[335] Ibid.
[336] Natural History, vii.
[337] Homer and the Iliad, vol. i.
[338] Beginnings of History, p. 536.
[339] Bunsen holds that Esmun and he were originally the same; “as the snake god he must actually be Hermes, in Phœnician, Tet, Taautes.” Egypt’s Place, etc., vol. iv, p. 256.
[340] In the cut he appears counting the years on a palm-branch—the ideograph for year. ([Fig. 12, p. 101.])
[341] Ibis religiosa, Hab of the Ancient Egyptians.
[342] Ibis falcinellus, the glossy ibis.
[343] Book of the Dead, ch. lxxviii. Translation by Birch, in vol. v of Bunsen’s Egypt’s Place, etc. The hawk is the usual symbol of Horus, just as the ibis is of Thoth.
[344] Tiele pronounces Horus to be “the God of Light, the Token of Life.” History of the Egyptian Religion, p. 54.