88 THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XIII. 



Mars, the animal itself being worshipped at Pa- 

 premis, the city of that Deity. * I liave only found 

 him so represented in small pottery figures, but 

 never in the sculptures ; though the Hippopotamus- 

 headed Goddess occurs on monuments of early 

 date, t The connection, indeed, of the God Mars 

 and this Typhonian animal is remarkable. 



Heron, Ant^us, Perseus, Busiris, Thueris, 

 Canopus. 



The first of these I have supposed to correspond 

 to Atmoo, and the second to Ombte, but of Per- 

 seus I have not yet been able to form any con- 

 jecture. Nor do I know if Busiris is a character 

 of Osiris, or a separate Deity. Of the form of 

 Thueris, the concubine of Typho, of Canopus, and 

 of his supposed wife Menuthis (or Eumenuth), wor- 

 shipped in a town of the same namet, I am also 

 ignorant ; as well as of the two Deities of Winter 

 and Summer, whose statutes are said, by Hero- 

 dotus §, to have been erected by Rhampsinitus. 



genii of the lower regions. 

 I have described the form and general cha- 

 racter of the principal Deities, who compose the 

 Pantheon of Egypt. Those minor Divinities, who 

 held various offices in the regions of the dead, I 

 have not introdux;ed ; their attributes and functions 

 being as yet imperfectly ascertained, or altogether 



* Vide Hcrodot. ii. .59. G3. anil 71. 



f Vide mtprd. Vol. I. (2(1 Series) p. t29. 



X r«/6' Jablonski, v. 4. p. 1.53. ^ Ilerodot. ii. 121. 



