. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . ng god (a-pahuti),whose anger is to be feared. The inscriptions call himrMe =pbwerful one of Thebes, and Ruler of theSouth. He is conceived as the sun that kills with thearrows of heat; he is the slayer, and iron is called thebones of Typhon. The hunted animals are consecratedto him; and his symbols are the griffin (akhekh), thehippopotamus, the crocodile, the swine, the tortoise, and,above all, the serpent apapi (in Greek apophis), whowas thought to await the dying man in the domain of thegod Atmu (a
. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . ng god (a-pahuti),whose anger is to be feared. The inscriptions call himrMe =pbwerful one of Thebes, and Ruler of theSouth. He is conceived as the sun that kills with thearrows of heat; he is the slayer, and iron is called thebones of Typhon. The hunted animals are consecratedto him; and his symbols are the griffin (akhekh), thehippopotamus, the crocodile, the swine, the tortoise, and,above all, the serpent apapi (in Greek apophis), whowas thought to await the dying man in the domain of thegod Atmu (also called Tmu or Turn), who represents thesun below the western horizon. Sets pictures are easily recognised by his long, erect,and square-tipped ears and his proboscis-like snout, whichare said to indicate the head of a fabulous animal calledOryx. The consort and feminine counterpart of Set iscalled Taour or Taourt. The Greeks called her appears commonly as a hippopotamus in erect pos-ture, her back covered with the skin and tail of a crocodile. 16 THE HISTORY OF THE Apapi (Apophis) and Atmu. (After Rawlinson.)
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