. The Mythology of all races .. . species of fish prove their sacredness only for later times. Fabulous beings which were beheved to populate the desertbelonged, of course, to the realm of the supernatural andformed the transition to the endless number of strangely mixedforms which more obviously were part of the divine world,inhabiting the sky or the lower regions. We may suppose,moreover, that earthly creatures which fanciful hunters Imag-ined that they had seen in the desert or in the mountains,^^such as the griffin, the chimera (a winged leopard with a humanhead projecting from its back),
. The Mythology of all races .. . species of fish prove their sacredness only for later times. Fabulous beings which were beheved to populate the desertbelonged, of course, to the realm of the supernatural andformed the transition to the endless number of strangely mixedforms which more obviously were part of the divine world,inhabiting the sky or the lower regions. We may suppose,moreover, that earthly creatures which fanciful hunters Imag-ined that they had seen in the desert or in the mountains,^^such as the griffin, the chimera (a winged leopard with a humanhead projecting from its back), and the lion or leopard with aserpents neck, which was so popular in the prehistoric period(pp. 64-65), were Indistinct recollections of representations whichwere once worshipped, as well as the double-faced bull (Fig. 2 id))and the double lion (p. 43). Indeed, we find all these fabulous lyo EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY beings pictured by magicians side by side with real gods,whether because the sorcerers kept up old traditions, or because. Fig. 179. The Birth of a King Protected by Gods they returned to forgotten divinities. The sphinx, originally apicture of Hu, the god of wisdom (p. 67), survived as an em-blem of royalty and in its strictly Egyptian form was alwaysrepresented as male (for the foreign female sphinxsee p. 156 and cf. Fig. 162). This brings us to the question how far menwere worshipped. The most prominent examplesof the adoration of human beings were the Pharaoh claimed to be a divine incar-nation; according to the prevailing official theoryhe was a form, or double, or soul, orliving representation, etc., of the sun-god, themany souls of this deity (pp. 28, 160) facilitatingsuch a belief. As the living image of the sun theking might also claim to have himself many soulsor doubles (ka), the number of these being ashigh as ^ Accordingly we find such ^^^ ^^^ ^^^royal names as Firm is the Form of the Sun- Ka of a King,God (Men-kheper-reS i. e. Thutmosis
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