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hood; protects her protege with her terrible fangs (fig. 45). 
The generative power of the solar beams is always typified 
Fig. 46. The winged sun of Thebes. From the great Pylons at El Luxor. (Bonomi.) 
In this instance the signet of authority is suspended by the serpents in lieu of 
the usual Tau cross. 
by pendent urgei (fig. 46),* which latter have generally the 
Fig, 48(The bowl and snake of the goddess Eileithya ; beneath is the papyrus of the 
lower kingdom. (Wilkinson.) 
Often a goddess, incarnated in a serpent, rests in a shrine 
or sits upon a throne to receive the worship of her votary. % 
* Wilkasori, Ancienit Egyptians, vol. i. p. 239, second series, 
t Ancied Egyptians , vol. y. p. 45. 
X As in V unique example of the Ptolemaic period in the British Museum, 
which reprints a quadrangular shrine, at the door of which a sitting urseus 
is sculptures The cornice is terminated by a pyramidion, and the whole is 
executed in kft limestone. A nearly, but not quite, similar shrine, is figured 
m Musee cle Vide, vol. i. plate 35. 
