. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . NEPHTHY8, AS A WAILING THE GOD SÎT, FIGHTING. 1 Set-Typhon, a monograph by Ed. Meyer, may be consulted as to Sit ; but it pushes mysticinterpretation too far. The explanation of Sît as typifying the desert and drought has prevailedfrom antiquity (cf. De Iside et Osiride, § 33, Partheys edition, p. 57 : . . Tv<p£va 5è nâv rbaùxnypov Kal irvpâSa Kal ^ripavTiKbv oAws koI iro\4 Ty iyp^TTjTi). His modern transformation intoa god who originally represented the slaying and devouring sun, is obtained by a mere verbal artifice(Beugsch, R
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . NEPHTHY8, AS A WAILING THE GOD SÎT, FIGHTING. 1 Set-Typhon, a monograph by Ed. Meyer, may be consulted as to Sit ; but it pushes mysticinterpretation too far. The explanation of Sît as typifying the desert and drought has prevailedfrom antiquity (cf. De Iside et Osiride, § 33, Partheys edition, p. 57 : . . Tv<p£va 5è nâv rbaùxnypov Kal irvpâSa Kal ^ripavTiKbv oAws koI iro\4 Ty iyp^TTjTi). His modern transformation intoa god who originally represented the slaying and devouring sun, is obtained by a mere verbal artifice(Beugsch, Religion und Mythologie, p. 702, et scq.). * See the illustration of the typhonian animal on p. 83. It is there shown walking, and goesunder the name of Sha. * Drawn by Faucher-Gudin from a paiutcd wooden statuette in my possession, from a funeralcouch found at Akhmîm. On her head the goddess bears the hieroglyph for her name ; she iskneeling at the foot of the funeral couch of Osiris and weeps for the dead god. 4 Bronze statuette of
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