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Ha; liis right hand uplifted, holding the flail. The god of produc-
tiveness and generation. Chief deity of Khemmis, or Ekhmeen.
Is identified in later times with Amen, and called Amen-Khem.
Osiris—Of human form, mummified, crowned with a miter, and
holding the flail and crook. Called the Good Being; the Lord above
all; the One Lord. Was the god of the lower world; judge of the
dead; and representative of the sun below the horizon. Adored
throughout Egypt. Local deity of Abydus.
Nefer Atum—Human-headed, and crowned with the pschent.
This god represented the setting sun, or the sun descending to light
the lower world. Local deity of Heliopolis.
Tlioth—In form a man, ibis-headed, generally depicted with the
pen and palette of a scribe. Was the god of the moon, and of letters.
Local deity of Sesoon, or llermopolis.
Seh—The "Father of the Gods," and deity of terrestrial vegeta-
tion. In form a man with a goose upon his head.
Set—Represented by a symbolic animal, with a muzzle and ears
like a jackal, the body of an ass, and an upright tail, like the tail of
a lion. Was originally a warlike god, and became in later times the
symbol of evil and the enemy of Osiris.
Khans—Hawk-headed, crowned with the sun disk and horns. Is
represented sometimes as a youth with the side-lock, standing on a
crocodile.
Horus—Horus appears variously as Horns Horus Aroeris, and
Horns Harpakhrat (Harpocrates), or Horus the child. Is represented
'under the first two forms as a man, hawk headed, wearing the
double crown of Egypt; in the latter as a child with the side-lock.
Local deity of Edfu (Apollinopolis Magna).
Mnut—A woman draped and crowned with the pschent; gen-
erally with a cap below the pschent representing a vulture. Adored
at Thebes.
Neith—A woman draped, holding sometimes a bow and arrows,
crowned with the crown of Lower Egypt. She presided over war and
the loom. Worshiped at Thebes.
Ms—A woman crowned with the sun-disk surmounted by a
throne, and .sometimes inclosed between horns. Adored at Abydus
and 1'hilie. Her soul resided in Sothis, or the Dog-star.
Nut—A woman curved so as to touch the ground with her fingers.
She represents the vault of Heaven, and is the mother of the gods.
Ilalhor—Cow-headed, and crowned with the disk and plumes.
Deity of Amenti, or the Egyptian Hades. Worshiped at Denderah.
Bust and Sekhet—Bast and Sekhet appear to be two forms of the
same goddess. As Sekhet she is represented as a woman, lion-
headed, with the disk and uroeus; as Bast, she is cat-headed, and holds
a sisti'um. Adored at Bubastis.
Ha; liis right hand uplifted, holding the flail. The god of produc-
tiveness and generation. Chief deity of Khemmis, or Ekhmeen.
Is identified in later times with Amen, and called Amen-Khem.
Osiris—Of human form, mummified, crowned with a miter, and
holding the flail and crook. Called the Good Being; the Lord above
all; the One Lord. Was the god of the lower world; judge of the
dead; and representative of the sun below the horizon. Adored
throughout Egypt. Local deity of Abydus.
Nefer Atum—Human-headed, and crowned with the pschent.
This god represented the setting sun, or the sun descending to light
the lower world. Local deity of Heliopolis.
Tlioth—In form a man, ibis-headed, generally depicted with the
pen and palette of a scribe. Was the god of the moon, and of letters.
Local deity of Sesoon, or llermopolis.
Seh—The "Father of the Gods," and deity of terrestrial vegeta-
tion. In form a man with a goose upon his head.
Set—Represented by a symbolic animal, with a muzzle and ears
like a jackal, the body of an ass, and an upright tail, like the tail of
a lion. Was originally a warlike god, and became in later times the
symbol of evil and the enemy of Osiris.
Khans—Hawk-headed, crowned with the sun disk and horns. Is
represented sometimes as a youth with the side-lock, standing on a
crocodile.
Horus—Horus appears variously as Horns Horus Aroeris, and
Horns Harpakhrat (Harpocrates), or Horus the child. Is represented
'under the first two forms as a man, hawk headed, wearing the
double crown of Egypt; in the latter as a child with the side-lock.
Local deity of Edfu (Apollinopolis Magna).
Mnut—A woman draped and crowned with the pschent; gen-
erally with a cap below the pschent representing a vulture. Adored
at Thebes.
Neith—A woman draped, holding sometimes a bow and arrows,
crowned with the crown of Lower Egypt. She presided over war and
the loom. Worshiped at Thebes.
Ms—A woman crowned with the sun-disk surmounted by a
throne, and .sometimes inclosed between horns. Adored at Abydus
and 1'hilie. Her soul resided in Sothis, or the Dog-star.
Nut—A woman curved so as to touch the ground with her fingers.
She represents the vault of Heaven, and is the mother of the gods.
Ilalhor—Cow-headed, and crowned with the disk and plumes.
Deity of Amenti, or the Egyptian Hades. Worshiped at Denderah.
Bust and Sekhet—Bast and Sekhet appear to be two forms of the
same goddess. As Sekhet she is represented as a woman, lion-
headed, with the disk and uroeus; as Bast, she is cat-headed, and holds
a sisti'um. Adored at Bubastis.