In Bœotia she had a statue, represented as holding Plutus in her arms, to intimate that fortune is the source whence wealth and honours flow. She is blind-folded, and her hand rests on a wheel, to intimate her inconstancy.
H A R P O C R A T E S.
Harpocrates, the son of Isis and Osiris, is the god of Silence. He is represented, in his statues as young, but with a countenance calm and severe, and on his brow a mitre, divided into two equal portions. His finger is placed upon his lip, to intimate the silence he maintains, and hence, all modern works of art adopt the same sign, when they wish to represent the quality over which Harpocrates is supposed to preside.
The Romans placed his statue at the entrance of their temples, to intimate that the mysteries of religion should never be revealed to the people.
"There is a lake that to the North
Of Memphis, stretches grandly forth,
Upon whose silent shore the dead