40 AMENTET neck. The Persea-tree was sacred to her, and in the funeral subjects of the Theban tombs she performs the same office to the deceased and his friends as the goddess Neith — giving them the fruit and drink of heaven. Budge enumerates no less than seventy local deities with whom the… … sented as young draped women of pleas- HATHOR. ing appearance, holding tambourines, and crowned with a vulture head-dress, surmounted by a cow’s horns and the solar disk. In the “ Tale of the Two Brothers ” they play the part of pro- phetic fairies, for in that entertaining narrative,” says Budge,…
Animal worship · Amulets
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