hich, to us, seemso differently constituted and sounequal in dignity. The deitytook the form of an animal andrevealed himself in it, just as he tookthat of a man, or of a statue whichhe was supposed to animate, and to which he was attached. Inone of his most curious and most penetrating essays, M.… … Fi< 45.—Ihoth. Louvre. Iln.imelltdclav. Actual .size. The Egyptian Religion and the Plastic Arts. 67 dotibli\ to use an expression dear to the Egyptians. At .Memphis,Apis repeated and constantly renewed the Hfe of Ptah ; he was,in a word, his living statue.^ Egyptian art was, then, the faithful…
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