" I have arrived at the impression that the number, both 

 of gods and goddesses, will be found to be extremely small ; 

 that the apparent wealth of the mythology depends upon 

 totemism of the inhabitants of the Nile valley, by which I 

 mean that each district had its own special animal, as the 

 emblem of the tribe dwelling in that locality, and that every 

 mythological personage had to be connected in some way 

 with these local cults." — ' Astronomy and Worship in 

 Ancient Egypt,' by J. Norman Lockyer. — ' Nineteenth 

 Century Magazine,' July 1892, p. 32. 



