CHAP. XIII. THMEI. — MANDOO. 31 



ment scenes attached to the funereal rituals on the 

 papyri of Thebes. In one of the subjects of a 

 mummy case in the British Museum, the Goddess 

 occurs under the form of a sceptre (surmounted by 

 an ostrich feather), from which proceed her two 

 arms, supporting the body of the deceased. Ano- 

 ther figure of the same Goddess, issuing from a 

 mountain, presents him at the same time two em- 

 blems, supposed to represent water, or the drink of 

 Heaven. 



Thmei was always styled the daughter of the 

 Sun, and sometimes " chief" or " Directress of 

 the Gods." 



From her name the Greeks evidently borrowed 

 their Themis, who was supposed to be the mother 

 of Dike (Aixrj\ or Justice ; but the name of the 

 Egyptian city Thmuis does not appear to have been 

 called from the Goddess of Truth. 



Mandoo (Mendes?), Mars Ultor?. 



The name of this Deity was probably the origin 

 of Mendes, whose character and attributes have 

 been strangely perverted by Greek writers. 



Herodotus considers Mendes the Egyptian Pan ; 

 but I have already shown the Deity of Panopolis 

 to be Khem, and it is evident that he has mistaken 

 the characters of both those Deities. 



" The Mendesians," says the father of history*, 

 " abstain from sacrificing goats for these reasons : 



* Herodot. ii. 46. 42. 



