. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ii-nen, by which some of his most ancient forms were known at Memphis (Bkugsch, Religion undMythologie, pp. 509-511 ; Wiedemann, Die Religion der alien JEgypter, pp. 74, 75). * Amon and his neighbour Mînû of Coptos nre in fact both itliyphallic, and occasionally wears the mortar head-dress surmounted by two long plumes. 5 Drawn by Faucher-Gudiu, from a bronze of the Saïte period, in my own possession. 6 For the duality of Anhûri-Shû and his primitive nature as a combination of Sky-god andEarth-god, see Maspeho, Etudes de Mythologie
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ii-nen, by which some of his most ancient forms were known at Memphis (Bkugsch, Religion undMythologie, pp. 509-511 ; Wiedemann, Die Religion der alien JEgypter, pp. 74, 75). * Amon and his neighbour Mînû of Coptos nre in fact both itliyphallic, and occasionally wears the mortar head-dress surmounted by two long plumes. 5 Drawn by Faucher-Gudiu, from a bronze of the Saïte period, in my own possession. 6 For the duality of Anhûri-Shû and his primitive nature as a combination of Sky-god andEarth-god, see Maspeho, Etudes de Mythologie et oV Arché tlogie Égyptiennes, vol. ii. pp. 332, 356, 357. 7 Bkugsch, Religion und Mythologie der alten Mgypter, p. 6G7 ; Lanzone, Dizionario di MitologiaEgizia, pp. 616-619. 8 Brugsch, a ou la lumière zodiacale, in the Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archxology,1892-93, vol. xv. p. 235; cf. Brugsch, Religion und Mythologie der alien JEyypter, pp. 566-571, for thefeudal rôle of Horus Sapdi, or Sapdîti in the east of the ANHÛ 100 THE GODS OF EGYPT. and finally Harhûdîti at Edfû.1 Râ, the solar dislc, was enthroned at Helio- polis, iind sun-gods were numerous among thenome deities, but they were sun-gods closelyconnected with gods representing the sky,and resembled Horus quite as much as Râ.Whether under the name of Horus or of Anhûri,the sky was early identified with its most brilliantluminary, its solar eye, and its divinity was as it werefused into that of the Horus the Sun, and Râ, theSun-God of Heliopolis, had so permeated each other thatnone could say where the one began and the otherended. One by one all the functions of Râ had beenusurped by Horus, and all the designations of Horus hadbeen appropriated by Râ. The sun was styled Harmak-hûîti, the Horus of the two mountains—that is, theHorus who comes forth from the mountain of the east inthe morning, and retires at evening into the mountain ofthe west;3 or Hartimâ, Horus
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