The Egyptians worshipped many gods. Among them were _Ra_, the “sun-god,” sailing in a golden boat across the heavens; _Shu_, meaning “air”; _Tafnut_, the “dew”; _Seb_, the “earth”; and _Nut_, the “heaven.” _Osiris_ was the “sun,” and _Isis_, his wife and sister, the “dawn”; _Horus_, the “rising sun”; _Set_, the destroyer of Osiris, was the “darkness”; and the resurrection of Osiris was the rising of the sun after the darkness of the night had been overcome and dispelled. _Nepthys_ was the “sunset”; _Anubis_, the “twilight” or “dusk.” _Neith_ corresponded to the Greek Athêné, and was supposed to be a personification of the wisdom or intellect of God,—which is a significant thought, Neith being a _goddess_, not a god. She was the Egyptian goddess of Saïs. Originally the worship of Ammon was distinct from that of Ra, god of the sun; but after the eighteenth dynasty a union took place, and he was worshipped as Ammon-Ra. Thoth, the god of letters, had various characters, according to the functions he was supposed to fulfil. In one of his characters he corresponded to the moon; in the other, to Mercury. “In the former, he was the beneficent property of that luminary, the regulator and dispenser of time, who presided over the fate of man and the events of his life; in the latter, the god of letters and the patron of learning and the means of communication between the gods and mankind.” The Egyptians related many allegories concerning their various deities, but we have space only to narrate the story regarding Osiris and Isis, god of the sun and the goddess of dawn. As their gods were supposed to assume many different characters and attributes, this story represents Osiris as the river Nile, Isis as the land of Egypt, and Typho as the sea. The allegory is thus given:—