. The Mythology of all races .. . Fig. 103. The Unborn Sun Held by theWater Dragon io6 EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY. are numerous variants of such pictures, of which later artistshad scant comprehension.*^ Side by side with these applica-tions of the myth to the Nile or to its source (i. e. the local ocean of the Egyptians, who were littlegiven to sea-faring), we find the recol-lection that in reality the wide oceanrepresents Apop in captivity, girdingthe earth in bonds and keeping it to-gether, but at the same time threaten- FiG. 104. The Cat-God Kill- • ^i iL-r^.^ j^j^ ,^ ^ c^ „^.,^ .^ ^„^ mg to break
. The Mythology of all races .. . Fig. 103. The Unborn Sun Held by theWater Dragon io6 EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY. are numerous variants of such pictures, of which later artistshad scant comprehension.*^ Side by side with these applica-tions of the myth to the Nile or to its source (i. e. the local ocean of the Egyptians, who were littlegiven to sea-faring), we find the recol-lection that in reality the wide oceanrepresents Apop in captivity, girdingthe earth in bonds and keeping it to-gether, but at the same time threaten- FiG. 104. The Cat-God Kill- • ^i iL-r^.^ j^j^ ,^ ^ c^ „^.,^ .^ ^„^ mg to break his tetters and to destroy ING THE SERPENT AT THE O / Foot of the Heavenly the world. Accordingly the sea becomes Typhonic, or anti-OsIrian, in contrastto its early Osirian character (p. 95). That Apop is throwninto the ocean at the new years day is a reminiscence of theBabylonian doctrine that the struggle of creation is typologi-cally repeated at the beginning of the new year in spring. Atan early time, however, the Egyptians began to interpret thecombat between light and darkness, between th
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