Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . he receptacle in which the regenerationof the self-creating god takes place. Muth, whose name signifiesmother, is represented as a vulture, or with a vultures head. Sheis the great birth-giver, who protects Osiris and Pharaoh with heroutspread wings, and she guards the cradle of the Nile, whosemysterious source is defended by a serpent. The functions of Isis(j>. 130), who endows everything that is capable of life on earthwith the good and the beautiful, have already been mentioned. Shewear
Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . he receptacle in which the regenerationof the self-creating god takes place. Muth, whose name signifiesmother, is represented as a vulture, or with a vultures head. Sheis the great birth-giver, who protects Osiris and Pharaoh with heroutspread wings, and she guards the cradle of the Nile, whosemysterious source is defended by a serpent. The functions of Isis(j>. 130), who endows everything that is capable of life on earthwith the good and the beautiful, have already been mentioned. Shewears on her head the vulture cap, cows horns, and the disk of the moon, or the throne n, or all four combinedrepresented with a scorpion As Isis Selk, she ishovering over her head, as Isis Neith, who is also equivalent to Muth, usually with a weaversshuttle :=CZK , while as Isis Sothis, or the dog-star, she sails in aboat. She is also represented as suckling the infant Horus in herlap. Her sacred animal is the cow, which belongs also to IsisHathor. The name Hathor signifies house of Horus, for within.
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