. The Mythology of all races .. . we find traces of variousattempts to create a system of cosmic gods, no such systemwas ever carried through satisfactorily, so that a large partof the pantheon either never became cosmic or, as has beensaid above, was at best only unsuccessfully made cosmic. The first of all cosmic powers to find general worship wasthe sun, whose rays dominate Egypt so strongly. The earliestefforts to personify it identified it with an old hawk-god, andthus sought to describe it as a hawk which flew daily acrossthe sky. Therefore, the twomost popular forms of thesolar deity, R
. The Mythology of all races .. . we find traces of variousattempts to create a system of cosmic gods, no such systemwas ever carried through satisfactorily, so that a large partof the pantheon either never became cosmic or, as has beensaid above, was at best only unsuccessfully made cosmic. The first of all cosmic powers to find general worship wasthe sun, whose rays dominate Egypt so strongly. The earliestefforts to personify it identified it with an old hawk-god, andthus sought to describe it as a hawk which flew daily acrossthe sky. Therefore, the twomost popular forms of thesolar deity, Re and Horus,have the form of a hawk orof a hawk-headed man (latersometimes also of a lion with a hawks head). Both divini- Fig. 4. Pictures of Khepri in Human ,1 , . Form ties had so many temples m historical times that we cannot determine their original scatsof worship. At the beginning of the dynastic period Horusseems to have been the sun-god who was most generally wor-shipped in Egypt.^ Though Re does not appear to find offi-. THE WORSHIP OF THE SUN 25
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