Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York : The Century co. · leaf 65
EGYPTIAN ORNAMENT by the inexhaustible fertility of the Nile mud. Herodo¬ tus rightly called Egypt “the gift of the Nile,” which became to the Egyptians a source of endless symbols and … trous in its lowest pop¬ ular form, and polytheistic in its highest phases as un¬ derstood by the educated priest-caste, possessed many lofty spiritual conceptions underlying its externally complex mythology. Particularly important were its solar deities Amen or Ra, identified with the sun; Osiris…
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