Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . art with it, given him all kinds of young plants, bread in the land of made of red corn, given him remedies (drink) in the land of Top, made of white grapes, ploughed for him corn in the fields of theloli-en-rou, reaped it for him in it, that he has winnowed it for him, given liim power,victory, his eyes to behold the two goddesses of truth, with the plumes on his head, Isisand Nephthys to establish him, — that he has filled the eye of Horus with oil, and bound liisface with it. This litany, whicli is of great interest, not only for th
Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . art with it, given him all kinds of young plants, bread in the land of made of red corn, given him remedies (drink) in the land of Top, made of white grapes, ploughed for him corn in the fields of theloli-en-rou, reaped it for him in it, that he has winnowed it for him, given liim power,victory, his eyes to behold the two goddesses of truth, with the plumes on his head, Isisand Nephthys to establish him, — that he has filled the eye of Horus with oil, and bound liisface with it. This litany, whicli is of great interest, not only for the story of Horus, but alsoof Osiris, exhibits several important ideas of mythology, and though all of it cannot be madeout, the greater part is distinct.^ Man. & Cust. Scr. II. pi. 43 .4. Pap. Burton, 285, p. 9. !5i^iilif:^»1«:» imm^M^-M 0^,6 .• ^ «^ -^ i^ ^ ?^r^ S^ =. ;1 o: Tb&d irjOid^^ifyi^i^ 3 l^.0l??l??5«^^? ;V Si^^^n^m M: kM<ilP.^ i^Tlini? ^l,iU ^IU -? ?? ^% Y r, - &. TE-OER (tHUOERIS). 41 TE-OER (THUOERIS). Considerable difficulty attends the solution of the hippopotamic deities; but since two,Opt and Thuoeris, can he identified with Typhon, it is probable that they were all allied withthat deity. Sir Gardner Wilkinson considers that they may be connected with parturition;and this animal, in hieroglyphics, seems connected with the Nile and the hours; and while incertain inscriptions they are connected with Netpe, the great mother of the gods, witli Athorand Isis, they may in these instances connect the good and evil principle which pervaded theEgyptian Pantheon in one form. They are generally represented as hippopotami standingerect, sometimes with different heads, but always with the tail of a crocodile down the back,and often holding in the fore paws a symbol as yet unexplained. At Ombos they presidedover the months, but their names appear rather epithets than appellations, as — the approved,Semsi .... of the mistress of the sycomore; Opt,
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