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Title: Religions of the ancient world, including Egypt, Assyria, and Babylonia, Persia, India, Phoenicia, Etruria, Greece, Rome
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Rawlinson, George, 1812-1902
Subjects: Religion
Publisher: London, Relig. Tract Society
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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logically,the concealed rrod;^ and the idea of Ammonwas that of a recondite, incomprehensible divinity,remote from man, hidden, mysterious, the properobject of the profoiindest reverence. Practically,this idea was too abstract,too high-flown, too meta-physical, for ordinary mindsto conceive of it; and soAmmon was at an earlydate conjoined with Ea,the Sun, and worshippedas Ammon-Ea,- a very in-telligible god, neither morenor less than the physicalsun, the source of Hght andlife, the lord of existencesand support of all things.^ Khem was the generativeprinciple, the power of hfeand growth in nature. Hewas rudely and coarselyrepresented as a mummiedfigure, with phallus in front,and forms an unsightly object in the sculptures. He presided primarilyover the vegetable world, and was the giver of 1 Manetho ap. Plutarch, ♦De Isid. et Osir. s. 9; lamblich. De Mysteriis, viii. .8. - See Eecords of the Past, vol. ii. pp. 21, 31, etc. : vol. iv.pp. 11, 16, etc. •^ Ibul vol. ii. p. 129. 1. 12,
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24 THE RELIGIONS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD, fertility and increase, the lord of the harvest,and the patron of agriculture. But the humanspecies and the various kinds of animals werealso under his charge, and from him obtainedcontinuance. He is called, the king of thegods, the lifter of the hand, the lord ofthe crown, the powerful, and further bearsthe special title of Kamutf, bull of his mother,in allusion to the relation which he bore toNature. Kneph was the divine spirit or soul consideredas forming the scheme of creation. His name isby some connected etymologically with theEgyptian word for breath,- which is nef; andcurious analogies are traced between him andthe third Person of the Holy Trinity in theChristian system.^ As the Spirit of God atthe time of the creation moved upon the faceof the waters, so Kneph is represented as thedeity who presides over the inundations. As theheavens were made by the breath of Godsmouth, so Kneph is called, the god who hasmade the sun and moon to revolv

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