The Nile : notes for travellers in Egypt . RAVELLERS IN EGYPT. The following is a list of the most important gods withtheir names in hieroglyphs; it will be readily seen howvery many of them are merely forms of the sun-god Ra,and how many of them have the same attributes :— Chnemu,^ the Moulder, Q is represented with the head of a ram, and is one of tlie oldest gods of the Egyptian religion. He was thought to possess some of the attributes of Amen, Ra, and Ptah, and shared with the last-named god the attrib*ute of maker of mankind. At Philae he is represented making man out of clay on a potter
The Nile : notes for travellers in Egypt . RAVELLERS IN EGYPT. The following is a list of the most important gods withtheir names in hieroglyphs; it will be readily seen howvery many of them are merely forms of the sun-god Ra,and how many of them have the same attributes :— Chnemu,^ the Moulder, Q is represented with the head of a ram, and is one of tlie oldest gods of the Egyptian religion. He was thought to possess some of the attributes of Amen, Ra, and Ptah, and shared with the last-named god the attrib*ute of maker of mankind. At Philae he is represented making man out of clay on a potters wheel. Chnemu put together the scattered limbs of the dead body of Osiris, and it was he who constructed the beautiful woman who became the wife of Bata in the Tale of the Two Brothers. Like Amen-Ra he is said to be the father of the gods. His cult had great vogue in the regions round about the first cataract, where he was always associated with Aneq and Sati. In bas-reliefs he is usually coloured green, and wears the atef crownf with. CHNEMU. * The authorities for the figures of the gods are given by Lanzonein his Dizionario di Mifologia Egizia. t The following are the crowns most commonly met with on themonuments :— ffi. f-. M 5 L/5 L,/ CJ M ?> Lii ,^ ^^V di l^. THE RELIGION AND GODS OF EGYPT. 95 Ptah Q ( Opener, perhaps the oldest of all thegods of Egypt, was honoured with a temple and worshippedat Memphis from the time of the 1st is said to be the father of the gods, whocame forth from his eye, and of men, whocame forth from his mouth. He is repre-sented in the form of a mummy, and heholds a sceptre composed of | usr^ strength, -¥- anc/i, life, and U fef, stability. Withreference to his connection with the resur-rection and the nether-world, he is calledPTAH-SEKER-AUSAR, and is then repre-sented as a little squat boy, at times wearinga beetle on his head. He is at times repre-sented with Isis and Nephthys, and then appears to be aform of Osiris. Tm
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