Nor is our “purtending or scratting” ended, when attempts, based on the finding in the fish cemetery at Gurob of a small head of a goddess, are made to connect the Athena of Strabo with Hathor, to whom Keller[831] alleges that the _Oxyrhynchus_ (often found embalmed at Thebes) was sacred. So, again, our clarity of ideas is not increased, when we read that Hat-mehyt was the patron goddess of Mendes, the capital of the XVI Nome (which of all the Nomes alone possessed a fish for its emblem) and that this fish is regularly represented above the head of Hat-mehyt. But one fact stands out as adverse to the identification of any god as a god of fish or connected with fishing. In the magico-religious welter of god-creating and god-adopting characteristic of the later Egyptians, who locally worshipped beasts, birds, reptiles, and insects, the first commandment given to Israel was faithfully observed, in that they made not unto themselves a graven or other image of any deity “of the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth.”[832] FOOTNOTES: [802] Diodorus Siculus, I. 36. [803] Cf. G. A. Boulenger, _Fishes of the Nile_ (London, 1907), and Pierre Montet, _Les Poissons employés dans l’Ecriture Hieroglyphique_. Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale. Tome XI., 1913. [804] _Egypt_, Pt. II. p. 226. Bædeker, Leipsic, 1892. [805] _Antea_, p. 201. [806] _De Iside et Osiride_, c. 8. [807] II. 37. [808] From the _Trans._ of S. Squire. [809] Mnaseas, as quoted by Athenæus, VIII. 37. [810] W. Robertson-Smith, _The Religion of the Semites_ (Edinburgh, 1889), p. 276. [811] J. H. Breasted, _Records of Ancient Egypt_ (Chicago, 1906-7), vol. IV., par. 882. [812] See Hastings’ _Ency. of Religion and Ethics_, vol. X. pp. 796 and 482, and _Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache_, vol. 49, p. 51 (Leipzig, 1911). [813] Their brawling in boats and carousing in drink are depicted. Cf. N. de G. Davies, _Tombs of El Gebrawi_, Pt. II. (London, 1902), Pl. V., and Newberry, _Beni Hasan_, Pt. II., Pl. IV., and Davies, _Ptahhetep_, Pt. II., Pl. XIV., and Pt. I., Pl. XXI. In the XXth Dynasty the chastity of their wives was not a striking characteristic. [814] _Op. cit._, XXXII.