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Fruit, bread, flowers, and incense are the gifts most usually 
presented, human beings and animals, never.* The goddesses 
Fig. 49. The sacred urseus of goodness, or the goddess Ranno, wearing the symboliea 
crown of Amun-Ra. (Sharpe.) 
whose cultus has left the most positive traces of its extent, are 
Melsokar or Mersokcar, the patron of Lower Egypt; Renno 
(fig. 49), f the mother of gestation, and goddess of harvest: 
and Urhuk, one of the doorkeepers of Sheol or Amenti. Of all 
Fig. 51. Shrine, with the sacred urseus. On either side are columns bearing a vase 
of oil and honey for the food of the reptile. (Leemans.) 
these statements, the incised and painted tablets and papyri in 
the British Museum afford ample evidence ; and some of these, 
Contrary in this respect to the serpent “ Fire face.” See infra , fig. 100. 
4 Curiously enough, the Hebrew word for green vegetation, pjn (Cant. i. 15) 
strongly resembles that of this goddess. May the word have an Egyptian 
origin ? 
Fig. 50. Shrine, with the sacred urseus. (From memory.) 
