CHAP. XIII. NEB. EHE. 67 



Neb ? Tneb ? Dominion ? 



From the hieroglyphics of this Goddess we may 

 suppose her to represent the abstract idea of do- 

 minion ; and the presence of the vulture and asp 

 together on her head-dress * may perhaps tend to 

 confirm this opinion, though they were not exclu- 

 sively appropriated to her. She also wears the 

 globe and horns of Athor in common with many 

 other Goddesses. Her name occurs in the temple 

 of Remeses III. at Medeenet Haboo ; she is there- 

 fore of an early Pharaonic age. 



Ehe, Tehe, "The Cow." 



Besides the sacred cow of Athor, was another, 

 supposed by the learned Kircher to be dedicated 

 to the Moon, whom he considers the same as Isis ; 

 but from the hieroglyphic legend given by M. Cham- 

 pollion, in which she is styled " Generatrix of the 

 Sun," she seems rather to be the darkness of Chaos, 

 " which was upon the face of the deep," and from 

 which sprang the light of the Sun. M.Champollion 

 therefore supposes her to be one of the characters 

 of Buto *, though, from a legend accompanying an- 

 other figure he gives of the same cow, it appears 

 that she was sometimes identified with Neith, whose 

 name precedes that of Ehe, 



She is sometimes represented as a female figure 

 with a cow's head, and the globe and horns of 



* Vide Plate 60. Part 1. 



f Vide supra, Vol. I. (2d Series) p. 273. 



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