. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . prefers to consider them as representingthe primordial Waters, Eternity, Darkness, and the primordial Inertia. 1 The name was long read Sesûnû, after Champollion; Bhugsch discovered its true pronunciation{Iteise nach der Grossen Oaxc el Khargeh, p. 34 ; cf. Ueber die Aussprache einiger Zahhvorter imAllugyptischen, in the Zeitschrift, 1874, pp. 145-147). 2 Whence its modern name of El-Ashmûneïu ; cf. Brugsch, Dictionnaire Géographique, pp. 749-751. 3 Maspeuo, Études de Mythologie et dArchéologie Égyptiennes, vol. ii. p. 3S3, et seq., where thisas
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . prefers to consider them as representingthe primordial Waters, Eternity, Darkness, and the primordial Inertia. 1 The name was long read Sesûnû, after Champollion; Bhugsch discovered its true pronunciation{Iteise nach der Grossen Oaxc el Khargeh, p. 34 ; cf. Ueber die Aussprache einiger Zahhvorter imAllugyptischen, in the Zeitschrift, 1874, pp. 145-147). 2 Whence its modern name of El-Ashmûneïu ; cf. Brugsch, Dictionnaire Géographique, pp. 749-751. 3 Maspeuo, Études de Mythologie et dArchéologie Égyptiennes, vol. ii. p. 3S3, et seq., where thisaspect of the Hermopolitan Ennead was first pointed out. 4 Drawn by Faucher-Gudiu from a bronze statuette found at Thebes, and now in my possession. 5 In a bas-relief at Phila), Anion presides over the Hermopolitan Ennead (Lepsius, Denhm., c) ; it is to him that the eight baboons address their hymns in the Harris Magic Papyrus (pi. G, et seq. ; Cuaras edition, pp. 60, 69), beseeching him to come to the help of the 150 TEE GODS OF EGYPT. difficulty whatever, had the divinities to whom it was applied only beenwithout family ; in that case, the one needful change for each city wouldhave been that of a single name in the Heliopolitan list, thus leavingthe number of the Enuead unaltered. But since these deities had beenturned into triads they could no longer be primarily regarded as simpleunits, to be combined with the elements of some one or other of the Enneadswithout preliminary arrangement. The two companions whom each hadchosen had to be adopted also, and the single Thot, or single Atûmû,replaced by the three patrons of the nome, thus changing the traditionalnine into eleven. Happily, the constitution of the triad lent itself to allthese adaptations. We have seen that the father and the son became one andthe same personage, whenever it was thought desirable. We also know thatone of the two parents always so far predominated as almost to efface t
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