CHAP. XIII. THE FOUR GENII OF AMENTI. 7^ 



spective heads, or were returned into the body accom- 

 panied by these four figures. Amset, Hapi, Smautf 

 (or Smof), and Kebhnsnof (or Netsonof) were their 

 names. The first had the head of a man*, and was 

 sometimes represented holding the staff and having 

 the form of the other Deities, but only in the tombs ; 

 the second had the head of a Cynocephalus ape, the 

 third of a jackal, and the fourth of a hawk ; and, 

 though differing from them in form, they cannot 

 fail to call to mind the four beasts of the Revela- 

 tions.t They were generally in the form of mum- 

 mies ; but they sometimes occur as human figures 

 walking, and even carrying the body of the dead, as 

 in the chamber of Osiris, at Philse, where they bear 

 the Deity to his tomb, under the form of Sokari. 



To Amset were dedicated the stomach and 

 large intestines ; to Hapi the small intestines ; 

 to Smautf the lungs and heart ; and to Kebhnsnof 

 the liver and gall-bladder. This point was long a 

 desideratum ; and though it was known that the 

 four vases, placed in the Egyptian tombs with the 

 sarcophagi, each of which bore the head of one of 

 these Genii, contained the intestines of the dead, 

 no one had examined them with sufficient care to 

 ascertain the exact portion in each. To Mr. Pet- 

 tigrew we are indebted for this interesting fact ; 

 and in introducing it I have much pleasure in 

 paying a just tribute to the patience and zeal with 

 which he conducted the examination, and in re- 



* 1 have found one instance of Amset in the form of a woman, on a 

 mummy case in the British Museum. 

 f Rev. iv. 7. 



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