The dawn of astronomy; a study of the temple-worship and mythology of the ancient Egyptians (1894)
Lockyer, Joseph Norman,Sir,1836-1920 · London, Cassell · leaf 171
ppopotamus, is really representedas a crocodile, or as a crocodile resting on the shoulders of ahippopotamus, so that there is no doubt that the crocodile andthe hippopotamus were variants; and we can quite understand,further, that the hippopotamus must have been brought intoEgypt by a tribe with… … HORUS AND CROCODILES. the Hippopotamus, because Draco was no longer circumpolar. As a matter of fact, in later times we get Horus destroying no longer the Hippopotamus or the Crocodile, but tJie Thigli of Set; and, as I liaA^e said, 2000 years B.C. the Thigh occupied exactly the same position in…
Astronomy, Egyptian · Temples · Sun worship
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