. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . who causes his waters to rise, and recognizes this personage as being, among other things,a form of the Nile. The interpretation offered by myself is borne out by the many scenes representingthe child of Hâthor playing upon the sistrum and the monâlt (Lanzone, Bizionario di Mitologia, 2, 3). Moreover, ahi, ahit is an invariable title of the priests and priestesses whose office it is,during religious ceremonies, to strike the sistrum, and that other mystic musical instrument, thesounding whip called monâit (cf. Maspeiîo. in the Revue Criti
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . who causes his waters to rise, and recognizes this personage as being, among other things,a form of the Nile. The interpretation offered by myself is borne out by the many scenes representingthe child of Hâthor playing upon the sistrum and the monâlt (Lanzone, Bizionario di Mitologia, 2, 3). Moreover, ahi, ahit is an invariable title of the priests and priestesses whose office it is,during religious ceremonies, to strike the sistrum, and that other mystic musical instrument, thesounding whip called monâit (cf. Maspeiîo. in the Revue Critique, 1893, vol. i. p. 289). 4 This somewhat rare triad, noted by Wilkinson (Manners and Customs, 2nd edit, vol. iii. p. 230),is sculptured on the wall of a chamber in the Tûrah quarries. 4 Brugsch, Religion und Mythologie der alten JEgypier, pp. 483, 481. 6 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a bronze statuette encrusted with gold, in the Gîzeh Museum(Mariette, Album du Musée de Boulaq, pl. 6). The seat is alabaster, and of modern 106 THE GODS OF EGYPT. m feminine affix to the primitive masculine names—Eâît, Ainomt, Horii, Sobkî the same way, detaclied cognomens of divine fathers wereembodied in divine sons. Imhotpû, he who comes in peace,was merely one of the epithets of Phtah before he becameincarnate as the third member of the Memphite In othercases, alliances were contracted between divinities of ancientstock, but natives of different nomes, as in the case of Isis of Bûtoand the Mendesian Osiris; of Haroêris of Edfû and Hâthor ofDenderah. In the same manner Sokhît of Letopolis and Bastîtof Bubastis were appropriated as wives to Phtah of Memphis,Nofirtûmû being represented as his son by both Theseimprovised connections were generally determined by consider-ations of vicinity ; the gods of conterminous principalities weremarried as the children of kings of two adjoining kingdoms aremarried, to form or to consolidate relations,
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