nubt, ii. 108 Pharaoh, i. 242, 361 126, 147, 241, 248,
Per-Nut, ii. 103 Pharbaethites, i. 96 349,358,361,368,370,
Per-Pakht, ii. 213 Phaturites, i. 96 373, 375, 382; his
Per-Ra, i. 452 Philae, i. 473, 523, 525 ;
history of Osiris and
Per-rerehu, i. 480 ii. 43, 45, 50, 57, 289 Isis, ii. 186
Persea Tree, ii. 61, 371 Philip, St., i. 280 Pluto, ii. 199 ; ii. 217,
Persephone, ii. 217 Philostratus, ii. 96 253
Per-Sept, i. 499 Phoenicia, ii. 124 P-neb-taui, i. 468
Per-sui, i. 488 Phoenix, ii. 96, 371 Pneuma, i. 285
Per-Tehuti, i. 100 Phoutet, ii. 304 Polytheism, i.137
Per-Tehuti-ap-rehuh, i. Phthemphu, i. 96 Pompeii, ii. 218
421 $u\afCTi]piov, i. 234 Pomponius Mela, ii. 96
Per-Tem, 452 i. $v<ri<;, i. 68 Pontus,ii. 197, 198

Per-tennu, i. 433 Phylarchus, ii. 200 Porphyry, i. 356; quoted,

Per-Uatchet, i. 24, 92, 93, Physa fish, ii. 382 i. 62
95,100,433,438,439; Piankhi, i. 331 Power of Powers, i. 40
ii. 56, 117, 376, 442 Pibeseth, i. 444 Power, primeval, i. 288 I

ff. Pierret, M. P., i. 66, 68, Powers (angels), i. 6

Pert, Festival of, ii. 129 ; 140, 204, 459 Precepts of Ptah-hetep,
season of, ii. 161 Pietschmann, i. 415 i. 122
Pesek-Re, ii. 329 Pig, i. 190 ; ii. 368 ;
the Precepts of Kaqemna,ii.
Pesetchet, i. 80 black, i. 496, 497 123
Pesh-hetep-f. ii. 301 Pi-hahiroth, i. 353 Precepts of Khensu-hetep,
Pesi, i. 256 Pillars of heaven, i. 210 i. 127
Peskheti, ii.329 Pillars of Shu, i. 467 Priapeia, ii. 186
Pestet, i. 250 Pillars of the sky, i. 157 Priapus, ii. 353
Pesthi, i. 246 Pilulariae, ii.380 Principalities, i. 6
Pestu, 250 ii. 329
i. ; Pindar, ii. 353 Prisse d' Avenues, i. 122
Pesuo, ii. 306 Pi-neter-tuau, ii. 303 Prisse Papyrus, i. 122,
Pet-Annu, ii. Ill Pistis Sophia, i. 266 ff. 124
Petchatcha, i. 492 ed. Schwartze quoted, Proclus, i. 459
Pe-tep, i. 441; ii. 121, i. 279 Prophets, the, i. 5
211 Pi-tchepet, i. 442 Proserpine, ii. 199, 218
ii e e
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Prosopis, i, 432 ; ii. 357 Ptenetu, i. 441 Qebti, i. 97
Prosopites, i. 96 Ptolemai's, 432
i. Qebui (N. wind), ii. 295
Proto-Semites, i. 8 Ptolemies, the, i. 26 Qeften, ii. 268
Providence, Divine, i. Ptolemy Alexander, ii, Qemamu, ii. 343
125 24 Qemhusu, ii. 343
Psammetichus I., ii. 350, Ptolemy II., i. 332; ii. Qemqem, i. 469
351 354 Qem-baius, i. 473
Pselket, i. 401 Ptolemy IV., i. 523 Qereret, ii. 148
P-she-hert, ii. 213 Ptolemy V. i. 523 Qerert, i. 149
Psino ther, i. 280 Ptolemy Lagus, ii. 348 Qererti, i. 342 ; ii. 320
Ptah,i. 78, 218, 500 ff.; Ptolemy Philadelphus, ii. Qer-Hiipi, ii.44
ii. 7, 30, 35, 53, 66, 289 Qerhet, i. 353
329; hook of, i. 502; Ptolemy Soter, ii. 197, Qerneru, i. 326
of Memphis, i. 99 ; of 199 Qersu, ii. 106
the Beautiful Face, i. Ptolemy, the Geographer, Qerti, ii. 53, 148, 343
125 ; second life of, ii. ii. 31 Qerti (an assessor), i,

350; the second, ii. 196 Punt, ii. 6, 7, 65, 287, 419
Ptah-aneb-res-f, ii. 293, 288 Qerti, the, ii.43
330 Purgatory, i. 171, 261, Qesqeset, i. 467 ; ii. 108
Ptah Asar, i. 502 265 Qesem, i. 100
Ptah Hapi, i. 146, 502, Puteoli, ii. 218 Qeset, i. 161
503* Pythagoras, ii. 351 Qesi, i. 98
Ptah-hetep, i. 122, 125, Pythagoreans, ii. 252 Qet, ii. 294, 307
126, 138 Python, i. 11 Qetesh, ii. 276, 279, 280,
Ptah-neb-ankh, i. 500 284
Ptah-Nu, i. 502, 503 Qetet, ii. 129
Ptah-Seker, i. 502; ii. Qa (god), ii. 42 Qetetbu, ii. 343
330 Qa-Ba, i. 345 ii. 320 ;
Qettu, i. 326
Ptah-Seker- Asar, i. 502, Qah, i. 492 Qetu, i. 519 ; ii. 343
503, 523; ii. 134, Qa-ha-hetep, ii. 342
269 Qa-hra, ii. 343
Ptah-Seker-Tem, i. 502; Qahu, ii. 343 KA,i,34,78,146,322ff.;
ii. 154 Qaqa of Khemennu, i. 332 ii, 334 and his cycle, ;

Ptah-Sekhet-Ienihetep, i, Qarth-Anthu, ii. 278 i. 77 and the destruc-

;

ii4 Qeb, ii. 292 tion of men, ii. 94

Ptah- Sekhet-Nefer-Tem, Qebh = Khnemu, ii. 50 birth of, i. 462 boat of, ;

i. 450, 512 Qebhet, ii. 51 ii. 210 daily birth of,

;

Ptah-Sekri, ii. 131 Qebhsennuf, i. 83, 198, i. 204 darts of, i. 85

; ;

Ptah-Tanen, i. 489,502; 456, 491, 492 ; ii. 129, eyes of, i. 363 life of, ;

503 ii. 52, 66, 330

; 145, 184, 343 ii. 64 mutilation of,
;

Ptah-Tenen, hymn to, i, Qebhsennuf = West, i. ii. 100 myths of, i.;

508-512 158 359 ff. ; religion of, i.

Ptah-Tettet sheps ast Ea, Qebhu, i. 429 332 ff.; 149 soul of, i.

ii. 183 Qebhu, eighteen gods of, ii. 64; the Aged, i.
Ptenethu, i. 96 i. 86 506 the Babe, i. 506
; ;
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the fourteen doubles of, Eameses IV., i. 348, 364 Eekht, i. 514
ii. 300 ; the seven Eamessids, ii. 12 Eekhti, i. 410
souls of, ii. 300 ; the Eam-god, ii. 203 Eekhti goddesses, i. 462
Seventy-five Praises of, Earn of four faces, ii. 65 Eekhti - merti-neb- Maati,
i. 339-348 Earn of Mendes, i. 27 ;
ii.335
Ea and Amen, 105 i. ii. 286, 351 ; four souls Eem, i. 303

EaandApep,i.484,489; of, i. 496 Eemenaare, ii. 308

fight of, 405 i. Earn of Tattu, i. 103 Eemen-ileru-an-Sah, ii.
=
Ea Fire, ii. 98 Earn = Ea, i. 342 308
Ka and Horus hold the Earns' heads, the four, Eemen-kher-Sah, ii. 308
ladder, i. 167 ii. 51 Eemi, i. 303, '341; ii.
Ea, and Isis, Legend of, Eaqetit, ii. 198 317, 334
i. 360 ff. Eashshaf, ii. 283 Eem-neteru, i. 240
Ea and Isis, Legend of, Eat, 88, 90, 446, 458
i. Eemrem, ii. 184, 334
Egyptian Text, i. 372- Eat, counterpart of Ea, Ee-nefert, ii. 255
387 myth of, i. 352
; i. 287, 328 Ee-qerert-apt-kkat, i, 250
Ea-Asar, ii.' 334 Eat-tauit, i. 328,431,469 Ee-Ea, ii. 334
Ea-Atem, i. 101 Eau, i. 246 Ee-Sekhait, ii. 184, 334
Ea-Ateni, ii. 317 Ee-au, i. 492 ; ii. 261 Ee-stau,i. 216,352,410;
Ea-er-neheh, i. 437; ii. Ee-a-nefer, ii. 213 ii.60; Chief of, ii. 116

26,334 Ee-henenet, ii,335 Ee-ur, 492 i.

Ea-Harmachis, ii. 69 Ee-hent, ii. 335 Eenenet, i. 426 ii. 144, ;

Ea-Heru, i. 220 Eed Crown, i. 39, 53, 54 335, 362

Ea-Heru-khuti, i. 148, Eedesiyeh, ii. 281 Eenenet (Isis), ii. 216
178; ii. 334 Eed Horus, ii. 303 Eenen-sebu, i. 198
Ea-Menthu, ii. 27 Eed Land, i. 304 Eenenut, i.81
Ea-neferu, Queen, ii. 38 Eed Sea and Nile Canal, Eenniu, i. 201
Ea of Annu, i. 100 i. 353 Eennutet, ii. 293, 335
Ea-Osiris, i. 334, 148 Eed-souls, 203 i. Eenouf, P. le Page, i. 66
Ea-Tem, i. 92, 104, 105, Eehehui, i. 405 Eenpet (Isis), ii. 213
131, 133, 148, 282, Eehesaui, i. 515 Eenpit, i. 432 ;
goddess
330, 350, 352 ; ii. 61, Eeliesu, i. 433 of, ii. 55
85, 86, 90, 115, 334 Eehti, ii. 335 Eenpti, 211
i.

Ea-Tem-Khepera, i. 282 Eehu, i. 443 ii. 335 ; Eepit, 432

i.

Ea-Temu, i. 335 Eehui, i. 421, 475; ii. Eeqetit, i. 492

Ea-Temu-Khepera-Heru- 335 Eeqi, ii. 335
khuti, ii. 361 Eehui 401
(city), i. Eerei, ii. 21
Ea, worship, i. 328 Ee-Iukasa, 334 ii. Eerek, ii. 245, 335
Eahabh, i. 278 Eekeh netches, ii. 293 Eeret, ii. 209, 249, 289,
Eain, i. 414 Eekeh ur, ii. 293 312
Eameses II., i. 142 ; ii. Eekes, i. 325 ; ii. 335 Eeri, 203
i.

27, 38, 278, 350, 362 Eekh, i. 252 Eert, ii. 359
serekh of, i. 26 Eekhasua, ii. 283 Eerti, i. 419 ; ii. 335
Eameses III., i. 160, 331, Eekhi, i. 343 ii. 320 ; Eertu, ii. 359
512 ii. 12, 37, 363
; Kekhit, i. 159, 256 Eertu-nifu, ii. 335
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Res-ab, i. 335 176 ; ii. Saa-set, i. 180 Sapi, i. 30, 452, 464

Res-hra, 335
i. 176 ; ii. Sa-abu-tckar-khat, i. 420 Sap-meh (nome), i, 99
Resenet, i. 452, 464 Sa-Akeb, i. 242 Sapi-meht, i. 452
Reshef, ii. 283 Sa-Amenti-Ra, ii. 339 Sapi-res (nome), i. 99
Reshpu, ii. 280, 282 Sabaoth, i. 280 Sapt-khennu, ii. 305
Rest-f, i. 254 Sabes, i. 176 ; ii. 339 Saqenaqat, i. 519 ; ii. 339
Resurrection, ii. 381 ;
Saft al-Henna, i. 498 Sar (Osiris), i. 200
of the body, i. 357; Sah, ii. 249, 306 Sar, temple of, ii. 25

of Osiris, ii. 137,138; Sari (city), i. 515 Sarapis, i. 26 ; ii. 199

triune god of, i. 508 Sah (Orion), i. 41, 83; Sarapis, daughter of Her-

Reta, i. 250 ii. 339 200

cules, ii.

RetJi-hen-er-reqau, ii. 335 Sahal, ii. 52, 56, 57, 58 Sarbut al-Khadem, ii. 290

Reta-nifu, ii. 335 Sahel, ii. 43 Sarei, ii. 200

Reta-sebanqa, ii. 335 Sah-en-mut-f, ii. 339 Saresu, ii. 283
Retasashaka, ii. 335 Sah-heq, ii. 129 Sarsarsartou, i. 280
Rethenu, i. 198 Sain, i. 39, 40, 54, 164 Sarset, 300ii.

Rethma, i. 492 Sahu of Maat, i. 443 Sasaqet, ii. 307

Revillout, i. 458 Sahura, i. 329 Sasasert, ii, 306

Rhampsinitus, ii. 366 Sais, i. 30, 31, 92, 95, 99, Sashsa, i. 82
Rhea, i. 467; ii. 124, 187 101, 250, 252, 451; Sata, a serpent-god, ii.

Romans, i. 68 ii. 20, 22, 275, 357 377

Rosellini, i. 60 festivals of, i. 452 ; of Satet, i. 431; ii. 50,
Rossi, 360
i. the South, i. 452 55$.
Royal Library at Nine- Sait, 256
i. Sathet, i. 82
veh, i. 18 Sa'ites, 96i. Sati, i. 286 ; ii. 55 ff.

Rulers (angels), i. 6 Saiut, ii. 261 Sati-arut, ii. 302

Rurutha, i. 81 Saiut (Lycopolis), i. 98 Sati (Isis), ii. 57, 216
Rut-en-Ast, ii. 334 Sak, i. 59, 60 Saturn, ii. 302, 303
Ruthennu, ii. 279 Sakhabu, i. 329 Satyrs, ii. 188, 353
Rut-tetet, i. 329 Sakkara, i. 23, 41, 78, Sau, ii. 302, 339
Rutu-neb-rekhit, ii. 334 125 Sau (Apep), i. 326
Rutu-nu-Tem, ii. 334 Samait,ii. 339 Saut, i. 30, 451
Sam-Behutet (noine), i. Saut (Sais), i. 99

100 Sbat-uatitha, ii. 303

Sa, i. 107, 180, 203, 206, Sam-taui-p-khart, i, 469 Scales, ii. 142
215 Samti, i. 177 Scales, the Great, i. 9, 20
Sa (Ape), ii. 292 San, i. 516 Scandinavia, i. 64
Sa (city), i. 515 Sanchoniatho, i, 35 Scarab, i. 355
Sa (god), ii. 89 Sandals, i. 165 ; ii.118 Scarabaei, eaten, i. 17
Sa, ka of Ra, ii. 300 the divine, ii. 206 Scarabaeus, the, ii. 379
Saa, i. 82; ii. 296 Sankhonyathan, i, 35 Scarabaeidae, ii. 379
Saa-Amenti-Ra, ii. 298 Saosis (Iusaaset), ii. 190 Scarab of Hetepet, i. 85
Saaba, i. 469 Saaxris, i, 354 Schedia, ii. 127
Saatet-ta, i. 326 Sa-pa-nemma, ii. 339 Scorpio, ii. 188
Saau-ur, ii. 298, 339 Saphon, ii. 249 Scorpion, ii. 373, 377
 INDEX 421

Scorpions of Isis, i. 487 Seben-hesq-kkaibit, i. Seker Osiris of Mendes,

Scorpion stings Horus, 211 ii. 134
i. 488 Sebennytes, i. 96 Seker Osiris, the sixteen
Scorpions, the Seven of Sebennytus, i. 100, 115, parts of, i. 127
Isis, ii. 206, 207, 377 332 Seker, symbols of, i. 222
Sea of Mertet, i. 480 Sebeq, ii. 354 Seker-Boat, i. 504, 505 ;

Seat of Shu, ii. 93 Sebeq-hra, i. 241 ii. 154

Seb, i. 34, 82, 85, 86, Seb erpat neteru, ii. 183 Sekhabsenfunen, i. 182
198, 341, 369, 489, Sebi, i. 203 Sekhat-Heru, ii. 26
496, 504; ii. 25, 34, Seb-qenbeti, i. 211 Sekhem, i. 101,132, 410;
94 ff., 149, 291, 317 Sebshes, 310
ii. ii. 148
Seb and Nut, embrace of, Sebti, i. 433 Sekhem = Ainen-Ra, ii.

ii. 105 Sebuit-nebt-uaa - khesfet- 11

Seb = Earth, ii. 98 sebau-eru-pert-f, i. 250 Sekhem, god, i. 425
Seb, erpa of the gods, i. Sef, ii. 99 Sekhem (city), i. 149,
109 Sef (Yesterday), 361 ii. 425, 468, 492
Seb, soul of, ii. 65 Sefekk-aabu,i.422,424, Sekkem-em-ab-f, ii.340
Seba,i.l49,352;ii. 149, 425, 430 Sekhem em pet, ii. 264
339 Sefer, i. 59, 60 Sekkem-kra, i. 326 ii. ;

Seba-ent-Seba, 326
i. Sef het-aabut, i. 432 317
Sebak gods, i. 371 Sefi - per - em - Hes - lira - Sekhem (Letopolis), ii.

Sebakksen, ii. 129 hapu-tchet-f, i. 519 262

Sebau,i.324;ii.79,155, Sefkket-aabut, i. 431 Sekhem of heaven, ii. 157
340 Seftit, 248 i. Sekhem = Osiris, ii. 139
Sebau fiends, i. 410; Sehepu, i. 82 Sekhem, praises of, i.

ii. 8 Seher-Tut, ii. 300 339-348

Sebek, i. 78, 79, 95, 98, Sehert/i. 515 Sekhem, son of Osiris, ii.

114, 303 ; ii. 303, 340, Sehert-baiu-s, i. 241 25

354 Sehes, i. 206 Sekhem taui, ii. 264
Sebek, four-fold character Sehetch-kkatu, ii. 317 Sekhem-taui = Osiris, ii.

? of, ii. 355, 356 Sehith, 228 i. 139

Sebek, son of Neith, i. 32 Sehut, i. 83 Sekhem, the, i. 163
Sebekhti, i. 202 Sek, i. 433 Sekhem, the Great, i. 38,
Sebek (Mercury), ii. 303 Seker,i.82,506;ii.ll7, 39,40
Sebek of Sapi-Res, i. 153, 341 Sekhem, the holy, i. 446
99 Seker, body of, i. 218, Sekhem-ur, ii. 340
Sebek of the green feather, 220 Sekhemet (city), i. 468
i. 455 Seker, Circle of, i. 220 Sekhemet-ren-s-em-abut-
Sebek - Isis - Amen, i, Seker, god of the seventh s, ii. 341
114 hour, ii. 301 Sekhemf, i. 82
Sebek-Ra, i. 200, 464; Seker, Land of, i. 216, Sekhemt, i. 99
ii. 109 217, 222 Sekhemu, i. 38
Sebek-Seb, 357 ii. Seker, Litanies of, i. Sekhemus, i. 216
Sebek-Temu-Hathor, ii. 434 ; ii. 259 Sekhen-Ba, i. 343; ii.

356 Seker = Osiris, ii. 139 320

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Sekhen-ta-en-ur, i. 82 Sekket- Saneh emu, ii. 120 Senket, i. 241
Sekhen-tuatui, 250 i. Sekhet- Sasa, i. 35 Senk-hra, i. 346 ; ii. 317
Sekhenu, i. 252, 259 Sekhet-tcher, i. 110 Senki, ii. 317
Sekhen-ur, i. 177; ii. Sekhiu, ii. 340 Senmet, i. 433
341 Sek-hra, ii. 341 Senmut, i. 433 ; ii. 51
Sekheper-khati, ii. 317 Sekhti-hetep, ii. 341 Senmut, Island of, ii. 43
Sekker - at, i. 216 ii. ;
Sekhtiu, 244 i. Sennu, ii. 251
341 Seksek, ii. 341 Senses, gods of, ii. 296,
Sekher-remu, i. 178, 216 Seksen, i. 82 297
ii. 341 Sektet Boat, i. 206, 331, Sent, ii. 129
Sekket, i. 82, 114, 126, 332, 335, 336, 337, Senti-Nefert, i. 99
188, 248, 270, 304, 352, 506 ; ii. 11, 104, Semi, ii. 255
365, 366, 431, 432, 105, 159 Sep, i. 401 ; ii. 261, 291
442,443,447,457,463, Selene, ii. 187 Sepa, 494 ii. 340
i. ;

514-518; ii. 31, 58, Self-production, i. 295 Sepes, ii. 340

66, 92, 95, 292, 293, Selqet,i. 455 ii. 377 ; Sephon, ii. 249
341, 362 Semaahut, ii. 317 Sephu-urt, i. 82
Sekket-Aanre, i. 520 Sem (god), ii. 129 Sept, i. 25, 82, 107,166,
Sekket-Aar, 120, 121 ii. Sem, priest, i. 514 178, 200, 435, 436 ; ii.

Sekhet-Aarer, i. 455 Sem-af, 259 i. 53, 249

ii. 63 Sem-Heru, i. 248 Sept (city), i. 443
Sekhet - Aarru, ii. 82, Sem-Nebt-het, i. 252 Sept (god), i. 100, 446;

120, 121 Sem-shet, 252 i. ii. 340

56,
Sekhet-Aarru = lst Aat, Semamti, i, 177 Sept (nome of), i. 100,
i. 177 Semetu, i. 176 432, 498
Sekhet-Aarru, 21 pylons Semi, i. 198 Sept, star, ii. 50, 215
of, i. 177 Semit-hen-abt-uaa-s, i.
'
Sept, symbol of, i. 499
Sekhet- A am, i. 367 ; ii. 220 Sept-hra, i. 228
43,62 Semket Boat, i. 110, 323 Sept-Hat, i. 471
Sekhet-Bast, i. 514 ff. Semsem, i. 252 Sept (Isis), ii. 213

Sekket-Bast-Ra, i. 518; Semsu, name of Ra, i. Sept, ka of Ra, ii. 300

ii. 28, 29, 30 346 Sept -mast- en -Rerti, ii,

Sekhet-en-Peru, i. 212 Semt, ii. 302 340

Sekket - hetep, i. 164, Semtet, ii. 306 Sept-mert-et, ii. 251
168 ; ii. 120 Semti, i. 191, 358, 506 ;
Sept-metu, i. 225
Sekket-hetepet, i. 103, ii. 116, 117 Sept - kheri - nehait - ami -
297; ii. 82 Semu-heh, ii. 60, 340 beq, ii. 340
Sekhet-hetepu, i. 408 Semu-taui, ii. 340 Septet, i. 83 ; ii. 308
Sekket-hra-asht-aru, i, Senb-Kheperu, ii, 302 Septet-uauau, i. 182
176 ; ii. 341 Senem, ka of Ra, ii. Septet - uauau - setet - sen-
Sekhet (Isis), ii. 216 300 Ra, i. 182
Sekhet-metu, i. 244 Senemet, i. 429, 515 Septit, i. 432, 499
Sekhet-Nut, i. 515 Senenahemthet, i, 23 Septu, 521 ii. 291
i. ;

Sekhet of Thebes, i. 211 Seni, i. 452, 463 Seqebet, ii. 341

Sekket-Ra, i. 433 Senit, i. 97, 439 Seqet-hra, i. 176 ii. 341 ;
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Ser, i. 230 Sesheshet, i. 31 Setaa-ur, ii. 42

Ser-aa, ii, 139 Seshet, ii. 341 Seta-ta, i. 184
Seraa, ii. 320 Sesheta, i. 422, 424, Setcha, i. 59, 60, 61
Serapeum, i, 523 425 ; ii. 213, 256, 341 Setcheh, i. 23
Serapeum, ii. 47, 127 Sesheta (1st Circle), i. Setchet, i. 180
Egyptian name of, i. 238 Setchet-gods, i. 346
513 Sesheta = Nut, ii. 106 Setcheti, i. 347
Serapeum at Sakkara, ii. Seshetai, i. 344; ii. 320 Seteb girdle, i. 331
195, 350 Seshetat, ii. 202 Setek, ii. 341
Serapeum of Het, ii. 256 Seshet-kheru, ii. 341 Setem, God of hearing,
Serapeum of Memphis, ii. Seshsha, i. 198 ii. 298
199 Sesi, i. 196 Setem, ka of Ba, ii. 300
Seraphim, i. 6,7 Sesme, ii. 306 Seth, ii. 246, 247
Serapis, ii. 46, 195-201, Set, i. 60, 82, 109, 110, Setkasetha, i. 82
349 455, 470, 475, 486 ; ii. Sethat, ii. 56
Serat-beqet, ii. 340 10, 25, 62, 63, 85, 92, Sethe, Prof., i. 330, 523
Seref-ur, i. 82 97,106,109,122,123, Sethroites, i. 96
Serekh, the, i. 25 ; illus- 124, 204, 210, 241- Setheniu-tep, i. 201
tration, i. 26 254, 283, 341, 354, Seththa, i. 82
Serekhi, 419 ii. 340
i. ; 356 animal of, ii.
; Sethu, i. 196
Serem-taui, i. 326 243; defeat of, i. Seti I., i. 290, 348, 364,
Seres-hra, ii. 340 477; figures of, ii. 251 370 ; ii. 5, 33
Serisa, ii. 312 god of Mercury, ii. 303 Seti I., sarcophagus of,

Ser-kheru, i. 419 ; ii. god of South, ii. 243 i. 171, 178

340 Set and Horus fight, i. Seti II., i.348
Serpent-god, ii. 376 488 Seti II. Menephtah, ii.

Serpent of Sunrise 30 Set animal, i, 24 251

cubits long, 24 i. Set beings, i. 160 Setu, i. 246
Serpent made by Isis, i. Set beings, inferior and Seven Gates, i. 273
361 ; seven - headed, superior, i. 84 Seven hawks, i. 516
i. 267 ; speaks, i. 19 Set festival, i. 425 Seven-headed serpent, i.

30 cubits long, i. 20 Set-heh, 255 i. 267

Serq, i. 198 Set, Ladder of, ii. 242 Seven Scorpions of Isis,
Serqet, i. 110, 198, 232, Set (nome), i. 97 i. 488

328, 456, 488 ; ii. 26, Set of Oxyrynchus, i. 98 Seven Spirits, the, i. 494
184, 269, 312, 340, Set, the serpent, i.481 Seven Tablets of Creation,
362, 377 Set, the snake, i. 250 i. 290

Serqet-hetu, i. 82, 455 Set-hra, i. 192 Sha, a mythical animal,

Serqi, i. 343 ; ii. 320 Set-kesu, i. 419 i. 60
Sert, ii. 306 Set-Nephthys-Anubis, i. Bha-qa-em-Amen, i. 331
Sesenet-khu, i. 211 114 Shabu, ii. 341
Seshaa, i. 86 Set-Nubti, ii. 251, 256 Shadow of Khepera,i. 310
Seshemet, i. 468 Set-qesu, ii, 341 Shadow of Tern, ii. 88
Seshem-Nethert, i. 343 Set-usert-aa, i. 447 Shai, 343
i. ; ii. 317
Seshesh (nome) i. 97 Setaa, ii. 119 Shai, Luck, ii. 144
424 INDEX
Skai-qa-eni-Annu, i. 331 Skepi, i. 191, 343; ii. Skiin'on ben-Lakisk,
Skaka-Amen- Shakanasa, 320 276
er- katu -Tem - seketck - Skeps, ii. 291 Skiskanim, i. 7
nef-taui, ii. 19 Skeps, ka of Ea, ii. Skoulder of Osiris, i. 468

Shakanasa, ii. 342 300 Skoulders and arms r:

Skamask, i. 359 Skeps = Tkotk, i. 402 Set, i. 110
Skapuneterarika, ii, 19, Skepu, i. 250 Skrew mouse, ii. 369
341 Skeput, ii. 359 Sku, i. 58, 82, 130, 260,
Sharpe, i. 204 Skerem, ii. 342 305, 310, 340, 496,
Skareskarekket, ii. 19, Ske-Sasa, i, 35 502; ii. 1,87-94, 291,
344 Skesat-inaket-neb-s, i. 292, 302, 317, 342;
Skareskareskapuneterari- 208 birds of, i. 168 ; kouse
ka, ii. 341 Skesemu, i. 38, 50 of, ii. 93 ; origin of,

Skarskatkakatka, ii. 21, Skes-en-mek, i. 492 i, 116 ;

palace of, ii.

342 Skesera, 246 i. 93 ;

pillars of, i. 332,
Skaskertet, i. 483 Skeskemu, ii. 34 353, 467; ii. 107;
Skas-ketep, i. 97 ; ii. 148 Skeskkentet, i. 83, 514 seat of, ii. 93 soul of, ;

Skat am Tuat, i. 174 Skes-kkentet, ii. 342 ii. 65

Skat en Sebau, i. 175 Skesmu, i. 83 ; ii. 306 Sku = Air, ii. 98
Ske-en-Sasa, 47 i. Skesskes, i. 196 Sku and Tefnut, origin
Skef-beti, ii. 293 Skesu-Heru, i. 158 of, i. 296, 297
Skefit, ii. 342 Sket, i. 98 Sku-Aten, ii. 71
Skeft-hat, ii. 51 Sketa, 326 ii. 297
i. ; Sku-Kknemu-Ea, 357
Skekbui (S. wind), ii. 296 Sketa-ab, i. 189 Sigkt, god of, ii. 298
Skema, ii. 322 Sketa-kra, ii. 342 Siket, ii. 307
Skemat-kku, i. 244 Sketa-sketa- Ameni, name Silsila, ii. 356
Skemertki, i. 246 of Ea, i. 345 Silurus fisk, ii. 382
Skemsu Heru, i. 84, Sketa, tke Tortoise-god, Simon, Saint, i. 280
158 ii. 376 Sinai, ii. 290
Skemti, i. 194, 347 Sketa-kra, i.343 Sinope, ii. 197, 198, 199
Skenat-pet-utkeset-neter, Sketait, i. 445 Sipkirepsnikkieu, i, 281
ii. 342 Sketat-besu, i. 200 Sisesme, ii. 306

Skeneset, ii. 374 Sketat (goddess), i. 446 Sisro, ii. 306

Ske-neter, i. 481 Sketat (Isis), ii. 213 Sistrum, tke, i. 421

Skenit, ii. 60 Sketati, 342 i. Sit, ii. 304
Skent, ii. 130 Sketau, i. 200 Skull = goose, i. 109
Skentket, ii. 25 Sketennu, i. 470 Sky, four pillars of, i. 157
Skentkit, ii. 184, 342 Sketenu, i. 433 Sky Motker, ii. 106
Skent tree, i. 468 Ske-Tesker, i. 433 Sky, of day and nigkt, i.

Skentu, ii. 35 Sketet, ii. 357 156

Ske-niu-aka, i. 481 Sket-f-met-f, ii. 322 Slatin Paska, quoted i. 17
Skenuti, ii. 288 Sketku, ii. 310 Sma, i. 110, 453
Skep, 492
i. Sket-kkeru, i. 419 Sma, a king, i. 31
Skepes, 234i. Sketu, i. 250, 252, 254 Sma-Bekutet, ii. 31, 35
Skepet, ii. 310 Skibba, i. 16 Sma-ta, i. 347
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Sma-ur, i. 82 Souoni, i, 281 353,355, 370; quoted,

Smai, 247
ii. Souphen, i. 281 i. 62

Smaiu, ii. 247 Southern Wall, i. 101 Strassmaier, Dr., ii. 316
Smam, ii, 340 Space, primeval, i. 288 Stream of Osiris, i. 212,
Sniamti, ii. 340 Spear of Khent - maati 214
Smaru-ur, 504 ii. 95
i. ; described,i. 85 Succoth, i. 99
Smat, ii. 306 Speos Artemidos, i. 432, Sudan, i. 22, 145
Smen, 357 517 Sudan, the Eastern, i. 14,
Smen-Maat, i. 513 Sphinx, i. 471, 472 ; ii. 17
Srnermut, i. 468 69 Sudani men, i. 13
Smentet, i. 82 Sphinx at G-izeh, i. 62 Suez Canal, i. 484
Smetti, 340
ii. Sphinx, hawk-headed, i. Sukati, ii. 21, 339
Smetu, ii. 340 194 Sulla, ii. 217
Smour, i. 281 Sphinx, the, ii. 361 ff. Sumer, i. 290
Smy, ii. 246 Sphinx-god, i. 348 Summer Solstice, ii. 264
Snake, i. 16 Sphinxes, i. 222 Sun, fountain of, i. 331
Snake-god, ii. 36 Spirits of Horus, the Sun-Egg, ii. 95
Soane, Sir John, i. 178 four, ii. 121 Sunnu, ii. 51
Socharis, ii. 117 Spirits of Pe, ii. 106 Sunrise, Mountain of, i.

Sokkabrikher, i. 281 Spirit of the Nile, i. 79, 107, 156 ; ii. 351,
Soles of the feet = Maati 10 352, 356
boat, i. 110 Spirits, the 4,601,200, i. Sunset, Mountain of i.

Solomon of Al-Basra, i. 6 164 ; ii. 116 351, 352

Solon, i. 332 Spirits, universal, i, 9 ff. Sunth, i. 82
Sons of God, i. 32 Sptkhne, 305 ii. Sut, ii. 339
Sosibius, ii. 199 Square of Rhea, ii. 253 Sutekh, ii. 250, 278
Soteles, ii. 199 Sro, ii. 306 Sutekh gods, the, ii.

Sothis, i. 58, 435, 436, Stabl al-Antar, i. 517 283

488, 514, 517, ii. 110, Staff of Hathor, i. 436 Suten-henen, i. 353, 365;
249 Staircase, the god on, i. ii. 58, 93, 148, 155
Sothis, ii. 308 191 Suten-taui, i. 511
Soubaibai Appaap, i. 280 Standards of boats, i. Suti, i. 497, 504 ; ii. 26,
Souchos, ii. 354 22 241-254
Soul, a name of Ra, i. Star gods, ii. 312 Swallow, the, ii. 373
348 Star-bearers, 200 i. Sycamore, ii. 107
Souls of Annu, ii. 86, Star-room, i. 331 Sycamore tree of Hathor
106 Steering pole, i. 109 and Nut, ii. 103
Soul of Ra, ii. 64 Stepiu, i. 198 Syene, ii. 51, 365
Soul of Seb, ii. 95 Stele of Canopus, i. 448 Syria, i. 276 ; ii. 12, 22,

Soul of Shu, ii. 65 Steps, the god on, ii. 83 ;

i. 198
god of,
Soul One, i. 342 117 Syrian influence on Egyp-
Soul (gods), i. 107 Story of the Shipwreck, tian religion, i. 334
Soul, the Hidden, ii. 116 i. 20 Syrians, ii. 23
Souls of East, i. 351 Strabo, i. 96, 444; ii. Syrians, their system ol
Souls of the Tuat, i. 208 347, 350, 351, 352, angels, i. 6 ff.
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Ta, i. 241 Tatau, ii. 121 ff. Tcheqfi, i. 99 ; triad of,

Ta-ahet, ii, 22 Ta-tchesert, i. 149, 410 i. 113

Ta-apt, ii. 29 Ta-tchesertet, i. 507 ; ii. Tcher-khu, 241 i.

Taat, i. 497 154, 155, 156 Tchert 27

(city), ii.
Ta-at-Nehepet, ii. 213 Tatet, i. 83, 432, 454 Tchertet, ii. 24
Ta-en-tarert, i. 97 Ta-thenen, i. 339, 347 ;
Tcherutet, i. 433
Ta ftu Meskhenu amu (serpent), i. 230 ; the Tcheruu, ii. 344
Abtu, ii. 184 Four forms of, i. 238 Tchesef, i. 177
Ta-her-sta-nef, ii. 153 Ta-thunen, i. 508 Tcheser (king), ii. 52, 53,
Ta-hetchet, ii. 261 Ta-thunenet, i, 508 54
Ta-het-pa-Aten, i. 513 Tattam, i. 66 Tcheserit, i. 196
Tait, i. 83, 432 ; ii. 343 Tattu, i. 103, 104, 410, Tcheser-shetat, ii. 301,
Taiti, ii. 343 425 302
Ta-kehset, ii. 255 Tattu (Mendes), ii. 157 Tchesert, i. 168 ; ii. 344
Ta-kens, i. 401, 477 ; ii. Tatuba, i. 208, 210 Tcheser-tep, i. 23, 419
51 Ta-tunen, i. 89, 131, 132, ii. 344, 363
Ta-kenset, ii. 17 133,351,508; ii. 343 Tcheser-tep-f, i. 49, 138;
Ta-kensetet, i. 519 Tauith, ii. 90 ii. 34
Ta-khent, ii. 133 Ta-ur, i. 401 Tchenttchenter, i. 83
Ta-khent (nome), i. 96 Ta-urt, ii. 30, 193, 269, Tchestcheset, ii. 22
Tale of the Two Brothers, 285, 359 Tchet-s, i. 252
i. 19 Ta'ut, 289
ii. Tchetbi, 184 i.

Talmis, i. 401 Tav0e, i, 289 Tchetemet, i. 479

Tamai al-Amdid, ii. 64 Tawfan, ii. 247 Tchetut, ii. 213
Tamarisk tree, ii. 189 Tchabu, ii. 45 Tears of Khepera, the
Ta-mes-tchetta, i. 437; Tchafi, ii. 299 origin of men, i. 312
ii. 26 Tchalu, i. 100 Teb, i. 96
Tamt, i. 339 Tchapuna, ii. 281 f eb, city 206 of, ii.

Ta-neserser, i. 192 Tchar, i. 482, 484, 515 Teb-her-kehaat, i. 176

Ta-neter, ii. 289 Tchart, i. 492 Teb-hra-keha-at, ii. 344

Tanis, 100, 473, 474,
i. Tcharu, ii. 69, 70 Teba, i. 83
482, 484 Tcha-Tuat, i. 242 Teba, 244
i.

Tanites, i. 96 Tchefa, ka of Ea, ii. Tebat, i. 241

Tape, ii. 3 300 f ebati, i. 343 ; ii. 317
Tar, i. 520 Tchefau, ii. 216 Tebat-neteru-s, i. 238
Tarabil, a name given to Tchefet, ii. 62 Tebt (Tanis) i. 473
Pyramids, i. 14 Tcheft (Isis), ii. 216 Tebut, i. 97
Ta-ret, i. 419 ; ii. 343 Tcheftchef, name of Ea, Teeth = Souls of Annu,
Tarshishim, i. 7 i. 344 i. 109
Tartarus, ii. 100 Tehehes, ii. 344 Tefen, i. 83, 487 ; ii. 92,
Ta-sent, ii. 65 Tchemtch-hat, ii. 317 206, 207
i. 431,468
Ta-sent-nefert, Tchen, ii. 263 Tefer-Tem, i. 514
Ta-she (Fayyum), i. 98 Tchent, ii. 25, 83 Tefnet, i. 115 ; ii. 92
Ta-Shetet, ii. 357 Tchenteru, i. 83 Tefnut,i. 58, 83, 305,
Taste, god of, ii. 299 Tchenti, i. 347 310, 341, 463, 515;
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ii. 1, 66, 87-94, 317, Tern-Harmachis, i. 352 Tent, i. 200

343 Tem-Heru-khuti, i. 338, Tent-baiu, i. 212, 521
Tefnut, Aat of, ii. 93 352*, 354 Tenten, i. 83
Tefnut, House of, ii. 93 Tern Horus, i. 351 Tentit-uhes-qet - khat-ab,
Tefnut, origin of, i. 116 Tem-Iusaaset-Nefer-Tem i. 246
Tefnut - Nebuut - Sekhet - i. 450 Tentyrites, i. 96
Net, ii. 357 Tem-Khepera, i. 332 Tep, i. 88, 454 ; ii. 56,
Tefnut-Seb-Nut, i. 240 Teni-Khepera-Shu, i. 238 117
Tehut (nome), i. 100 Tem-kheprer, i, 83 Tep-ahet,i. 98, 432, 433

Tehuti, i. 83, 113 ; ii. Tem-Ka, i. 92, 109 Tepa-kenmut, ii. 304
26, 289, 302, 343 Tem-sep, i. 419 ii. 343 ; Tepa-khentet, ii.305
Tehuti, derivation of, i. Tem-Thoth, i. 412 Tepa-semt, ii. 306
402 Temau, i. 246 Tepan, i. 222
Tehuti-Hapi, ii. 343 Temretut, i. 493 Tepeh-tchat, 513 i.

Tehuti -khenti-Tuat, i. Temt, ii. 7 Tephet-shetat, 230 i.

226 Temt, counterpart of Tern, Tepi, i. 194, 242

Teka, i. 437 i. 446 f ep-nef, i. 515
Tekaharesapusaremkaka- Temt (Hathor), i. 431 Tepthera, i. 246
remet, i. 519 Temt-hatu, i. 343 Tep-tu-f, ii. 263
Teka-hra, 186 i. Terutemtch, ii. 317 Tepu, i. 211, 410
Tekem, 343
ii. f emtet, i. 241 Tepui, i. 252
Tekemi, i. 186 Temtith, i. 232 Ter, i. 224
Teken-en-Ka, ii. 322 Temtu, i. 244 Termes, ii. 288
Tekh, i. 516 Temu, i. 88, 107, 254, Terrifier, the Great, ii.

Tekh-heb, ii. 292 340, 471, 489; ii. 4, 119

Tekhi, ii. 292 8, 18, 157, 343 Tes-aha-Ta-thenen, i.

Tekhni, i. 370 Temu = Bull of his

'
240
Teleute, ii. 187, 256 mother, i. 363 Tes - am - mit - em-sheta- f,
Tell al - Maskhutah, i. Temu - H eru - khuti - Khe- i. 242

353 pera, i. 353 Tes-ermen-ta, i. 241

Tell el-'Amarna, ii. 23, Temu of Succoth, i. 99 f esert-ant, 244 i.

72 Temu-Heru-khuti, i. 417 Tesert-baiu, i. 203

Tell el-Kebir, i. 353 Temu-Khepera, ii. 11 Tesher, ii. 344
Telmes, ii. 288 Ten (king), i. 506 Tesher-maati, ii. 129
Tern, i. 33, 46, 83, 92, fen (nome), i. 31, 97 Tesher-maati - ammi-het-
180, 182, 184, 203, Tena, ii. 344 Anes, i. 494
330; ii. 1, 25, 34, 66, Tena basket, ii. 5 Teshtesh, 343
ii.

87, 98, 115, 210, 244, Tena Festival, ii. 128 Tes-khaibit-tuatiu, i.
'

289, 317 Tenait, ii. 343 241

Tern, Eye 305of, i. Tenanu, i. 84 Tes-khem-baiu, i. 240
Tern, or Teniu, i. 349 ff. Tenemit, ii. 343 Tes-khu, i. 241, 259
Tern = Osiris, ii. 139 Tenen, i. 508 Testes, Lake of, i. 335,
Tern ka khat paut aat, Teni, 232
i. 339
ii.183 Tenith, 232 i. Tes-Ra-kheiti-f, i. 241
Tem-Asar, i. 354 Tenpu, ii. 344 Tes-sekkem-aru, i. 241
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Tes-sept-nestu, i, 241 Thenen, i. 523 211, 244; angels of,

Tes - sheta - em - thehen- Thenenet, i.431 ; 213

ii. ii. 119 ; as recording-
neteru, i. 240 Thenenet (Isis), ii. 216 angel, 408 Booksi. ;

Tes-sma-kekui, i, 241 Thenit, i. 97 414, 415 in the

of, i. ;

Tet (Edfu), i. 478 Then-neteru, i. 257 judgment, ii. 145 on ;

f et, ka of Ea, ii. 330 Thenti, i. 344 ; ii. 317 his staircase, 211 i.

Tet = Osiris, ii, 139 Theodosius, ii. 351 the intelligence of God,
Tet, pillar of, ii, 131 Theogony of Heliopolis, i. 150

Tet, the, ii. 129 i. 116 Thoth and Osiris, i. 410

Tet, the double, i. 410 Therer, 492 i. Thoth Horus, i. 413
Teta, i. 22, 32, 33, 37 Thernops, i. 280 Thoth Trismegistos, i.
Tetet, daughter of Ea, Theropsin, i. 280 401
i. 432 Thes-Hertu (nome), i, 96 Thothmes I., ii. 285
Tethys, ii. 217 Thes-hrau, i. 246 Thothmes III., i. 142;
Tetteta, i, 524 Thest-ur, ii, 344 ii. 23, 278

Tettu, ii, 121 ff. Thesu, i. 246 Thothmes IV., i. 471,

Tettu (Mendes), ii. 116 Theta-enen, ii. 317 472 ii. 69
;

Thales, 332 i, Thet amulet, ii. 215 Thrissa fish, ii. 382
Thanasa, ii. 344 Thetet, i. 486 ii. 206, ;
Throne of iron, i. 58
Thanasa-Thanasa, ii. 21 207 Thrones (angels), i. 6
Thapu-Arenuta, ii. 283 Thethu, i. 23 Thuau, ii. 69
Tharnakhakhan, i. 280 Thi, Queen, ii. 69, 70 Thueris, ii. 193
That (Isis), ii. 213 Thigh in heaven, i. 35 Thuket, 353 i.

Thebes, i. 31, 431, 492, Thigh of Set, ii. 250 Thunder, i. 414
523 ; ii. 3, 12, 21 ; of Thigh, the, ii. 249 Thuthu, wife of Ani, ii.
100 gates, i. 1 ; of the Thighs =
Nit and Ser- 143
Delta, ii. 31 ; triad of, qet, i. 110 Tiamat, i. 18, 277-279,
i.114 Thinites, i. 96 288, 291; ii. 314;
Theb-ka (uome), i. 100 This, i. 431 caught in a net, i.407
Theb-neter, i. 100 Thmoui, ii. 66 Tiele, Prof., i. 136, 137,
Thebti, 488 i. Thmuis, ii. 22, 51, 64, 138
Thehennu, ii. 25 354 Tigris, i.277
Theket, i. 99 Thobarrabau, i. 280 Tim, ii. 289
Thekshare - Anien - Eere- Thomas, St., i. 280 Time, primeval, i. 288
thi, ii. 20 Thompson, Mr. E. Camp- Timotheus, 217 the ii. ;

Themaru, i. 259 bell, i. 359; ii. 282, Interpreter, ii. 199

Themath, i. 248 316 Tithorea, ii. 218, 219
Themat-hert, ii. 304 Thosolk, ii. 308 To-day, ii. 99, 123
Themat-khent, ii. 305 Thoth, i. 9, 20, 34, 36, Tom, ii. 304
Themehu, i. 304 37, 95, 98,100, 113, Tombs of the Kings, i.

Themes - en - khentet, ii, 190, 196, 324, 336, 178

05 369, 400 ff., 421, Tongue = steering pole,
Then-aru, i. 345 ; ii. 320 427, 477, 482, 516; i. 109
Thenemi, i. 419, 445 ; ii. ii. 33, 85, 125, 129, Toothache, incantation
344 140, 156, 204, 210, against, i. 360
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Topheth, i. 273 Tunep, ii. 23 Uash-neter, ii. 310

Tortoise, i, 254 ; ii. 376 Tun-pehti, i. 176 ; ii. 344 Uasri, ii. 113
Totems, i. 27 Tuphium, ii. 357 Uast, i. 492 ; 523
Toua, 280
i. Tu-qa-aat, i. 178 Uast, city, i. 97
Touch, god of, ii. 296 Tu-qat, i. 97 Uast (nome), i. 97
Tpebiou, ii. 307 Turquoise, sycamores of, Uatchet, i. 24, 92, 93,
Tpekhonti, ii. 305 ii. 107 100, 329, 431, 432,
Tpekhu, ii. 307 Turrupa, i. 326 441 ff., 479, 483 ; ii.
Tree gods, i. 116 Turtle, i. 24 ; ii. 376 8, 48, 71, 104, 289
Trees, talking, i. 19 Tushratta, ii. 279 Uatchet (nome), i. 97
Tree-trunk of Osiris, ii. Tut-ankh-Amen, ii. 83, Uatchet-Isis, i. 440
124, 125 84 Uatchit, i. 24; ii. 292,
Tree worship in the Tutu, i. 326, 463, 464 327
Sudan, i. 17 Tutu-f, i. 419 ; ii. 343 Uatchit (Isis) ii. 213
Triad, the, i. 114 ff. Tu-ui, Hathor of, i. 434 Uatch, ka of Ka, ii.
Triangle, the, ii. 252 Twin-gods, i. 148 300
Tribal ancestors, i. 27, 28 Tybi, ii. 63 Uatch-Maati, ii. 327
Trocho'ides, i. 452 Tylor, Prof. E. B., i. 29 Uatch-nes, i. 419
Trolls, i. 12 Typho, ii. 187, 189, 192, Uatch-Nesert, ii. 327
Tua-Heru, i. 248, 254 200 Uatch-ura, ii. 47 ; Lake
Tua-khu, i. 248 Typhon, i. 422; ii. 92, of, ii. 60
Tuamu, ii. 316 124, 125, 354, 361; Uatchti goddesses, ii. 8,
Tuamutef, i. 83, 198, names of, ii. 246 11
456; ii. 129, 145, 344 Tzetzes, ii. 96 Uauaa, i. 161
Tuamutef =
East, i. 158 Uauat, i. 477
Tuamutef, son of Horus, Uben, i. 345 ; ii. 320
491, 492
i. Ua, 327
ii. Uben-An, i. 345
Tua-mut-f, ii. 184 Ua-ab, i. 180 Ubes-hra-per-em-khet-
Tuat, i. 158, 510, 511 Uaau, i. 176; ii. 327 khet, i. 494; ii. 327
ii. 14, 51, 77, 97, 105, Uab (nome), i. 98 Ufa, i. 23
131 ; divisions of, i. Uafet, i. 513 Ui, ii. 327
176 ff. ;
paut of, i. 91 Uahu, i. 80 Un (god), ii. 114 ; nome
Tuat, the Book of that Uai, 326
i. of, i. 98, 426
which is in, i. 174 ff. Uaipu, ii. 327 Un-hat, ii. 328
Tuat, the, described, i. Uak festival, ii. 149 Un-nefer, i. 149, 427,
'

171 ff. Uakh, i. 168 475; ii. 114, 138, 145;

Tuatet-niaket-neb-s, i. Uamemti, i. 198, 419; hymn to, i. 153
'

242 ii. 327 Un-nefer-Heru-khuti,

Tuati, i. 259 ; ii. 317 Uart, ii. 121 502 ; ii. 154
Tuati, a god, i. 343 Uart-neter-semsu, ii. 327 Un-nefer (Osiris), i. 490
Tuau = To-day, ii. 99, Uas (nome), i. 31 Un-nefer, son of Nut, ii.

361 Ua seqeb em HetBenben, 154

Tu-f (nome), i. 98 ii. 183 Unas, i. 22, 23, 32,-33
Tu-menkh-rerek, ii. 344i Uash, ii. 25 ii. 8, 32, 33, 34,~43 ;

Tun-abui, ii. 322 Uash-ba, i. 344 hunts, kills, and eats

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gods, i. 34 ff, ; on the Urshiu, a god, i. 347 Utennu gods, i. 83, 84
Ladder, ii. 242 Urshiu, the Watchers, i. Utet-heh, ii. 60, 328
Underworld, the, ii. 105, 347 Uteti, i.' 346
170 Paut of, i.
ff. ; 91 Urshu of Pe, i. 84 Utet-tef-f, ii. 322
Unen-nefer, ii. 328 Urshu of Nekhen, i. 84 Uthes, i. 80
Unnu, i. 405; ii. 107 Urt, i. 80, 101, 230, 456 Utu, i. 246
251; city of, i. 426; Urt-ab, ii. 139 Utu-rekhit, i. 145, 419
the Hare-god, ii. 371 Urt-Apset, i. 432 ii.328
Unnu-Meht, i. 88 Urt-hekau, i. 80, 456; Uu, ii. 291
Unnu-Eesu, i. 88 ii. Ill, 256, 362
Unnut, ii. 327 goddess, ;
Urt-sekhemus, i. 216
ii. 371 city, ii. 371 ;
; Urti goddesses, ii. 116 Veda, i. 135
counterpart of Thoth, Us, a nome, i. 31 Venus, i. 224; ii. 97,
i. 426 Us-ar (Osiris), ii. 113 100, 218, 253, 303
Unnut-netchtet, i. 200 Usekk-hra, 328 ii. Vespasian, ii, 217
Unpepet - ent - Het - Heru, Usekh-nemt, ii. 328 Vesta, ii. 253
ii. 327 Usekht-Maati, ii. 128 Vine of heaven, i. 165
Unt, i. 161 Usekht-neinniat, i. 419 Vine speaks, i. 19
Unt (Xth Aat), i. 178 User, ii. 113 Virey, quoted, ii. 278
Unti, ii. 154, 328 User-ab, ii. 328 Virgin Mary and Isis, ii.

Unti (Apep), 326 i. User-ba, ii. 328 220, 221

Unti (god), 114 ii. Userkaf, i. 329, 330 Vulcan, i. 501
Unti, star-god, i. 198 Usert, i. 80 ii. 85, 328 ; Vulture, early worship of,

Uraeus, early worship of, Usert (Isis), ii. 213, 216 i. 24

i. 24 Usert-heqet, i. 432 Vulture, the, ii. 372
Ur-at, ii. 328 Usertsen I., i. 330
Ur-gu-la, 316 ii. Usit, i. 248
Ur-hekau, ii. 328 Usoos, ii. 281 Wadi er-Eababi, i. 373
Ur-heket, ii. 292 Usr-Ea, ii. 113 Wadi Hammamat, i. 485
Ur-mah, ii. 316 Usr, ka of Ea, ii. 300 Wadi Sabu'a, ii. 22
Ur-maat, 328 ii. Ustha, ii. 305 Wall of Hell, i. 171
Ur-maat-s, 328 ii, Utcha-ba-f, i. 101 Walls, a name of Mem-
Ur-inaau, ii, 73 Utcha-re, ii. 328 phis, i. 514
Ur-mertu-s-tesker- sheni, Utchat of Thoth, i. 413 ;
Wasps (evil spirits), i. 15
ii. 328 of Ea, i. 413 Watchers of Pe and
Ur-mer, 351ii. Utchat-Heru, the official, Nekhen, i. 161
Ur-nes, 208 i. i. 458 Water, i. 288
Ur-pehui, ii. 328 Utchat, seat of, ii. 155 Water gods, i. 116
Ur-sheps-f, i. 80 ; ii. 197 Utchat - sekhet - ur t-hent- Weighing of words, i. 36
Ur-sun, 458i. neteru, 519i. West, horn of, i. 205;
Ur-tenten, i. 480 Utchatet, i. 436 Mountain of, i. 179;
Ur-Uatchti, i. 483 Utchati, i. 160 Souls of, i. 107 ; Spirits
Ureret Crown, ii. 154 Utch-re, ii. 263 of, ii. 356

Urit, i. 401 Utennu, ii. 268 Westcar Papyrus, i. 329

Urshiu, ii. 320 Utemm beings, i. 160 Wheat of Horus, ii. 118
 INDEX 431

White Crown, i. 39, 53; Words, weighing of, i. Yannai, i. 276

ii. 8, 26, 130, 151 408 Ya'uth, ii. 289
White Nekhen, i. 439 World-body, ii. 299 Yesterday, ii. 99, 123
White Wall, i. 125,514; World-Soul, ii. 299
ii. 148 Worm of Babylonia, i.

Wiedemann, ii. 97, 285 359 Zabara, Mount, ii. 281

Wilbour, Mr. C, ii. 52 Worm, the, i. 202 Zagoure, i.280
Wind-gods, i. 202; ii. Workshop of Ptah, i. 501 Zenei, i. 281
295, 296 Zenodotus, i. 289
Wine of the gods, i. 58 Zibanitum, ii. 316
Wings of angels, i. 5 Xarmarokh, i. 266 Zodiac of Dendera, ii.

Winter Solstice, ii. 264 Xois, i. 99, 432 ; ii. 22 312

Wolf, the, 366
ii. Xoites, i. 96 Zodiac, origin of, ii. 312-
Women in Egyptian 314
heaven, i. 166 Zodiac, Signs of, Egyp-
Words of power, i, 13 Yahweh, i. 137, 141, tian, ii. 315
Word-soul, i. 340 278 ; ii. 74 Zorokothora, i. 280

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