. A guide to the third and fourth Egyptian rooms : predynastic antiquites, mummied birds and animals, portrait statues, figures of gods, tools, implements and weapons, scarabs, amulets, jewellery, and other objects connected with the funeral rites of the ancient Egyptians . gypt, 57, the solarcults occupied an inferiorplace in the affections of thepeople, and the Egyptianscontinued to live and die asthey had done for about fivethousand years, hoping inOsiris, and believing that hewas able to give them ever-lasting life. WALL-CASES — figures of the gods. Wall-Case 132, Upper
. A guide to the third and fourth Egyptian rooms : predynastic antiquites, mummied birds and animals, portrait statues, figures of gods, tools, implements and weapons, scarabs, amulets, jewellery, and other objects connected with the funeral rites of the ancient Egyptians . gypt, 57, the solarcults occupied an inferiorplace in the affections of thepeople, and the Egyptianscontinued to live and die asthey had done for about fivethousand years, hoping inOsiris, and believing that hewas able to give them ever-lasting life. WALL-CASES — figures of the gods. Wall-Case 132, Upper , , Horus theAged, the Haroeris of theGreeks, so called to dis-tinguish him from Heru-pa-khart, or Harpocrates, , Horus the Younger. Hehas the form of a man withthe head of a hawk, andunder the form of a hawk Heru-ur. is one of the oldest of the Egyptian gods. In the illustration he wears the crownsof the South and North. The word Heru means l; hewho is above, but later the god came to symbolize theface of heaven, when the sun was the right eye of the god,and the moon the left. The most interesting examples ofthe god here exhibited are :— 1. Bronze seated figure of Heru-ur, hawk-headed, andwearing the double crown ; behind him is an obelisk,. l-S THIRD EGYPTIAN ROOM -WALK &.SES [19 [32. the symbol of the sun. The obelisk is called benben,and the chief solar temple in Heliopolis, the Sun-city, was called Het-Benben, , house of theobelisk. [No. 29,608.] 2. Bronze standing figure of Heru-ur, on a doublepedestal. | No. ^30.] The god Horus possessed fourteen other forms at least,and among these the most important was Horus of
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