CHAP. XIII. HOR-HAT, agathod.t:mon. 413 



When represented as a man, with a hawk's head, 

 he appears to be related to the AgatliodiLMnon of the 

 Phoenicians ; wliich, according to Euscbius, was 

 supposed (though erroneously) to be the same as 

 Neph, with "the head of a hawk." In tiie cha- 

 racter of the winged globe, he unites the attributes 

 of Re, Neph, and Maut, — the Sun, asp, and vul- 

 ture's wings. He may then be said more particu- 

 larly to deserve the name of the Good Genius; 

 though, as I have already observed, the Agatho- 

 daemon, which presided over the affairs of men as 

 the guardian spirit of their houses, was the Asp of 

 Ranno*; according with another statement of Eu- 

 sebiust, that Agathodaemon was figured under the 

 form of a serpent. 



The winged globe may perhaps call to mind the 

 " land shadowing with wings t ; " as the figures 

 kneehng at either end of the sacred arks, or boats, 

 recall the winged Seraphim. 



The name of this Deity is written Hat, when 

 under the form of a hawk, and of the winged globe, 

 in attendance on the Kings ; and when under the 

 name and character of Hor-Hat, he usually wears 

 the Pshent, or crown of Up})er and Lower Egypt, 

 which seems to connect him with Horus. He is 

 sometimes represented with wings, holding a spear, 

 and crowned with the Pshent of Horus ; but this is 

 in temples of a Ptolemaic ycra. 



He frequently appears at Dendera, and also in 

 the oldest temples, in ali tiiese characters ; and 



* Fide supra, p. 239. ; and infra, on Ranno. 



-)- Enseb. Prepar. Evangel, i. 10. J Isai. xviii. 1. 



