CHAP. Xlll. SACRIFICES OFFERED TO HIM. 419 



always the same as ascribed by us to the wicked 

 Satan ; but an abstract notion of what was hurtful 

 and bad, acting in opposition to the good, yet still 

 necessary to mankind, and })art of the system or- 

 dained by the divine intellect. " For the harmony 

 of the world," as Heraclitus observes*, "like that 

 of a harp, is made up of discords, consisting of a 

 mixture of good and evil;" and Earipides says, 

 " Good and evil cannot be separated from each 

 other, though they are so tempered as to produce 

 beauty and order." If such was the opinion of the 

 Egyptians, we are not surprised to find that sacri- 

 fices were offered to the bad principle, as though 

 his votaries considered themselves benefited by his. 

 interposition. And it is probable that they so 

 viewed the connection between the good and bad, 

 as to consider that nothing injurious to mankind was 

 not ordained for a good purpose ; that virtue even 

 was a vice, when carried to an extreme ; and that 

 no bad quality of the mind could not be turned to 

 a good purpose, if properly tempered by the judg- 

 ment and understanding. These ideas may be 

 obscurely hinted at, in the emblematic figure of 

 this Deity with the head of a hawk added to his 

 own, as though it represented the union of his at- 

 tributes with those of Horus, or of Osiris. t 



The same may also be traced in the office per- 

 formed by this Deity, in company with Plorus, 

 of placing the crown on the head of the King ; or 

 with Hor-Hat (Agathodaemon), of pouring over 



* Pint, de Is. s. 45. 



t Vide Plate 38. Part 2. fig. 2. 



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