3.84 On Egv*t'and. the Nile- 



or Arki, built feveral places of wor/hip in the regions adjacent to trie Cafi; 

 and we ftill find the town of Arkico near the Red Sea, which is not mentioned* 

 indeed, by any of the Grecian geographers, but the headland contiguous to it is 

 called by Ptolemy the promontory of Saturn. The genius of 8aturn 

 is defcribed in the Purdns as clad in a black mantle, with a dark turban 

 loofely wrapped round his head ; his afpect. hideous and his brows knit with 

 anger; a trident in one of his four hands; a cimiter in a fecond, and, in the 

 two others, a bow and' fhafts : the pr lefts of Satu rn in Egypt, where his 

 temples were always out of the towns, are faid by Eplphanius to have worm 

 a drefs nearly fimilar. 



To conclude this head, we mult add, that the ft ban of Aurva is now cal- 

 led Arfu by the Copts (a) "j but, as Aurva correfponded with Orus, or 

 Apollo> the Greeks gave it the name : of Apollonopolis., 



III..' The metamorphofis of Lunus into Luna was occafionally men- 

 tioned in the preceding fection >, but the legend muft now be told more afc 

 length.. The God So' ma, or Chandra, was traverfing the earth with his 

 favourite conlort Ro^hini"; and, arriving at the fouthern mountain. Sahyadri, 

 they unwarily entered the foreft of Gauri, where fome men having furprifsd 

 Mahddiva careffing that goddefs, had been formerly puniihed by a change 

 of their fex 3 and the foreft had retained a power of effecting the like change 

 on all male s p . who mould.enter it. Chandra, inftantly becoming a female,, 

 was fo afilicled and amamed ? that me haftenedy^r to the weft, fending Ro'hi- 

 Ni" to her feat in the iky, and concealed herfelf in a mountain, afterwards 

 named Soma-giri, where me performed acts- of the rnoft rigorous devotion*. 



(a) Lett,. Edif. .vol, 5,-5. 257. 



