. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . dtenbuch, pi. ix. 11. 50, 51). 5 Drawn by Boudier, from a XXXth-dynasty statue of green basalt in the Gîzeh Museum(Maspero, Guide du Visiteur, p. 345, No. 5243). The statue was also published by Mariette, Monu-ments divers, pi. 96 A-B, and in the Album photographique du Musée de Boulaq, pl. x. c The lapwing or the heron, the Egyptian bonû, is generally the Osirian bird. The persistencewith which it is associated with Heliopolis and the gods of that city 6hows that in this also we havea secondary form of Eâ. Cf. the form taken by the sun during t
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . dtenbuch, pi. ix. 11. 50, 51). 5 Drawn by Boudier, from a XXXth-dynasty statue of green basalt in the Gîzeh Museum(Maspero, Guide du Visiteur, p. 345, No. 5243). The statue was also published by Mariette, Monu-ments divers, pi. 96 A-B, and in the Album photographique du Musée de Boulaq, pl. x. c The lapwing or the heron, the Egyptian bonû, is generally the Osirian bird. The persistencewith which it is associated with Heliopolis and the gods of that city 6hows that in this also we havea secondary form of Eâ. Cf. the form taken by the sun during the third hour of the day, as given inthe text published and explained by Brugsch, Die Kapilel der Verwandlungen {Zeitschrift, 1867, p. 23). TUE SUN AS A MAN. 89 one of the beautiful golden sparrow-hawks of Southern A Sun-Hawk, hovering in high heaven on outspread wings, at least presenteda bold and poetic image; but what can be said for a Sun-Calf? Yet it isunder the innocent aspect of a spotted calf, a sucking calf of pure mouth, 2. THE TWELVE STAGES IN THE LIFE OF THE SUN AND ITS TWELVE FORMS THROUGHOUT THE that the Egyptians were pleased to describe the Sun-God when Sibu, the father,was a bull, and Hâthor a heifer. But the prevalent conception was that inwhich the life of the sun was likened to the life of man. The two deitiespresiding over the East received the orb upon their hands at its birth, just asmidwives receive a new-born child, and cared for it during the first hour ofthe day and of its It soon left them, and proceeded under the belly 1 Book of the Dead, ch. Ixxvii. (Navilles edition, pl. lxxxviii. 1. 2, et seq.), and ch. lxxviii. (); cf. the forms of the sun during the third and eighth hours of the day, as given in the textpublished and explained by Brugsch, Die Kapitel der Verwandlungen (Zeitschrift, 1867, pp. 23, 24). 2 The calf is represented iu ch. cix. of the Book of the Dead (Navilles edition, pi. cxx.), wherethe text says
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