41 A. Moret, _Mystères Égyptiens_ (Paris, 1913), pp. 159-162, with plate iii. Compare Victor Loret, “L’Égypte au temps du totémisme,” _Conférences faites au Musée Guimet, Bibliothèque de Vulgarisation_, xix. (Paris, 1906) pp. 179-186. Both these writers regard the hawk as the totem of the royal clan. This view is rejected by Prof. Ed. Meyer, who, however, holds that Horus, whose emblem was the hawk, was the oldest national god of Egypt (_Geschichte des Altertums_,2 i. 2. pp. 102-106). He prefers to suppose that the hawk, or rather the falcon, was the emblem of a god of light because the bird flies high in the sky (_op. cit._ p. 73; according to him the bird is not the sparrow-hawk but the falcon, ib. p. 75). A similar view is adopted by Professor A. Wiedemann (_Religion of the Ancient Egyptians_, p. 26). Compare A. Erman, _Die ägyptische Religion_,2 pp. 10, 11. The native Egyptian name of Hawk-town was Nechen, in Greek it was Hieraconpolis (Ed. Meyer, _op. cit._ p. 103). Hawks were worshipped by the inhabitants (Strabo, xvii. 1. 47, p. 817). 42 According to the legend the four sons of Horus were set by Anubis to protect the burial of Osiris. They washed his dead body, they mourned over him, and they opened his cold lips with their fingers. But they disappeared, for Isis had caused them to grow out of a lotus flower in a pool of water. In that position they are sometimes represented in Egyptian art before the seated effigy of Osiris. See A. Erman, _Die ägyptische Religion_,2 p. 43; E. A. Wallis Budge, _Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection_, i. 40, 41, 327. M19 The association of Osiris with Byblus. 43 See above, pp. 9 _sq._ 44 E. A. Wallis Budge, _Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection_, i. 16 _sq._ 45 Cyril of Alexandria, _In Isaiam_, lib. ii. Tomus iii. (Migne’s _Patrologia Graeca_, lxx. 441). M20 The date of a festival sometimes furnishes a clue to the nature of the god. M21 The year of the Egyptian calendar a vague or movable one.