Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . \^J. \^L 121 NAMES OF KINGS. Hadrian. Antoni- Aurelius. Comino- Sevcrus. Antoninus. Geta. De. dus. 34. A a \7 O Do W Q (Caracalla), o» 34. AAAAM 0 D O AA/W\A Q w o r v^v^ fc ^ o v^ VI. Religion of the Ancient Egyptians. The difficulty of thoroughly comprehending the fundamental ideaswhich underlay the religion of the ancient Egyptians is increased bytwo important circumstances. The first of these is, that the hier-archy of Egypt studiously endeavoured to obscure their dogmas by theuse of symb
Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . \^J. \^L 121 NAMES OF KINGS. Hadrian. Antoni- Aurelius. Comino- Sevcrus. Antoninus. Geta. De. dus. 34. A a \7 O Do W Q (Caracalla), o» 34. AAAAM 0 D O AA/W\A Q w o r v^v^ fc ^ o v^ VI. Religion of the Ancient Egyptians. The difficulty of thoroughly comprehending the fundamental ideaswhich underlay the religion of the ancient Egyptians is increased bytwo important circumstances. The first of these is, that the hier-archy of Egypt studiously endeavoured to obscure their dogmas by theuse of symbolical and mysterious language; and the second is, thateach nome possessed its own local divinity and colleges of priests,and invented its own cosmological and metaphysical accounts for the differences of doctrine in a number of formsill worship bearing the same name, and for the frequency withwhich the attributes of one god trench on those of another. Theprimitive religion, moreover, underwent great changes as the capa-city of the hierarchy for more profound speculation increased, untilat length the relations of the divinities to each other and to thefundamental ideas rep
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