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therefore entitled King of the gods. He advances one leg and
arm, as if walking. In the smaller images he has the head of
a ram, symbolical of divine strength and power. From him is
derived the Egypto-Roman god, Jupiter Ammon. Khouso, or
Chous, the son of Amun by his consort Maut (the mother god¬
less), has, like Horus, one lock of hair to denote childhood ;
ie wears the lunar disc, and carries the sceptre of Thebes.
Nos. 51 and 53 represent Ra, the sun, the supreme god of
Egypt ; he also appears in movement, and has a human body
vith a hawk’s head ; he is crowned with the solar disc and
sp: his chief temple was at Heliopolis, the city of the sun.
Nos. 61 and 62 are images of Ma, the goddess of Justice,
he is the daughter of Ra, and wears an ostrich feather ; she
lolds a lotus flower with a hawk resting upon it. Within the
ases in the windows are amulets taken from various monu¬
nents. Those representing eyes are charms, symbolical of the
un.
In Cabinet VI., between the windows, are images of the
ods of evil, amongst whom appears Bes, as a dwarfish mon¬
ter carved in wood. On the lowest shelf, to the right, is
mythological representation of the triumph of good over
vil.
In Cabinet VII. are sacred animals, the asp holding the
in’s disc ; the jackal, sacred to the god Anubis, who super¬
itended the passage of souls from this world to the next ;
ome very fine images of the Bull Apis sacred to Osiris ; the
ow of Isis Athor ; the Ram of Amun ; the Vulture of his
onsort Maut ; the Cat of Bast ; and the Ape or Cynocephalus,
ymbolical of the study of letters, and sacred to Thoth. This
od played a most important part in Egyptian mythology, as
le interpreter of the gods, the scribe of the Lower Regions,
oting down the deeds of men, and the teacher of arithmetic,
eometry, and the game of chess.
Cabinet VIII. has mummies of the Ibis, also sacred to
hoth, and of other animals. Among the curiosities here
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