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part of Osiris, the type of mankind, out of a lump of clay, 
with the following inscription : “ Klmum, the Creator, forming- 
on the potter’s wheel the divine members of Osiris, now is 
enthroned in the great hall of life.” This inscription reminds 
us very much of what Isaiah says on the same subject: 
“Now, O Jehovah, thou art our father; we are the clay, and 
thou our potter; and we are all the work of thy hand” 
(Ixiv. 8). Inasmuch as the Egyptians were in possession of the 
Septuagint at the time when this inscription was made, we might 
suppose the idea had been taken from the Hebrew prophet, 
only it appears that Klmum was known to the Egyptians in 
this character some centuries before the Ptolemaic period. 
6. Gliddon gives another inscription to the same effect, but 
unfortunately without mentioning whence it is taken, or the 
time to which it belongs. It reads as follows : — “ May thy 
soul attain to Klmum, the creator of all mankind.” And 
Gliddon considers that “ this alone is a proof of the primitive 
Egyptian creed of one God the Creator (whose divine attributes 
were classed in triads), of man’s possession of a soul, and of its 
immortality; of a resurrection, and of the hope of such.”* 
7. Turning now to the Pikenician cosmogony as next in 
chronological order, for Sanconiatho its exponent is supposed 
to have lived about four centuries after Moses, we find him 
explaining it in the following way. He says, that the begin- 
ning of ail things was a dark and a condensed wind, and a 
turbid chaos as black as Erebus. In course of time this wind 
became enamoured of chaos, and an intimate union took place 
which was called Pothos. From this union was generated 
Mot, which some call “ Mud,” but others, the putrefaction of a 
watery mixture. And from this sprung all the seed of the 
creation and the generation of the Universe. And there were 
certain animals without cessation, from which intelligent animals 
were produced, and these were called Zophasemin, i.e. “the 
overseers of the heavens”; they were formed into the shape of 
an egg ; and from Mot came forth the sun and moon, the less 
and the greater stars. And when the air began to send forth 
light, by its fiery influence on the sea and earth, winds were 
produced and clouds, and very great torrents of the heavenly 
waters. And when they were thus separated, and carried out of 
their proper places, by the heat of the sun, they all again met in 
the air, and were dashed against each other, thunder and light- 
nings being the result. At the sound of the thunder the afore- 
said Zophasemin (who would be called “astronomers” now- 
adays) were aroused and startled by the noise, and appeared 
on earth and in the sea, male and female. These things were 
# Gliddon’s Ancient Egypt, pp. 28, 29. 
