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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:... the same deity appears in the capacity of protecting genius to a king, or the nurse of a young prince. Indeed the connection between the goddess Ranno, or the asp, and royalty, is very remarkable; and the name urceus, which was applied to that snake t, has, with good reason, been derived by the ingenious Champollion from ouro, the Coptic word signifying "king," as its appellation of basilisk originated in the basiliscos § of the Greeks. Khem, or Pan, from his character as god of generation, was naturally looked upon as the deity to I formerly supposed this protecting genius to be the god Hat, who has the same emblematic serpent. + Vide plate 10. Jig. I., and wood-cut, No. 141. j It resembles the cobra di capello, the coluber naja of Linnaeus, in every thing except the spectacles on the head, which are wanting. It has now received the name of naja haye, which is certainly a misnomer, haye being the Arabic name for the cerastes (vipera cerastes), or horned snake. $ /SamXireoc," royal." whose influence every thing was indebted for its procreation, and for the continuation of its species; and we therefore frequently find, in the sacred sculptures of Egyptian temples, the emblematic representation of a king breaking up the soil with a hoe, in the presence of this god, as if to prepare it for his beneficent influence. And this allegorical mode of worship was offered him, as well in his character of Khem, as when under the name of Amunra Generator, which was one of the forms of the Theban Jupiter. On the altar or table, carried behind his statue in sacred processions, or placed No. 152. The table carried behind the statue of the God Khem. Tjicbrs. near it in his sanctuary, were two or more trees, together with his peculiar emblems t; and...