Scarabs: The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc.Myer, Isaac
Religion
Scarabs: The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc.
Myer, Isaac
Egypt -- Religion; Scarabaeus; Symbolism
[90] Or, "the changing which is in the changing of all things when
they change."
[91] That is: "Lords of _maat_," i.e., of the harmony of the universe.
[92] Place of the soul's birth. This refers to the upper prototypic
world. The same idea is in the Zohar.
[93] _Catalogue des Manuscrits Égyptiens_, etc., _au Musée Égypt. du
Louvre, par Feu Théodule Devéria_. Paris, 1881, No. 3283; pp. 143,
144. Comp. _Hermès Trismégiste_, par Louis Ménard, second ed. Paris,
1867, pp. 188, 190, 117 _et seq._; 147.
[94] _Hermès Trismégiste_, edition last cited, p. 218.
[95] By the Word or Logos. The Logos occupied an important position in
the Ancient Egyptian religion. See my Article on the subject in, The
Oriental Review, January-February, 1893, p. 20 _et seq._
[96] Shu corresponds to the Makrokosm, the primordial Adam or
androgenic Adam Qadmon, of the first chapter of the Hebrew Book of
Genesis. As to Shu, see: History of the Egypt. Relig., by Dr. C.P.
Tiele. Boston, 1882, pp. 84, 85, 155, 156.
[97] The Hebrew _She-kheen-ah_, or Glory?
[98] The Nile. Notes for Travellers in Egypt, by E.A. Wallis Budge,
Litt. D., F.S.A., etc., second ed. London, 1892, p. 165 _et seq._
[99] Inscriptions in the pyramid of Pepi I., l. 664 (_circa_ 3233-3200
B.C.,) in the _Recueil de Travaux Relatifs à la Philol., et à l'Arch.
Égypt._, etc., Vol. VIII., p. 104.
[100] Comp. The _Per-em-hru_ or, Book of the Dead, edition of Ed.
Naville, ch. XVII., l. 3, 4. In the passage cited from Pepi, I. 664
_et seq._, Tumu is also a primordial deity and its female _sakti_ or
principle, is Nu or Nut, the sky.
[101] It is from this action that the deity was named Shu from the
root, _Shu_ to lift up, to raise. Later, through a pun, he obtained
the meaning of Luminous. Comp. also Naville's ed. of the _Per-em-hru_
last cited, l. 4 _et seq._
[102] G. Maspero in the _Revue de l'Hist. des Religions. Le Livre des
Morts_, Vol. XV., pp. 269, 270.
[103] Hermès Trismégistos, second ed., by Louis Ménard. Paris, 1867.
pp. 27, 28. _Hermetis Trismegisti Poemander; ad fidem codicum manu
scriptorum recognovit_, by Gustavus Parthey. Berolini, 1854, p. 31.
The word "sand" is used to symbolize the positive or atomic dryness,
and "damp sand," the atomic humidity, or the negative.
[104] Book of the Dead, ch. XVII., l. 1-4; XV., l. 28, 29, 43, 47;
LXXIX., l. 1, 2; LXXVIII., l. 12. _Hymne à Ammon-Ra_, by Eugène
Grébaut. Paris, 1874, pp. 11, 28, 112, 115, 120-122, 295.
[105] Paul Pierret, _Études Égyptol._, I., 81.
[106] F. Chabas, _l'Égyptologie_. Paris, 1878, Vol. II., p. 103.
[107] Comp. Trans. Soc. Biblical Literature, Vol. VI., pp. 494-508.
[108] Comp. Religion of Ancient Egypt by P. Le Page Renouf, p. 153 _et
seq._
[109] _Mythe d' Horus_, by E. Naville.
VIII.
FORGERY OF SCARABS IN MODERN TIMES. DIFFICULTY OF DETECTING
SUCH. OTHER EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES ALSO COUNTERFEITED BY THE
PRESENT INHABITANTS OF EGYPT.
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