tract deities among theirgods, such deities as thePtah, Amen, and Osiris ofthe Egyptians, and theApollo and Athene of theGreeks.^ We may, then, definepolytheism as the partitionof the highest attributes oilife between a limitednumber of agents. Theimagination of man couldnot give these agents… … lu 34- —Amen or Auimnn, fruin a bronze in iheLc.iure. Height 22^04 inches. 1 Several of the bronzes which we reproduce may belong to the Ptolemaic epoch ;but they are repetitions of types and attributes which had been fixed for manycenturies by tradition. It is in this capacity chiefly that we…
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