. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ented under the form of a fierce lioness. Nightfall stayedher course in the neighbourhood of Heracleopolis ; all the way from Heli-opolis she had trampled through As soon as she had fallenasleep, Râ hastily took effectual measures to prevent her from beginning her 1 Naville, La Destruction des hommes par les Dieux, vol. iv. pl. i. 11. 8-10; and vol. viii. pi. 9-11. 2 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin from a bronze ttatuctte of the Saite period in the Gîzeh Museum(Mariette, Album photographique du Musée de Boulaq, pl. 6). 3 Solihît may be deri
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ented under the form of a fierce lioness. Nightfall stayedher course in the neighbourhood of Heracleopolis ; all the way from Heli-opolis she had trampled through As soon as she had fallenasleep, Râ hastily took effectual measures to prevent her from beginning her 1 Naville, La Destruction des hommes par les Dieux, vol. iv. pl. i. 11. 8-10; and vol. viii. pi. 9-11. 2 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin from a bronze ttatuctte of the Saite period in the Gîzeh Museum(Mariette, Album photographique du Musée de Boulaq, pl. 6). 3 Solihît may be derived from the verb solchû, to strike, to kill with the blow of a stick. 4 The passage from the Fayum papyrus which I have already mentioned alludes to thismassacre, but to another tradition of it than we are following, and one according to which menhad openly resisted the god, and fought him in pitched battle in the neighbourhood of Hera-cleopolis Magna (Mariette, Les Papurus Égyptiens du Mwée de Boulaq, vol. i. pl. ii., No. vi.,11. 1-6).. 166 THE LEGENDARY HISTORY OF EGYPT. work again on the morrow. He said: Call on my behalf messengers agileand swift, who go like the wind. When these messengers were straightwaybrought to him, the Majesty of the god said : Let them run to Elephantineand bring me mandragora in When they had brought him themandragora, the Majesty of this great god summoned the miller which is inHeliopolis that he might bray it ; and the women-servants having crushedgrain for the beer, the mandragora, and also human blood, were mingledwith the liquor, and thereof was made in all seven thousand jars of â himself examined this delectable drink, and finding it to possess the wished-for properties : It is well, said he ; therewith shall I save men from thegoddess ; then, addressing those of his train : Take these jars in your arms,and carry them to the place where she has slaughtered men. Eâ, the king,caused dawn to break at midnight, so that t
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