. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . n (cf. p. 100), henaturally also became the sun of the two horizons, the sun by day, and the sun by night. 6 E. de Rouge, Études sur le Rituel funéraire, p. 76 : His name may be connected with tworadicals. Tern is a negation ; it may be taken to mean the Inapproachable One, the Unknown (as inThebes, where Amûn means mystery). Atùm is, in fact, described as existing alone in the abyss,beforo the appearance of light. It was in this time of darkness that Atum performed the lirst act ofcreation, and this allows of our also connecting his name with t
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . n (cf. p. 100), henaturally also became the sun of the two horizons, the sun by day, and the sun by night. 6 E. de Rouge, Études sur le Rituel funéraire, p. 76 : His name may be connected with tworadicals. Tern is a negation ; it may be taken to mean the Inapproachable One, the Unknown (as inThebes, where Amûn means mystery). Atùm is, in fact, described as existing alone in the abyss,beforo the appearance of light. It was in this time of darkness that Atum performed the lirst act ofcreation, and this allows of our also connecting his name with the Coptic tamio, creare. Alûni wasalso the prototype of man (in Coptic the, homo), and becomes a perfect turn after his (Religion und Mythologie, pp. 231, 232) would rather explain Tûmû as meaning the Perfect One,the Complete. E. de Rouges philological derivations are no longer admissible ; but his explanation of thename corresponds so well with the part played by the god that I fail to see how that can be challenged. HAUMAKHÛÎTI-HARMAKHTS, THE GREAT ATÛMÎf. 130 and clothed with the insignia of supreme power, a true king of gods,majestic and impassive as the Pharaohs who succeeded each other uponthe throne of Egypt. The conception of Khopri as a disk enclosing ascarabaeus, or a man with a scarabaeus upon his head, or a scaraba?us-headed mummy, was sug-gested by the accidentalalliteration of his nameand that of Khopirrû, thescarabœus. The differencebetween the possible formsof the god was so slight asto be eventually lost alto-gether. His names weregrouped by twos and threesin every conceivable way,and the scarabaous ofKhopri took its place uponthe head of Râ, while thehawk headpiece was trans-ferred from the shoulders khopri, the scarab/eus god, in his Harmakhûîti to those of Tûmû. The complex beings resulting from these combinations, Râ-Tûmû,Atûmîi-Râ, Râ-Tûmû-Khopri, Râ-Harniakhûîti-Tûmû, Tûm-Harmakhûîti-Kh
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