CHAP. XIII. AMUN, OR AMUN-RE. 243 



projecting horns of that animal, which, from their 

 twisted form, being" readily mistaken* for those of 

 tliegoat, have caused some difficulty respecting two 

 characters in the names of the Caesars, both being 

 supposed to represent the same animal, and also 

 to stand for the two letters h and s. It is, how- 

 ever, evident that the latter was the sheep or ram 

 (esiou), which had the alphabetic force of .s- as 

 in Trajanu.v, and that the former was the goat 

 (baampe), which was chosen to represent the letter 

 h or V, as in Tiberius, Seyerus, and vSeiastus. 



Amun, or Amun-re — Jupiter. 

 It may appear singular that Amun should be 

 placed second to Neph ; I have, however, noticed 

 them in this order, not from any superiority of the 

 latter, but because he is said to have been the 

 oldest Deity of Upper Egypt ; and, since some 

 alteration has been made in the name of the God 

 known to us as Amun, it may even be supposed 

 that in the earliest times, he had not the same cha- 

 racter as in the age of the last Kings of the 18th 

 Dynasty. Indeed, if Neph really answered to the 

 Spirit which pervaded and presided over the cre- 

 ation, and was the same whom lamblichus describes 

 from the books of Hermes t, he may in justice 

 claim a rank above Amun, or any other of the eight 

 great Gods. The alteration to which I allude is 

 a circumstance well worthy of attention ; and, as I 



* I had supposed in consequence that he united the cnihleiii of the 

 generative principle with his own. 



-|- Vide supra, p. -Z\(i Where tlie name Emcph is given, as is sup- 

 posed, in Heu of Kneph. 



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