Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . ft of water. By hisside usually stand the goddesses Anukehand Sati. Khnum is one of the cosmicgods, who created the inhabitants of heaven. He and his assistantsare associated with Ptah, and he is sometimes represented as mould-ing the egg of the world on a potters wheel out of matter furnishedby Ptah, and fashioning mankind. He is generally represented withthe head of a ram, and colouredgreen. He occurs as often sitting asstanding, wears the dtef crown onhis head, and wields the sceptreand th
Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . ft of water. By hisside usually stand the goddesses Anukehand Sati. Khnum is one of the cosmicgods, who created the inhabitants of heaven. He and his assistantsare associated with Ptah, and he is sometimes represented as mould-ing the egg of the world on a potters wheel out of matter furnishedby Ptah, and fashioning mankind. He is generally represented withthe head of a ram, and colouredgreen. He occurs as often sitting asstanding, wears the dtef crown onhis head, and wields the sceptreand the symbol of life ; while fromhis hips, proceeding from his girdle,depends a generative organ resemb-ling a tail, which is appended tothe most ancient form of his apron. Ma, the goddess of truth andjustice, is the radiant daughter ofthe god of the sun. She is easilyrecognised by the ostrich featheron her head, while in her hands shegrasps the flower-sceptre and thesymbol of life. In the more recentform of the ancient language she istermed T-mei (with the article), Baedekers Egypt I. 2nd Ed. Ma, daughter of Ea. 9 130 RELIGION. from which name an attempt has been made to derive that of theGreek goddess Themis, like whom Ma is represented as blind, orat least with bandaged eyes. (ions of the Osiris and Isis Order. We owe to Plutarch afit-tailed account of this myth, which has been uniformly corroborat-ed l»y the monuments, and which may be briefly told as follows. Isis and Osiris werethe children of Rhea andOhronos, that is, of Nut,the goddess of space, andof Seb, the god of the earth,which, owing to its eternalrejuvenescence and im-perishableness, symbolis-es time. While still in thewomb of their mother, thatis. in the bosom of space,the children became unit-ed, and from their unionsprang Horus. TyphonandNephthys, children of thesame parents, likewisemarried each other. Osirisand Isis reigned as a happyroyal pair, bestowing onEgypt the blessings ofwealth and
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