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alike. The Asiatic conquests of his father, the greatest of all the 

 liainseses, had weak-ened, instead of strengthening his empire. 

 The return wave ruined Eg3'pt. She never was herself again. 

 Memphis became oriental, as Cairo is now. Foreigners crowded 

 tlie city and the plain. The indigenous and exotic religions 

 strove with and debased each other, and the glories of the Classic 

 Empire were but a thin laid varnish on worm-eaten wood. The 

 Sun-god's daughter had at last killed the Sacred Ball. 



But we see traces of authentic history in the story still older 

 even than the apparent original appearance of sun-worship into 

 Egypt in tlie Hid and IVth dynasties. And what has been 

 said is only introductory to the statement of this curious fact. 



Onl^' four proper names appear in the story : Anepu and Batau, 

 its two heroes ; Hor-m-a/u (Ilarmachis) the Sun-god ; and 

 ;fnum,* his agent in creating the beauty. This last, /num, was 

 a form of Amun Ra, i. e. the Sun introduced into the worship of 

 the Thebaid. -Vnum in the stor^^ is the representative agent of 

 the Snn-god of Mt. Lebanon. Hor-m-a/u is the monumental 

 name of the Great Sphinx of Gizeh. Although it is called the 

 Sun-god by the author of the story, under the influence of the 

 predominating Mithrism of his own age, no connection between 

 the Sun and the Sphinx when it was first cut, has been demon- 

 strated. The name Hor-m-a/u (spelled with a hawk, M, and 

 the black disk between two hills) occurs in the stele found in the 

 tomb of ;^ufu's (Cheops') daughter, in connection with descrip- 

 tions of the building of temples near it to Isis and Osiris,f but 

 narrates its own reHtoration. It must therefore have been an old 

 deit}^ when Sun-worsliip entered Egypt. 



Anepu, the elder brother, is the aboriginal African god, called 

 b^' the Greeks Anubis, and universally represented, even in the 

 most ancient sepulchral legends, as guardian of the dead, or 

 tutelary god of the tombs, the mummy deity, the jackal being 

 his emblem. On the later monuments, he has a jackal head and 

 two high plumes, like Osiris. After Osiris became supreme God 

 of Egypt, Anubis was made his son. But this was one of thuse 

 innumerable modifications and combinations of tlie Pantheon 

 which have reduced it to a mass of almost inextricable confusion. 

 How could the jackal Anubis originally be the son of Osii'is, 



* Chap. 30 of the ritual, entitled : On stopping the tortoise, -with a vignette 

 of the Ueceasert turning back a tortoise, reads : ''Coming against me, with 

 closed lips ! I am /num, Lord of Shennii, messenger of the Words of the Gods 

 to K a, my tongue is the messenger of its Lords" (Direh). The sacred Scrip- 

 tures of the far east were written or tortoise shells. 



t Recherches, p. 49. 



