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Bubastis had the Head of a Lioness, or of a Cat. The 



Speos Artemidos. Bronzes - - - 278 



Festival of Bubastis. Women striking Crotala. -270 



Error respecting Bubastis or Diana. Not related to Isis. 



Story in Ovid of Diana and the Cat - - 280 



Error of Juvenal. Different Characters of the Greek 

 Diana. Cicero's Remark on the Uncertainty respecting 

 the Gods - - ... 281 



The Name of Hecate applied also to Pasht. The Moon a 

 Male Deity. Neith, Minerva. Called Onka. Wor- 

 shipped at Sais .... - 282 

 The Word Sais not the Olive. Town of Sais or Ssa - 283 

 The Olive not believed by the Egyptians to be given by 



Minerva. Athena. Name of Neith in Hieroglyphics - 284 

 It is confounded with another. Form of Neith. Armed 



as was Minerva. _ . . _ . 285 



Supposed to be Air. Gods of the Second and other 



Orders _ . . . . . 286 



Re the Sun, Phre, Phrah, Pharaoh - - - 287 



The Sun, the Chief of Heavenly Bodies ; as the King, the 



Chief of all on Earth - - - - -288 



Re in the Names of Kings. Early Worship of Heavenly 



Bodies probable . - . „ _ 289 



Diodorus supposed Isis and Osiris to be the Moon and Sun. 

 Macrobius calls Osiris the Sun, and Isis Earth, or 

 Nature .-.._. 290 



Early Sabaean Worship. Importance of Re - . 291 



A Star connected with the Idea of Prayer. The principal 



Deities of Egypt not Physical Objects - . 292 



Planets dedicated to, and called after, certain Deities - 293 

 Study of Astronomy unconnected with the Worship of 

 Heavenly Bodies. Obelisks supposed to be always de- 

 dicated to the Sun _ - . . ^ 294 

 Form of Re. Hawk and Scarabaeus Emblems of the Sun 295 

 Re of a Red Colour. Atin-re - - . 296 

 Lions Solar Animals. Sun and Horus. Atin-re - 297 

 Grottoes of Tel-el- Amarna. Emanations of Re. Characters 

 of the Sun separated - - - _ . 298 



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