CHAP. XIII. ANOTHER CHARACTER OF SOVEN. 43 



from, a ^Heg" chRi, or ceKi rtp<LTq (tibia, or tibia 

 cruris). 



It is to this place that Diodorus* alludes when 

 he says that the Goddess Eilethyia, one of the 

 ancient Deities of Egypt, founded a city called 

 after her ; as did Jove, the Sun, Hermes, Apollo, 

 Pan, and many others ; and this assertion of the 

 historian accords well with the antiquity of that 

 city, which contains some of the oldest remains 

 existing in Egypt.t The same credit cannot be at- 

 tached to a statement of Plutarch, that men were 

 formerly sacrificed in this city, as I shall have oc- 

 casion to observe in speaking of the rites of the 

 Egyptians, t 



Soven may also be the Genius of the Upper 

 Country, or the South, opposed to the Genius of 

 the Lower Country, given in the following Plate §; 

 though I do not trace that connection of the former 

 with Neith, and the latter with Sate, which Hora- 

 poUo might lead us to expect. Ii However incon- 

 sistent may be the assumption of two characters by 

 the same Goddess, we find that the Greek Eilethyia 

 was in like manner confounded with other Deities, 

 as Juno and Diana, though said to be daughter of 

 Jupiterand of Juno, or, according to some, of Latona. 



She is usually represented as a Goddess with 

 the cap and two ostrich feathers of Osiris, or 

 with the cap of the Upper Country, and occa- 



* Diodor. i. 12. -)- Now destroyed by the Turks. 



X Vide infra, chap. 15. § Vide Plate 53. Part 1. 



II Horapollo, i, 11., says Minerva rules the Upper, and Juno the 

 Lower Hemisphere ; and the vulture is the emblem of Urania, the God- 

 dess of Heaven. 



