The dawn of astronomy : a study of the temple-worship and mythology of the ancient Egyptians / by J. Norman Lockyer.

  • Norman Lockyer
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1894
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    Typlion n'est pas siniplement le dieu da nial, I'adversaire personnel d'Osiris, c'est un soiiverain qui occupe avec ses allies la plus grande partie de I'Egypte depuis Edfou jusqu'a I'Oinent du Delta. ^ It wa8 suggested, (page 154) that Horus slaying Set repre- sented by a hippopotamus was a reference to a time antecedent to 5000 B.C., when the consteUation of Draco was circumpolar ; and. we now learn from Chapter XXXII. that Set represented the Northern-Star worship brought in from the N.E. Horus, then, represented a conquering force coming from the South. He was recognised as a Southern god. Naville remarks: Hoichuti est par excellence le dieu de la Nubie; c'est a lui que sont consacres jalusieurs des temples pharaoniques qui existent le long du Nil entre Ouadi-Halfa et Phila;. 2 But this is not all. The sequence of the Divine Dynasties is as follows, according to ]\Iaspero :—^ Atmu. Ra Shou Sibou [Seb] Osiris Set Horus Neglecting the first four, we find Osiris preceding Set, and are driven to the conclusion that in Osiris, in this connection, we are dealing with the Moon, for the Sun-gods Atmu and Ra head the list. Besides, the worship of Set did not kill the worship of the Sun, for the power of Ra finally became paramount. We must hold, then, that the Southern Sun-god Horus, the son of Osiris, was the son of a Moon-god, and it becomes necessary to inquire if such an idea occurred to other early peoples. Professor Sayce^ tells us— 1 Mythe cl'Horus, p. 7. - Mythe d'Horus, p. 7. 3 Hist. Anc, p. 33. ^ Hibbeit Lectures, p. 155.