MANNERS AND CUSTOMS 



OF THE 



ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. 



CHAPTER XIII. {continued), 



SUITE OF THE PANTHEON. 

 GODS OF THE SECOND AND THIRD ORDERS. 



I HAVE already stated that it is not my intention 

 to treat of the remaining Deities according to the 

 rank they hold in the Pantheon, or to distinguish 

 between those of the second and third order. 

 The monuments, indeed, afford no proof of this ar- 

 rangement ; and the number of Genii or inferior 

 Deities suggests that those excluded from the 

 second rank were not all comprehended in the 

 same class of tertiary Gods. 



It might even be difficult to fix upon the twelve 

 of the second order. The most important are 

 doubtless Re (the Sun), Atmoo *, Thoth (the 

 Moon), Eilethyia, Ao, Thmei, Athor, Thriphis, 

 Amunta(or Tamun), Mandoo, Seb, Netpe, Tafne, 

 Ranno, and Sofh ; but of these fifteen, Ao, Thmei, 

 and Tafne are born of Re, and should therefore 



* Nofre-Atmoo being perhaps a character of Atmoo. 

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