. The Mythology of all races .. . 138 EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY. Fig. 135. Barbarians of the Desert Climb-ing Poles before Min of his cult were at Chemmis (i. e. Khem-min, or Sanctuaryof Min, the modern Akhmim) and at Koptos, where the most important road to theRed Sea branches off to thedesert. Hence he was calledthe patron of the wild in-habitants of the easterndesert, the Antiu tribes(the Troglodytes, or Tro-godytes, of the Greeks),and even of regions fartherto the south, such as theincense coast of barbarians assembledat his festivals for a strangeceremony — a contest inclimbing poles.
. The Mythology of all races .. . 138 EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY. Fig. 135. Barbarians of the Desert Climb-ing Poles before Min of his cult were at Chemmis (i. e. Khem-min, or Sanctuaryof Min, the modern Akhmim) and at Koptos, where the most important road to theRed Sea branches off to thedesert. Hence he was calledthe patron of the wild in-habitants of the easterndesert, the Antiu tribes(the Troglodytes, or Tro-godytes, of the Greeks),and even of regions fartherto the south, such as theincense coast of barbarians assembledat his festivals for a strangeceremony — a contest inclimbing poles.^^ Minsoldest prehistoric statues^^show him standing erect, grasping his immense phallus withhis left hand, and in his hanging right holding a flagellum,while the back of his body is decorated with animals of thesea and of the desert. Later pictures make this ithyphallicgod, whose colour was originally black,^^ lift his whip in hisright hand; his head is ornamented with high feathers; and afillet with a long pendant be- r\hind serves to keep these fea
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