. The Nile. Notes for travellers in Egypt . HATHOR. MAAT. Maat, *z^ a a], the goddess of Law, was thedaughter of the Sun-god Ra; she is represented as wearing the feather K, emblematic of law Hapi, THE RELIGION A AND GODS OF EGYPT. I I a the god of the Nile, is represented wear- ing a cluster of flowers on his head he is coloured red and green, probably to represent the colours of the water ofthe Nile immediately before and just after the beginning ofthe inundation. A was a god intro- Serapis, , Osiris-Apis, rjS duced into Egypt during the reign of the Ptolemies; *he is represented with th
. The Nile. Notes for travellers in Egypt . HATHOR. MAAT. Maat, *z^ a a], the goddess of Law, was thedaughter of the Sun-god Ra; she is represented as wearing the feather K, emblematic of law Hapi, THE RELIGION A AND GODS OF EGYPT. I I a the god of the Nile, is represented wear- ing a cluster of flowers on his head he is coloured red and green, probably to represent the colours of the water ofthe Nile immediately before and just after the beginning ofthe inundation. A was a god intro- Serapis, , Osiris-Apis, rjS duced into Egypt during the reign of the Ptolemies; *he is represented with the head of a bull wearing a disk andurceus. He is said to be the second son of Ptah. Theworship of Apis at Memphis goes back to the earliest times ;the Serapeum, discoveied there by M. Mariette, containedthe tombs of Apis bulls from the time of Amenophis III.(about 1550) down to the time of the Roman page 244. * the Lagids, as well as the Seleucids, were careful of dis-turbing the foundations of the old religion of the count
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