298 THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XIII. 



Tel el Amarna*, being always so systematically 

 erased, some may argue the animosity of the people 

 against a King, who had made an unwelcome foreign 

 innovation in the religion of the country, or at 

 least in the mode of worshipping that Deity. But 

 the name of Atin-re already existed at a very early 

 period; and though the subjects of Tel el Amarna 

 rarely occur t, except in those grottoes and the 

 vicinity, some traces may elsewhere be found of 

 the Sun represented with similar rays, in sculp- 

 tures of the time of the great Remeses. 



If, as I have already remarked t, Amenti signifies 

 the receiver and giver, Amun-re may be opposed 

 to Atin-re, in the same sense. 



Many other subdivisions or emanations of the 

 God Re may be traced in the characters of other 

 Egyptian Deities, as Aroeris, Mandooli, and others 

 of whom I shall have occasion to treat hereafter. 

 We also find Neph standing in the Sun accom- 

 panied by the Scarab, in which character he may 

 bear some relation to the God Re. 



It is probable that they separated the light 

 from the heat of the Sun, as the Greeks considered 

 Phoebus distinct from Apollo. The latter, too, 

 made a distinction between Apollo and Helios 

 (" the Sun"); and their mythology, according to 

 Cicero, admitted four Deities who bore the name 

 of Apollo ; one of whom, the reputed son of Vul- 



* Vide Plate 30. 



-f- I found some of the sculptures of this King at Koos, Apollinojjolis 

 J)arva, near Thebes ; and have since heard of others at the Temple of 

 Karnak, destroyed and built over by Amunoph III. 



J Vide sttprd, p, 246. 



