. The Nile. Notes for travellers in Egypt . nsformed this head by 1 114 NOTES FOR TRAVELLERS IN EGYPT. his incantations, and put it on her again in the form of ahead of a cow. (Chabas, Le Calendrier, p. 29.) Nephthys, Tl r\ J)j Nebt-het, sister of Osiris and Isis, is generally represented standing at the bier of Osiris lamentinghim. One myth relates that Osiris mistook her for Isis, andthat Anubis, the god of the dead, was the result of the union. Set, ysjj, the god of evil, appears to have been wor-shipped in the earliest times. He was the opponent ofHorus in a three days battle, at the end o
. The Nile. Notes for travellers in Egypt . nsformed this head by 1 114 NOTES FOR TRAVELLERS IN EGYPT. his incantations, and put it on her again in the form of ahead of a cow. (Chabas, Le Calendrier, p. 29.) Nephthys, Tl r\ J)j Nebt-het, sister of Osiris and Isis, is generally represented standing at the bier of Osiris lamentinghim. One myth relates that Osiris mistook her for Isis, andthat Anubis, the god of the dead, was the result of the union. Set, ysjj, the god of evil, appears to have been wor-shipped in the earliest times. He was the opponent ofHorus in a three days battle, at the end of which he wasdefeated. He was worshipped by the Hyksos, and also bythe Cheta ; but in the later days of the Egyptian empire hewas supposed to be the god of evil, and was considered tobe the chief fiend and rebel against the sun-god Ra. j\ www m Anubis, (I Jj, Anpu, the god of the dead, is usually represented with the head of a jackal. See, 6\ JN, was the husband of Nut, the sky, andfather of Osiris, Isis, and the other gods of that NEBT-HET. ANUBIS. SEN THE RELIGION AND GODS OF EGYPT. i*5 Thoth, Tehuti, the measurer/was the scribe ot the gods, and the measurer of time and inventor of the judgment hall of Osiris he stands by the side of thebalance holding a palette and reed ready to record theresult of the weighing as announced by the dog-headedape which sits on the middle of the beam of the scales. Inone aspect he is the god of the moon, and is representedwith the head of an ibis.
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