402 THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XIII. 



The warlike character, as well as the name or 

 Horus (or Orus), may also suggest a resemblance to 

 Ares, the Mars of Greek mythology ; and, indeed, 

 Horapollo seems to have in view either Horus or 

 Aroeris, when he says*, "To denote Ares and 

 Aphrodite, the Egyptians delineate two hawks," — 

 since the hawk is the emblem both of Horus and 

 Atlior, the Egyptian Venus. This, however, could 

 only be a partial analogy ; since the God of War is 

 represented under another distinct form, with the 

 name Ranpo ; and tlie weapons put into the hand of 

 Horus only serve to prove his connection with the 

 Apollo of Greece, the patron of the bow, the 

 6>carYj^o7^og xai sxas^yog A.7ro70^aiv, and the destroyer 

 of the Serpent. If the Greeks assigned to Mars, 

 Apollo, and Minerva, the use of destructive weapons, 

 which might appear exclusively to belong to the 

 Gods of War, the Egyptians in like manner ex- 

 tended the privilege to several Deities independ- 

 ent of their God Ranpo. The spear was given 

 to Horus, and to Ao ; the bow and arrows to 

 Neith, to Sate, and to Khemi, wlio also holds the 

 battle-axe and spear; and the shield and arrows 

 were not denied as an emblem to a Goddess who 

 has the office of nurse, t 



The fanciful notion of Diodorus, Macrobius, 

 Horapollo, and others 1:, that the (uf>ai, liorce^ 

 "hours" and "seasons," received their name from 

 Horus, because the Sun was so called by the Egyp- 

 tians, is on a par with many other Greek ety- 



* Horapollo, Hierog. i. 8. f Vide Plate 65. Part 4. 



\ Diodor. i. 26. Macrob. Satuni. i. 2G. Horapollo, i. 17. 



