CHAP. XIV. THE CYNOCEPHALUS. 129 



even introduced in the sculptures as the God him- 

 self, with " Thoth, Lord of Letters," and otiicr 

 legends, inscribed over it*; and in astronomical 

 subjects two Cynocephali are frequently represented 

 standing in a boat before the Sun in an attitude 

 of prayer, as emblems of the Moon.t Their pre- 

 sence in a similar boat with a pig probably refers 

 to them as types of the Divinity, in whose honour 

 that animal was sacrificed; " the ilibo^z and Bac- 

 chus," according to Herodotust, being the sole 

 " Deities to whom it was lawful to immolate swine, 

 and that only at the full moon."§ But their pre- 

 sence was not confined to Thoth or the Moon. On 

 two sides of the pedestals of the obelisks of Luxor, 

 four Cynocephali stand in the same attitude, as if 

 in adoration of the Deity to whom those monu- 

 ments were dedicated ; a balustrade over the centre 

 doorway of the temple of Amun at Medeenet Haboo 

 is ornamented with figures of these animals; and a 

 row of them forms the cornice of the exterior of the 

 great temple dedicated to Re at Aboosimbel. 



Sometimes a Cynocephalus, placed upon a throne 

 as a God, holds a small Ibis in its hand ; and in 

 the judgment scenes of the dead it frequently 

 occurs seated on the summit of the balance, as the 

 emblem of Thoth, who had an important office on 

 that occasion, and registered the account of the 

 actions of the deceased. 



* Vide Plate IS. f Vide also Horapollo, i. 14, 15. 



% Herodot. ii. 47. 



§ Plutarch says, " a sow was sacrificed to Typho once a year, at the 

 full moon." De Is. s. 8. 



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