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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. 1862 Excerpt:...height, and at night. He is also the solar disc, and the shining sun or solar light (Ubn-re). The Sun-worshippers, or Stranger Kings of the 18th dynasty, had a triad composed of Atin-re, Moui (solar splendour), and lie. Besides other characters, he is the soul of the world; his title Re is added to the names of other gods; and several deities are sons and daughters of the Sun. Bi these offices they are distinct from the deified attributes of the ideal, or primary god, which are necessarily of a different nature from the Sun gods. There is at the same time a point of union between some of those attributes and certain characters of the Sun, or Re; who is connected with many gods of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd orders;--Amun had the name Amun-Re; Nou (or Noum) was Noum-Re, and even Atin-Re; and the additional title of Re is also assigned to deities of the 2ud order, as to Savak, Mandou, and others. 5. In giving three orders I have been guided by Herodotus, though it is evident the numerous gods of Egypt were not confined to that number. If such were the sole classification, the greater part of the deities would be altogether omitted; and it is impossible to make them accord with his orders, even if we allow many of them to be repetitions of the same god under other characters. For some were characters of the deities belonging to the 1st or 2nd ordors; but even then they were distinct, and members of some other group; as all the attributes of the one God became distinct deities. Nor Chap. III. SABAISM AND PANTHEISM. 245 can all those connected with the Sun be classified under one group. They may however claim a separate arrangement, like the Osiride family, which is supposed to form the 3rd order; and this distinct classification of Sun-gods might be used to explain t...