0,68 THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XIII. 



glyphics, "Upper Egypt," and that of Sate, the 

 *« Lower country." 



Horapollo is fully borne out by the hieroglyphics 

 in what he afterwards says, — that " the Egyptians 

 think it absurd to designate the heaven in the mas- 

 culine Tov oupoivov, but represent it in the feminine 

 rrjv oupavov," "inasmuch as the generation of the 

 Sun and Moon and the rest of the stars is per- 

 fected in it, which is the peculiar property of a 

 female." * 



The marriage of Jupiter with his sister Juno, in 

 Greek mythology, was probably derived from the 

 story of Osiris and Isis, who were also brother and 

 sister and the children of Scb, considered by the 

 Greeks the same as Saturn ; but the confusion 

 caused by their judging of the identity of their own 

 and the Egyptian Deities from casual analogies is so 

 great, that to Jupiter alone are attributed legendary 

 tales taken from Amun, Neph, and Osiris. 



The statues of the Greek Juno were not always 

 confined to one particular form ; and to that God- 

 dess were sometimes given the attributes of Pallas, 

 of Diana, of Venus, of Nemesis, of the Fates, and 

 otber Divinities. In this respect they resembled 

 many of the Deities of Egypt, who, as already 

 observed t, borrowed each other's attributes, and 

 could only then be recognised by the hieroglyphic 

 legend placed above them. 



The Goddess Sate does not appear to have 

 played so important a part in Egyptian mythology 



* Horapollo, i. 11. f Vide suprci, p. 214, 



