. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . Landino- Place at Assouan. KHEMMIS, THEBES, ELEPHANTINE 365 without exceptioD, represented as mere men, each theson of another man, and he took the opportunity ofridiculing the vanity of his compatriots, who did nothesitate to inscribe the name of a god at the head oftheir genealogies, removed by some score of generationsonly from their own. On the other hand, the templeservitors related to him how two Theban priestesses, carriedoff by the Phoenicians and sold, one in Libya and theother in Greece, had set up the first oracles known in
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . Landino- Place at Assouan. KHEMMIS, THEBES, ELEPHANTINE 365 without exceptioD, represented as mere men, each theson of another man, and he took the opportunity ofridiculing the vanity of his compatriots, who did nothesitate to inscribe the name of a god at the head oftheir genealogies, removed by some score of generationsonly from their own. On the other hand, the templeservitors related to him how two Theban priestesses, carriedoff by the Phoenicians and sold, one in Libya and theother in Greece, had set up the first oracles known inthose two countries: Herodotus thereupon rememberedthe story he had heard in Epirus of two black doveswhich had flown away from Thebes, one towards theOasis of Ammon, the other in the direction of Dodona;the latter had alighted on an old beech tree, and in ahuman voice had requested that a temple consecrated toZeus should be founded on the spot/ Herodotus is quiteovercome with joy at the thought that Greek divinationcould thus be directly traced to that of Egypt, for likemost of hi
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