"The ever-moving stars are under obedience to him, and so are the stars which set."
OSIRIS SEATED.
Hymn to Rā—
"O Rā! in thine egg, radiant in thy disk, shining forth from the horizon, swimming over the steel (?) firmament.
"Tmu and Horus of the horizon pay homage to thee (Amen-Rā) in all their words."
So far we have dealt with the powers of sunlight; but the ancient Egyptians, like ourselves, were familiar with the powers of darkness or of the underworld. The chief god antithetical to the sun was variously named—Sit, Set, Sut, Anubis, Typhon, Bes; and a host of other names was given to him. As I shall show, the idea of darkness was associated with the existence of those stars which never set, so that even here the symbolism was astronomical.
VARIOUS FORMS OF BES—AS WARRIOR, MUSICIAN, AND BUFFOON.
The contrast between the representations of Bes and of the other forms suggests that the former was imported. In the form of Typhon the goddess Taurt is represented as a hippopotamus, while for Anubis the emblem is a jackal.