[295] The city of Hermopolis received also the name of Esmun. In the Book of the Dead (ch. cxiv) the deceased is represented as saying, while adoring Thoth, Amset, and Tum: “I have come as a prevailer, through knowing the spirits of Esmun.” Thoth presided over this nome.
[296] Bunsen maintains that the Cabiri were the seven archangels of the Jews, originally “the seven fundamental powers of the visible creation.” Egypt’s Place in Universal History, vol. iv, p. 256.
[297] See Prof. Lesley’s interesting work, Man’s Origin and Destiny, first edition. Philadelphia, 1868. For some reason the chapter on Arkite symbolism is not given in the second edition.
[298] Primitive Culture, vol. i, p. 218. London, 1871.
[299] Saturnal, i, 20.
[300] The Mysteries of the Cabiri, vol. i, p. 98. Oxford, 1803.
[301] In Phœnicia he was the seven viewed collectively as “the soul of the world.” Bunsen’s Egypt’s Place, etc., vol. iv, p. 229.
[302] Ancient History of the East, vol. ii, p. 221.
[303] Æneid, vii, line 773.
[304] Tiele takes such a view of Anubis. See History of the Egyptian Religion, p. 65.