[358] "Archæol. Survey of Egypt," 5th Memoir, 1896, p. 31.
[359] See especially op. cit., p. 35, the goddess of streams and marshes, who was also herself "the mother plant," like the mother of Horus.
[360] Whose cultural associations with the Great Mother in the Eastern Mediterranean littoral has been discussed by Sir Arthur Evans, "Mycenæan Tree and Pillar Cult," pp. 49 et seq. Compare also Apollo hyakinthos as further evidence of the link with Artemis.
[361] P. J. Veth, "Internat. Arch. f. Ethnol.," Bd. 7, pp. 203 and 204.
[362] "Hieroglyphics," p. 60.
[363] Budge, "The Gods of the Egyptians," Vol. I, pp. 436 and 437.
[364] Alan Gardiner, "Life and Death (Egyptian)," Hastings' Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.
The Mandrake.
We have now given reasons for believing that the personification of the mandrake was in some way brought about by the transference to the plant of the magical virtues that originally belonged to the cowry shell.