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^^!^^' the sun during the summer months \ Hence the 
name of Hades, bestowed upon Serapis by the 
Emperor Julian^, and the analogy between this 
deity and the Pluto of the Gr€eks\ According to 
Macrobius, the Egyptians were wont to represent 
the sun, in their winged images of that luminary, 
with two colours'*; one being white, as typical 
of ^mmon or the supernal sun ; the other Z;/2/e, to 
denote Serapis, or the sun s descent into Hades 
during winter, when it received the appellation 
of infernal^. It is a very curious circumstance, 
that the distinctions of colour mentioned by 
Macrobius may be noticed in all the mythological 
paintings of the Taktars, the Chinese, and the 
fl) " Sol .??<;>«7« et clams est Ammon. Sol caeruletis et in/erus est , 
ut mihi persuadeo, Serapjs." Jablmsk. Panth.^gypt. torn. I. p. 235. 
Franco/. 1750. 
(2) See the observation of Julian upon Serapis, as before cited. See 
also Cijrill. Alexund. adversus Julian, p. 1 3. 
(3) ' Scriptores plerique, ubi ad Sernpidcm eorum deflectit oratio, 
eum fer^ semper Phitonem interpretari soliti fuerint." Jablonslti, ubi 
supra, p. 23S. See also the authors by him cited. Diodorus, lib. i. 
p. 22. Clemens Alexandr. in Protreptico, passim. Eusebius, Prcpparat . 
Evang. lib.m. c.ll. p. 113. P&rphyrius Juliamts, Imp. Oral. 4. 
p. 13S. Cyrill. Alexandr. lib.'i. in Julian, p. 13. Aristides, OratiatLC in 
Serapim, passim. 
(4) Vid. Mdcrob. Saturnal. ubi supra. 
(5') Hence, perhaps, the very antient superstition of the blue colour of 
flame at the approach of departed spirits, coming from Hades. One 
of the Witches in Macbeth begins her incantation, "Blue spirils and 
U'hite!" Sj'c, 
