CHAP.XIII. 



UNCERTAIN DEITIES. 



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trix of Tentyris," from which place her figure and 

 hieroglyphics are copied. Siie is called *' daughter 

 of the Sun." Her head-dress consists of a shrine, 

 from which water plants are sometimes represented 

 to rise, her head being covered by the 

 body and wings of a vulture. In her hand 

 she holds the usual sceptre of the God- 

 desses. At the quarries of the Troici 

 Lapidis Mons, she occurs as the second 

 member of a triad composed of Thoth, 

 this Goddess, and Horus (or Aroeris). 

 Mention is also made of the Goddess 

 Merte or Milt. 



Melsigor, or Mersokar ? (PI. 67. Part 1.) 



This Goddess is from one of the tombs of the 

 Kings at Thebes. Her name appears to read 

 Melsigor, or Mersokar, and she is styled Ruler 

 of the West, or of Amenti, " the Lower Regions." 

 She wears the globe and horns of Athor, in com- 

 mon with many other Goddesses ; and I have found 

 an instance of her under the form of a winged 

 asp, with the cap of the Lower Country, having 

 the same appearance as the Genius of Lower 

 Egypt*, and opposed in like manner to Eilethyia. 



VOL. II. 



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Fig. 1. Mersokar opposed to Eilethyia, tig. 2. 



* Vide siqjra, p. 45. 

 Second Series. 



