26 THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XIII. 



companied by a symbol which appears of particular 

 importance in relation to the dead, and may allude 

 to some office he held in the region of Hades.* 

 He is even represented standing on the back of 

 a lion ; and in a drawing, copied by my friend 

 Mr. Burton from Karnak, he appears to be styled 

 the son of Pasht. 



Anouk, Anouke, Estia, Vesta. 



This Goddess was the third member of the triad 

 of Northern Ethiopia, and the cataracts, composed 

 of Neph, Sate, and Anouke ; and at Dakkeh she 

 is represented as the nurse of a King, who is said 

 to be *' the son of Neph, and born of Sate," the 

 other two Deities of the same triad. She was the 

 Vesta of the Egyptian Pantheon, as we learn from 

 an inscription at Sehayl, formerly Sete, an island 

 immediately below the first cataract, which calls 

 her "Anouke or Estia." 



Herodotus t seems to think that Vesta was not 

 among the number of the Egyptian divinities, when 

 he says, " Nearly all the names of the Greek Gods 

 have come from Egypt ; for, excepting Neptune, 

 the Dioscuri, Juno, Presto, Themis, the Graces, 

 and Nereids, those of all the other Deities have 

 always been known in Egypt ; and this is asserted 

 by the Egyptians themselves." It is possible that 

 he means the name, and not the character, of this 

 Goddess; for there is abundant evidence of Juno 



* Vide Plate 48. Part 1. fig. 3. -)- Ilerodot. ii. 50. 



