[133] Tiele, p. 144; Meyer, Gesch. des Alt. i, 135. [↑]

[134] “We do not find magic predominant [in the tales] until the Ptolemaic age. At that time the physical magic of the early times reappears in full force” (Petrie, Religion and Conscience in Ancient Egypt, 1898, p. 29. Cp. Maspero, p. 286; Budge, Egyptian Magic, pp. 64, 233). [↑]

[135] Petrie, Hist. iii, 174–75, 180. [↑]

[136] Tiele, pp. 180–82; Meyer, Gesch. des Alt. i, 140–43. [↑]

[137] Tiele, pp. 184–85, 196, 217. [↑]

[138] Herodotos, ii, 48, 60–64, etc. Cp. Maspero, p. 286. [↑]

[139] “The Osiride and Cosmic Gods rose in importance as time went on, while the Abstract Gods continually sank on the whole. This agrees with the general idea that the imported Gods have to yield their position gradually to the older and more deeply-rooted faiths” (Petrie, as last cited, p. 95). [↑]

[140] The familiar narrative of Herodotos is put in doubt by the monuments. Sayce, Ancient Empires, p. 246. But cp. Meyer, i, 611 (§ 508). [↑]

[141] Tiele, p. 158. [↑]

[142] See figures 209, 212, 221, 235, 242, 249, 250, in Sharpe’s Hist. of Egypt, 7th ed. [↑]