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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt:... but this I have already mentioned t, as well as the Baietht, and the vulture with a snake's head.§ In confirmation of what I have before observed of the Phoenix representing a periodical revolution, I may state, that the Egyptian name seems to be IH-ENE& or JENEg, signifying "scBCulum" or a "period of years." Hawks were often represented with the heads of rams and men. Levit. xi. 18. Deut. xiv. 17. Pliny also tells a strange tale about the pelican, which he calls Platea. (x. 40.; and Aristot. viii. 12.) + Vide suprd, Vol. I. (2d Series) p. 303. 307. t Vide stipra, p. 209.; and Vol. I. (2d Series) p. 242. y Vide supra, p. 45. CHAP. XIV. REPTILES. TORTOISE, CROCODILE. 229 REPTILES. Tortoise. A tortoise-headed God occurs as one of the Genii, in the tombs; but it does not appear that the tortoise held a rank among the sacred animals of Egypt. The Crocodile. The crocodile, as has been already shown t, was peculiarly sacred to the God Savak. Its worship did not extend to every part of Egypt; some places considering it the representative of the Evil Being, and bearing the most deadly animosity to it, which led to serious feuds between neighbouring towns. Such was the cause of the quarrel of the Ombites and Tentyrites described by Juvenal t; and the same animal which was worshipped at Ombos " was killed and eaten by the inhabitants of Apollinopolis. Indeed, on a particular day, they had a solemn chase of the crocodile §, when they put to death as many as they could, and afterwards threw their bodies before the temple of their God; assigning this reason, that it was in the shape of a crocodile that Typho eluded the pursuit of Horus." It enjoyed great honours at Coptos, Ombos, and Athribis or Crocodilopolis, in the Thebaic...