. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . all local gods bear tho titles of Nûtir ûâ, only god ; Sûton nûtirû, Sûntirû,2ov0T/p, king of the gods ; of Nûtir âa nib pit, the great god, lord of heaven, which show their preten-sions to the sovereignty and to the position of creator of the universe. * Drawing by Faucher-Gudin of a green enamelled statuette in my possession. It was from Shâthat the Greeks derived their representations, and perhaps their myth of Atlas. 5 This name is generally read Nûn (cf. Brugsch, Reliijion und Mythologie, p. 107). I have else-where given my reasons for the
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . all local gods bear tho titles of Nûtir ûâ, only god ; Sûton nûtirû, Sûntirû,2ov0T/p, king of the gods ; of Nûtir âa nib pit, the great god, lord of heaven, which show their preten-sions to the sovereignty and to the position of creator of the universe. * Drawing by Faucher-Gudin of a green enamelled statuette in my possession. It was from Shâthat the Greeks derived their representations, and perhaps their myth of Atlas. 5 This name is generally read Nûn (cf. Brugsch, Reliijion und Mythologie, p. 107). I have else-where given my reasons for the reading Nà {Revue critique, 1872, vol. i. p. 178), which is moreoverthat of E. de Bougé (Études sur le rituel funéraire des anciens Égyptiens, p. 41). Nû would seemto be nothing more than a personage mentally evolved by theologians and derived from Nûît, theeky-goddess (Maspero, Études de Mythologie et àArchéologie Égyptiennes, vol. ii. pp. 358, 359); hohad never any worshippers nor ever possessed a sanctuary to 128 THE GODS OF EGYPT. had made the world of warp and woof, as the mother of a family-weaves her childrens Khnûmû, the Nile-god of the cataracts, hadgathered up the mud of his waters and therewith moulded his creaturesupon a potters In the eastern cities of the Delta these procedureswere not so There it was admitted that in the beginning earthand sky were two lovers lost in the Nû, fast locked in each othersembrace, the god lying beneath the goddess. On the day of creation anew god, Shu, came forth from the primeval waters, slipped between thetwo, and seizing Nûît with both hands, lifted her above his head withoutstretched Though the starry body of the goddess extended inspace—her head being to the west and her loins to the east—her feet andhands hung down to the earth. These were the four pillars of the firma-ment under another form, and four gods of four adjacent principalitieswere in charge of
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