398 THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XIII. 



city of Apollo was sacred to Horus ; since " the 

 solemn hunting of the crocodile, annually held 

 there, commemorated the escape of Typho from the 

 pursuit of Horus under the form of that animal.'* 

 And as there is evidence of that city having been 

 Apollinopolis magna (now Edfoo), it is proba- 

 ble that the God worshipped there, who answered 

 to the Greek Apollo, was another character of 

 Horus the son of Osiris, having the additional title 

 and attributes of Hat, or Agathodaemon. Such is 

 the uncertainty on this point, that the Deities of 

 the two cities of Apollo do not appear to be the 

 same, — one being Aroeris, and the other Hor-Hat, 

 or Agathodaemon : Strabo even appears to mis- 

 take Mandoo * for Aroeris ; and there is great 

 confusion between the elder and younger Horus. 

 This last and Harpocrates are not always easily 

 separated, nor has Plutarch maintained a proper 

 distinction between the elder and younger Horus ; 

 and he not only gives to both of these the name of 

 Apollo t, but even to Harpocrates t, whom he con- 

 founds with the elder Horus. 



Horus, Aroeris, and Hor-Hat, are all represented 

 with the head of a hawk§ crowned with the Pshent, 

 or double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. But 

 the peculiar and distinguishing title of the younger 

 Horus is *' the support or defender of his father, 



* Vidr infra, Mandoo. 

 t Plut. de Is. s. 1-2. 

 X Plut. de Is. s. 54. 



§ The hawk's head is also given to Re, Mandoo, Pthah-Sokari-Osiris, 

 Khonso, and Rebhnsnof. 



