Religions of the ancient world, including Egypt, Assyria, and Babylonia, Persia, India, Phoenicia, Etruria, Greece, Rome . n of Eg3q3t was thusmultiform and manifold, practically the deitieswho received worsliip in each several town anddistrict were but few. Local triads were almostuniversally recognised, and ineach place its specialtriad monopohsed, so to say, the rehgious regardsof the inhabitants.^ At Memphis, the established ^ So Wilkinson ( Ancient Egyptians, vol. iv. p. 431). Othersregard Bes as simply a name of Set or Typhon (Birch, Dic-tionary of Hieroglyphics, p. 581). - Wilkinson, An
Religions of the ancient world, including Egypt, Assyria, and Babylonia, Persia, India, Phoenicia, Etruria, Greece, Rome . n of Eg3q3t was thusmultiform and manifold, practically the deitieswho received worsliip in each several town anddistrict were but few. Local triads were almostuniversally recognised, and ineach place its specialtriad monopohsed, so to say, the rehgious regardsof the inhabitants.^ At Memphis, the established ^ So Wilkinson ( Ancient Egyptians, vol. iv. p. 431). Othersregard Bes as simply a name of Set or Typhon (Birch, Dic-tionary of Hieroglyphics, p. 581). - Wilkinson, Ancient Egyptians, Supplement, pi. 42. ^ Egypt from the Earliest Times, Introduction, x^- xi-;Wilkinson, Ancient Egyptians, vol. iv. pp. 230-233. 32 THE KELIGIONS OF THE AXCIEXT WORLD. triad consistecT of Plithah, Sekhet, and Turn; atThebes, of Ammon-Ka, Maut, andKlions; at Heli-opolis of Ea, Nebliept (= Athor), and Horus ; atElephantine of Kneph, Sati, and Anuke; at Abydos,of 0_siris, Isis^_jjid_jIorng_; at Ombos of Savak,Athor, and Khons ; at Silsihs, of Ka, Phthah, andthe Kile god, Hapi or Neilus. Sometimes a fourth. TRIAD OP SAVAK-EA, ATHOR, AND KHONS. god or goddess was associated wdth the principalthree, as Bast at Memphis, Neith at Thebes,Nephthys at Abydos, and Hak at Elephantine;but the fourth was always quite a city recognised more than onetriad; for instance, Silsihs held in honour, besidesRa, Phthah, and Hapi, a triad consisting of Set, THE RELIGION OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIA-NS. B^i Thoth, and Netpe; and another comprisingAmmon, Ea, and Savak. Another pecuUar feature of the Egyptian re-hgion, and one which, though it may have had someredeeming points, must be pronounced on thewhole low and degrading, was the worship of liveaniioals. In the first instance, certain animalsseem to have been assumed as emblems of certaingods,- from some real or fancied analogy : afterwhich, in course of time, the animals themselvescame to be regarded as sacred; speci
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