An analysis of the Egyptian mythology: to which is subjoined, a critical examination of the remains of Egyptian chronology / [J.C. Prichard].

  • James Cowles Prichard
Date:
1819
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Credit: An analysis of the Egyptian mythology: to which is subjoined, a critical examination of the remains of Egyptian chronology / [J.C. Prichard]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7]^* vypoSoT^ovg (rrayouotg voriovg 7rapaO£^ot^£j^7], tIxtbi Svarrjug rlxTsi 6s ^opav, (poT^a re Sripwv’ odsu ouK aolxcog ixrjrrip Travrcov vsT>o[j,i(rrai. O spacious Eartli ! and thou, celestial Air, Who art tlie sire of gods and mortal men ! While she, the ambrosial mother, doth receiv^e The genial showers on her expanded breast. Teeming with human offspring, and brings forth The aliment of life, and all the tribes That roam the forest ^ justly thence proclaimed Mother of all. The Sun bein«: the most striking of the celestial o c* elements, the male power was adored as residing and manifesting its most energetic influence in the solar orb. In those representations connected withtheido- latry of the Syrians^ which, as we shall see hereafter, was nearly allied to the fables of Egypt, we find the worship of the Sun involved in the figurative theology which we have already traced. Macrobius gives us the following account of the notions entertained by the Syrians, or Assyrians, concerning the power of the solar deity. They give,'’ he observes, the name of Ad ad, which signifies Owe, to the god on whom they bestow the highest adoration. They worship him as the most powerful divinity, but join with him a goddess named Adargatis; and to these two deities, which are in fact the Sun and Moon, they ascribe supreme dominion over all nature. The at¬ tributes of this double divinity are not described in so many words; but, in symbols which are used to
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