Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . I b Safekh. Safekh. A goddess who is associated with Thoth, but whose unknown, is always designated as Safekhu, down her horns, as she bears these appendages re- ? over her forehead. She is the tutelary deity of libraries, of -acred writings and lists, and therefore of history also. She holds in her left hand a | with Innumerable notches marking the flight of time, and with her riir111 she inscribes on the leaves of rsea tree all name- worthy of being perpetuated. RE
Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . I b Safekh. Safekh. A goddess who is associated with Thoth, but whose unknown, is always designated as Safekhu, down her horns, as she bears these appendages re- ? over her forehead. She is the tutelary deity of libraries, of -acred writings and lists, and therefore of history also. She holds in her left hand a | with Innumerable notches marking the flight of time, and with her riir111 she inscribes on the leaves of rsea tree all name- worthy of being perpetuated. RELIGION. 135 Isis. Muth. Hathor. These three goddesses, although extern-ally regarded as separate, were really different modifications of thesame fundamental idea. As a counterpart of the male generativeprinciple, they all represent the female element, the conceivingand gestative principle, or the receptacle in which the regenerationof the self-creating god takes place. Muth, whose name signifiesmother, is represented as a vulture, or with a vultures head. Sheis the great birth-giver, who protect
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