Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians

The Name Pautnouphis, whence probably derived. The

Ibis sacred also to him as to Thoth

Caduceus of Mercury. The Forty-two Books of Hermes

Clemens's Account of the principal Books of Hermes. Ao

or Io probably not the Moon, Ioh. His Dress

Porphyry's Description of "Kneph." Champollion supposed

the God Ao to be Hercules. Characters and Names of

the Egyptian Hercules. Abstract Idea of Strength, also

Hercules One of the Twelve Gods. Hercules of Tyre.

Killed the Giants. Called the "Power of the Gods"

Ao conjectured to be Mouè, or the Splendour of the Solar

Rays. Another Form of HERCULES?

KHONSO, the Third Member of the Theban Triad, and of

Ombos. His Form

Supposed to be Hercules. Occurs in Names, as Pete-

chonsis, &c. Mode of writing his Name. Distinction

of the Sun and Sieve frequently lost in the Hierogly-

phics

HAKÉ, PRÊB-TO, HOR-PI-RÉ, HOR-SENED-TO, and HARKA,

Infant Deities like Harpocrates and Ehôou

T-SON-T-NOFRE, and an Unknown Deity. ATмOO. His

Name. Supposed to be Heron or Hero

His Boat. His Dress. NOFRE-ATMOO.

A Symbol accompanying him (vide infrà, Woodcut,

No. 500. a.). ANOUKÉ, or Vesta, at the Cataracts. He-

rodotus's Statement respecting the Names of Deities

unknown in Egypt

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Names of Neptune. Vesta one of the Deities of Egypt.
Her Dress

THMEI, Truth, or Justice. Her Double Capacity. Thum-

mim. Urim and Thummim

Justice the great Cardinal Virtue; the other Three related
more particuarly to the Possessor of them

The Dead took the Epithet "judged" or "justified."

gure of Justice without a Head

MANDOO, Mars Ultor? His Name perhaps the Origin of

Mendes, though not like the Mendes of Herodotus

Error of the Greeks respecting Mendes and Pan

Character of Mandoo. Called also Mandoo-Re, perhaps

Confirmatory of the Origin of Sabæan Worship

His Title of " Avenger." Not the mere God of War, who
was Ranpo, but as a Divine Attribute

MANDOOLI, Or Malooli. His Worship in Nubia. The

Triad of Kalabshi. Champollion's Opinion of his Charac-

ter, as the last of the Incarnations of Amun-re

SAVAK, the Crocodile-headed God. Crocodile the Type

of the Sun from its Number Sixty. Not respected

throughout Egypt. Savak a Deity of Thebes

Corresponded to Chronos or Saturn, but different from

Seb or Saturn, the Father of Osiris and Isis.

TAFNE, Tafnet, or Dafne, with a Lion's Head. Her
Name. THRIPHIS, or Athribis, Companion of Khem.
Her Form unknown, perhaps with a Lion's Head

Another Lion-headed Goddess. HEKTE (Hecate?) with a

Lion's Head. Where found

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the Moon. Her Name.

Netpe, and other Deities

MENHAI, also a Lion-headed Goddess. A Form of

NEITH Another Form of PASHT, or of Buto? with the

Head of a Cat

EILETHYIA, Lucina, Soven? or Sebn? not connected with

Her Office partly shared by

Her City in the Thebaïd.

Her Office and Form

The Vulture her Emblem, and the Asp also frequently

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winged. It wears the Crown of Upper Egypt when op-

posed to the Genius of the Lower Country. Water Plants

of Upper and Lower Egypt. The South or Sares

The North not as a Goddess. Other Forms of Eilethyia.

THE GENIUS OF THE LOWER COUNTRY, opposed to

Eilethyia, under the Form of an Asp. One of the God-

4.7

Also as a Vulture. KHÊMI or Egypt, One of the Deities of

the Country. Her Form and Attributes

The Sceptre forming her Name signifying Pure*: the
same as in the Hands of all the Gods. Khame "Black
represented, like Khami, by a Crocodile's Tail
Other Modes of writing the Name of Egypt. A God with
Crocodile's Tail on his Head. Early Name of Egypt.
Analogy of Khem, Ham, and Hamoo (note +)

THE WESTERN Bank of the NILE? opposed to the East.

Origin of the Hieroglyphic signifying "Mountain."

The Goddesses of the East and West

Name and Emblems of the Goddess of the West: given

also to Athor. Connected with the Dead. Amenti and

Ement "the West." The Four Rudders of the Four

Cardinal Points. The Four Divisions of the World

The Nine Regions. SOFH? Her Name uncertain. Her

Office. Seems to relate to Letters or Language

Lord of Triacontaeterides. Period of these Festivals.

Pthah Lord of the Assemblies, given also to Amun (vide

infrà, p. 288.). This Goddess writing the Name of Re-

meses on the Persea Fruit, clad in a Leopard Skin.

SELK. The Scorpion her Emblem

A Daughter of the Sun.

His Dress simple.

His Name Emoph. Not the " Emeph" of Iamblichus

Asclepius was Son of Pthah. Two of this Name. One

buried near the City of the Crocodiles (vide infrà,

p. 230.). Worshipped at Memphis and also in Upper

4.8

It is worthy of remark that the Chinese also style themselves the "great
pure nation."

The Serpent not his Emblem (vide infrà, p. 240.). Shekh
Hereedee. TPE, the Heaven. Her Form

The Heaven feminine, not masculine. NILUS, or Hapi
Môou. The Name Hapi, Apis

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Office of Nilus. His Form, a fat Man of a blue Colour.
Nil, blue

White and Blue or rather Black River. Nilus at Silsilis.

At Luxor with the Two Children

His Figure at Philæ.

Genius of the City. Petamunap or Petamunoph
The Name how formed into Thebes. Not related to Theba,
"the Ark." Thebe in the singular. Amunei and No-
Amun. Papa not from Tapé

Called "the Land of Thrones."

Pathyris. TENTYRIS.

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Every City, Month, Day, and Hour, had its presiding

Snake-headed Goddess.