ypt and represented as a man with the
head of a bull, wearing a disk and uraeus. Long before this, however,
androsphinxes and other combinations of the human and animal form had
existed in Egypt. At Thebes the divine triad was formed by Amen-Ra,
Mut-Hathor and Chonsu; at Edfu and Denderah we find Osiris,
Isis-Sothis-Hathor and Horus. On the other hand, a curious inscription in
the temple at Denderah, translated by Brugsch (II, p. 512), actually
describes Amen-Ra as "the great god in Denderah, who periodically
rejuvenates himself and _becomes a beautiful boy, who is the concealed or
hidden god, whose name is hidden_; who is the Horus with colored wings,
coming forth in the upper hemisphere of Edfu, the lord of the double
heaven."

The inference one might be tempted to make from this and other texts is
that, at one period, a human babe, the fruit of a royal or sacerdotal
union, was born in the temple on what constituted New Year's Day and was
secretly worshipped there during the ensuing year, as the living image of
Amen-Ra, the hidden god and "divine twain." I venture to point out that
the adoption of the child as the image of the divinity was the logical
sequence to the preceding employment of the bull as a rebus for the words
ua=one and ka=twain; that the consecration of the human form must,
undoubtedly, have given a strong impulse to statuary, and that the
sanctification of the child correspondingly exalted motherhood and lent a
particular consecration to the marriage of its "divine parents." The
following facts, culled at random, afford a limit of the transitions and
further developments which took place in Egypt in course of time.

Before proceeding, special mention must be made of one important point
which throws a flood of light upon the extent of the development of
separate cults of sun and moon and the institution of solar and lunar
calendars which respectively governed the activities of the male and
female populations. As this matter will be fully treated in my calendar
monograph I shall merely note here that Brugsch cites texts proving the
existence and simultaneous use of the two calendars, and the supreme
importance accorded to the new moon of the month Epiphi on whose
appearance the "goddess Isis-Hathor of Denderah embarked on her sacred
barge and proceeded up the river, from her city to Edfu (Apollinopolis
magna) where she joined his majesty ..., her father, ... the incomparable
sun-god Ra, the first of Ap