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 249
hra-tes, Tigris, and Nile were looked upon asdeities; that the gods of the Nile valleyon the one hand, and of the legionwatered by the Euphrates and Tigris,on the other, were gods to swear by;that they were Avorshipped in order thattheir benign influences might be secured,and that they had their… … HAPI. THE GOD OF THFNILE. 230 THE DAWX OF ASTIWXOMY. ichap. xxiii. attributed to Mena.^ Certainly Meiia, Mini, or Menes, as lieis variously called, was fully justified in founding the cult ofthe river-god, for he first among men appears to have had justideas of irrigation, and I have heard the…
Astronomy, Egyptian · Temples · Sun worship
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