36 THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. Xlll. 



that Mautwasin like manner the mother of Amun, 

 as Isis was the mother of Horns. 



Savak, Sovk. 



Sav^ak, the crocodne-headed Deity of Ombos, 

 was another deified form of the Sun, as may be 

 seen from the hieroglyphic legend in the Plate *, 

 where the crocodile is followed by its figurative 

 hieroglyphic, the globe of Re. 



This animal was a type of the Sun, "its number 

 sixty," according to lamblichus t, being thought 

 to accord with that luminary. But the respect 

 paid to it at Ombos, and some other towns of 

 the Thebaid, was not universal throughout Egypt. 

 The people of Apollinopolis and Tentyris, in par- 

 ticular, held it in the utmost abhorrence ; and the 

 enmity consequent upon this difference of opinion 

 was carried so far by the Tentyrites and Ombites, 

 that a serious conflict ensued between them, in 

 which many persons lost their lives. And, if we 

 may believe Juvenal t, to such a degree were the 

 passions of the belligerents excited, that the vic- 

 torious Tentyrites actually ate the flesh of one of 

 their opponents wlio had fallen into their hands. 



Thebes acknowledged Savak as a Deity, and 

 the figures represented in the Plate are taken from 

 the sculptures of the capital of Upper Egypt. Tlie 

 hieroglyphics in the first line read, " Savak, tiie 

 ruler of the Upper Country, the land of No ;" 



* Plate 50. part 2. Ilicrog. 3. and 4'. 



f Taml)l. (le Mystcr. sect. .5. c. 8. Vide infra, p. 232, 235, 



;j: Juvenal, Sat. xv. SO. 



