A SECOND SERIES

OF THE

MANNERS AND CUSTOMS

OF

THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS,

INCLUDING

THEIR RELIGION, AGRICULTURE, &c.

DERIVED FROM A COMPARISON OF

THE PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES, AND MONUMENTS STILL EXISTING,
WITH THE ACCOUNTS OF ANCIENT AUTHORS.

BY SIR J. GARDNER WILKINSON, F.R.S.

F. R. G.S. M. R. S. L. M. I. B. A. &c.

AUTHOR OF A GENERAL VIEW OF EGYPT, AND
TOPOGRAPHY OF THEBES," ETC.

TWO VOLUMES, AND A VOLUME OF PLATES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

MDCCCXLI.

1098.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

(SECOND SERIES.)

CHAPTER XIII. (continued).

SUITE OF THE PANTHEON.

GODS of the Second and Third Orders. Probable Names

of the Twelve Gods of the Second Order

THOTH, Mercury. His Duties in Amenti and on Earth

Plato's Account of Thoth and King Thamus.

Name recalls Thmei and Pithom)

(This

Temple

Opinion of the King of Letters. Thoth not Hermes

Trismegistus. Argeiphontes. Month Thoth.

of Hermopolis Magna

Cynocephalus, his Emblem. Thoth the Moon or Ioh.

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The Moon a God, not a Goddess

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Form of Thoth. Isis not the Moon. Sun and Moon

sailing round the World in Boats

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Titles of Thoth. The Eight Regions. Oshmoonein. The

Ibis

A Sow sacrificed at the Full Moon. A Typhonian

Animal

Souls of Wicked passed into Swine. Thoth the Medium

of Intellectual Gifts from the Gods to Men

The Septenary Agents. Inventor of Letters. Taught Men

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