. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . e, p. 15G). 3 A sculptors model from Tanis, now in the Gîzeh Museum (Mariette, Notice des principauxmonuments, 1876, p. 222, No. 666), drawn by Faucher-Gudin from a photograph by Emil Brugsch-Bcy. The sacred marks, as given in the illustration, are copied from those of similar figures on stela)of the Serapeum. 4 Maspero, Études de Mythologie et dArchéologie Égyptiennes, vol. i. p. 77, et seq. ; ArchéologieÉgyptienne, pp. 106, 107; English edition, pp. 105, 106. This notion of actuated statuesseemed so strange and so unworthy of the wisdom of the
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . e, p. 15G). 3 A sculptors model from Tanis, now in the Gîzeh Museum (Mariette, Notice des principauxmonuments, 1876, p. 222, No. 666), drawn by Faucher-Gudin from a photograph by Emil Brugsch-Bcy. The sacred marks, as given in the illustration, are copied from those of similar figures on stela)of the Serapeum. 4 Maspero, Études de Mythologie et dArchéologie Égyptiennes, vol. i. p. 77, et seq. ; ArchéologieÉgyptienne, pp. 106, 107; English edition, pp. 105, 106. This notion of actuated statuesseemed so strange and so unworthy of the wisdom of the Egyptians that Egyptologists of the rankof M. de Bougé {Étude sur une stèle égyptienne de la Bibliothèque Impériale, p. 109) have takenin an abstract and metaphorical sense expressions referring to the automatic movements of divineimages. 5 The bulls of Eâ and of Phtah, the Mnevis and the Hapis, are known to us from classic writers(De Iside et Osiride, § 4, 33, etc. ; Partheys edition, pp. 7, 8, 58 ; Herodotus, ii. 153, iii. 28 ;. THE SACKED BULL, IIAPIS OR 120 THE GODS OF EGYPT. had not the same outward appearance of actual life as the animals, they nonethe less concealed beneath their rigid exteriors an intense energy of life whichbetrayed itself on occasion by gestures or by words. They thus indicated, inlanguage which their servants could understand, the will of the gods, or theiropinion on the events of the day; they answered questions put to them in accordance with prescribedforms, and sometimes theyeven foretold the temple held a fairlylarge number of statues re-presenting so many embodi-ments of the local divinityand of the members of histriad. These latter shared,albeit in a lesser degree, allthe honours and all the pre-rogatives of the master ; theyopen-air offerings to the serpent. accepted sacrifices, answered prayers, and, if needful, theyprophesied. They occupied either the sauctuary itself, or one of the hallsbuilt about the pr
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