. The Mythology of all races .. . FiG. 59. The Ferryman of the Dead OTHER GODS CONNECTED WITH NATURE 59 panion of the goddess Shesemtet, who likewise was probablylion-headed. Her members once were thought to be repre-sented in the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth one time, therefore, she was a powerful divinity and wascalled mistress of the sky, but she was almost forgotten evenin the Pyramid Period and later disappeared completely; asearly as 2000 her name^^ is so corrupted in the list ofdecans as to be devoid of meaning. ^^ The seven-starred constellation of Ursa Major
. The Mythology of all races .. . FiG. 59. The Ferryman of the Dead OTHER GODS CONNECTED WITH NATURE 59 panion of the goddess Shesemtet, who likewise was probablylion-headed. Her members once were thought to be repre-sented in the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth one time, therefore, she was a powerful divinity and wascalled mistress of the sky, but she was almost forgotten evenin the Pyramid Period and later disappeared completely; asearly as 2000 her name^^ is so corrupted in the list ofdecans as to be devoid of meaning. ^^ The seven-starred constellation of Ursa Major (CharlessWain, popularly called the Great Dipper in the United States)was only later fully identified with the wicked god Seth-. Fig. 60. Constellations Around the Ox-Leg Typhon, the adversary of Osiris, yet even under its old names,the Ox-Leg, or the Club, the Striker {Mesekhti),^it ^NSiSan ill-omened constellation, although it belonged to the especi-ally venerable indestructible stars, those visible duringthe whole year in the most remarkable region of the sky nearthe North Pole (p. 55). Following the picture which we here give from the templeof King Sethos (Setkhuy) I, we can identify a few constella-tions near the great Ox-Leg, which here has the form ofan ox. The most prominent among them is the strange god-dess Epet.^^ She is represented as a female hippopotamus(perhaps pregnant) with human breasts and lions feet. Onher back she carries a crocodile (which later she sometimesbears in her paws), and from this association she receivesthe head and tail — or only the tail — of a crocodile; later 6o EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY still she may assume also the head of a lion or of a heavenlygoddess in a human form,
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