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tlie principal personage amidst the frightful and ca- 

 priciously formed figures which appear as the Evil 

 Genii of the Egyptian mythology ; and in astrono- 

 mical subjects, she may be supposed to represent, 

 as Plutarch says of Typlio, the eclipses of the Sun 

 and Moon, and the occultations of the Stars, or to 

 preside over the birth of the Sun. Her hierogly- 

 phics appear to read Tipo or Typho. She has the 

 body, apparently, of a hippopotamus, or of a bear, 

 with the head sometimes of a hippopotamus, some- 

 times of a crocodile, the tail of the latter, and the 

 hands and breasts of a woman ; and she frequently 

 wears on her head the globe and horns of Athor, 

 with two long feathers. Her hand reposes on an 

 emblem not very unlike a pair of shears ; and she 

 sometimes rests one hand upon a crocodile's head, 

 standing on its tail. 



At the quarries of Silsilis, she is worshipped as 

 a Deity, accompanied or followed by Thoth and 

 a Goddess, apparently Nepte, before whom, as a 

 triad, the Queen of Remeses the Great holds two 

 Sistra. She has a human head, with the usual 

 body of a monster standing erect on its hind legs ; 

 and I have met with the same Deity with a 

 human figure and head of a hippopotamus, on a 

 tablet, where she is the first person of a triad made 

 up of Eilethyia and Athor. She sometimes ap- 

 pears to be connected with the idea of parturition, 

 or gestation, — which may account for her being- 

 introduced with the Egyptian Lucina. Her figure 

 in the hieroglyphic legends of Isis* andNetpet 



* Vide Plate 34. Hierog. No. 7. f J7A' Plate 32. Ilierog. No. 2. 



