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exhaustive but indicative, essay, his cultus claims, and 
must receive, our sole and best attention.* This fearful 
monster, called also the Giant, the Enemy, and the Devourer, 
was believed to inhabit the depths of that mysterious 
ocean upon which the Baris, or boat of the sun, was 
navigated by the gods through the hours of day and night, 
in the celestial regions. In not a few instances he wa s 
identified with Typhon,-f* the murderer of Osiris the (Rhot- 
Amenti, or judge of the dead), and the antagonist of Chefer- 
Ra, the benevolent creator, by whose son, the juvenile divinity 
Fig. 63. The Osirian and the goddess Isis bringing Apophis wounded and bound to 
be slain in the head by Horus. Isis stands at the head, and the Osirian at the 
tail of Apophis. (Sharpe, Sar. Oimen.) 
Horus (fig. 63), he is eventually overcome, aided by the united 
efforts of Isis, the Queen of Heaven, sister-consort of Osiris, 
and the twelve lesser deities of the heavenly powers. All this. 
Fig. 64. The gods Set and Horus, united as one divinity, between the triple serpen t 
of good. Executed prior to the time of the obliteration of all remains of the 
worship of Set, who was subsequently confounded with Apophis. (Sar. Oimen. ) 
* Occasionally Apophis is drawn with the crown of the lower kingdom 
upon his head, which, however, is not extraordinary, as the religion of the 
Delta had a great deal more of animal- worship in it than that of the Thebaid, 
and there the gods were venerated more from fear than love. 
t In later Greco-Roman times, as in the earlier period, Apophis is also 
identified with Set, or Seth, the ass-headed deity of the Syrian or Hyesis 
tribes. One very late monument indeed speaks of “ Seth, who is the Apophis 
of the waters.’ —Bunsen, i. 427. 
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