Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . at, brandishing a knife, she chastises theguilty, But she also possesses kindly characteristics. As Sekhet,we are informed by an inscription at Phil*, she is terrible, andis kind. The cat, her sacred animal, was long an objectof veneration. She wears on her head the disk with the Incus Berpent, and holds in her hands the sceptre and the symbol of , a god who also appears in union with Ra as Sebek RELIGION. 137 Ra , is represented with the head of a crocodile, and was chieflyrevered
Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . at, brandishing a knife, she chastises theguilty, But she also possesses kindly characteristics. As Sekhet,we are informed by an inscription at Phil*, she is terrible, andis kind. The cat, her sacred animal, was long an objectof veneration. She wears on her head the disk with the Incus Berpent, and holds in her hands the sceptre and the symbol of , a god who also appears in union with Ra as Sebek RELIGION. 137 Ra , is represented with the head of a crocodile, and was chieflyrevered in the region of the cataracts at Silsili, Kom-Ombu, and inthe Fayum (p. 457). At K6rn-Omhu Sebek forms a triad in con-junction with Hathor and Khunsu. His crocodile head is crownedwith the disk, the Uncus basilisks, and the double feather. Hegrasps the sceptre and the symbol of life in his hands, and iscoloured green. His sacred animal, the crocodile, was kept inhis honour, but a certain Typhonic character was attributed to thereptile, as the sacred lists omit those nomes where it was Sekliet Bast. Sebek. Khem Amun. Ammon-Ba. Ra (p. 127), with whose worship the rites of manyother divinities were combined, and whose attributes were frequentlymerged in those of Osiris, reigned, according to the later inscrip-tions, as the great monarch of the gods, but Amnion, who wasrevealed to the exoterics as a son of Ptah, obtained possession ofthe throne of this world, while Ra continued his sovereignty inAmenthes, or the nether regions. Amnion, whose name signifiesthe hidden one, is a deity of comparatively late origin, havingbeen at first merely the local god of Thebes; but after the valleyof the Nile had been delivered from the Hyksos under his auspices,and after Upper Egypt and Thebes had gained the supremacy overLower Egypt and Memphis, he was raised to the rank of king ofall the gods. The attributes of almost the entire Pantheon ofEgypt were soon absorbed by this highly r
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