The Nile : notes for travellers in Egypt . HORUS. qS notes for travellers in EGYPT. Amen-Ra n---- ^ J), Mut, and Chonsu formed the 1 /www I i i great triad of Thebes. Amen-Ra was said to be the son of Ptah, and he seems to have usurped the attributes of many of the gods. The word Amen means hidden. His chief titles were lord of the thrones of the two lands, and king of the gods. He is represented as wearing horns and feathers, and holding rule, I dominion, 1 power, n stability. The god Amsu and was. a form of Amen-Ra. The exaltedposition which Amen-Ra, originally amere local deity, occupied at
The Nile : notes for travellers in Egypt . HORUS. qS notes for travellers in EGYPT. Amen-Ra n---- ^ J), Mut, and Chonsu formed the 1 /www I i i great triad of Thebes. Amen-Ra was said to be the son of Ptah, and he seems to have usurped the attributes of many of the gods. The word Amen means hidden. His chief titles were lord of the thrones of the two lands, and king of the gods. He is represented as wearing horns and feathers, and holding rule, I dominion, 1 power, n stability. The god Amsu and was. a form of Amen-Ra. The exaltedposition which Amen-Ra, originally amere local deity, occupied at Thebes,will be best understood from thetranslation of a hymn to him writtenin hieratic during the XVHIth orXlXth dynasty :— amen-ra. Adoration^ of Amen-Ra, the bull in Heliopolis,presidentof all the gods, beautiful god, beloved one, the giver of thelife of all warmth to all beautiful cattle ! Hail to thee, Amen-Ra, lord of the thrones of the two lands, at the head of the The bull of his mother, at the head of his fields, the extender of footsteps, at the head of the land of the South, J lord of the Mat au, § rince of Araby, lord of the sky, eldest son of earth, lord * A Prench version of this hymn is given by Grebaut in his Hymneh Amman-Ka, Paris, 1875. The hieratic text is published by Mariette,Les Papyrus Egyptiens du Miisce da Boulaq, pi. ii-ij. t The great temple at Karnak. X Ethiopia and Asia. § A country in Asia. THE RELIGION AND GODS OF EGYPT. 99 of things which exist, est
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