. The Mythology of all races .. . Tefenet OTHER GODS CONNECTED WITH NATURE 45 parisons of Tefenet to the rain-clouds or the dew are- quiteunfounded; if she and Shu are later said to cause the growthof plants, this refers to other celestial functions than to fur-nishing moisture, which in Egypt so rarely comes from thesky.^ The Egyptian texts speak rather of Tefenet as send-ing flaming heat (i. e. as solar) and describe her as a truedaughter or eye of the sun-god or as the disk on his Fig. 41. The Nile, his Wife Nekhbet, and the Ocean The pictures likewise always connect her with
. The Mythology of all races .. . Tefenet OTHER GODS CONNECTED WITH NATURE 45 parisons of Tefenet to the rain-clouds or the dew are- quiteunfounded; if she and Shu are later said to cause the growthof plants, this refers to other celestial functions than to fur-nishing moisture, which in Egypt so rarely comes from thesky.^ The Egyptian texts speak rather of Tefenet as send-ing flaming heat (i. e. as solar) and describe her as a truedaughter or eye of the sun-god or as the disk on his Fig. 41. The Nile, his Wife Nekhbet, and the Ocean The pictures likewise always connect her with the sun. As afemale counterpart of Shu she can be identified with such god-desses of the sky as Isis, whence in some places she is called themother of the moon; but she is also termed mother of thesky (in other words, of Nut) and, contrariwise, daughter of thesky (i. e. of Nut or Hat-hor). She and her brother Shu arelikewise named the two lions ^^ (cf. the explanation ofFig. 37). The idea of the wicked Seth as a god of thunder-storms and clouds, which developed at a fairly early period,will be discussed on pp. 103-04. Turning to the element of water, we must first mention Itsnearest representative, Hapi, the Nile, which Is depicted as 46 EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY a very stout blue or green human figure,^^ wearing a fishermansgirdle around his loins and having aquatic plants on his head.^^Although much praised by poets, he does not enjoy suchgeneral worship as we should expect, this being another
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