. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . upon the fields and ravage TWO CYNOCEPHALI IN ADORATION BEFORE THE RISING SUN.* Most of the Nile-gods, Kbnûmû, Osiris, Harshafitû, were incarnate in the formof a ram or of a buck. Does not the masculine vigour and procreativerage of these animals naturally point them out as fitting images of thelife-giving Nile and the overflowing of its waters ? It is easy to understandhow the neighbourhood of a marsh or of a rock-encumbered rapid shouldhave suggested the crocodile as supreme deity to the inhabitants of the 1 Ûapuaîtû, the guide of the c
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . upon the fields and ravage TWO CYNOCEPHALI IN ADORATION BEFORE THE RISING SUN.* Most of the Nile-gods, Kbnûmû, Osiris, Harshafitû, were incarnate in the formof a ram or of a buck. Does not the masculine vigour and procreativerage of these animals naturally point them out as fitting images of thelife-giving Nile and the overflowing of its waters ? It is easy to understandhow the neighbourhood of a marsh or of a rock-encumbered rapid shouldhave suggested the crocodile as supreme deity to the inhabitants of the 1 Ûapuaîtû, the guide of the celestial ways, who must not be confounded with Anubis of theCynopolite nomc of Upper Egypt, was originally the feudal god of Siût. He guided human soulsto tlio paradise of the Oasis, and the sun upon its southern path by day, and its northern path by night. s Champollion, Rosellini, Lepsius, have held that the Typhonian animal was a purely imaginaryone, and Wilkinson says that the Egyptians themselves admitted its unreality by representing italong with other fantastic be
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