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seems to connect him with the God of War, in tlie 

 same sense of the destroying power. In a papyrus 

 of M. Reuvens, he approaches near to the figure 

 of Hercules, whom I shall presently have occasion 

 to notice ; and we might even suppose him to be 

 the Deity of Strength. 



If he represented Death, his frequent occurrence 

 in company with the infant Horus may readily be 

 explained by the connection sujiposcd to subsist 

 between death and reproduction ; and I have seen a 

 statue which combhies the attributes of both those 

 Gods, under the form of a youth with the lock of 

 Childhood descending from his head, and the beard 

 and unseemly features of this aged monster.* 

 Sometimes, and indeed more generally, the head 

 of the latter is placed over that of the youthful 

 Deity, who, holding in one hand two snakes with 

 a scorpion and Capricorn, in the other similar 

 snakes with a lion and scorpion, stands upon two 

 crocodiles, and is surrounded by the emblems and 

 figures of different Gods. Though most of these 

 are well known, I do not pretend to offer an ex- 

 planation of the whole subject t, whicli appears to 

 bear an astrological as well as a mythological sense, t 

 The three principal figures — the crocodile, the 

 young Horus, and the monster head — may signify 

 darkness §, the origin of all things, existence or 

 production, and death. They may also explain an 



* Vide Plate 24. «. fig. 3. f Vh/c Plate 4-3. a. 



J I7f/r Macrob. Saturn, i. 26. Clemens (Strom. 5.) says, " The 

 Egyptians sometimes represent tlie Sun in a boat, sometimes on a 

 crocodile." 



§ Vide SKprd, 274'.; and irifrd, on Xjj/u ; ami llorapoUo, i. G9, 70. 



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