Ohfervations in Egypt ^pr 



the one, and of Spots in the Skin of the other, were fuppofed 



to reprefent the Diverfity of Light and Shade in the Full Moon •, 



as the Contraction and Dilatation in the Pupil of the Cat's Eye, 



were looked upon to imitate the different Thafes themfelves 



of that Luminary. The Dog' and the Cynocephalus^' were^J^^^^^g? 



other Symbols; the Dosf, as it was a visilant Creature, kept"occphaii.s 



Watch in the Night, and had been of great AiTiftance to Her, 



in fearching out the Body of Ofiris ; the Cpiocephaltis, as the 



Females of this Species had their monthly Purgations , and 



the Males were remarkably affedled with Sorrow, and abftained 



from Food, when the Moon was in Conjundiion with the Sun. 



Thefe were the principal Animals, which the Egyptians ac-^S^S 

 counted facred, and fubftituted in the Place of their Deities *, S. ^" 

 not that they direClly wor pupped them, as Tlutarch ' obferveth, 

 hut adored the 'Divinity only, that was reprefented in them as 

 in a Glafs, or, as he exprelleth it in another Place, jufl as we 

 fee the Refemhlance of the Sun in Drops of Water. But 

 Liician ^ hath recorded fomething more extraordinary with 

 Regard to the Tntrodudlion of thefe Animals into their Theo- 

 logy. For he informs us, that in the Wars between the Gods 

 and the Giants, the former , for Safety, fled into Egypt, where 

 they affumed the Bodies of Beafls and Birds, which they enjer 

 afterwards retained, and were accordingly worfljipped and 

 reverenced in them. 



Befides thefe Animals, there are others alfo which UitF^yp^The owi. 

 tians received into their SacredWritings. Such, among the Birds, 

 was the Owl', which generally ftood for an evil Z>^;^o;?.• as the 



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