. The Mythology of all races .. . :^ *iii Fig. 102. Apop Chained by the Children of Horus at Thouts wisdom as Instrumental In depriving the monsterof his limbs. Although he appears In a useful and worshipfulfunction, we may still recognize the serpent of the abyss inanother picture where he wraps himself around the Infant sun-god KheprI, thus alludingto Osiris as the ocean andthe Nile, or as hidden Inthem ^^ (see Fig. 115 for aparallel representation ofthe many-headed ser-pent, whose four heads ^^ symbolize the four sources of theNile); while, as encircling the unborn sun. It becomes anotherex
. The Mythology of all races .. . :^ *iii Fig. 102. Apop Chained by the Children of Horus at Thouts wisdom as Instrumental In depriving the monsterof his limbs. Although he appears In a useful and worshipfulfunction, we may still recognize the serpent of the abyss inanother picture where he wraps himself around the Infant sun-god KheprI, thus alludingto Osiris as the ocean andthe Nile, or as hidden Inthem ^^ (see Fig. 115 for aparallel representation ofthe many-headed ser-pent, whose four heads ^^ symbolize the four sources of theNile); while, as encircling the unborn sun. It becomes anotherexpression of the chest holding this god (pp. 71, 94). There
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