. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ncient Egyptians, 2nd edit., vol. ii. p. 93). 6 On Hâthor, Lady of Pûanît, her importation into Egypt, and the bonds of kinship connectingher with Bîsû, see Pleyte, Chapitres supplémentaires du Livre des 3Iorts, p. 134, et seq. GODS OF FOREIGN ORIGIN. 85 skin, but of strange countenance and alarming character, a big-headeddwarf with high cheek-bones, and a wide and open mouth, whence hung anenormous tongue ; he was at once jovial and martial, the friend of the danceand of In historic times all nations subjugated by the Pharaohstransferr
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ncient Egyptians, 2nd edit., vol. ii. p. 93). 6 On Hâthor, Lady of Pûanît, her importation into Egypt, and the bonds of kinship connectingher with Bîsû, see Pleyte, Chapitres supplémentaires du Livre des 3Iorts, p. 134, et seq. GODS OF FOREIGN ORIGIN. 85 skin, but of strange countenance and alarming character, a big-headeddwarf with high cheek-bones, and a wide and open mouth, whence hung anenormous tongue ; he was at once jovial and martial, the friend of the danceand of In historic times all nations subjugated by the Pharaohstransferred some of their principal divinities to their conquerors, and theLibyan Shehadidi was enthroned in the valley of the Nile, in the same way asthe Semitic Baâlû and his retinue of Astartes, Anitis, Eeshephs, and Kadshû divine colonists fared like all foreigners who have sought to settle onthe banks of the Nile : they were promptly assimilated, wrought, moulded,and made into Egyptian deities scarcely distinguishable from those of. SOME FABULOUS BEASTS OF THE EGYPTIAN DESEBT. the old race. This mixed pantheon had its grades of nobles, princes, kings,and each of its members was representative of one of the elements con-stituting the world, or of one of the forces which regulated its sky, the earth, the stars, the sun, the Nile, were so many breathingand thinking beings whose lives were daily mauifest in the life of the were worshipped from one end of the valley to the other, and thewhole nation agreed in proclaiming their sovereign power. But when thepeople began to name them, to define their powers and attributes, to par-ticularize their forms, or the relationships that subsisted among them,this unanimity was at an end. Each principality, each nome, each city,almost every village, conceived aud represented them differently. Some 1 Bîsû has been closely studied by Pleyte {Chapitres supplémentaires du Livre des Morts, Tra-duction et C
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