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Boat or Ark on the Cover of this Book.) Bronzes of 

 Rams, with the Disk and Urseus like Neph. Horned 

 Sheep kept in the Temple of Jupiter - - - 192 



Sheep Mummies. Ram for the Sign of Aries. The Kebsh, 

 or Wild Sheep. Ox and Cow. Sacred Oxen sacrificed, 

 after being marked by the Priest - - - 193 



Clean Oxen belonged to Epaphus, or Apis. Colour of Oxen 

 sacrificed. Worship of the Bull. Heifers sacred to Isis, 

 and not killed - - - - - 194- 



Reason of this. Several Bulls and Cows kept, and honoured 

 in different Parts of Egypt. Bull and Cow Mummies. 



Apis (vide supra, Vol. I. 2d Series, p. S^?.). Mnevis, 

 the Sacred Ox of Heliopolis - - - - 195 



The White Bull. Colour of Mnevis. Opinions respecting 

 Mnevis and Basis - . . _ . 196 



Golden Calf taken from Mnevis. Improbable Story of Boc- 

 choi'is. Basis, the Bull of Hermonthis - - 197 



Its Colour and Name. Onuj^his. All Three probably Em- 

 blems of Osiris - - - - - 198 



Buffalo AND Indian Ox, not sacred. The Dolphin - 199 



Fabulous Tale of its fighting Avith the Crocodile. Sphinx. 

 Three Kinds of Sphinx. All Types of the King - 200 



King, under the Form of a Ram, and a Hawk. Phrah. No 

 Female Sphinx in Egypt. Sphinxes in the Dromos. Lions 

 and Rams also. Pliny supposes them to be real Animals 201 



Enigmatical Meaning, according to Clemens. Other Fa- 

 bulous Animals. Birds. Vultures, emblematic of 

 Neith - - - - - - 202 



Of Maut and Eilethyia. Vulture's Head and entire Body 

 with Wings on Head-dresses of Goddesses and Queens - 203 



Mummies. Vultur Percnopterus. Not sacred. Pro- 

 bably well treated for its Utility. Called Pharaoh's Hen. 

 Eagle. Hawk . . . _ _ 204 



Hawk's Feather in the Head of the Sacred Scribes (vide 

 p. 217. 278.). Hawk, Emblem of the Deity - - 205 



Hawk, Emblem of Re and other Gods. Honoured by the 

 Tentyrites ; less so by the Coptites . . - 206 



Hawk-headed and Crocodile-headed Gods shared the 



