. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . the gods, moreover, is really surmounted by the head of a quadrupedhaving a pointed snout and long retreating ears, and belonging to the greyhound, jackal, or jerboaspecies (Puisse dAvennes, Recherches sur les légendes royales et sur Vepoque du règne de Schai ouScheraï, iu the Bévue Archéologique, 1st series, vol. ii., 1845, p. 466, et seq.). 3 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Insinger ; cf. Lepsius, Denkm., iii., 76. Thepicture represents Khâmhaît presenting the superintendents of storehouses to Tûtànkhamon, of theXVIIIth dynasty. *
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . the gods, moreover, is really surmounted by the head of a quadrupedhaving a pointed snout and long retreating ears, and belonging to the greyhound, jackal, or jerboaspecies (Puisse dAvennes, Recherches sur les légendes royales et sur Vepoque du règne de Schai ouScheraï, iu the Bévue Archéologique, 1st series, vol. ii., 1845, p. 466, et seq.). 3 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Insinger ; cf. Lepsius, Denkm., iii., 76. Thepicture represents Khâmhaît presenting the superintendents of storehouses to Tûtànkhamon, of theXVIIIth dynasty. * The mysterious life with which the urseus of the royal crowns was supposed to be imbued, wasfirst noticed by E. de Kougé, Étude sur divers monuments du règne de Toutmès III. découverts àTlièbes par M. Mariette, p. 15. Concerning the enchanted crowns, see Maspeho, Études de Mytho-logie et dArchéologie Égyptiennes, vol. ii. p. 134, where a description of them, and a concise expla-nation of their magical office, will be DIFFERENT TOSTURES FOR APPROACHING THE 266 TEE POLITICAL CONSTITUTION OF EGYPT. animated by one of his doubles, received worship, prophesied, and fulfilled allthe functions of a Divine Being, both during his life, and after he had rejoinedin the tomb his ancestors the gods, who existed before him and who nowreposed impassively within the depths of their Man, as far as his body was concerned, and god in virtue of his souland its attributes, the Pharaoh, in right of this double nature, acted as aconstant mediator between heaven and earth. He alone was fit to transmitthe prayers of men to his fathers and his brethren the gods. Just as thehead of a family was in his household the priest far excellence of the gods ofthat family,—just as the chief of a nome was in his nome the priest parexcellence in regard to the gods of the nome,—so was Pharaoh the priestfar excellence of the gods of all Egypt, who were his special deit
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