. The Mythology of all races .. . ing a child ?). Latershe is treated as a variant of such celes-tial goddesses as Isis, and also appears inthe form of a cow.®^ Her seat of worshipwas Heliopolis or Abydos {?). Cf. thepreceding paragraph. Shut (Shuet; the One of Shu) is a Cf. names like Amonet, Anupet, was a little-known goddess who was treated asparallel to Isis.^^ Smithis: see under Nekhbet and (Greek Soi;;^;©?),^^ a crocodile-god,seems originally to have ruled over the lakeand the country of the Fayum in the west- ^em part of Middle Egypt, whose capital ^was Shedet(I)

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. The Mythology of all races .. . ing a child ?). Latershe is treated as a variant of such celes-tial goddesses as Isis, and also appears inthe form of a cow.®^ Her seat of worshipwas Heliopolis or Abydos {?). Cf. thepreceding paragraph. Shut (Shuet; the One of Shu) is a Cf. names like Amonet, Anupet, was a little-known goddess who was treated asparallel to Isis.^^ Smithis: see under Nekhbet and (Greek Soi;;^;©?),^^ a crocodile-god,seems originally to have ruled over the lakeand the country of the Fayum in the west- ^em part of Middle Egypt, whose capital ^was Shedet(I)-Krokodilopolis. He was alsothe lord of some other places along thewestern frontier of the Delta (see p. 142for his association with Neith) and likewiseenjoyed worship at an early period in Upper ^Egypt at Ombos (where he was associatedwith Hat-hor), PtolemaTs, Her-monthis, he became, especially at Ombos, aform of the solar deity Sobk-ReV^ ^nd atother places still more strange attemptsmade to identify him with Osiris,. were Fig. 152. Sopd as anAsiatic Warrior perhaps because crocodiles dwell in thedarkest depths of the water.^°° Sobket: see Note 100. Sokar(i) (Greek loxapL^), a deity of a place near Memphis

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