May not one reason for concealing this doctrine of the unity and spirituality of God have been the stress of the African mind to variety and bodily form? The priests feared to encounter this great current of sentiment in the people, and so outwardly conformed to it.
191. So says Wilkinson.
192. The finger on the mouth symbolizes, not silence, but childhood.
193. The name "Mut" was also given to Neith, Pacht, and Isis.
194. Brugsch, Aus dem Orient, p. 48.
195. See Merivale, Conversion of the Northern Nations, p. 187, note, where he gives examples of "the inveterate lingering of Pagan usages among the nominally converted." But many of these were sanctioned by the Catholic Church.
196. Kenrick, I. 372 (American edition).
197. See for proofs, Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity, by Samuel Sharpe, 1863.
198. Sharpe, Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity.
199. Sharpe, as above.