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But how strange to encounter, in this chapter of the Ritual 

 containing the names of our two brothers, the hair which played 

 so fatal a part in the traged}' of our story. It is here part 

 of the apparatus of Anepu, as the original Death God of Egypt. 



On the Tablet of Kings, discovered a few years ago in one of 

 the Saqqara tombs (20 miles south of Cairo), the third cartouche 

 (fig. e.) reads Neter Ban, " God of Souls," a very remarkable 

 title for so early a king of Egypt. B}^ the help of a fragment of 

 the Royal Pa})yrus of Turin, it appears not onl3' probable, but 

 almost certain, that Neter-bau was a surname of the Pharaoh 

 Batau. The coincidence of all this with the prominence given 

 to the 3'ounger brother's soul in our tale, cannot be accidental. 



It is equally remarkal>le that the next cartouche No. 10 of 

 the Tablet of Seti I, reads Ka Kan, Manetho's Ka'.iyn-^ who, he 

 sa^'S, introduced bull worship into Egypt. KaKau moans pho- 

 netically " Inill of bulls ;" but pictorially, " worshipper of bulls." 

 The Turin Papyrus gives the ideograph for a bull; but our car- 

 touche and the corresponding cartouche of the Saqqara tablet 

 give three phalluses (Kau) after the letter Ka. It is therefore 

 entirely proper to read, " the all-begetting bull."* 



KaKau is in his turn tbllowed on the tablet by Manetho's 

 BhoiHpiq^ BeN-Neter-N, in whose name the ram occurs as second 

 letter instead of the more usual form of X. It was the ram- 

 headed God /num whom the Sun-god in our story employed to 

 manufacture Batau's wife. If KaKau was the Pharaoh who 

 introduced the worship of Apis, or Mnevis, or both, Ben-neter-n 

 ma}^ have introduced the worship of the buck Mendes. 



Thus gradually was the animal worship of the First Empire 

 reduced to form. Senta was perhaps the first to ofler the trussed 

 goose, Skar-nefer-ka, to formulate the worship of what after- 

 wards became the Sokari-Osiris ; and so on, until Neferkara gave 

 himself up to Sun-worship under the form of Ra, which became 

 the favorite state religion of the P3'ramid builders. 



* De Roiig^ prefers: "the male of males," referring to the vignette of Ch. 

 W8 of the Ritual in Lepsius. T. B. where the sacred Bull is called "the male of 

 seven mystic cows," and "generator of males and females." Ka is too fre- 

 quently used for cows, she goats, &c., to allow iis to believe that it originally 

 meant male procreation alone. Kaui, earth, is also feminine, like the Greek 

 ^e«, yVj. X see no good objection against the use of this Egyptian KaKa in 

 etymology for discovering the origin of many European words ; for example, 

 the lobber Cacus in the story of Hercules ; the Greek adjective ^«z"T, bad ; the 

 Cock sacred to Esculap, and the type of perpetual procreating power; the 

 English word cock vulgarly used still for the phallug ; &o., &c. 



