Cilicia, its former history and present state; with an account of the idolatrous worship prevailing there previous to the introduction of Christianity . HARPOCRATES. * The sacred Egj-ptian bean is the fruit of the Nelumhium speciosum, which gi-ows. 182 LARES AND PENATES. features of a youtli, and may be supposed to represent her son ; but onthis I will presume to form no decision. Indeed, it would be impos-sible to do more than throw out such hints as may lead the learnedto express opinions based on more scientific reasons and further re-search, which I am far from being prepared or competent
Cilicia, its former history and present state; with an account of the idolatrous worship prevailing there previous to the introduction of Christianity . HARPOCRATES. * The sacred Egj-ptian bean is the fruit of the Nelumhium speciosum, which gi-ows. 182 LARES AND PENATES. features of a youtli, and may be supposed to represent her son ; but onthis I will presume to form no decision. Indeed, it would be impos-sible to do more than throw out such hints as may lead the learnedto express opinions based on more scientific reasons and further re-search, which I am far from being prepared or competent to do. In further confirmation of an undoubted fact of the Egyptian my-thology having been cultivated at Tarsus, we have many heads of bullsrepresenting either Mnevis, the celebrated bull, sacred to the sun, in tlietown of Heliopolis, and regarded as the emblem of Osiris, or else Apis,No. 19, and into which the soul of Osiris wassupposed to have passed. The hole in the fore-head might have been for the purpose of fas-tening a disc of some other material, probablygold. The head was painted red. The mildnessof the expression Avould induce us to identify itwith the Grecian /o, which was but a modifica-tion of the Egyptian myth.* If we prefer t
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