430 THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XIII. 



appears to refer to her capacity of protectress of 

 mothers. I have also found an instance of this 

 Goddess with the name Isis over her, in an as- 

 tronomical subject on a mummy case now in the 

 British Museum. 



The hippopotamus and the crocodile were em- 

 blems of Typho, except, perhaps, in those towns 

 where they happened to be worshipped; as at Pa- 

 premis, the city of Mars, which held the former 

 among the animals dedicated to its protecting 

 Deity ; and at Ombos, and other places, where the 

 crocodile was sacred. '' At Hermopolis, " says Plu- 

 tarch *, ** there is shown a statue of Typho, which 

 is a hippopotamus with a hawk upon its back fight- 

 ing with a serpent. By the hippopotamus is meant 

 Typho ; and by the hawk, the power he frequently 

 assumes by violence, and then employs to his own 

 annoyance and to the prejudice of others. So, 

 again, the Cakes they offer on the 7th day of Tybi, 

 to celebrate the return of Isis from Phoenicia, nave 

 the impression of a hippopotamus bound, stamped 

 upon them. The solemn hunt of the crocodile in 

 the city of Apollo, when every one is obliged to 

 eat of its fiesh, is, in like manner, established to 

 show their abhorrence of Typho, whose emblem it 

 is. The same feeling is the origin of their hatred 

 of the Ass." 



The connection of Typho and Mars, of both of 

 whom the hippopotamus was said to be an emblem, 

 is singular ; and there appears to be a great analogy 



* Plut. de Is. s. 50. 



