24 Some conjectures on the progress of [Jan. 



tribe of peaceful settlers,* a point of value in my argument: for it 

 enables me to connect the mythic and traditional histories of Egyptian 

 influence beyond the confines of the Nile valley, with something so 

 positive as a monumental record of that influence ; and to find in ' the 

 Egyptian Bacchus conquering and colonizing India,' the type of its 

 existence, as belonging to a state of society anterior to the subjugation 

 of old Egypt by a foreign race, and the partial corruption of its 

 ancient habits. 



What those habits were, appear, (to cumulate evidence,) in the cha- 

 racter of the earliest types of the divine power among them, — the 

 eight, or, according to Bunsen, the twelve, ancient gods, forerunners 

 and begetters of the twelve Mediaeval gods, to whom succeeded the 

 Isis and Osiris worship, or third pantheon of Egypt. The symbol of 

 power in all the representations of gods, on the oldest monuments, is 

 "a sceptre termed," says Chevalier Bunsen, "Gam, and assumed as 

 the emblem of a mild authority." Amnion, "the hidden god;" Khem, 

 "the creative power;" Kulph, "the soul;" Moot, "the mother;" 

 Ptah, " the Lord of truth ;" Neith, " whose name is called, From 

 myself I come " Phra, " the sun ;" are the chief deities of an ancient 

 Pantheon, the spirit of which is peace. In them lies, to us, a recovery 

 of the genealogy of ideas among a primitive people, who thus expressed 

 figuratively their conception of the attributes of the godhead, wor- 

 shipped variously in different localities of the same country ; but, when 

 its separate states were united under one ruler, forming indistinct 

 acceptations of the same fact, the ground work for another creed, more 

 wildly and loosely imaginative, and adopting itself, by borrowing from 

 foreign sources perhaps, to the altered and altering habits of the nation. 

 Thus in the second Pantheon of Egypt, and only there, among, eveu 

 then, only the supplemental or minor divinities, we find Anata, or 

 Anaitis, the goddess of victory, the first evidence of whose worship 



* There is in the Egyptian types found in Etruria, a like absence of anything 

 aggressive or injurious. The most remarkable instance of the barbarism of muti- 

 lation in war, as noted by Mr. Dennis, occurs on a vase at Volteria, representing 

 the scene before Thebes, where one of the besiegers grasps a severed head by 

 the hair, about to hurl, it into the city, (Cit. and Cem. of Etr. II. p. 176) a practice 

 common afterwards with the Romans : "the style of art shows them to be of 

 on very early period." — H. T. 



