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feminine heads, the representations of the god Atmoo,* the god 
of darkness, and a basilisk with three faces, the significant 
Fig. 104. Four figures similar to preceding. Serpents named Hapu. (Sar. Oimen.) 
ideograph of the Egyptian triad of Horus (fig* 1 06), Isis, and 
Osiris, — the producing, the producer, and the produced ; the 
Fig. 105. Votive mummy-case in bronze, containing the mummy of an eel sacred to 
the god A turn, or Atmoo, the beneficent deity of darkness. (Leemans. ) 
almost consimilar analogues of the Hindu triad of Elephanta, — 
Brahma, Yishnu, and Siva.f 
Fig. 106. The mystic triune basilisk of Horus, Isis, and Osiris. (Sar. Oimen. ) 
38. Another sarcophagus illustrating the serpent mythos, 
is that of Bameses III., the great founder of Medinet Habou, 
at Cambridge, around the inscribed sides of whose basalt 
coffin coils an enormous snake ; the extremities of the reptile 
are conjoined, and the figure was probably intended to repre- 
sent the eternal life of the King protected by the snake 
* Sometimes significantly enough represented by an eel, as in the votive 
eel in the British Museum, case No. 38. (Fig. 105.) 
t See Bonomi’s Sarcophagus of Oimenepthah I., plate 11. 
