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From a misconception or mistranslation of this chapter, it 
is probable that Horapollo derived his confused account of the 
Fig. 40. The constellation Hydra. From the Zodiac of Denderah. Romano- 
Egyptian period. (Denon.) 
serpent myths. Between the Egyptians and the Greeks there 
was little in common, and the priests purposely misled their 
Grecian querists, whom indeed they designated and treated as 
children.* 
Fig. 41. The same constellation. From the Zodiac of EsnA A little earlier period. 
(Denon.) 
9. As, in the order of Providence, good always precedes 
evil, we will so far digress from the main purport of this 
paper, the Myth of Apophis, “ the Destroyer,” as to dwell for 
a few paragraphs upon the uraeus of immortal divinity, and 
the Egyptian goddesses symbolized by it. (Fig. 42.) 
Fig. 42. The goddess Pasht, or Buto, holding in one hand the Cucufa staff and in the 
other a feminine urseus. (Sar. Oimen.) 
10. The feminine deities were more numerous, and their cha- 
racter and offices were less distinctive than the male divinities. 
Each and all of them are written hieroglyphically by an urseus 
alone, sometimes with the ordinary proper name affixed ; 
* The reply of the Egyptian priest to Solon the Athenian is almost pro- 
verbial,: — “ You Greeks are children.” 
