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hierogiyphic legend of the God Batrachocephalus, 

 also connect him with this notion ; they recal the 

 figure illustrativ^e of human life which so frequently 

 occurs* on the monuments, and a man with arms 

 on liis head is sometimes given as an emblem of 

 Pthah. 



Batrachocephale. 



Of the peculiar office of this Goddess, I am 

 ignorant. She has a frog's head, without the 

 scarab of the former Deity ; and it is probable that 

 she is only an Emanation of Pthah, or in a sub- 

 ordinate capacity among the Genii, or lower order 

 of Gods. 



Khem, Chemmo, Pan. 



Khemt, the generative principle, particularly 

 worshipped atChemmis or Panopolis, and, according 

 to the evidence of Diodorust and the sculptures, 

 " treated with marked reverence by all the Egyp- 

 tians," was another of the deified attributes of the 

 almighty founder of the Universe, and, as Herodotus 

 justly observes, one of the eight great Gods. His 

 office was not confined to the procreation and con- 

 tinuation of the human species, but extended even 

 to the vegetable world, over which he presided; 

 whence we find his statue accompanied by trees and 

 plants, and Kings offering to him the herbs of the 



* The same as on the cover of this book. 



f Pronounced Kham. J Diodor, i. 18. 



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