. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . NÛÎT THE THEIR CONFLICTING FORMS. 87 was concealed under the form of a colossal gander, whose mate once laid theSun Egg, and perhaps still laid it daily. From the piercing cries where-with he congratulated her, and announced the good news to all who cared to hear it—after the manner of his kind received the flattering , ^f^ „ j^^S. epithet of Ngagu oîrû, the. THE GOOSE-GOD FACING THE CAT-GODDESS, THE LADY OF Great Other versions repudiated the goose in favour of a vigorousbull, the father of gods and men,3 whose co
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . NÛÎT THE THEIR CONFLICTING FORMS. 87 was concealed under the form of a colossal gander, whose mate once laid theSun Egg, and perhaps still laid it daily. From the piercing cries where-with he congratulated her, and announced the good news to all who cared to hear it—after the manner of his kind received the flattering , ^f^ „ j^^S. epithet of Ngagu oîrû, the. THE GOOSE-GOD FACING THE CAT-GODDESS, THE LADY OF Great Other versions repudiated the goose in favour of a vigorousbull, the father of gods and men,3 whose companion was a cow, a large-eyedHâthor, of beautiful countenance. The head of the good beast rises into theheavens, the mysterious waters which cover the world flow along her spine ;the star-covered underside of her body, which we call the firmament, isvisible to the inhabitants of earth, and her four legs are the four pillarsstanding at the four cardinal points of the The planets, and especially the sun, varied in form and nature accordingto the prevailing conception of the heavens. The fiery disk Atonû, by whichthe sun revealed himself to men, was a living god, called Eâ, as was also the 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a stela in the museum of Gîzeh (Grkbact, Le Musée Egyptien,pl. iii.). This is not the goose of Sibû, but the goose of Amon, which was nurtured in the templeof Karnak, and was called
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