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^ ‘ t Th ® inquests of Thothmes III. and Rameses II. 
* lhS ’n Keseph ' and man y Syrian deities to the 
• , \ J 0 iers i such as Malooli and his consort, were 
woL 0 h- UCe l r0 n N , ubia - The Persians > a modification of sun- 
A'?’ th l Greeks, Canopus and Serapis; and the Romans 
' who was adored as a god at Antinopolis. Not 
n *“ e or dead Apis, was unknown before, 
lnn J • / llke Canopus ; and Harpocrates, his worship was deve- 
n tll 1 ^ l % new J orm that ^ found its graphic symbolism 
in the erection of a figure which soon became to be regarded 
deiLation ' IV the °^ whidl o^nated the 
deification of a Pharaoh, admitted the deification of that 
Pharaoh s favourite likewise, as in the case of Antinous, the 
compamon of Hadrian, m whose honour the town and temple 
of An moopohs was founded.} As the male sovereigns were 
assimilated while living to Ra and when dead to Osiris, so the 
^eceTsed Wer t e ili ad ^n ed l 7 ^ While Hving ’ and as Hathor ^en 
eceased, till, in later times, every woman was called an 
whfip t/ an m h6r f fane f al P a Py ri -§ In the Litany of Ra, 
F the » erras of all these deviations from the more ancient 
with thL . t [ acea ^ 1 ®^ stl11 Jim whole composition is infused more 
tli the idea of Eternal Essence than with that of an Eternal 
tolerated 11 ^’ /^i ^ ° th< \ grosser forms of idolatry were 
derated, and indeed excused, by the teaching of such a litanv, 
the more philosophical mind would try to believe that— 
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, 
Whose body Nature is and God the soul.”|| 
Ll e ru SUh J lme idea f ° r a Pa S an > but a most unworthy one 
oi a Christian poet, and one that it is inconceivable should be 
frnrntl “ ° m ’ SC l 10 ? ls ' to S ether with other Pantheistic passages 
JZr th yZ°r ° f 116 Same aUth0rj for the reli S ious education 
miifAi" tn be S6COnd chapter of the Litan y of Ra does not present 
to Ra on ShfffT*? :te X tl0n - ?•“ chiefl y a series of addresses 
JV , 011 behalf of the Osinan king when he enters heaven to 
ake his place as one of the spheric gods— the gods of the orbit 
rlvlTn 1 — 0 ° J [ lG Dead ^ Ea is entreated to “ give eves to the 
yal Osina n ; to give a heart and divine eyeballs to him : ” to 
command him, by virtue of his word, to be like the various 
t I T„I. ii tiWmant, rol. i. p. 328. 
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II Pope, Essay on Man, book i., sec. 9. Caps, cxxvi. to cxxix. 
