404 THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XIII. 



occurs again at Ombos, where he is figured as 

 Horus, though not as the son of Osiris. But the 

 many points of resemblance brought forward by 

 Herodotus, Plutarch, and others, between Apollo 

 and the son of Osiris, argue strongly in favour of 

 the opinion that the younger Horus answers to 

 the Greek Apollo. 



Aroeris was son of Seb and Netpe ; and in a 

 hieroglyphic legend at Philae he is styled son of 

 Netpe, and represented under the singular form 

 of a hieraco-sphinx. Plutarch thinks him to have 

 had the Sun for his father, and to have been born 

 on the second day of the Epact. Little more is re- 

 lated concerning him, nor does he appear to have 

 acted a very prominent part in the mythological 

 history of his brother Osiris. 



In a papyrus published by M. Champollion, he 

 is styled " Haroeri, Lord of the Solar Spirits, the 

 beneficent Eye of the Sun ;" and it is in this last 

 sense that he appears to bear some analogy to 

 Apollo, who, according to Plato, received his name 

 from *' the emission of the rays of light." A})ollo and 

 the Sun were distinct in the mythology of Greece*; 

 and it is probable that the Egyptians separated 

 the light from the heat, and perhaps even from 

 the splendor of the Sun ; considering it in the va- 

 rious characters to which I have already alluded. i 

 Hor-oeri, or Aroeris, may be considered the eye 

 and light t, or the splendor and brightness of the 



* Vide supra, p. 298. f Supra, p. 299. 



J This cannot fail to call to mind the aor, "light," of the Hebrews ; 

 though not resembling the Egyptian word of the same meaning. 



