. The Mythology of all races .. . g Hat-hor. Her husband was the Type ofHorus of Ombos, and her son was (P)-neb-taui (p. 140). Sop (earlier Sepa), a god who was worshipped in and nearHeliopolis, was later identified with Osiris. This and the laterpronunciation are shown by Osarsyph, the alleged Egyptianname which Manetho ascribes to Moses.^^^ Sopd(u), the lord of the east, the one who smites theAsiatics, was the deity of the twentieth nome of the Delta(later termed the Arabian Nome) at the western entranceto the valley of Goshen, with the capital Pe(r)-sopd(u) (Houseof Sopd; also called House
. The Mythology of all races .. . g Hat-hor. Her husband was the Type ofHorus of Ombos, and her son was (P)-neb-taui (p. 140). Sop (earlier Sepa), a god who was worshipped in and nearHeliopolis, was later identified with Osiris. This and the laterpronunciation are shown by Osarsyph, the alleged Egyptianname which Manetho ascribes to Moses.^^^ Sopd(u), the lord of the east, the one who smites theAsiatics, was the deity of the twentieth nome of the Delta(later termed the Arabian Nome) at the western entranceto the valley of Goshen, with the capital Pe(r)-sopd(u) (Houseof Sopd; also called House of the Sycamore), the modernSaft el-Hene. This warlike divinity is usually represented as aman wearing two high feathers on his head, and sometimes, asmaster of the Asiatics, he appears in an Asiatic type andbearded. He is also shown as a falcon in the archaic type(cf. Ch. V, Note 27), a fact which results in comparing himwith Horus. Later he is also pictured like a winged Bes(p. 61).^^ Khenset is his wife. ISO EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY. Fig. 154. Tait Carrying Chests ofLinen Tait (Mistress of Linen) was the goddess of weaving,perhaps in Busiris, although this may be an artificial connexionwith Osiris, the divinity swathed in linen, whence she is also called Tatunen (Tetenen, etc., perhapsalso Tanen, Tenen) was usuallyidentified with Ptah, and thenalso with Nuu (pp. 47, 145). Hehad human form and wore twoostrich-feathers and two ramshorns on his head. Tebi was a name of a ^ Tekhi, a goddess in humanform, wore a pair of high feathers(like Amon) and was patroness of the first month instead ofThout, with whom she was likewise interchanged elsewhere.^°^This identification seems to be based principally on the vaguesimilarity of the name and does not appear to be ancient. Temhit (the Libyan) was a goddess who was worshippedin Heliopolis {?). Tenenet (later Tanenet) received adoration at Her-monthis,where she was identified with Isis and Anit. Like the latter, she
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