[1254] Records of the Past, ii, 129 ff. The names of other deities also were combined with that of Ra.
[1255] Egyptian civilization, as appears from recent explorations, began far back of Menes; cf. Ed. Meyer, Geschichte des Altertums, 2d ed., vol. i, part ii, § 169.
[1256] Cf. Breasted, History of Egypt, p. 58; Frazer, Adonis Attis Osiris, bk. iii, chap. v.
[1257] Plutarch, Isis and Osiris, 18; Frazer, loc. cit.; Breasted, op. cit., p. 171 f.
[1258] His identification by some ancient theologians with the sun (Frazer, op. cit., p. 351 f.) or with the moon (Plutarch, op. cit., 41) is an illustration of the late tendency to identify any great god with a heavenly body.
[1259] Such is the wording given by Proclus. The form in Plutarch (Isis and Osiris, 9) is substantially the same: "I am all that has been and that is and that shall be, and my veil no mortal has lifted." See Roscher, Lexikon, article "Nit," col. 436. Doubts have been cast on the reality of the alleged inscription.
[1260] Maspero, Dawn of Civilization, p. 131.
[1261] So Ed. Meyer, in Roscher, Lexikon, article "Isis," col. 360.
[1262] Steindorff, Religion of the Ancient Egyptians, p. 107 ff.
[1263] See Drexler, in Roscher, Lexikon, article "Isis," col. 424 ff.