. The Mythology of all races .. . was always muchmore strongly influencedby the Egyptian style ^ -Pj , , . Fig. 219. Guardian Deities on the Tomb ofthan by that Ot Babylonia, K6m-esh-Shugafa near Alexandria we may assume that the religion of Phoenicia likewise borrowed liberally from Egypt. Thus Tammuz-Adonis was worshipped atByblos like Osiris with Egyptianizing forms of cult (Ch. V, Note 84),the Phoenicians gave the name of Taaut to theInventor of writing (Ch. Ill, Note 2), etc. Inlike manner we find, for example, the sacredmusical instrument of Egypt, the sistrum, orrattle (p. 41), used in
. The Mythology of all races .. . was always muchmore strongly influencedby the Egyptian style ^ -Pj , , . Fig. 219. Guardian Deities on the Tomb ofthan by that Ot Babylonia, K6m-esh-Shugafa near Alexandria we may assume that the religion of Phoenicia likewise borrowed liberally from Egypt. Thus Tammuz-Adonis was worshipped atByblos like Osiris with Egyptianizing forms of cult (Ch. V, Note 84),the Phoenicians gave the name of Taaut to theInventor of writing (Ch. Ill, Note 2), etc. Inlike manner we find, for example, the sacredmusical instrument of Egypt, the sistrum, orrattle (p. 41), used in religious ceremonies InCrete as early as MInoan times, when it isji. pictured on the famous vase of Phaistos. Thus Fig. 220. Guardian ^e are not Surprised that disrinctly EgyptianSymbol from the tralts are numerous in Greek mythology, Same Tomb 1 ^ l j j „ * and some seem to have wandered even tonorthern Europe. Despite all this, the Egyptians never propagated their re-ligion abroad by missionaries. After the time of Alexander. XII 17 242 EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY the Greeks, who had always been somewhat attracted by themysterious worship of the Nile-land, began to imitate someof its cults in their entirety, even outside Egypt itself; in theRoman period these cults spread to Italy, and thence throughthe whole Roman Empire as far as Brittany. As we have al-ready seen (p. 121), this propagation of the Egyptian religionwas almost exclusively restricted to the deities of the Osiriancycle, the most popular of the Egyptian divinities, and to theGraeco-Egyptian Serapis. In the dispersion the cults soughtto imitate as closely as possible — though not always withsuccess — the ancient traditions of the Nile-land. The archi-tecture and the hieroglyphs of the temples, the obelisks andsphinxes before the shrines, the strange linen vestments of thepriests with their shaven heads and faces, the endless andobscure ritual, and the animal forms of some of the idols every-where filled the Classica
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