. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . AMON-RÂ, AS MÎNÔ OF COPTOS, AND INVESTED WITHHIS or other of these natural In vain THE HOB US GODS. 99. them incarnations of the fertilizing and life-sustaining Nile. Wheieverthere is some important change in the river, there they are moreespecially installed and worshipped : Khnûmû at the place ofits entering into Egypt, and again at the town of Hâûrît, nearthe point where a great arm branches off from the Eastern streamto flow towards the Libyan hills and form the Bahr-Yûsuf : Har-shâfitû at the gorges of the Fayûm, wher
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . AMON-RÂ, AS MÎNÔ OF COPTOS, AND INVESTED WITHHIS or other of these natural In vain THE HOB US GODS. 99. them incarnations of the fertilizing and life-sustaining Nile. Wheieverthere is some important change in the river, there they are moreespecially installed and worshipped : Khnûmû at the place ofits entering into Egypt, and again at the town of Hâûrît, nearthe point where a great arm branches off from the Eastern streamto flow towards the Libyan hills and form the Bahr-Yûsuf : Har-shâfitû at the gorges of the Fayûm, where the Bahr-Yûsuf leaves the valley ; and, finally, Osiris at Mendesand at Busiris, towards the mouth of the middlebranch, which was held to be the true Nile by thepeople of the Isis of Bûto denoted the blackvegetable mould of the valley, the distinctive soil ofEgypt annually covered and fertilized by the Butthe earth in general, as distinguished from the sky—the earthwith its continents, its seas, its alternation of barren desertsand fertile lands—was represented as a man : Phtah at Memphis,8Amon at ïhebes, Mînû at Coptos and at Pa
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