Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt

by Lewis Spence

[248]-[251]
JOYCE, MR. T. ATHOL, [121]
JUDGMENT SCENE, THE. Monster, Amemt, in, [294]
JU'NO. Reference to, [102]
JUPI-TER-AMMON. A great oracle known as, [142]
JUPPI-TER. Dodecagon of, [102]
K
KA. Island of the, [194]; the body of Queen Hatshepsut's, [247]
KAG-EM'NI. Books of proverbs attributed to; of great age, [187]
KA'HÛN. Poor houses at, [41]
KAI-EK'HOS. A king of the Second Dynasty; Manetho traces the cult of Apis to, [284]
KA'KU. One of the three children of Rud-didet, [203];
real name of, [205]
KAM-BY'SES. The Apis bull and, [304];
Usa-hor-res-net, physician of, [304]
KAM-EN'O-PHIS. Prince of Mendes; civil war between Prince Pimonî and, [240]-[245];
cuirass of Ierharerou seized by, [240];
his four nomes, [242]
KAN. A deity of the ancient Maya; equivalent, Hobnil, [29]
KAN-ZIC-NAL. A deity of the ancient Maya; equivalent, Muluc, [29]
KAR'NAK. Assa mentioned in tablet at, [26];
temple of, [61];
Imhotep and Amenophis adored at, [303], [304];
the hypostyle hall at, [317];
the famous Avenue of Sphinxes at, [318]
KEK'U-I AND KEK'U-IT. Gods, [12]
KEMT. Word 'alchemy' derived from Egyptian word, [269]
KERH AND KER'HET. Personified Night or Chaos, [12]
KES'ET, Hathor of, [169]
KH. Sign, the determinative of the name Set, [280]
KHAF'RA. Entombed in second pyramid of Gizeh, [25];
family, [25];
tells tale of magic to his father, [198]-[199]
KHAL'U. The country of, [229]
KHAM'O-ÎS. The envoys of, [235]
KHAR'TOUM, [38]
KHEM-EN'NU. Equivalent, Hermopolis, [111]
KHEM'I, [190]
KHEN'SU. The Moon-god; a form of Amen, [141];
son of Bast, [148];
apes in temple of, [294]
KHEP'ER-A. Deity; laid foundation in Maāt, [13];
magical skill of, [13];
tears of, [14];
states he is Osiris, [14];
Nu identified with him, [14];
a form of the sun, [21];
Harmachis refers to his identity with, [86];
Af Ra transformed into, [118];
in Book of the Dead, [119];
Ra as, [136];
type of resurrection, [137];
reference to, [146]
'KHE'RI-HEB.' Priests, [261]
KHNEM'IT. The diadem and crown of, [317]
KHNEM-NEF'ERT, QUEEN. Sarcophagus of, [111];
reference to, [112]
KHNEM'U. Worship of, [18], [152], [153];
probably a totemic deity, [21];
in Book of the Dead, [119];
creation of universe and; fashioned the animals, [144];
symbol of, [152], [153];
female counterparts; attributes, [153];
the Nile flood and, [154];
King Tcheser and, [155];
reference to, [156], [172];
Hekt, wife of, [175];
worship of the Ram of Mendes and, [288]
KHNEM'U-RA. Power of, [154]
KHNUM. Fashions the body of Queen Hatshepsut, [247], [248]
KHNUM'U. God; and the priest Ra-user, [203]
KHNU'MU-HO'TEP. Coffin of, [324]
KHON'SU. Lunar deity, identified with Thoth, [176];
Expeller of Demons, [178]-[180]
KHON'SU IN THEBES NEF-ER-HET'EP. One of the forms of Khonsu, [178];
gives protection to Expeller of Demons, [179], [180]
KHORP HEM'TI-U. Distinctive title of priest, [53]
KHU. The Spirit-souls, [117]
KHU'FU. Equivalent, Cheops, [25];
first pyramid and, [25];
reference to, [152];
magic story related to, [197]-[202]
KHUT. Isis, called, [83];
the serpent called, [130]
KICHE-S. Tribe referred to, [12];
all forms of worship fused in one by the, [133]
KING ARTHUR. Reference to, [87]
KINGDOM. The Old, the Middle, and the New, [36]
KOM-ES-SAGHA. The temple of, [317]
KOM-OM'BOS. The pronaos of, [320]
KO-RE'. Figure in mysterious cult, [58];
alternative, Persephone, [58];
myth of, [77];
reference to story of, [121]
KRAM'AT. Of the Malays, [261]
KROK'-O-DIL-O'-POL-IS. The crocodile, incarnation of the god Sebek,
dwelt in lake near, [11];
the centre of the worship of the crocodile, [290]
KRO'NOS. Loved by Nut, [65];
equivalent, Geb, [65]
L
LAB'Y-RINTH. Crocodiles buried in the subterranean, [290];
Herodotus not allowed to enter, [290]
'LADY OF THE SYCAMORE.' The Memphite Hathor was called, [298]
LAKE MOERIS, [55]
LAND OF PUNT, [193]
LANE. Reference to, [261]
LATE KINGDOMS. Reference to, [4]
LATIN. Reference to supremacy, [35]
LEF-É'BURE. Reference to, [259]
LE-O-NAR'DO DA VIN'CI. Reference to, [314]
LE-ON-TOP'O-LIS. City of, [291]
LEP'SIUS. Researches into Egypt, &c., by, [38];
theory of, re Osiris, [73];
monuments recovered by, [160];
animal stories and, [195]
LET-OP'OL-IS. Canal of, [202]
LETTER. Pharaoh Ousimares and the sealed, [211];
read to Pharaoh Ousimares by Se-Osiris, [213]-[215]
LEY'DEN, [37], [195]
LIB'YA. Oracle of Jupiter-Ammon in, [142]
LIB'YAN. Home of Osiris, [64];
desert, [76];
Isis of Libyan origin, [80], [82];
aggression in the Delta, [140]
LIB'YAN PERIOD, THE, [300]
LIFE, DOUBLE HOUSE OF. Equivalent, Library of Magical Books;
written by Thoth, [265]-[268]
'LIGHT AND HEALTH.' One of Ra's appellations, [269]
LION-S, THE. Worship of, [291], [292];
identified the sun-god Horus, [291];
the Delta the home of the Egyptian, [291];
Leontopolis, the centre of the cult of, [291];
kept in the temple at Heliopolis, [291];
the ancient lion-god Aker, [291];
Sef and Dua, two guardian, [292];
statues of, familiar under Greek name of 'Sphinxes,' [292];
Amen-hetep III and his boast re, [292];
Rameses II and Rameses III both kept a tame, [292]
LOCAL GODS. Confusion in consequence of, [2];
distinctive marks of, [2]
LOGIC Prehistoric, [255], [256]
LONDON, [194]
LOS'KI-EL. On resurrection, [79]
LOTUS, THE. In Egyptian symbolism, [299];
boy Horus issues from cup of, [299];
the symbol of resurrection, [299]
LOUIS XIV. Painting under, [321]
LOUVRE, [37], [72], [206]
LOVE. Hathor, the goddess of, [246]
LUX'OR. Buildings at, [317]
LY-COP'O-LIS. Inhabitants of, [101];
worship of the Ram of Mendes in, [288];
the wolf venerated at, [294]
LY-SAN'DER. Consulted the oracle of Jupiter-Ammon, [142], [143]
M
MAA. God of sight, [181]
MAĀ KHER'U ('Right speaking'). Etymological meaning, [261]
MAĀT. Signifies law, &c., [53];
goddess of justice, identified with Isis, [82];
closely resembles Thoth; one of the original goddesses;
symbolized by ostrich feather, [108];
appellations, [109];
path of Ra across the sky planned by, [131]
MAC'BETH. Reference to, [143]
MACH-I-A-VEL'LI. Reference to, [187]
MAF'TET. Reference to the goddess, [16]
MAGIC-AL. Chapter on, in tale of the Magicians, [132], [206];
force in Egypt, [261];
formulæ ('right speaking') in Egypt, [261];
versus Magic; tale of, [215]-[219];
cane, King Thothmes', [249], [250];
Egypt the mother of, [252];
Egyptian, is assumed to be a degraded form of religion, [252];
Professor Maspero's statement re, [252];
Dr. Budge's statement re, [252];
the antiquity of Egyptian, [254], [255];
Frazer, Marrett, Hubert and Mauss, on origin of, [253], [256];
the savage of the Egyptian Stone Age and, [254];
difference between other systems and Egyptian, [256];
statement of Professor Maspero re, [257];
names of power in connexion with Egyptian, [258];
force, in Egypt, [261];
its recognized representatives, [261];
formulæ, Book of the Dead and, [262];
conspiracy, of Hui, [262], [263];
words of power, inscribed on amulets, [263];
the gibberish of, [265];
Books—the Double House of Life, or Library of, [265];
medical, [268];
powers, belief re, in Egypt, [270];
mummy, [273], [274];
Amenophis author of a book on, [303]
MAGICIAN-S. Tale of the, [132], [152];
none in Memphis equal to Se-Osiris, [211];
Pharaoh Ousimares' chief, [215];
war of enchantments between Horus and Pharaoh's chief, [217]-[219];
coercion of the gods by, [256]
MAH-Î-TOU'AS-KHÎT. Wife of Setne; prays to Imhetep for a son, [207], [212];
her prayer is answered, [208]
MALAY-S. Depict the soul in bird-shape, [32];
magical force in Egypt and the kramat of the, [261]
MALAYSIA. Belief occurring in, [6]
MA'NA. Of the Melanesians, [261]
MAN-AKH'PHRÊ-SI-AM'ON. See Pharaoh Manakhphrê-Siamon
MAN-E'THO. Divided Egyptian history into dynasties, [35];
chronology of, [35];
cult of Apis traced by, to Kaiekhos, [284];
the Sarapis statue and, [307]
MANHOOD. Superstition regarding new name given at initiation rites
conferring, [259]
MAN'U. The mountain of sunset, [125]
MAN'ZET. The barque, [131];
model of the, in temple at Heliopolis, [134]
MAR'DUK. Slew Assyrian monster Tiamat, [132]
MAR-E-O'TIS. District of, [46]
MA-RI-ETTE. Reference to, [38], [169], [287], [288]
MARETT. The works of, and the origin of magic, [253]
MARS. A war-god, [19];
reference to, [102];
identified with Horus, [181]
MAS-A'I. Reference to, [34]
MAS-PE'RO, SIR GASTON. Reference to companies of gods, [16];
contributions to Egyptian archæology, [38];
reference to, [41], [42], [64], [112], [113], [257];
translated "True History of Setne and his Son, Se-Osiris," [206];
his statement re Egyptian magic, [252]
MĀ'TER. Governor of King Tcheser, [154], [155]
MAT-KA-RÉ, QUEEN. Papyrus of, [320]
MAUN-DE-VILLE, SIR JOHN. Allusion to writings of, [190]
MAUSS. The works of, and the origin of magic, [253]
MA'YA OR MA'YAS. Of Central America, [29];
use of funerary jars by, [29];
belief in resurrection, [79];
abode of god of death and the, [101];
ostrich feather and the, [109];
description of their Hades, [121]
MAYPOLE. Custom of bringing in the, reference to, [72]
MEC'CA. Reference to, [2]
MEDITERRANEAN. Civilizing stock on southern shores of, [34];
theory re people of, [34]
MEDICAL MAGIC. Egyptian medicine and, [268]
MEDICINE. Secrets of, divulged to men by certain deities among
North American tribes, [261];
medical magic in the practice of Egyptian, [268]
ME-DI'NET-HABÛ. Temple of Rameses III at, [317]
ME-DUM. First pyramid structure at, [24]
ME'HEM-ET ALI. Egypt opened to Europeans under, [37];
preservation of ancient monuments undertaken by, [38]
MEH-URT. Seven Wise Ones offspring of goddess Meh-urt, [147]
MEL-AN-ES'IAN-S. Magician, sends forth his soul in form of eagle, [6];
magical force in Egypt and the Mana of the, [261]
MEL-CAR'THUS. King of Byblos, [68];
elder son of, goes to Egypt with Isis, [69]
MEM'NON. Colossal figures of, at Thebes, [318]
MEM'PHIS. Walls still exist at, [40];
one of the centres of Amen-Ra at, [142];
Ptah, greatest of the gods, at, [144];
Seker ruled over, [145];
centre of worship of several gods, [147];
reference to the triad of, [150];
worship of I-em-hetep of ancient date in, [151];
Ammen-hetep built temples at, [157];
Se-Osiris leads Setne to unknown place in mountains of, [209];
no scribe or magician in, equal to Se-Osiris, [211];
Nefer-ka-Ptah's tomb at, [266], [267];
a priest of, who served Ashtoreth with the moon-god Ah, [278];
sacred bulls of, [287];
Apis, the bull in the temple of Ptah in, [302]
ME'NA. The first historical king of Egypt, [110];
Apis and, [284]
ME'NA'S CONQUEST. Reference to, [35]
MEN'DES. 1. Kamenophis, Prince of, [240].
2. The great god; Kamenophis swears by, [241].
3. City of; high priest's title at, [53];
centre of worship of Osiris, [63];
one of the centres of Amen-Ra, [142];
worship of the Ram of Mendes in the, [288];
the god Pan worshipped with a goat at, [288];
the stele of, found by Mariette, [288]
MEN-KAU-HOR. Pyramid constructed by, [26]
MEN-KAU-RA. Corpse of, placed in Upper pyramid, [25];
revision of parts of Book of the Dead undertaken in his reign, [112]
MEN-NI-US AG-RIP'PA. [195]
MEN'TU. The god of war, [246]
MEN'TU-HET'EP. A king of the Eleventh Dynasty, [111], [112]
ME'NU. Festival of, [57]
ME'NU'QET. Ruled over Field of Reeds, [116]
MER-AST'ROT. One of sons of Rameses II, named after Ashtoreth, [279]
MER'CU-RY. Reference to, [150];
Set and, [181]
MER-EN-PTAH. Anena, a scribe who executed the original d'Orbiney papyrus,
lived in reign of, [224]
MER-OE. The Bull of; one of Amen's appellations, [214]
MERT, WESTERN WATERS OF. Horus overtakes allies of Set at the, [90]
MER-U-IT-EN'SA. High Steward of Henenseten, [220]-[224]
MES-EK-TET. Barque believed to contain evening sun, [131];
model in temple at Heliopolis, [134];
reference to, [146]
MES'EN. Shrine of Heru at, [86]
MESK-HENT. Goddesses, [203]
MES-NET. A chamber behind the sanctuary at Edfû, [93]
MES'NIU. Equivalent, Mesnitu; followers of Horus, [93]
MES'-TI. The man-headed, represented on canopic jars, [28];
one of the four helpers of Horus, [96]
MES'TRO-VIC, I-VAN'. Reference to the statuary of, [315], [322]
MEXICAN ARCHÆOLOGY. Mr. Joyce's book on, [121]
MEXICAN-S. Teocalli, [24];
practised mummification, [29];
their belief in resurrection, [79];
abode of god of death and the, [101];
bird and serpent combined in their god, [130];
goddess festival of a, [175]
MEXICO. Dogs sacrificed in, [104];
warriors of, and paradise of sun god, [135];
unlucky days in, [174]
MIDDLE KINGDOM. Reference to, [4];
toward end of, usual to adorn walls of pyramids with texts, [23];
practice of embalming in time of, [27];
comprised Dynasties IX to XVIII, [36], [317];
Aten, obscure local deity under the, [157];
language of, [183];
reference to, [186]-[188];
story of Saneha dates from, [190];
craft of building during, [317]
MI'MIR. Odin and, [14]
MIN. Symbol of, [7];
reference to, [146];
alternative for Amsu, [279]
MIN-ER'VA. Reference to Temple of, [56]
MIN'NEM-AI. Prince of the Eupuantine; son of Ierharerou, the King-priest
of Heliopolis, [245];
recaptures his father's cuirass, [245]
MIT-AN'NI. Tushratta, king of the, [278]
MNEV'IS. Worship of bull, at Heliopolis, [288]
MOERIS, LAKE. College of priests at, [55];
crocodiles held sacred at, [290]
MOHAMMEDAN. Egyptian realms of bliss compared with, [128]
MO-MEM'PHIS. Hathor of, [169]
MOON-GOD. A form of Amen, known as Khensu, [141]
MORAVIAN BRETHREN. Reference to Loskiel, one of the, [79]
MOUNTAIN OF THE SUNRISE. Afra directs his course to the, [118]
MOU-TOU-BAAL. A prince of Syria; Pakrourou meets, [243];
overthrows the bands of Sebennytos, [244]
MUL'UC. One of the four deities of the ancient Maya, [29];
equivalent, Kanzicnal, [29]
MUMMY MAGIC. [273], [274];
oil used in connexion with, [274]
MUT. Female counterpart of Amen-Ra; worship centred at Thebes; once
mentioned in Book of the Dead,143;
reference to, [176];
the vulture the symbol of, [297]
MY-KEN-Æ'AN. Wall-scenes, figures copied from Taurt on, [175]
MYS'TÆ. Hall of the, [58]
MYTH-OL'OGY. Reference to the wicked dead in Hindu, Burmese and Malay, [272];
the, of Egyptian gods, [280]-[282];
the cat found throughout Egyptian, [293];
the jackal in Egyptian, [294];
other animals in Egyptian—see Animals, [295]
N
NA-HAI-RA'NA. Homage to King Rameses at, [177];
the Doomed Prince and the chief of, [229]
NAME-S OF POWER. Use of, in connexion with Egyptian magic; [258];
Professor Rhys and, [258];
Howitt and, [258], [259];
superstition re in many Australian tribes and in Abyssinia,
Chile, Senegambia, and North America, [259];
many Egyptians received two names, [259];
common over all the East, [259];
Jews reading sacred name, Jahveh, pronounce it Adonai, [259];
legend re Isis, and Ra's secret name, [259];
Osiris threatened to be named aloud, [260], [261];
Lane on, [261];
secret of name divulged by deities to men, [261]
NAPOLEON. Military expedition of, into Egypt, [37], [321]
NAR-MER. Mace-head of, [63]
NATCH-URA. Female companion of Hapi, [171]
NATIVITY. Tables of, found in later papyri, [272]
NAU-CRAT'IS. Centre of Greek trade in Egypt, [46]
NAVILLE, M. Opinion of, on chapter of Book of the Dead, [112]
NEB'HAT. Goddess, [203]
NEB'KA. Story regarding, [198], [199]
NEB-KA-N-RA. King; Meuitensa, Lord Steward of, [224]
NEB-SEN'I PAPYRUS. Book of the Dead, and, [111]
NEBT-HET. Equivalent, Nephthys, [97]
NEF-ERAKA-RA. Pyramid of, [26]
NEF-ER'ET, PRINCESS. Reference to the statue of, [324]
NEF-ER-KA-PTAH. Thoth's Library of Magical Books lodged in tomb of,

[266];
Ahura, wife of, [266];
plays game of draughts with Setne, [268];
Setne commanded by Pharaoh to return Thoth's book to, [268]
NEF-ERT. Statue of, [50]
NEF-ER-TEM. Reference to, [147];
son of Ptah; symbolized by the lotus-flower; one of the triad of Morphis, [150];
the lotus and, [299]
NEGROES. Reference in sealed letter read by Se-Osiris to land of
the, [214], [215], [216]
NE'HA-HER. Serpent in underworld, [117]
NEITH. Arrow of, [7];
equivalent, Net, [21];
reference to, [156];
origin, [276]
NEKH'BET OR NEKHEBET. Goddess; Horus and, [89], [90];
Serpent, the symbol of, [93];
reference to, [143];
female companion of Hapi, [171];
the vulture, the symbol of, [297]
NE-O-LITH'IC. Origin; Egyptian mysteries of, [59];
Nubians, [76];
savages; Book of the Dead and, [122]
NEPH'THYS. One of the great gods at Heliopolis, [14];
reference to, [17];
birth of, [65];
sister-goddess to Isis, [77], [246];
female counterpart of Set; daughter of Geb and Nut, and mother of
Anubis; assists Isis, [97];
Book of the Dead and, [97];
equivalent, Nebt-het, [97];
magical powers of, [98];
protects Osiris, [98];
personification of darkness, [98];
prepares the funeral bed of Osiris and guards his corpse, [99];
later representation, [99];
reference to, [103], [147], [155], [174];
Book of the Dead and, [156]
NEP'RA. Mention of, in hymn to Hapi, [171]
NES'ERT (Flame). Name of Sekhmet, [147]
NEW EMPIRE. Equivalent New Kingdom, [27];
reference to, [36];
temple-building and advent of, [59]
NEW EMPIRE ART. Described, [317]-[319];
period witnessed the completion of the hypostyle hall at Karnak,
the temple of Rameses III at Medinet-habû, and the great assembly
of ecclesiastical edifices at Dér-el-Bahari, [317];
buildings at Luxor, [317], [318];
rock-cut temples at Bêt-el-Wálî and Abu-Simbel, [318];
Memnon at Thebes and the Avenue of Sphinxes at Karnak, [318];
the statues of Thothmes III; Amenophis, the son of Hapu,
and Queen Tyi, [318];
re bas-relief, the likenesses of Seti I (Abydos), Septah Meneptah,
and Queen Aahmes, [318]
NEW KINGDOM. Process of mummification during period of, [27];
equivalent, New Empire, [36];
wealth and power of gods in, [52];
symbol of winged disk in, [92];
language, [183]
NILE. Dynastic Egyptians along the banks of the, [35];
description of house on banks of the, [42];
inundation of, [48], [83];
dead carried across the, [62];
country, shrines to Osiris in, [63];
Osiris supposed god of the, [64];
coffin of Osiris on the, [67];
moon-god identified with the, [76];
Ra, voyages on the, [88], [89];
sacrifice thrown into, [103];
belief of early dwellers by the, [128];
gods of the, [153];
flood of the, [154], [155];
reference to the, [161], [168], [169], [194], [201], [205];
source of all wealth and provender, [170];
Bitou made Prince of the Upper, [228];
temple to Queen Hatshepsut erected in the valley of the, [248];
cows cast into the sacred waters of the, [284], [303];
the Apis and the, [285]
NILE VALLEY. Divinities worshipped in, [1];
totemism non-existent in the, [3];
practice of magic in, [7];
funeral processions along, [30];
belief in, regarding soul, [32];
characteristics of, [33];
inhabitants of, [34];
language of, [34];
religion of, [34];
inhabitants of, little affected by time, [44];
feudal system in, [45];
nature of soil, [46];
worship of Ra in, [132];
worship of Amen in, [137], [141];
Egyptian system of writing traced within the, [184];
fables early popular in, [194]
NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. Pony totem worshipped by, [11];
celebrations by, almost identical with that of Eleusis, [58];
initiatory ceremonies of, [122];
eagle a symbol of the sun among, [130]
NORTH LAND. Promised to Thothmes by Harmachis, [86]
NORTHERN MARSHES. Horus born in the, [85]
NU. Deity of the firmament and the rain, [12];
things created from out of, [13];
children of, [13];
eye of, [14];
identified with Khepera, [14];
alluded to in the Pyramid Texts, [21];
primeval abyss of, [108];
great mass of celestial waters called, [118];
has place in Book of the Dead, [119];
Pet, a contradistinction to word, [125];
Mut, original female counterpart of, [143];
reference to, [170], [173]
NU'BI-A. Researches in, [38];
explorations of, [43];
monuments in, [43];
battles between Horus and followers of Set, in, [90];
power of Amen-Ra in, [142];
Māter, ruler of, [154];
cult of Anqet in Northern, [156];
reference to, [194];
reference to King of, in sealed letter read by Se-Osiris, [213];
Queen Hatshepsut designed to reign over, [246]
NUBIANS. Racial origin, [34];
moon-god of the Neolithic, [76]
NUN. The oldest of the gods; Ra seeks counsel of, [166]
NUT. Deity of the firmament and the rain, [12];
one of great gods at Heliopolis, [14];
reference to, [17];
equivalent, Rhea, [64];
Thoth, [65];
five children of, and, [65];
frequently portrayed in a sycamore tree, [72];
mother of Horus the Elder, [84];
mother of Nephthys, [97], [172];
mother of Set, [99];
personification of the morning, [118];
mother of Hathor, [165];
follower of Ra, [166];
daughter of Shu and Tefnut; wife of Geb, and mother of Osiris
and Isis; personification of sky, [172];
counterpart of Nu, [172];
the spouse of Nu, and of Geb, [173];
general appearance, [173];
frequently represented in form of cow, [173];
the sycamore sacred to, [174], [298];
place of origin, Denderah, [174];
office in the underworld, [174];
portrait of, painted on coffins as a charm, [174];
the sky-goddess; in the Court of Amen-Ra, [246]
O
OB'EL-ISK-S. Of Heliopolis, [317]
OCH'US. Persian monarch reigning over Egyptians, and nicknamed the Ass, [103]
OD'IN. Reference to eye of, [13]
OLD KINGDOM. Alternative, the Pyramid Age, [22];
comprised dynasties I to VIII, [36];
domestic architecture of, [43];
decapitation, a mode of death in, [47];
language of, [183];
monuments, &c., of a model for the New Empire, [301];
reference to the priests of the, [305];
statues in the, [315]
OL-YM'PUS. Worship of, [9];
the high place of deities, [10]
ON. Equivalent for Heliopolis, [54], [113], [114];
worship of Ra in, [132]
'OPENER OF THE WAYS.' Equivalent for Up-uaut, [105]
ORACLE-S. The Apis, in the temple of Ptah, [286];
not of Egyptian origin, [303]
'ORE, BLACK.' See Black powder, also Alchemy.
ORENDA. Of the North American Indians; reference to, [261]
ORIENT, ANCIENT. The peoples of, invoked evil beings equally with good, [258]
ORIENTALS. Like Egyptians, fatalists, [49];
like Egyptian labourers, sing while at work, [205]
OR-I'ON. Stars of, [75]
OS-I'RIS. Myth of, [6], [64];
coffin of, [7];
one of the great gods at Heliopolis, [14];
account of creation according to worshippers of, [14];
cause of primeval matter, [14];
one of the first of the company of gods, [17];
mummification arose out of the cult of, [22];
sacredness of man's body taught by priests of, [26];
Pharaohs identified with, [27];
night journey of, [30];
religion in Nile valley and, [34];
dark realm of, [48];
son of, [54];
annual commemoration of sufferings and death of, [56];
birthday of, [57];
one of principal figures in Egyptian pantheon, [63];
equivalent, As-ar, [63];
god of the dead and the underworld, [63], [76], [77];
origins extremely obscure, [63];
centre of Osiris-worship at Abydos, [63];
shrines to, [63];
dwells peaceably in underworld, [64];
usually figured as wrapped in mummy bandages, [64];
African in origin, [64];
son of Nut, [65];
his birth, [65], [174];
Pamyles proclaims birth of, [66];
education by Pamyles, [66];
prophecies concerning, [66];
wife rules for, [66];
Set invites banquet, [67];
gets into fatal chest, [67];
death of, [67];
coffin enclosed in pillar at Byblos, [68];
his many tombs, [70];
promising to return to earth when his wrongs are avenged, [70];
Sir G. Frazer on myth of, [70];
use of corn and; cultivation of vine and; corn-spirit and tree-spirit, [71];
myth of, as tree-spirit, [72]-[73];
identified with sun-god, Ra, [73];
lunar significance, [74]-[75];
pigs sacrificed to, [75];
hymn addressed by Isis to, [75];
god of fertility, [77];
personification of Ra, [78];
typical of bodily resurrection, [79];
Book of the Dead and, [79], [80];
in his guise of the corn dies and is restored to life again by Isis, [81];
reference to, [88], [90]-[93], [98], [99], [100], [103], [104], [107], [109], [110],
[114]-[116], [122], [128], [137], [139], [141], [145]-[147], [153], [155], [156], [167], [208];
represented 'yesterday,' [95];
journey of, in the underworld, [116], [117];
his journey as Af Ra through the Duat, [118];
description of his rôle as judge of the dead, [119];
Osirian paradise consisted of converse with, [134];
struggle between priesthoods of Ra and, [135];
worship of, [135];
overshadows Ra; identified with Tem, [136];
Hapi identified with, [169];
identified with Venus, [181];
seen in a vision by Setne, [209], [210];
on right hand of Amen-Ra in the land of the gods, [246];
threatened to be named aloud in the port of Busiris, [260], [261];
invoked in connexion with spells over crocodiles, [264];
black powders identified with the body possessed by, [270];
mummy magic and the god, [274];
the Apis and, [284]-[287];
the spirit of, infused into the ox, [285];
a dual god with the Apis, [287];
worship of Ram of Mendes, and, [288];
crocodiles, friend and foe of, [289];
the falcon sacred to, [296];
Set the dark brother of, [300];
identified with Dionysos, by Herodotus, [303];
identified with Pluto, [306];
reference to the vignette of the Judgment before, [320];
a study of, in Saïte statuary, [320]
OUN-AM'OU-NOU. The chief priest of the temple of Amen-Ra;
visits coasts of Egypt, [232]-[236];
arrives at Tanis, [232];
arrives at Dora, city of Zakkala, [232];
Prince Badîl sends food to, [232];
reaches Tyre, [233];
sails in direction of Byblos, [233]
OUS-I-MAR'ES, PHARAOH. Name of king in "History of Setne
and his son Se-Osiris," [206], [207];
see Pharaoh Ousimares.
OUS-I-MAN'THOR. Son born to Setne, [219]
OXFORD. Reference to museum at, [37]
P
PACH'ONS. Month of; sacrifices to Set during, [100]
PA-HER'I. Prince of El Kab, [120]
PAINTING. Of Japan, derived from China, [311];
in England, Scotland, Germany, and France, imported
chiefly from the Low Countries, [311];
the materials of, [315]-[317];
of Saïte period, [320];
French, [321]
PAK'ROU-ROU. Ally of Ierharerou, King-Priest of Heliopolis, [240];
meets Moutoubaal, a prince of Syria, [243]
PALÆOLITHIC MAN. Sleep a puzzle to, [255]
PALERMO STONE. Inscription called the, [18]
PALESTINE. Theory that stoneworking race immigrated to Egypt from, [34];
researches into, [38];
spoil of conquered, loaded temple of Amen, [139];
reference, to, [191], [194];
Joppa, a town in Thontii and, [248]
PAL'LAS ATH-E'NÉ. Alluded to, [19]
PAM-IL'I-A. Festival of, [66]
PAM-Y'LES. Heard voices at birth of Osiris, [65];
education of Osiris entrusted to, [66]
PAN. Worshipped at Mendes, according to Herodotus, [288]
PAN-OP'OL-IS. One of the centres of Amen-Ra at, [142]
PANTHEON, EGYPTIAN. Foreign gods, inclusion in, [275];
Sebek and the rites of all the other gods in the, [289];
Ta-urt, the hippopotamus goddess, identified with every goddess in the, [294]
PAP-Y'RI. Medical, containing formulæ to be employed against
the demons of disease, [269]
PAP-Y'RUS. Reference to, of Ani, [6], [57];
the Nebseni, [111];
the Turin, [111];
of Setna, [184];
the Harris, [248], [262];
the d'Orbiney; in the British Museum, [224];
story of "The Doomed Prince" in the Harris, [228]-[232];
story of "How Thontii took the Town of Joppa," inscribed in the Harris, [248];
A Tale of Setna, related in a, of the Ptolemaic period, [265]-[268];
of Queen Mat-ka-ré, [320], [324]
PAR'A-DISE. Material delights of, [127];
animal transformations in, [129]
PARIS. Cult of Isis carried on in, to-day, [80]
PASSION-PLAY. Ceremony in hall of Mystæ, in the nature of a, [58]
PAÜNI. Sacrifices during the month, [102]
PÉ. City given to Horus by Ra, [97]
PEASANT. The workman and the; story of, [220]-[224]
PELUCE. A main approach into Egypt; Setuan and his army encamp there, [219], [220]
PE'PI. Description of homage rendered to deity in text of, [15];
material for the study of Egyptian pantheon in Pepi the First, [19];
texts found in the tomb of, [113];
the Pyramid of, [114]
PERIOD-S. Religion of the Late, [299]-[303];
the Ptolemaic, [304]-[306];
the Decadent, [301];
the Libyan, [299];
the Hellenic, [306];
the Thinite, the first great, of Egyptian art; the Memphite,314;
the New Empire, [317]-[319];
the Saïte, [319], [320]
PER-SEPH'ON-E. Alternative, Kore, [58];
mention of, [77]
PERSIA-N. 1. History, intertwined with that of Egypt, [37];
2. Conquest, reference to, [35];
currency unknown in Egypt until, [45].
3. Rule, religion under, [304]
PERU. Place origins in, [10];
condor typified orb of day in ancient, [130];
creation legends of, [133];
solar cult of, [134]
PERUVIANS. Mummification practised by, [29];
sacrificed dogs at burials, [104];
forms of worship of, [133]
PES'EDT. Company in nine deities designated as the, [16];
strange gods absorbed in the leader of the, [16];
no name given to the third, [17];
entire, unified in Amen, [141]
PET. Egyptian name for heaven, [125]
PET-EK-HOU'SOU. Brothers of Pimonî; overthrow Anoukhoron, [244]
PETRIE, PROFESSOR FLINDERS. Authority on Egyptology, [35];
supports Manetha's chronology, [35];
dating of Egyptian history according to, [36];
scientific investigation under, [39];
Egyptian tombs, and, [105];
monuments and temples in honour of Aten, recovered by, [160]
PETROGRAD. Egyptian tale preserved in Hermitage Collection at, [191]
PET-U-BAS'TIS. A portrait of, in Saïte statuary, [320]
PE'UN. Courtier; King Amasis, and, [197]
PHAN-E'MOTH. Month, [75]
PHA-OPH-I. Sacrifices during the month, [102]
PHA'RAOH-S. Place of burial, [22];
women, servants, and dogs slaughtered at grave of, [23];
identified with Osiris, [27];
head of feudal system, [45];
attire of, [49];
ecclesiastical party, and, [52];
lotus and papyrus as emblem of union, on thrones of, [170];
mention of a, [192], [193], [194], [200], [201], [202], [207];
entices Bitou's wife, [226];
slays Bitou in form of sacred bull (Apis), and in form of trees, [226], [227];
unknowingly makes Bitou his successor, [228];
sons of the, and the higher offices of the 'kheri-heb' priests, [261];
gave lavishly to the cult of the Apis bull, [286];

decline in the ancient faith of the, [299];
the ancient faith of the, foreign religions penetrate the land of the, [309];
Christianity triumphs in the land of the, [309]
PHARAOH MANAKH'PHRÊ-SIAMON. Reference to, in sealed letter read by
Se-Osiris, [213]-[219]
PHARAOH MY-CER-I'NUS. Work in Cairo Museum shows, seated, [313]
PHARAOH OUS-I-MAR'ES. The sealed letter and, [211];
Se-Osiris reads sealed letter to, [213]-[215];
Setne, son of, [212]
PHAROAH PET-OU-BAS'TIS. Civil war in Egypt during reign of, [240]-[245]
PHID'I-AS. Reference to the Elgin Marbles of, [314];
Egyptian art remains inferior to those of Greek origin wrought
in time of, [323]
PHIL-A-DEL'PHUS. See Ptolemy II
PHIL'AE. Temples of, [43];
great temple of Isis at, [71], [73];
shrine of Heru at, [86];
temple of I-em-hetep at, [151];
shrine of Anqet at, [156]
PHŒNICIA. Reference to, [194]
PHŒNICIAN-s. Egypt and the, [46];
their alphabet taken from Egyptian hieratic, [185];
Reshpu corresponds to god known by, [280]
PHŒ'NIX, THE. The mythical bird; the bennu gave rise to, [296];
fables of, recounted by Herodotus and Pliny, [296];
rose from sacred tree in the 'Great Hall' of Heliopolis, [298]
PHRA-HAR'MAKH-IS. God who intervenes between Anapou and Bitou, [225]
PILOT-GODS. Craft of Osiris steered by, [116]
PIM-O'NÎ, PRINCE. Alternative, 'Pimonî of the strong fist';
successor of Ierharerou, the King-Priest of Heliopolis, [240];
Petekhousou brother of, [244]
PLAN-ROOM. Chamber in Heliopolis; designs of House of Thoth, in, [202]
PLINY. Statement of, re the soul of Aristeas, [6];
the prophecies at the procession of the Apis, and, [286];
fables of the phœnix recounted by, [296]
PLUTARCH. Religious tales of, [4];
principal authority for legend of Osiris, [64];
quotation from his De Iside el Osiride, [64];
gives particulars of grave of Osiris, [73];
statement by, regarding Osiris, [74];
quotation from, [74]-[75];
throws light upon myth of Nephthys, [98];
quotation from, regarding Set and the Ass, [101];
statement on Anubis, [104];
gives the astronomical significance of Anubis, [105];
his allegation regarding the form in which Isis
lamented death of Osiris, [297];
the Legend of Sarapis and, [306], [307]
PLUTO. One of the chief figures in the Eleusinian mystery, [58];
husband of Persephone; god of grain and growth, [77];
reference to, [102]
POP'OL VUH. Story of creation recorded in the, [12];
reference to, [58], [133];
book of the Central Americans, resembling Book of the Dead, [121];
story of wonderful crop of maize, in, [122]
POL-Y-THE-IS'TIC WORSHIP. A national tendency, among Egyptians, [275]
PORCELAIN. Of mediæval China, [311]
POST-IMPRESSIONIST-S. See Art
POWER, NAMES OF. See Names
POW-HAT'ANS. Their belief re the souls of their chiefs at death, [5]
PRAYER-S. Prescribed, in connexion with medical magic in Egypt, [269]
PREDESTINED PRINCE. Alternative "The Doomed Prince," [228]-[232];
Story of the, discovered by Goodwin, [248]
PRIEST-S. The 'kheri-heb,' the recognized representations of
magic in Egypt, [261];
the higher offices filled by sons of the Pharaohs, [261];
new order known as the 'priesthood of the beneficent gods,' [305];
the Theban, regarded as sages, [305];
reference to the, of the old kingdom, [305]
PRIESTESSES. In Thebes, consecrated to the service of Amen, [305]
PRINCE, THE. Work by Machiavelli, [187]
PRINCE, THE DOOMED. The story of, [228]-[232];
doomed, to three evil fates—to die by a crocodile, a serpent,
and a dog, [231]
PRO-CON-NES'US. Aristeas of, [6]
PROPHECIES. The Apis Oracle, and, [286]
PRUSSIA. Reference to expedition sent by, into Egypt, Nubia, Syria,
and Palestine, [38]
PSAM-MET'ICH-US I. Founded town of Naucratis, [46];
story of the days of, [197]
PTAH. A form of the sun-god, [21];
temple of, [53];
Book of the Dead, and, [119];
greatest of the gods at Memphis; derivation of name, uncertain, [144];
alluded to in Pyramid Texts, [144];
a master architect and framer of everything in the universe, [144];
partakes of the nature of Thoth, and also of Shu, [145];
as Ptah-Seker represents union of creative power with that of
chaos or darkness, [145];
absorbs attributes of Seker; also connected with Tenen, [146];
had variants which took attributes of Min, Amsu, and Khepera;
described as, triune god of the resurrection, [146];
centre of worship at Memphis, [147];
female counterpart, Sekhmet, [147];
Seven Wise Ones, and, [147];
reference to, [150], [154], [171], [207];
Pharaoh Manakhphrê-Siamon swears by, [215];
the Apis oracle in temple of, [286];
Apis, the bull of the temple of, [302]
PTAH-ANKH. One of the Pyramid Age sculptors, [315]
PTAH-HOT'EP. Books of proverbs or instructions attributed to, [187]
PTAH OF ANKH'TAUI. Temple of, [198]
PTAH-SEK'ER. One of the gods alluded to in Book of the Dead, [119];
represents union of creative power with that of chaos or darkness, [145]
PTAH-SEK'ER-AS'AR. Equivalent, Ptah-Seker-Osiris, [146]
PTAH-SEK'ER-O-SIR'IS. See Ptah-Seker-Asar.
PTOL-EM-Æ'US. Demise of King of foretold by oracle of Sebek, [291]
PTOL-E-MA'IC. Period; travelling courts instituted in, [47];
Saïte Recension employed to the end of the, period, [114];
forms small figures of Amen-Ra made in, [141];
period; references to, [152], [186], [196]
PTOL'EM-IES. Reference to text of the, [151]
PTOL'EM-Y II, PHIL-A-DEL'PHUS. Temple of Mendes rebuilt by, [288];
Apis and Mnevis provided for, by, [305]
PTOLEMY III. Decree of Canopu, belonging to, [186]
PTOLEMY SO'TER. Identification of Sarapis with Pluto, assigned by
tradition to reign of, [306]
PUNT. Queen Hatshepsut designed to reign over, [246]
PYRAMID AGE. Equivalent to the Old Kingdom, [22]
PYRAMIDION, HOUSE OF THE. Temple built to his god by Amen-hetep, [159]
PYRAMID-S. Ritual texts and spells inscribed in the, [183];
the Sphinx and the; monuments of bygone Egypt, [314];
the Monna Lisa of Leonardo da Vinci and the Elgin Marbles
of Phidias, evoked by the, [314];
age sculptors; Ptah-Ankh, one of the, [315];
days; craft of painting on sun-dried clay, during, [316]
PYRAMID TEXTS. Allusion to the, [12];
mention of deities in the, [15], [19]-[21];
a double group of eighteen gods mentioned in the, [16];
inscriptions antedating the, [18];
material for study of Egyptian pantheon found in the, [19];
origin of, [24];
Set alluded to in the, [99];
reference to, [63], [110];
Ptah alluded to in the, [144];
Bast mentioned in, [148];
Sebek referred to in the, [289];
revival of the, [301]
PYTHAGOREANS. Typho and the, [102]
Q
QEB. One of the first company of gods, [17]
QEBH-SEN'NÛF. The falcon; represented on canopic jars, [28]
QET'ESH. An Egyptian goddess borrowed from Semitic Asia, [276];
in Syria, worshipped as a nature goddess, [279];
in Egypt identified with one of the forms of Hathor, [279];
considered by some authorities to be an aspect of Ashtoreth, [279];
one other appellation, the 'eye of Ra,' &c., [279];
prayed to for gifts of life and health, [279];
associated as one of a trinity with Amsu or Min and the god Reshpu, [279]
QU-EB'UI. North wind, called, [180]
QU-ER'TI. Cavern from which flowed Nile flood, [154]
QUET'ZAL-CO-ATL. Reference to the Mexican god, [130]
R
RA. Ferry-boat of, [6];
representation of, [11];
the creative faculty and, [13];
darts of, [16];
name joined to that of Tem, [17];
a form of the sun-god, [21];
night journey of, [30];
comparison with Osiris, [63];
equivalent, Helios, [65];
pronounced curse upon Nut, [65];
Thoth turns curse aside, [65];
identified with Osiris, [73], [78];
Horus the elder one of the chief forms of, [85];
Harmachis refers to his identity with, [86];
Horus assists, [88];
shrine erected to Horus, by desire of, [89];
prisoners of Horus brought before, [90];
at one time identified with Horus, [92];
Horus legends and, [93];
grants request of Horus, [96];
gives Horus the city of Pé, [97];
reference to, [100], [101], [103];
eyes of, [105];
mental powers of, [106];
reference to eye of, [107];
boat of, [108];
solar doctrine of, [114];
alluded to in Book of the Dead, [119];
dwells in heaven, [125];
helps Osiris to climb into heaven, [128];
position in Egyptian pantheon, [130];
number of sun-cults became fused in that of, [130];
bird and serpent associated in, [130];
daily voyage of, [131];
worship of, in Egypt, [132];
how progeny of, first gained Egyptian throne, [132];
worship of, supreme in Nile valley, [132];
power of his priests, [133], [134];
temple at Heliopolis dedicated to, [134];
his sphere more spiritual than that of Osiris, [134];
struggle between priesthoods of Osiris and, [135];
cult of, foreign elements in, [135];
overshadowed by Osiris, [136];
reference to, [137], [138];
fusion with Amen, [139], [140];
temple of, at Memphis, [147];
reference to, [148], [151], [153], [158], [160], [162], [164], [165], [171], [174],
[176], [181], [202], [203], [205];
Hathor and myths of, [166]-[168];
Isis and the secret name of, [259];
invoked in connexion with spells, [264];
one of the spells in Thoth's Library of Magical Books enabled
a man to see, [266];
word 'recipe' said to be an invocation to the 'god,' [269];
'God of Light and Health,' one of the appellations of, [269];
Qetesh termed the 'eye of,' &c., [279];
worship of Ram of Mendes, and, [288];
Sebek connected with, [289];
the lion identified with, [291];
the 'Sphinx' at Gizeh, the symbol of the sun-god, [292];
the falcon sacred to, [296]
RA-TEM. Blending of Ra and Atum, [133]
RA-HAR-MACH-IS. Worship of, restored by Thothmes IV, [157];
obelisk built by Amen-hetep IV, [158]
RA-HER'U-AKH'TI. See Ra-Heru-Khuti
RA-HER'U-KHU'TI. Ruled over a region of Field of Reeds, [116];
equivalent, Ra-Heru-Akhti; Aten adopted the title of high-priest of, [157]
RA-HOR-AKH'TI. The reign of, [88]
RAM'ES-ES. Pyramid of, cannot be placed satisfactorily, [26];
tale illustrating the healing power of Khonsu, located in the
time of King, [176]-[180]
RAM'E-SES II. Anena, a scribe who executed the original d'Orbiney papyrus,
lived in reign of, [224];
a temple to Baal existed at Tanis under, [277];
named one of his sons Mer-Astrot, after Ashtoreth, [279];
tame lion kept by, [292];
the New Empire during time of, a model for the Late period, [301]
RAM'-E-SES III. Power of god Amen in time of, [52];
temple built for Khonsu at Thebes by, [176];
the conspiracy of Hui against, by means of magical books, [262], [263];
goddess Anthat honoured by, [277];
tame lion kept by, [292];
reference to temple of, at Medinet-habû, [317]
RAMESSIDES. Baal especially esteemed by, [277]
RAMESSID DYNASTY. High-priest of Amen-Ra raised to royal power at
end of the, [140]
RAM OF MENDES. The cult of; ascribed by Manetho to Kaiekhos, [288];
worship of, in the Deltaic cities Hermopolis, Lycopolis, and Mendes, [288];
Herodotus relates Pan was worshipped with the, [288];
Ptolemy II Philadelphus rebuilds temple of, [288];
appellation, Khnemu, [288];
worshipped both by conquered and conquerors, [306]
RAM, THE. Reference to, [288]
RA-OSIRIS. The two gods blended in one, [78];
equivalent, Afra, [78];
punishment of the wicked mitigated in the Duat by appearance of, [122];
enemies of, and the souls of the doomed, [123]
RA-SEK-EN-EN. Nationalist prince portrayed in fable, [194]
RAT. Female counterpart of Ra, [132]
RAT-TAU'IT. Goddess worshipped at Hermonthis; mother of Horus the younger, [84]
REALM OF SEK'ER A separate realm of the dead, [117]
RECENSION. The Heliopolitan, Theban, and Saïte, of
Book of the Dead, [113], [114]
'RECIPE.' Word is said to be an invocation to Ra, whose symbol it is, [269]
RED MAN. Reference to imaginings of the, [15]
RED SEA. Crossed by immigrants from Arabia to Egypt, [34]
RELIGION-S. Egyptologists regard Egyptian magic to be a degraded form of, [252];
numerous strata in Egyptian, [257];
Egyptian magic more in common with, than most other systems, [258];
evolution of, on Egyptian soil, [258];
Semitic and African influence on Egyptian, [280]-[282];
Egyptian; symbolism of, mostly expressed by means of animals, [283], [284];
of the Late period, [299]-[303];
under Persian rule, [304];
the Ptolemaic period, [304]-[306];
under the Decadent period, [301];
the Libyan period, [299];
Egyptian, thrown into obscurity by the devotees of Christianity, [300];
the Alexandrine conquest and Egyptian, [304];
under Greek rule, [306];
foreign, penetrate the land of the Pharaohs, the alien faith which
finally triumphed was Christianity, [309]
RENAISSANCE. An architectural, [308], [309];
Italian masters of the, owed much to the Græco-Roman school, [311];
colours in many old Egyptian works better than those in divers
Italian frescoes of the, [316];
the Romans and the Italian masters of the, [321]
RER'ET. Goddess; evil influence of Set and, [101];
a form of Isis, [101];
equivalent, Taurt, [175];
identified with Draco, [181]
RESH'PU. An Egyptian god borrowed from Semitic Asia, [276];
Syrian god, associated as one of a trinity with Qetesh, [279];
his cult in Egypt, [280];
chief centre of worship, Het-Reshp, [280];
in Syria regarded as a god of war, [280];
corresponds to the god known by Phœnicians and worshipped
in Cyprus and Carthage, [280]
RE-STAU. Hidden things in, [57];
the other world of Seker, [57]
RHAMP-SI-NI'TES. The story of, handed down to us by Herodotus, [237]-[240];
Egyptians duped by, [240]
RHAMP-SIN-I'TUS, KING. Reference to, [194];
See Rhampsinites
RHE'A. Equivalent, Nut, [64];
reference to, [102]
RHIND. Scottish archæologist, [38]
RHYS (pron. Reece), PROFESSOR. The Celtic belief re the name
being the 'soul,' and, [258]
RIGHT SPEAKING (MAĀ KHERU). Term applied to a certain formula which
a magician once found effective and which had to be always repeated
exactly, [261]
RO'DIN. Reference to the sculptor, [315], [323]
RO'MAN-S. Pantheon; reference to deities in, [19], [20];
oracle of Jupiter-Ammon consulted by, [142];
Ptah identified with Vulcan by the, [144];
plebeians; reference to, [195];
cult of Sarapis extended under the, [287];
period; cult of the crocodile lasted far into the, [291];
Italian masters of the Renaissance, and the, [321]
ROME. Professor Sergi of, [34];
history of, traced through Egyptian history, [37];
cult of Isis flourished in, [80];
worship of Isis took an orgiastic character in, [84];
the Theban priests much sought after by travellers from, [305]
ROSELLINI. His expedition to Egypt, [38]
ROS-ET'TA STONE. Came into British possession 1801, [37];
decipherment of the, [38];
progress not made in reading of hieroglyphic writing until discovery
of the, [185];
its lingual inscription consisted of fourteen lines of hieroglyphs,
thirty-two lines of Demotic, and fifty-four lines of Greek; by
comparison and decipherment, Egyptian alphabet discovered,
and clue found to lost language, [186]
RUD-DID'ET. Wife of a priest of Ra, [202], [204]
S
SAA. God of the sense of touch, appears in boat of Ra, [181];
son of Geb; personification of intelligence, human and divine, [181]
OTH. Archangel; mentioned with Osiris and the Greek gods, [309]
SACKVILLE, LADY MARGARET. Reference to lines written by, [326]
SAF'EKHT. The goddess of learning; the palm-leaf the symbol of, [298];
the sacred tree in the 'Great Hall' of Heliopolis and, [298]
SA'HAL. Island of, [154];
worship of Anqet centred at, [156]
SAHARA DESERT. Reference to, [33]
SAH-RA. One of the three children of Ruddidet, [203];
name of second King of Fifth Dynasty and, [205]
SAÏS. Reference to, by Herodotus, [56];
centre of Amen-Ra at, [142];
Lady of, [164];
Neith, goddess of, [246]
SAÏTE. [1]. Recension; chapter of Book of the Dead recited
on special occasions, [57];
reference to, [113];
date of, [114].
written upon coffins and papyri, [114].
2. Period, reference to, [152], [184];
the last, of Egyptian art, [319], [320];
incursions of the Persians, Greeks, and Romans during the, [319];
Egyptian artists of, [319];
edifices of—the pronaos of Komombos, the temple of Isis
at Philæ, the kiosk of Nectanebu, the Mammisi and temple
of Horus at Edfû, [319], [320];
structures, influenced by foreign ideas, [320];
paintings of, [320]
SAK'HE-BU. Lord of, [202]
SAK-KA-RA. Equivalent, Saqqara, [37];
Maspero at, [113]
SAL-CA-MAY'HUA. Indian writer; tribal origins and, [10]
SAMOTHRACIAN. Mysteries; Hecate and, [175]
SAN'E-HA. Story of, [190], [191]
SAQ-QA-RA. Pyramidal building copied at, [24];
pyramid of Menkauhor at, [26];
Assa mentioned on tablet at, [26];
equivalent, Sakkara, [37];
Seker, god of death, at, [57]
SAR'A-PIS. The Grecian equivalent, Osiris-Apis, [287];
Greeks ascribed the attributes of Hades to, [287];
in Egypt and Greece regarded as the male counterpart of Isis, [287];
the cult of, in Britain, [287];
known to the Egyptians as Asar-Hapi, [306];
worshipped by Greeks and Egyptians, [306];
to Greeks, deceased bull took form of, [306];
Ptolemy, surnamed the Saviour, and the Legend of, [307];
another version of the legend, [307], [308];
Soteles and Dionysius sent to Alexandria to remove the statue, [307];

the people of Sinope and the statue of, [307];
statue brought to Egypt, [307];
Pluto and statue of, [307]
SA REN'PUT I. The portico of, [317]
SAT'ET. God; reverenced at Elephantine, [152];
female counterpart of Khnemu, [153];
a form of the star Sept, [153];
equivalent, Setet; goddess of the inundation, [155];
as a form of Isis and counterpart of Osiris, appears in
Book of the Dead, [156]
SA'TI. As a force which sent forth Nile flood, Isis was called, [83]
SA'TI-TEM'UI. The terrible serpent, [116];
preys on the dead, [116]
SAT'URN. Appellation, Horus (bull of heaven), [181]
SCANDINAVIAN. Myth; reference to, [132]
SCAR'ABS. Placed in coffin of deceased, [301]
SCORPION-S. Selk the goddess of, [247];
sacred to Isis, [295]
SCOT. Character of the, compared with Egyptian, [50]
SCULPTURE. The full-length at Cairo of the 'Sheikh-el-Beled'
(real name Ka-aper), [315];
during the New Empire period, [317];
during the Saïte period, [320];
reference to works of Chinard and Houdon, [322]
SEB'EK. The crocodile, the incarnation of the god, [11], [289];
alluded to in the Pyramid Texts, [21], [289];
equivalent, Sobk,55;
sight restored by, [289];
helper of child Horus, [289];
representation in religious art, [291]
SECOND DYNASTY. Reference to bas-relief of, [112];
Book of the Dead in vogue in, [113];
reference to, [144]
SEF AND DUA. Alternatives, 'Yesterday' and 'To-morrow';
two guardian lions, [292]
SEK'ER. Sanctuary of, [57];
realm of, [78], [117];
antiquity of, [117];
identified with Night-sun, [145];
sometimes confounded with Sept and with Geb, [145];
ruled portion of underworld, [145];
attributes of, absorbed by Ptah, [146];
temple of, at Memphis, [147];
groups of Seven Hathors mentioned in Litanies of, [169]
SEK'ER-BOAT. Ceremonies connected with, which typified revolution
of the sun, [145];
known as Henu; mentioned in Book of the Dead,145;
description of; body of Osiris and, [146];
probably form of Mesek-tet-boat, [146]
SEK'ER-O-SI'RIS. Souls of dead among servitors of, [210]
SEK'HET AA'RU. Equivalent, Field of Reeds; pleasant portion of the Duat, [115];
centre of kingdom of Osiris, [116];
souls here under rule of Ra-Heru-Khuti, [116]
SEK'HET HET-E-PET. Delectable part of the Duat, [115]
SEKH'MET-BAST-RA. Amalgamation of three gods, representation of, [148]
SEKH'MET or SEK'MET. Temple of, at Memphis, [147];
female counterpart of Ptah; identified with Hathor;
personification of destroying heat of sun, [147];
alternative, Nesert; attributes of Seven Wise Ones and, [147];
Bast amalgamated with, [148];
reference to, [150];
named in myth of Ra and Hathor, [167]
SEMITIC. Vocabulary, imposed on people in Nile valley, [34];
dynastic Egyptians had some element of the proto-, [35];
Egyptians related to, [182];
resemblances between Coptic and, [183]
SEMITIC ADONAI. The Greek Adonis; Aten and, [160]
SEMITIC INFLUENCE. African and, on Egyptian religious ideas, [280]-[282]
SEN'EF-ER-U. The cult of the dead in time of, [112];
tale of magic of the days of King, [199], [200]
SENEGAMBIA. Superstition among tribes of, re new name given
at initiation ceremonies, [259]
SEN-NACH'ER-IB. King of Assyria; defeated by Setnau, [219], [220]
SEN-U-SERT. Pyramid of, [26];
equivalent, Usertsen, [133], [190];
story of Saneha and, [190], [191]
SE-O-SI'RIS. The son of Setne; noted for his wisdom, [208];
recites from the magical books to Setne, [209];
leads Setne to unknown place in mountains of Memphis, [209];
shows Setne a vision of the gods of Amenti, [209]-[211];
no scribe or magician in Memphis his equal, [211];
reads sealed letter to Pharaoh Ousimares, [212]-[219];
his former identity as chief magician of Pharaoh Manakhphrê, [218];
disappears as a shadow, [219]
SEPT. Astronomical symbol of Isis, [83];
Seker and, [145];
goddess Bast entitled 'the lady of Sept,' [148];
equivalent, Sothis, [148];
reference to, [156];
Hathor identified with, [168]
SEP'TAH MEN-EP'TAH. Likeness of, example of bas-relief during
Saïte period, [318]
SER-A-PE'UM. The famous; discovered by Mariette, [287];
votive statues and stelæ found in the chapels of, [287]
SER-BON'IAN LAKE. Temple to Ashtoreth on shores of, [278]
SER'GI, PROFESSOR. Reference to, [34]
SERVICE OF ANTIQUITIES. Reference to, [38]
SET. One of the great gods at Heliopolis, [14];
birth of, [65];
enemy to his brother, Osiris, [66];
alternative, the Greek Typhon, [66];
causes death of Osiris, [67];
discovers coffin of Osiris, [69];
Horus battles with, [70];
as a prisoner is set at liberty by Isis, [70];
pigs possibly symbolical of, [75];
Isis imprisoned by, [82];
represented face of heaven by night, [84];
reference to Horus's war against, [86], [87], [88];
schemes against Horus, [89], [96];
Horus takes prisoner one whom he wrongly thinks to be Set, [90];
end of, [91], [92];
symbol of darkness, [92];
reference to, [17], [95], [98], [103], [104], [106];
assumes form of black hog, [96];
causes temporary blindness to Horus, [97];
Nephthys, sister and wife of, [97];
cult of, [99];
friend to the dead; assisted Osiris to reach heaven; mortal
enemy of Horus the Elder, [99];
derivation of name, [99];
god of sin and evil; storms, earthquakes, eclipses, &c.,
attributed to, [100];
animals regarded as children of, [100];
the 'Great Bear' abode of, [101];
goddess Reret and, [101];
decline of worship of, [101];
Plutarch the ass, [101];
likens to; alluded to in Book of the Dead, [119];
helps Osiris climb into heaven, [128];
reference to birth of, [174];
identified with Mercury, [181];
Baal identified with, [277];
name of Baal substituted for, in texts of Edfû, [277];
Kh, the usual determinative of the name Set, [280];
the evil one who preys upon every 'Osiris,' [289];
revulsion of feeling against, [300];
the brother of Isis and Osiris, [300];
confused with the dragon Apep, [300];
identified with Typhon by Herodotus, [303], [306]
SET'EM. God of hearing, [181]
SET'I I. Reference to bas-relief at Abydos giving likeness of, [318]
SET-NAU. A priest of 'Vulcan,' [219];
defeats the Assyrians under King Sennacherib, [219], [220]
SET'NE. ancient story of him and his son, Se-Osiris, [206]-[208];
Se-Osiris recites from the magical books to, [209];
led by Se-Osiris to unknown place in mountains of Memphis, [209];
Se-Osiris grants a vision of the gods of Amenti to, [209]-[211];
son of Pharaoh Ousimares, [212];
Mahîtouaskhît wife of, [212];
Se-Osiris, son of, [212];
Se-Osiris disappears as a shadow from, [219];
Ousimanthor, son of, [219];
a tale of, related in a papyrus of the Ptolemaic period, [265]-[268];
his study in the manuscripts in the Library of Magical Books, [265];
his offer to the king's wise men re book written by Thoth, [266];
Ahura, wife of Nefer-ka-Ptah, and, [266];
plays draughts with Nefer-ka-Ptah, [268];
Ahura's prophecy regarding, [268];
commanded by Pharaoh to return Thoth's magical book to Nefer-ka-Ptah, [268]
"SET'NE AND HIS SON SE-OSIRIS." The true History of, [206]-[219]
"SET'NE AND THE MUMMIES." Reference to story of, [206]
SET'Y II. See Sety Merenptah, [224]
SET'Y MER-EN'PTAH (SETY II). Owner of original d'Orbiney papyrus, [224]
SEVEN HATHORS, THE. A selection of forms of the goddess Hathor, [169];
Bitou's wife and, [226]
SEVEN WISE ONES. Offspring of goddess Meh-urt; came forth from pupil of Ra,
form of, seven hawks, [147];
together with Thoth, presided over learning and letters, [147]
SHAÏS. Battle by Horus at, [90]
'SHEIKH-EL-BEL'ED' (KA-APER). See Sculpture
SHEM'SHU-HER'U. Gods of heaven, followers of Horus, [126]
SHEP'SES-KAF. Buried in pyramid called 'the Cool,' [25]
SHESH'ONK. A Libyan governor; capital at Bubastis and Bast
the goddess of locality, [300]
SHOM'OU. Month of, [232]
SHU. Child of Nu, [13];
followed by eye of Nu, [14];
gives birth to several gods, [14];
represents daylight, [14];
one of the first company of gods, [17];
god of the atmosphere; Af Ra and, [118];
alluded to in Book of the Dead, [119];
reference to, [153], [155], [157], [166], [173], [176];
god in the court of Amen-Ra, [246];
mummy magic and the gods Geb and, [274]
SILENE. The moon-goddess; her game with Thoth, [65]
SILENCE. The Demon of; Tehuti-nekht threatens to send the sekhti to, [222]
SI'NAI. Reference to Mount, [10]
SINAI PENINSULA. Explorations in, [43]
SINAITIC PENINSULA. Hathor of the, [169]
SIN'OPE. People of, and the Sarapis statue, [307]
SIR'IUS. Inundation of Nile marked by rising of the star, [48];
equivalent, Sothis, [168]
SI'UT. Staff of priests at, [54]
SIXTH DYNASTY. Egyptian pantheon and, [19];
Book of the Dead and, [113];
power of priests of Ra at close of, [133];
inscriptions in language of, [183]
SKY-GODDESS. Nut, the, [246]
SLEEP. The phenomenon of, a puzzle to the Palæolithic man, [255];
Egyptian desiring illumination through dream and, [273]
SMEN'DES. Prince; Ounamounou and, [234], [235]
SMITH, DR. ELLIOT. Reference to, [50]
SOBK OF THE ISLAND. Temple of, [55];
equivalent, Sebek, [55];
called by Greeks Soknopaios, [55]
SOK-NO-PAI'OS. Greek name for temple of Sobk, [55]
SOMALI. Branch of race peopling southern shores of Mediterranean, [34]
SO'THIS. Equivalent, Sirius, [48];
reference to, [148], [168]
SOUL-S. Of the dead; delivered to Amait or Sekerosiris, [209], [210];
prehistoric logic and the destination of the, [255], [256];
Herodotus and transmigration of, [302]
SOUTH LAND. Promised to Thothmes by Harmachis, [86];
encounter between Horus and Set in the, [89]
SO-TEL'ES. The Sarapis statue and, [307]
SPANIARD. Character of, compared with Egyptian, [50]
'SPEAKING, RIGHT' (Maā Kheru). See Maā Kheru
SPELLS. Charms and; the Harris Papyrus contains many, [262];
the use of, universal, [264];
gods invoked in connexion with, as Ra, Amon, Osiris, Isis and
Horus, &c., [264], [265];
Nefer-ka-Ptah copies those in Thoth's Library of Magical Books, [267];
provision of, in the Book of the Dead to enable the deceased
to transform himself, [270], [271]
SPHINX-ES. Reference to Harmachis, the, [85], [86];
the Greek name for the statues of lions, [292];
characteristics of Egyptian lion-statue different from Grecian, [292];
that at Gizeh the symbol of the sun-god Ra, [292];
the Pyramids and the, [314];
the Monna Lisa of Leonardo da Vinci and the Elgin Marbles
of Phidias evoked by the, [314];
the famous Avenue of, at Karnak, [318]
SPHRAG-IS'TÆ. An order of priests, [103]
SPIRIT. The wandering, of man, during sleep, [255], [256]
SPIR'IT-ISM. Animism, the mother of, [254], [255]
SPIRIT-SOULS. The place of, in Field of Reeds, [116];
equivalent, 'Khu,' [117]
SQUIRE. Reference to his translation of Plutarch's De Iside et
Osiride, [101]
ST. GEORGE. Reference to, [87]
STONE-S. Trees and, looked upon as incorporations of deity, [280]
STORY, THE. Of the Shipwrecked Sailor; a Tale of the Twelfth Dynasty, [191];
of the Two Brothers, [224]-[232];
of Rhampsinites, [237]-[240]
STRA'BO. Early Greek traveller in Egypt, [54];
his account of the crocodile, [290];
his assertion re the statues of sacred animals, [306]
SUMATRA. The Battas of, and the soul, [32]
SUN-GOD. Stones as incorporations of deity in Heliopolis, [280];
lion identified with the, Horus, [291];
Ra the; the 'Sphinx' at Gizeh the symbol of, [292];
Ra; ass figures as a personification of the, [295]
SUNRISE, MOUNTAIN OF THE. Af Ra directs his course to the, [118]
SYRIA-N. Researches into, [38];
explorations in, [43];
spoil of conquered, loaded the temple of Amen, [139]-[142];
Egyptian religion and, [159];
Egyptian system of writing in, [184];
Queen Hatshepsut designed to reign over, [246];
Thoutii the prince of a town in, [248];
origin; words and expressions of, in spells, [265];
cult of Anthat in, [277]
T
TABLES OF NATIVITY. Found in later papyri, [272]
TAK'HOS. Galley of; Minnemai recaptures his father's shield from the, [245]
TAN-A-IT'IC. Mouth, of the Nile, where body of Osiris drifted to, [67]
TAN'IS. Scientific system of investigation inaugurated at, [39];
shrine of Heru at, [86];
Ounamounou, chief priest of Amen-Ra arrives at, [232];
under Rameses II, a temple to Baal existed at, [277];
eastern quarters of, dedicated to Ashtoreth, [278]
TAN-TAM-OU'NOU. Prince; Ounamounou and, [234], [235]
TANT-NOU-IT. An Egyptian singer who cheers Ounamounou, [236]
TAT'U. Pillar; erected at close of annual festival of Osiris, [72]
TA-URT. Identified with Mut, [143];
mother and nurse of the gods; counterpart in Apet, [174];
known as Rert or Reret; identified with Isis, Hathor, Bast, [175];
her image in faience, favourite amulet, [175];
road to Hades and, [175];
popularity during New Empire, [175];
the hippopotamus-goddess, [294]
TA-UT. Horus the child, the dead, and judges of the, [95]
TCHA'BU. Mentioned in hymn to Hapi, [171]
TCHES'ER. Third king of Third Dynasty; seeks help of Khnemu, [154], [155]
TEF'NUT. Child of Nu, [13];
followed by eye of Nu, [14];
father of several gods, [14];
represents moisture, [14];
one of the first company of gods, [17];
reference to, [166];
goddess, in the Court of Amen-Ra, [246]
TE-HU'TI-EM-HEB. Scribe sent to heal daughter of Prince of Bekhten, [178]
TE-HU'TI-NEKHT. Son of Asri, serf to the High Steward Meruitensa, [220];
story of peasant and, [220]-[224]
TEK'A, LADY OF. Pseudonym for the sun when high in the south, [164]
TELL-EL-AMAR'NA. System of water-supply found at, [41];
remains of houses at, [42];
Amenhetep IV built capital, dedicated to Aten, on the site of, [158]
TEM. Chief of the first company of gods, [17];
name joined to that of Ra, [17];
Harmachis refers to his identity with, [86];
alluded to in Book of the Dead, [119];
equivalent, Atmu, [119];
or Atem, [136];
original local deity of Heliopolis, [136];
one of the forms of Ra, [136];
identified with Osiris, [136];
god of the rising sun, [150];
the lord of Heliopolis, the great god; Pimonî swears by, [241]
TEMPLE-S. TO Queen Hatshepsut, [248];
Egyptian desiring illumination, and, [273];
Egyptian; representations of Bes in 'Birth Houses' in, [281];
representations of Bes in Hatshepsut's, [281];
apes kept in, [294];
epoch of building, in Egypt, [305];
of Dendereh, Edfû, Kom Ombo, Philæ, &c., [305];
Ptolemy and, [305];
re the, of Kom-es-Sagha, [317];
of Isis at Philæ, [320]
TEN'EN. Ptah and, [146];
co-ordinated with Ptah, [147]
TEN'U, UPPER. Allusion to, [191]
TE'TA. Pyramid Texts of, [16], [19];
various gods alluded to in Text of, [21];
Maspero and Pyramid of, [113];
original texts of Heliopolitan Recension in Pyramid of, [114];
Ptah mentioned in Pyramid Text of, [144]
TEZ-CAT-LI-PO'CA. Mexican deity; reference to, [82]
THAL'Û. Horus does battle at, [90]
THEBAN. Description of, house, [42];
action of, priests, [140];
establishment of, monarchy, [157]
THEBAN RECENSION. Supplies names of deities, [2];
equivalent, Book of the Dead, [2];
reference to, [113], [143];
written upon papyri and painted upon coffins in hieroglyphs, [114];
particulars of Field of Reeds in, [115];
god Saa mentioned in, [181]
THEBES. Ruins of, [43];
title of priest at, [53];
college of priests at, [54];
Pamyles and birth of Osiris at, [65];
temple of Amen-Ra at, [131];
reference to princes and priests of, [138];
one of the centres of Amen-Ra at, [142];
temple of Mut at, [143];
Amen-hetep built temples at, [157];
obelisk in honour of Ra-Harmachis of, [158];
Hathor of, [169];
Apet of, [175];
temple of Khonsu at, [176];
reference to, [178];
Minnemai, Prince of the Eupuantine, son of Ierharerou, advances from, [245];
shrine built to Anthat at, [277];
devotees prayed to Qetesh for a good burial west of, [279];
crocodile held sacred at, [290];
ape of Khensu at, [294];
priests of Amen's cult rulers at, [300];
Amen represented at by a Divine Wife, [300];
hero-gods Imhotep and Amenophis adored at, [303], [304];
priestesses in, consecrated to service of Amen, [305];
figures of Memnon at, [318]
THI'NITE PERIOD, THE. See Period
THIRD DYNASTY. Development of pyramid during, [24];
trade opened with Egypt in, [46];
reference to, [151];
famine during, [154]
THOTH. Representation of, [11], [106];
festival of, [57];
Nut calls to for help, [65];
curse of Ra, and, [65];
Greek equivalent, Hermes, [65];
reference to, [75], [79], [105], [147], [150], [151], [181];
Horus sought aid of, [88];

watches conflict between Horus and allies of Set, [89];
myth of; birth coeval with that of Ra; principal seat of worship
Hermopolis, [106];
equivalent, Tehuti, [106];
originally, a moon-god, [107];
recorder of souls, [107];
secret of success in prayer and, [108];
his formula to open gates of Duat, [108];
believed to be author of Book of the Dead and Book of
Breathings, [108];
Goddess Maāt and Greek name, Trismegistos, or Hermes the Thrice
Great, [108];
Books of, forty-two in number, [108];
alluded to in Book of Dead, [119];
the scribe of the gods, [119];
assisted Maāt in connexion with course of Ra, [131];
intoxication festivals in month of, [168];
Khonsu and, [176];
Dedi and House of, [201], [202];
Setne sees, seated on throne with Osiris and Anubis, [209];
the judgment of Anubis and,209;
guides Amen-Ra to chamber of Queen Aahmes, [246], [247];
Library of Magical Books, written by, [265];
dog-headed ape in Judgment Scene who reports weighing results to, [294];
the ibis associated with, [295];
the sacred tree of Heliopolis, and, [298]
THOTH'MES. Legend of, and the Sphinx, [85];
dreams that the Sphinx speaks, [86]
THOTH'MES III. King of Egypt (Eighteenth Dynasty); the Prince of Joppa
rebels against, [249];
Thoutii offers to kill Prince of Joppa for, [249], [250];
Anthat shrine and, [277];
worship of Ashtoreth and, [278]
THOTH'MES IV. Worship of Ra-Harmachis, and, [157]
THOU'TII. An Egyptian officer, [248];
story re the town of Joppa, [248]-[251];
story of taking of Joppa is inscribed on the Harris Papyrus, [248];
Joppa and the stratagem of, [248], [249];
Arabian Nights and story of, [248], [249];
story of, discovered by Goodwin, [248];
slays the Prince of Joppa, [250], [251]
THRACE. Greek Hecate an importation from, [175]
THU'AU. Mother of Tyi, [157]
TIA'MAT. Assyrian monster, counterpart of Apep; slain by Marduk, [132]
TIME. Certain gods presided over certain periods of, [272]
TIMES, THE. Reference to article in the, on the Popol Vuh, [133]
TIMOTHEUS THE INTERPRETER. The Sarapis statue and, [307]
TNAH'SIT. Mother of Horus, [214], [217]
TOR'RENT, SIR, OF PORTUGAL. Old romance of, [205]
TO'TEM-IC. Origin of many of Egyptian gods, [272]
TO'TEM-ISM. Definition of, [8]
TRANSFORMATION. Animal, [270]-[273];
reference to Dr. Budge's Egyptian Magic, and, [271];
provision of spells in the Book of the Dead to enable the
deceased to undergo, [270], [271]
TRANSMIGRATION. Of souls, Herodotus and, [302]
TREE-S. Stones and, looked upon as incorporations of deity, [280];
worship of sacred, in Egypt, [297]-[299];
Wiedemann, and worship of, [297];
the ancient sacred, in the 'Great Hall' of Heliopolis—place where
Apep slain and from which the phœnix rose, [298];
Thoth and the goddess Safekht and the sacred, [298];
the palm-tree (symbol of Safekht), [298];
the sycamore (sacred to Nut and Hathor), [298];
the Memphite Hathos called the 'Lady of the Sycamore,' [298];
the Nile acacia worshipped by twenty-four nomes, [298], [299];
the Corda myxa; the Zizyphus Spina Christi; the
Juniperus Phœnica; and the Tamarisk Nilotica, [299];
every temple had its sacred, [299]
TRIS-MEG-IS'TOS. Greek name for Thoth, [108]
TRO-CHO-Ï-DES. Vault described by Herodotus, [56]
TRUTH. Goddess of, [53]
TUA-MUT'EF. The jackal, on canopic jars, [28];
one of the four helpers of Horus, [96]
TU'AT. Dark halls of the, [27]
TURIN. Egyptian antiquities removed to, [37];
papyrus of, [111];
fable in museum at, [194], [195]
TUSCANY. Government of, sends expedition to Egypt, [38]
TUSH'RAT-TA. King of the Mitanni; mention of Ashtoreth in letter of, [278]
TWELFTH DYNASTY. Pyramidal architecture ends with, [24];
date of, [35];
temple built in honour of Amen during, [138];
Khnemu and inscriptions subsequent to, [152];
tales, letters, &c., of the, [183];
first king of, [190];
tale of, in Hermitage Collection at St. Petersburg, [191]
TWENTY-FIFTH DYNASTY. Contracts common during, [47];
Demotic dialect traced back to, [184]
TWENTY-FIRST DYNASTY. Mummification during, [27];
the 'dynasty of priest-kings,' [140];
hieratic papyri of the, [183]
TWENTY-SECOND DYNASTY. Worship of Set in the, [101];
reference to, [146]
TWENTY-SIXTH DYNASTY. Period of the, [111];
reference to, [114];
Demotic form of script in use in, [186]
TWILIGHT OF THE GODS. The obliteration of the Egyptian faith, [310]
TY'I OR THI. Wife of Amenhetep III, [157]
TY'PHON. Greek form for Set, [66];
finds body of Osiris, [74];
reference to, [98], [100];
equivalent, Typho, [102];
detestation of, [102];
likened to the Ass, [103]
TYRE. Ounamounou, chief priest of Amen-Ra, reaches, [233]
U
U'AG. Festival of, [57]
U-AZ'ET. Horus attended by the goddess, [89], [90];
representation, [93]
UBA-AN'ER. Chief figure in magic story told by Khafra to his father Khufu, [198], [199]
UD'Y-MU. Equivalents, Den and Hesepti; fifth king of the First Dynasty, [63]
UK-I-YO'É SCHOOL, THE. Reference to the great Japanese artists of, [311]
UN'AS. Names of gods of the Little company given in text of, [17];
reference to, [19];
Pyramid Texts of, [21];
a text comprising the Book of the Dead as a whole in the reign of, [112];
some texts identical with those of Teta, [113];
the Pyramid of, contains original texts of Heliopolitan Recension, [114];
reference to inscription of King, [152];
first mention of the god, Hapi in Text of, [169]
UNDERWORLD. Bes underwent a transformation in, [282];
Osiris the great god of the, [287];
lion-headed deities in the, [292];
jackal associated with the, in Egyptian mythology, [294];
a Hathor, Lady of the, [298];
change in popular conception of the, [309];
still the Duat, governed by Osiris or Sarapis, [309], [310]
UNKNOWN, THE. Terrors of, personified in the monster serpent Apep, [295]
UPPER EGYPT. Civil war between the Delta and, [240]-[245]
UPPER DARLING. Natives of, [11]
UPPER PYRAMID. Tenanted by corpse of Menkaura, [25]
UP-U'AUT. Assists Anubis in guiding souls of the dead through underworld;
personification of the winter solstice, [105];
name signifies 'Opener of the Ways,' [105];
equivalent, Ap-uat, [105]
UR MA. Distinctive title of priest, [53]
UR'NES. Second part of the Duat, [117]
US'A-HOR-RES-NET. Kambuses' physician, [304]
US'ER-KA-F. First king of Fifth Dynasty, high priest of the god Ra, [132]
US'ER-REF. One of the three children of Ruddidet, [203];
name of first king of Fifth Dynasty, and, [205]
US'ERT. AS goddess of the fruitful earth, Isis named, [83]
USH-AB'TI FIGURES. Buried with the deceased, [301]
UT'CHATS. Eyes of Ra; their symbolization, [105]
UT-EN-NU. Beings in heaven, [126]
V
VALE OF THE ACACIA. Bitou goes to the, [225]
VAM'PIRE. The idea, of great antiquity; figured as a ghost, [272];
charm against to-day in the Balkan peninsula, [272]
VENUS. Reference to, [102];
Osiris, god of, [181]
VESTA. Reference to, [102]
VIRGINIA. Powhatans of, [5]
VISION. Se-Osiris grants to Setne a, of gods of Amenti, [209]-[211]
VUL'CAN. Romans identified Ptah with, [144];
Setnau, priest of, [219];
temple of, [220]
W
WAITE, A. E. Reference to his Hidden Church of the Holy Grail, [270]
WAR. Mentu, the god of, [246];
between peoples, was war between their respective deities, [276];
Baal, the terrible god of, [276];
Ashtoreth, the terrible goddess of, [278];
Reshpu regarded in Syria as a war god, [280]
WERE'WOLF. Idea of, unknown in ancient Egypt, [272]
WEST ASIATIC. Invader; story of, confused with legend of Horus, [94]
WESTCAR. Papyrus, containing a tale of magic, [197]-[199]
WESTERN WATERS OF MERT. Horus overtakes allies of Set at the, [90]
WIE'DE-MANN. Quotation from, [12];
Bes derived from Besa according to, [281];
worship of sacred trees, and, [297]
WINGED DISK. Symbol of the sun, [60];
myth of, [88]
WINGED SUN DISK. The legend, related in texts of Edfû, [277]
WOLF, THE. Venerated at Lycopolis, [294]
WORKMAN. The Peasant (Tehuti-nekht) and the; story of, [220]-[224];
son of Asri, [220]
WORSHIP. Egyptian animal—provoked merriment of cultured Greek and
ridicule of early Christian writers, [271];
polytheistic, a national tendency among Egyptians, [275];
of sacred animals in Egypt—the bull, [284]-[288];
the crocodile, [289]-[291];
the lion, [291], [292];
the cat, [293];
the dog, [294];
the hippopotamus, [294];
the ibis, [295]-[297];
of trees in Egypt, [297]-[299];
of animals during the Late period, [302]-[304]
X
XPI'YA-COC AND XMU'CAN-E. Ancient serpents, [12]
XQUIQ. (Pron. Shqueek), Daughter of lord in underworld, [122]
Y
YORK. Cult of Sarapis in, [287]
YOUNG. Helped decipher Rosetta stone, [187]
Z
ZAAL-A'ÊR. The Great God Iphphon and, invoked in a magical spell, [265];
the Hebrew appellation Ablanathanalb, Abrasilôa, [265]
ZAC'ZI-NI. One of the four deities of the ancient Maya, [29];
equivalent, Ix, [29]
ZAK-KA-LA. Dora, city of; Badîl Prince of; Ounamounou arrives at, [232];
vessels sent from to prevent Ounamounou from reaching Egypt, [236]
ZAZ'A-MANKH. Chief reciter and scribe of the rolls of court of King
Seneferu, [199], [200]
ZEUS. Amen identified with, [305], [306]
ZO'SER, KING. Imhotep, author and architect under, [303]

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Table of Contents

Chap. 1 Introductory

[Local Gods]—[Animism]—[Fetishism and Totemism]—[Creation Myths]—[The 'Companies' of the Gods]—[The Egyptian Idea of God]—[Deities of the Pyramid Texts]—[Early Burials]—[The Pyramid]—[Pyramidal Architecture]—['Lost' Pyramids]—[Mummification]—[Funeral Offerings]—[The Ka]—[The Ba].

Chap. 2 Exploration, History and Customs