r Egypt. The inhabitants of the region
of Cush are represented on Egyptian monuments and we are told that "at the
outset they appear to have had a religion and speech akin to that of the
Egyptians. We find Phut most probably, in the Punt of the inscriptions,
the land ... situated to the south of Egypt on both sides of the Red sea.
The fourth son [of Ham], Canaan, is represented by the original
inhabitants of Canaan, who were probably near relations of the Egyptians"
(Wallis Budge, The Dwellers on the Nile, p. 52). While tradition and
documentary evidence thus associates the four sons of Ham with certain
regions and cardinal points, Egyptian monuments exhibit representations of
people of four different colors, _i. e._ red, yellow, black and white.

"The ancient Egyptians ... recognized four races of men. They themselves
belonged to the 'Rot' or red men; the yellow men they called 'Namu'--it
included the Asiatic races; the black men were called 'Nahsu,' and the
white men 'Tam-hu.' The following figures (fig. 61) are copied from Nott
and Gliddon's 'Types of Mankind,' p. 85, and were taken by them from the
great works of Belzoni, Champollion and Lepsius" (Donelly, Atlantis, p.
195).

Pursuing our investigations of the territorial divisions of Egypt, we
learn, from Mr. Wallis Budge, that collectively there were 42 nomes in
Upper and Lower Egypt. This number is identical with that of the 42 gods
represented in the Book of the Dead as being with Osiris in the hall of
Two Truths where the dead were judged. The 42 "judges of the dead" are
represented as seated figures, with human or animal heads, and are equally
divided into two groups. From the "negative confession" which the deceased
makes to his judges, we learn that each god was identified with a
locality, some amongst them being addressed as "coming out from" such
important cities as Heliopolis, Sais, Bubastis, etc. The inference I
venture to make is that these 42 judges were the gods of the 42 nomes who,
with Osiris, the chief god and the "President," formed the council of
gods, which judged and ordered the affairs of men.

[Illustration.]

Figure 61. The Races Of Men According To The Egyptians.

It is moreover natural to suppose that terrestrial administrations of
justice must also have been executed by a supreme council of men, composed
of the king, the living image of Osiris, and the chiefs of the 42 nomes of
Upper and Lower E