. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . e Onouris, and identified him with Ares (Lee-sians, Papyri Grxci, vol. i. p. 124,1. 13, and p. 128). 2 Montû preceded Amon as god of the land between Kûs and Gebelên, and he recovered his oldposition in the Grœco-Eoman period after the destruction of Thebes. Most Egyptologists, and finallyBiiugsch (Religion unci Mythologie, p. 701), made him into a secondary form of Amon, which, is con-trary to what we know of the history of the proviuce. Just as Onu of the south (Erment) precededThebes as the most important town in that district, so Montû bad b
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . e Onouris, and identified him with Ares (Lee-sians, Papyri Grxci, vol. i. p. 124,1. 13, and p. 128). 2 Montû preceded Amon as god of the land between Kûs and Gebelên, and he recovered his oldposition in the Grœco-Eoman period after the destruction of Thebes. Most Egyptologists, and finallyBiiugsch (Religion unci Mythologie, p. 701), made him into a secondary form of Amon, which, is con-trary to what we know of the history of the proviuce. Just as Onu of the south (Erment) precededThebes as the most important town in that district, so Montû bad been its most honoured Wiedemann (Die Religion der alten Mgypter, p. 71) thinks the name related to that of Amoiiand derived from it, with the addition of tbe final tû. 3 In attempts at reconstituting Egyptian religions, no adequate weight has hitherto been givento the equality of gods and goddesses, a fact to which attention was first called by Maspero (Etudesde Mythologie et dArchéologie Égyptiennes, vol. ii. p. 253, et seq.).. 102 THE GODS OF EGYPT. Hatkor was at Denderah, and as Nit at Sais, the firstborn, when as yet therehad been no birth. 1 They enjoyed in theircities the same honours as the male gods intheirs; as the latter were kings, so were theyqueens, and all bowed down before them. Theanimal gods, whether entirely in the form ofbeasts, or having human bodies attached toanimal heads, shared omnipotence with those inhuman form. Horus of Hibonû swooped downupon the back of a gazelle like a huntinghawk,2 Hâthor of Denderah was a cow, Bastitof Bubastis was a cat or a tigress, whileNekhabit of El Kab was a great Hermopolis worshipped theibis and cynocephalus of Thot; Oxyr-rhynchus the mormyrus fish ;4 and Om-bos and the Fayûm a crocodile, underthe name of Sobku,5 sometimes withthe epithet of Azaï, the cannot always understand what ledthe inhabitants of each nome to affectone animal rather than another. Why,towards Gra
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